Category: Farm stories

Highland Cattle Raised with Care

Shade Haven part of compassionate cattle care at High Life Ranch David Castillo, owner of High Life Ranch in Huntsville, Utah, is on a mission to raise some of the finest beef in the world. For this rancher and Shade Haven owner, providing premium quality beef begins with superior care of his cattle. “From the […]

Shade Haven Aids Restoration at Rustaret Farm

Margaret McCallum and Rusty Bittermann are the first Shade Haven owners on Prince Edward Island, a small Canadian province on the Atlantic coast. Last year they added a SH1200 mobile shade system to their grazing plan. It’s just one more way this hardworking couple is improving their farm. “We have fields that we could not use at […]

Shade Haven Customer Receives Award

“Rotational grazing is simple. The key to it is management,” said Keith Tuck with Tuck Farms. “You’ve got to look at yourself not as a cattle producer but a forage producer who markets through cattle. You’re a grass farmer.” Congratulations to grass farmer and Shade Haven customer, Keith Tuck, who was honored for outstanding environmental stewardship of […]

Shade Haven: A Crucial Grazing Tool

Are you ready for another HOT summer? Did you lose livestock and production to the heat last summer? The summer of 2023 reached record-setting temps, and signs point to an even hotter 2024. As farmers prepare for the upcoming grazing season, safeguarding livestock and eliminating loss of production and profit is a top priority. For […]

Providing Shade in the Arctic Region

Our European partner shares another customer story. This time we hear from a Shade Haven user in Findland. Written by Rosa de Nooijer Interview questions answered by Henri Hartikainen When you think of Finland in summer, you might not imagine a hot sunny day with cows looking for shade. The idea of Finland being cold, […]

Ten Years of Shade

First Shade Haven ever sold still going strong at Breezy View Dairy More than a decade has passed since Shade Haven LLC introduced a breakthrough mobile shade structure that is built to last, simple to use, and offers a long-term solution to keep livestock comfortable and grazing in the scorching summer sun. In 2013 dairy farmer Harold […]

Life is Better with Grass and Shade

Life gets better every year at Kiko Family Farms in Dalton, Ohio. Twelve years ago, owner Peter Kiko converted his farm from conventional grain to an all-grass grazing operation – a transformation he does not regret. “We used to do everything by the book the modern way, with all the chemicals, the GMO seed, all that […]

Shade = More Production at Idyll Farms

The increased production possible with Shade Haven mobile shade systems has perhaps never been as obvious as it is at Idyll Farms in Northport, Michigan. This regenerative farm grazes 120 Alpine dairy goats, whose milk is turned into award-winning cheeses in a farmstead creamery. After adding a Shade Haven SH600 to its grazing plan, Idyll was able to double […]

An Artist’s Vision: Transforming Land Through Regenerative Ag

Shade Haven customer and successful artist, Brenda Smola-Foti set down her paintbrushes in 2017 to focus on the 33-acre farm she purchased in the Willamette Valley near Carlton, Oregon. Committed to farming regeneratively, Smola-Foti has transformed the nearly unfarmable land into a sustainable multi-species masterpiece – Tabula Rasa Farms. To fulfill her vision for Tabula […]

Busy Little Farm Needs Shade

The Shade Haven SH600 mobile shade system at Doyle Farm in Dixon, California, fits perfectly with the farm’s holistic agriculture model. With a Shade Haven, the farm maximizes land use while preventing heat stress and boosting livestock performance in a locale that regularly hits triple digit temps from July through September. “We have Angus cattle. […]