Now, this isn’t a prompt for writing the book or whatever.

What it does is create a scaffold for writing what you want.

So, copy paste this, edit to suit your needs and see what happens.

Please write a book outline with a title, subtitle, and description on the subject of running a profitable dairy farm. Write in the style of an American farmer. Please cover the daily routine.

This is what I got from ChatGPT:-

Sure! Here’s a book outline written in the style and voice of an experienced American dairy farmer—practical, plainspoken, and packed with real-world insights.

📘 Title:
Milk Money: How to Run a Profitable Dairy Farm Without Losing Your Shirt

🧢 Subtitle:
Hard-Earned Lessons from a Life of Early Mornings, Muddy Boots, and Moo-La

📝 Book Description:
This ain’t no shiny brochure from the government or a textbook from some ag college. This is the real deal—straight from a boots-on-the-ground dairy farmer who’s been through droughts, floods, mastitis outbreaks, and milk price crashes and still came out ahead.

“Milk Money” lays out how to build and run a dairy farm that actually turns a profit—and still lets you get a little sleep and maybe take your spouse out to dinner now and then. We’ll walk through what a real day looks like on the farm, how to make the books work, when to invest, and when to hunker down. From managing your herd to dealing with the milk truck guy, this book covers it all, no bull.

Whether you’re just dreaming about owning a few Holsteins or you’re already knee-deep in manure and need to find your way out of the red, this book will help you work smarter, not just harder.

📚 Chapter Outline:

1. So You Wanna Be a Dairy Farmer?

• Romantic vs. Reality

• The commitment it takes

• Capital, land, and guts

2. Choosing Your Herd Wisely

• Holstein, Jersey, or mixed?

• What to look for in breeding stock

• AI vs. natural breeding

• Keeping cows healthy = keeping money in your pocket

3. Barn Talk: Setup That Works

• Designing a layout for efficiency

• Milking parlors, feed storage, and manure management

• Why ventilation and bedding matter more than you think

4. Daily Life on the Farm

• 4:30 AM – Rise and Shine

• 5:00 AM – First milking

• 7:00 AM – Feeding and herd checks

• Midday – Repairs, paperwork, pasture rotation, calving checks

• 3:00 PM – Second milking

• Evening – Cleanup, prep, and emergencies

• How to structure help (family, hired hands, seasonal help)

5. Feeding for Profits

• Ration balancing without a PhD

• Silage, hay, grain, supplements

• Getting the most milk per pound of feed

6. Milking: The Main Event

• Equipment that saves time and money

• Cleanliness and mastitis prevention

• Milking schedules and cow comfort

• Dealing with the dairy inspector

7. The Business Side of the Barn

• Understanding milk pricing and co-ops

• Budgeting and managing cash flow

• Keeping good records (yes, it matters)

• How to read your own P&L without hiring a CPA

8. Diversifying to Stay Afloat

• Cheese, ice cream, raw milk, farm tours

• Raising beef calves or selling bred heifers

• Agritourism and farm stands

9. Troubleshooting: When the Cow Pie Hits the Fan

• Dealing with low milk prices

• Vet emergencies

• Equipment breakdowns

• Burnout and staying sane

10. Long-Term Planning: How to Grow Without Going Broke

• When to expand

• Investing in automation

• Succession planning: keeping it in the family (or not)

• Retirement dreams that don’t involve selling the farm for condos

11. Tales from the Milking Parlor

• Real stories, funny mishaps, and hard-won lessons

• Advice I’d give my 20-year-old self

🪶 Tone & Style:

• Friendly, plainspoken, with a few jokes and sayings thrown in like any good front porch conversation

• Honest about the hard stuff, but always hopeful

• Written for folks who respect hard work and want to do things right

Would you like me to start drafting a sample chapter or the daily routine section in full next?

Now, what I would do with this is paste it into Claude and start working on each chapter.

Get Claude to write the chapter, then edit it to make it better.

But, you could also paste it into something like Word, Google Docs, etc. and fill in the details yourself.

Using AI to help you isn’t cheating, nor is it producing low-value content.

It can, and some people are bone lazy.

They will fill platforms with crap, but the platform owners are fighting back.

They will trash anything that doesn’t provide value to their customers.

How you use it is up to you of course, but working from a framework makes sense to me, and you can change things around, delete sections, add more, but you will have something to work with.

Enjoy the output from the prompt.

Regards,
Brent.