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RAMSIER’S WILLOW SPRING FARM, LLC Kenny Ramsier, Rittman, Ohio, District 7

We like our milking daughters from Pine-Tree CW Legacy-ET that keeps cows small while helping with fat and protein %, DPR, and SCS/Mastitis resistance. We also like our milking daughters from Pine-Tree 7593 Samar 390-ET that have good production of total solids and helps lengthen teats. Even though Samar has low UDC, his daughters still have nice and well attached udders, so I am not concerned with any problems there. Both of those bulls are also A2/A2. I also used Winstar Juicy Millenial-ET who was A2/ A2 with high UDC and still had wide teats for better compatibility with our robotic milkers, but his daughters don’t have enough udder capacity for high production.

In contrast, our older cows that have been profitable and lasted are from No-Fla Dugger-ET who has really low PTAT, UDC, and FLC with really wide teats. We have not had any problem with his daughter’s udders. In general, I also try to keep the average Stature (STA) of the bulls we are using, on the shorter side to keep our cows small and efficient.

We have started using more polled semen, but we are not milking any daughters of them yet. Mhd Hobbit PP should help us widen our teats and increase DPR and Jook Spot On-ET PP should help us widen our teats and has good fat and protein. Both of those bulls are A2/A2 as well. We also used Peak Bluz Cluz-PET to help widen and lengthen teats while increasing DPR and fat/ protein percentages, as well as Winstar AltaTimesquare-P-ET that has long teats with good production and A2/A2. Currently, even though he is not polled, it is easy to use Pine-Tree Organic-ET who is A2/A2 and has good teat placement/length with a 3.1 DPR and 5.6 mastitis resistance.

Qui E tcov E FoX ys

LoLLipop EX-91

4X All-American Nominee LoLLipop’s Fancy dooRman sELLs apRiL 24th othER Fawn FamiLy mEmbERs sELL!

Nom. All-American Production Cow 2021 • All-National 2019 1st, Sr. & Res. Grand Champion, Mid-East Spring Nat’l 2019 Over 220,000lbs Milk lifetime production... Marian is fresh again and looks great at 9 years old Daughters & GrandDaughters sell!

This beautiful Doorman traces back

Inspiration Tina Daughters Sell!

Dorloy-K Guinness-Red Supreme Champion Heifer WDE 21 Sisters by Warrior, Altitude & Aristocrat will be available!

We have a beautiful group of young ladies to offer that come in all shapes and colors, from some of the great cow families in the breed. Watch for updates and pictures on the Quietcove Facebook page all Spring long. Join us at the farm April 24!

17932 Fryburg East Rd. • Wapakoneta, OH 45895

Sale managed by Ryan Krohlow

Rolling-Spring Big Push Sue VG-88

ALL-OHIO SR. 2-YEAR-OLD

1st & Res. Int. Champion, Mid-East Spring National Holstein Show 2022

1st, Mid-East Summer National Holstein Show & District 12 Show 2022

Backed by 9 EX dams s i Lv ER -mist

Selling 1st Choice in the Sale!

my Lady-REd EX-92

ALL-OHIO SR. 3-YEAR-OLD

1st, Int. Champion & Res. Grand Champion, Mid-East Summer National Holstein Show 2022

1st & Grand Champion, District 12 Show 2022

5th & 1st Junior, World Dairy Expo 2022

Backed by 3-94 point dams daughtERs & sistERs wiLL sELL apRiL 24th in thE spRing coLoRs at QuiEtcovE saLE!

Greenlea BW Mar-Red EX-94

DAM OF SILVER-MIST MY LADY-RED

1st 4-year-old & Res. Grand Champion, 2017 Ohio Spring Show

Backed by 4 EX dams

A Daughter Sells!

