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Finding a way Hendricksons expand barn, herd for next generation to farm
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MENAHGA, Minn. – If there was a will for Peter-Mark and Lynn Hendrickson’s children to farm, the couple was going to nd a way. It has been one year since the family built an addition onto their tiestall barn to accommodate a growing herd – and more importantly, the next generation’s return to the dairy. “If it wasn’t for these rascals, I don’t think we would have done this,” Peter-Mark said. “We felt it was our obligation to give them a chance if they really wanted to try dairy farming.” Peter-Mark and Lynn milk 113 cows with their four children – Ryan, 20, Sarah, 18, Bradley, 16, and Jill, 14 – on their farm in Wadena County near Menahga. Turn to HENDRICKSON | Page 6
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The Hendricksons – (front, from leŌ) Sarah, Lynn and Jill; (back, from leŌ) Ryan, Peter-Mark and Bradley – recently added 50 stalls on to their Ɵestall barn near Menahga, Minnesota. The addiƟon was built to accomodate Ryan and Sarah’s interest in farming.
Lulu continues her showring success Salzls bred, owned cow earns reserve champion honors at WDE By Jill Traut
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MADISON, Wis. – After earning the supreme champion title at the Minnesota State Fair, Cory and Kristen Salzl hoped their showring success would continue at World Dairy Expo. Their 6-year-old cow, Corstar Presto Lulu-ET, held her own on the big stage of WDE, earning Reserve Grand Champion of the International Milking Shorthorn Show . “To be one of the best cows in the ring is really something,” said Cory, who was on the halter of Lulu at WDE. Lulu started her day by winning the Aged Cow class, then went on to be named Reserve Senior Champion PHOTO SUBMITTED and ultimately, Reserve Grand Kristen and Cory Salzl stand with Corstar Presto Lulu-ET at World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis- Champion of the Milking consin. Lulu was named the Reserve Grand Champion of the InternaƟonal Milking Shorthorn Shorthorn Show Sept. 29 in Show Sept. 29. Madison.
Grand champion, and senior champion, went to Maple Fudge of 12 Oaks, the Lifetime Merit Cow class winner, owned by Colton and Ashley Brandel of Lake Mills, Wisconsin. Lulu is no stranger to the colored shavings of WDE, as she made her rst appearance as a March calf in 2015. She stood fourth as a 2-year-old and was reserve intermediate champion as a 3-year-old. Coming off her supreme champion honors at this year’s Minnesota State Fair in August, Lulu had made a name for herself, garnering many fans who stopped by to see her before the big show. But the road to this year’s WDE was no guarantee. Lulu was a little off after calving, but the Salzls were able to address the matter right away. Additionally, the drought Turn to SALZLS | Page 8
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Dairy Proannounces le brought toplan you by Biden toyour ease The White House is addressing the supply chain disruptions facing agriculture and the rest of the economy. President Joe Biden announced the Port of Los Angeles will operate 24 hours per day, seven days a week. That follows a similar commitment from the Port of Long Beach a few weeks ago. “This is the rst key step in moving our entire freight, transportation and logistical supply chain nationwide to a 24/7 system.” Biden also used the announcement to promote the infrastructure bill, which would impact roads, bridges, ports and railroads. USDA to help with supply chain issues The Biden administration is working on addressing supply chain disruptions, including agriculture. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the focus is on getting more people and work done at the ports. “We, of course, are also working in an effort to determine how to best use resources we’ve recently announced to provide assistance.” Vilsack said U.S. infrastructure also needs an update. “It’s important to make sure we take this opportunity to modernize infrastructure so we’re in a position to have a much more resilient system than we have today.” Threat remains for estate tax exemption President Biden has signed the debt ceiling bill, keeping the government funded through early December. Lawmakers are now focused on the Build Back Better plan. Senate Agriculture Committee Ranking Member John Boozman said the pay-fors for the upcoming legislation are still concerning. “They’re talking about tampering with the estate tax,” Boozman said. “The entire federal discretionary budget is only $1.5 trillion. When you’re talking about spending $3.5 or $4 trillion, you need income to make up
