Jim and Lindsay Arbrecht are both extremely capable farmers but both acknowledge Lindsay as the dairy farmer or the pair.
Lindsay enjoyed making an infrastructure improvement on the farm every year.
Perhaps the most successful of all of them was the decision to install a 100 kilowatt solar system on the dairy.
The system was financed with a seven-year lease and leaves an electricity bill that is usually in credit.
The lease costs $1900 a month and, as the power bills for the rotary dairy had been around $3000/month, the Arbrechts have been ahead by more than $1000/month since the system was installed three years ago.
But there was a note of caution: getting approval from AusNet for the surplus power generated to enter the electricity grid had been a vital step that took time.
"Solar is the best thing since sliced bread but it can only work if you can sell it back into the grid," Lindsay said.
"You need to have very smart people working for you.
"Solar is wonderful but it's not simple."
A combination of ingenuity, entrepreneurialism and hard work has paid off for the Arbrechts but, at the same time, there's nothing puritanical about it.
"Our consultant, Matt Hall, says we can push a lot harder but we resist," Lindsay said.
"We reckon we could do 10 per cent better but that would mean a lot more work."
Jim Arbrecht agreed.
"I'm not pretending to be a top operator," he said.
"Only your health is important, so long as you enjoy doing what you do."