By Barb Lumley

Cream Liqueur

To all my friends who have known me for years I say, “Do not be alarmed as you read this column. My mind is still pretty sound, I have not changed my beliefs, nor have I fallen into a bad habit. I just think it is very important to find ways to boost milk sales and increase the price paid to the dairy farmers for the milk that they work so hard to produce.” I recently read a guest editorial in Farmshine written by Eric T. Paulson, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Virginia State Dairymen’s Association. The headline read, “The hit drink of this past holiday season was ‘Pilk’.” I had never heard of Pilk, or “Dirty Soda” as it is sometimes called, so that led me to doing some research.

Pilk is a combination of Pepsi and milk. Pepsi featured an ad campaign around the unique creation and they even called for whole milk as a main ingredient. It was popular during the holidays. It had more than 115 million hits on a well-known internet site. Where are the root beer people? Remember how popular root beer floats once were? A large glass of root beer and a scoop of vanilla ice cream! These days, kids and especially teenagers ask for sodas and colas, not milk! Milk consumption has dropped. There are many types of sodas available and many flavors of ice cream and milk, therefore many different combinations can be made. In India and Pakistan it is common to drink lemon-lime soda mixed with milk and other Asian countries have similar variations. If there is a trend to mix sodas and milk or sodas and ice cream, it should increase the sales of the two dairy products so why not promote it! Trying to discourage sodas in favor of milk hasn’t worked, so why not use them to our advantage in promoting milk and ice cream?

Of course, being me, I had to take my research a bit farther! Did you know that there are over twenty (20) mixed drinks or cocktails that use milk or cream as an ingredient? Some of them have very interesting names---Coquito, Bushwaker, Leche Mexicana, Colorado Bulldog, Banshee, Mudslide, Toblerone, and more. One is called “Nuts and Berries” but has none of them in it! Cream Liqueur can easily be made in the kitchen, is smooth and sweet, and smells like ice cream and malted milk balls. I have lived a very “sheltered life” down here in the hills, so I have no idea how any of these taste! I’ll just stick to milk, chocolate milk, coffee, and tea! Maybe a lemonade once in a while!

When you listen to the talk shows or of the news shows where a group of people is involved you often hear them talking about having a drink, joking about needing a drink or about going for a drink. They aren’t talking about milk! I was surprised on National Milk Appreciation Day to see the group on a program on Fox News called “The Five” acknowledge the day and they raised glasses of milk. Some of them even drank it! That isn’t what they usually are thinking about when they talk about drinking!

In some countries “Milk Stouts” or

“Cream Stouts” are very popular. They are dark beer brewed with lactose (milk sugar). While I and many others have never encouraged the drinking of beer or alcohol, I think we all have to accept the fact that it seems to become more popular every day and our youth are affected by that trend. The drinking of milk seems to decline. Dollars and dollars of the dairy farmer’s milk check has been spent on advertising milk and dairy products, yet it hasn’t brought about the results we would like. Perhaps we should be bringing new ideas about using milk in other types of drinks to the public’s attention. While we may not like helping to advertise the other types of drinks, we can take comfort in the fact that they contain whole milk and whole milk is good for you. If a Dirty Soda can help move fluid milk, then let them go crazy for it! If there are more ways milk and dairy products can be used by the consumer, more milk will be needed, the price paid the dairy farmer will increase, and the better it will make the life of the dairy farmer. The dairy industry needs to pay attention!

2022

All-Ohio 4-year-old

Junior All-Ohio 4-year-old

Nominated Junior All-American 4-year-old

1st 4-year-old, Senior & Grand Champion, Mideast Spring National Junior Show

Supreme Champion Cow, Spring Dairy Expo Junior Show

1st 4-Year-Old, Ohio State Fair Red & White Open & Junior Shows

Grand Champion, National Junior Red & White Show

HM Senior Champion, National Red & White Show

4th 4-year-old, Mideast Summer National Junior Show

Grand Champion, District 1 & 2 Junior Show

5th 4-year-old, International Red & White Junior Show

2021 HONORS

Res. Junior All-Ohio Sr. 3-Year-Old

Res. All-Ohio Sr. 3-Year-Old

Due March 1st with a Showtime heifer