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Sarah Hendricksons observes the dairy cows as she walks through her family’s Ɵestall barn Oct. 11 near Menahga, Minnesota. Hendrickson recently returned to the farm full Ɵme. Last fall, the Hendricksons built a 50-stall addition on to their tiestall barn so the farm could better support Ryan and Sarah as they committed to working with the family full time. “Dairy farming is all Ryan has ever talked about,” Peter-Mark said. “I’m not old myself, so we knew the setup would be good for both of us.” The 40- by 120-foot addition sits to the south of the original tiestall barn. It includes 50 mattress stalls bedded with sawdust, a carrier rail for the milking units, a wide feed alley for the self-propelled feeding cart, and six 50-inch fans and two 30-inch fans for ample ventilation. “The old part of the barn used to get a little stuffy in the summer,” Peter-Mark said. “With this part added on now, the entire barn got better with the ventilation.” The Hendricksons began construction on the addition Sept. 20, 2020; cows came in to the barn Dec. 1, 2020. “Ryan helped design and do a lot of this work,” Peter-Mark said. “We did most of the interior work.”
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members moving cattle in and out of the barn. The additional stalls did not eliminate any time, but the workload looks different. “It’s the speed,” Peter-Mark said. “Now, we take turns milking. While three are on for milking, the other three can go deer hunting. Then, the next day, the others will milk and its someone else’s turn to hunt.” For Sarah, the addition created an opportunity for her to invest in her own animals. Last March, she brought heifers to the farm and began milking this past summer. “I was working off the farm out of school and then decided to come here,” Sarah said. “I’ve never cared much about eldwork, but I missed the cows. I like milking.” Like her brother, Sarah owns a portion of the herd; seven milking cows and a few calves and heifers. Together, Ryan and Sarah receive a portion of the milk check for H Pine Acres. While Ryan takes care of a variety of tasks on the farm, his main responsibility is feeding cows and operating equipment. “I like dairy farming because I can milk cows and also do other things I like,” Ryan said. “Every day there is something different to do on the farm.” Sarah enjoys her time in the barn and has recently taken on overseeing her family’s breeding decisions for the herd. Traits she selects for include udder composite and calving ease. “I judged dairy cattle in FFA. I know what I’m looking at, and what I want out of a breeding and the things I don’t like that could be evened out a bit,” Sarah said. “It’s fun to see a calf grow up and see how you did on that mating.” The Hendricksons also place great importance on producing high quality milk. Many times, they have made the
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Half of the Hendricksons’ herd is housed in a new 40- by 120-foot addiƟon at the dairy. The family nished the barn in December 2020. state’s list for low somatic cell count. “That’s important to us,” Peter-Mark said. “We’re always working on the health of our cows and the quality of milk they’re producing. We get less worried about the somatic cell count number because that comes with the other two.” Over the last year, the barn addition has beneted the farm in more ways than one. The herd has increased in milk production while decreasing feed intake, and the spacious, bright barn has made it fun for the Hendricksons to work in. Most importantly, Peter-Mark and Lynn found a way to achieve their children’s wishes of dairy farming. “We love having all the kids around,” Lynn said. Peter-Mark agreed. “It’s really good to have the whole crew,” he said. “Man, it’s a lot of fun with them all here now.”
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Ryan Hendrickson cuts the strings on a round bale before puƫng it into the TMR mixer Oct. 11 at his family’s dairy near Menagha, Minnesota. Hendrickson does most of the feeding for the farm.
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ConƟnued fromSALZLS | Page 1 “It’s fun to work with her on a normal basis,” he said. “It’s hard to name one thing I like about her because there are so many things we like about her.” Lulu’s home is with Cory and Kristen at Corstar Farm in Litcheld, Minnesota. The Salzls milk a 20-cow herd of Milking Shorthorns and Guernseys, while also both working off-farm jobs. Breeding, owning and caring for Lulu is special for the Salzls, especially since Lulu
goes back to one of Cory’s rst Milking Shorthorns and rst show cows. Seeing their hard work at home payoff is what made their WDE honors so special. “It speaks a lot of our breeding program, our farm and our management,” Cory said. “Just the pride in being able to do everything. We took care of her at home ourselves. We took care of her at the show. All that combined makes us feel good.”
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thrive on the baleage. But once at WDE, Lulu threw another wrench at the Salzls. “Two days before the show, there was a hiccup,” Kristen said. “She wasn’t eating well. She wasn’t sick but she just wasn’t on her best.” Fortunately, it all came together on show day. “On show day, she did amazing and turned around,” Cory said. “She just did her thing. No extra work with her at
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A banner year for the dairy industry Despite challenges, domestic consumption and exports grew in 2020 By Jerry Nelson
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – A recent press release from International Dairy Foods Association paints a glowing picture for the nation’s dairy industry. “Despite all of its challenges, 2020 was an astounding year for the U.S. dairy industry,” said Matt Herrick, Senior Vice President of Public Affairs and Communications and Executive Director of the International Dairy Foods Association Foundation. I D F A Matt Herrick International Dairy Foods represents all parts of the dairy Association Foundation supply chain, including dairy cooperatives and their farmers; processors of milk, cheese, ice cream, yogurt, and dairy ingredients; food retailers; and suppliers. Statistics compiled by USDA’s Economic Research Service show that the nation’s dairy industry had a banner year in 2020 despite the gut punch the COVID-19 pandemic delivered to the U.S. economy. “Early on in the pandemic, we lost many of our food service customers and there were some dairy farmers who were forced to dump milk,” Herrick said. “But thanks to cooperation between the government and the dairy industry, we were able to quickly turn that situation around. The dairy industry worked with the government to get dairy products to the food insecure people who needed them. This was accomplished by including more dairy products in food boxes. SNAP payments were also plussed up to increase the buying power of low-income consumers.” Herrick said that 20-25% of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program purchases are dairy products. During the height of the pandemic many Americans turned to comfort foods, which included a variety of dairy products. In 2020, domestic ice cream per capita consumption rose 4% over 2019, yogurt consumption jumped 3%, and butter consumption churned out a
2% increase. Fluid milk consumption stayed at at 141 pounds per person, per year. This was the rst time in 13 years that uid milk consumption didn’t show a decline. “Despite labor shortages, we are starting to see restaurant demand return to pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels,” Herrick said. “And farmgate milk prices continue to go in the right direction.” There is a continuing trend for Americans to eat more dairy than they drink. In the past decade, domestic per capita cheese consumption has risen by 15% while domestic per capita butter consumption jumped 29%. And, the popularity of whole milk continues to rise. “Studies have shown that higher fat dairy products actually decrease cardiac disease in people,” Herrick said. “Dairy products are affordable, healthful and nutritious. There is no other food group out there that is consumed at breakfast, lunch and dinner. Dairy is frequently included in social gatherings and in family celebrations.” Exports were a shining star for the dairy industry in 2020. U.S. dairy export volumes grew by 10% over 2019, setting an all-time record for export volumes in one year and pushing export values to more than $6 billion for the rst time since 2014. The dairy industry’s export volumes and value were up over 2019 levels in nine of its 10 top export markets. Some Asian markets – China, Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia – saw increases between 40-50% in value over 2019, with correlating increases in volume to those markets. All told, the U.S. exported nearly 2.4 million metric tons of dairy goods last year, shattering previous records. “We will continue to see growth in exports to countries in eastern Asia,” Herrick said. “California Dairies Inc. recently broke ground on a new processing facility that will use the UHT process to produce extended shelf-life milk that will be packaged for export. There is a huge demand for uid milk in eastern Asian nations.” In 2020, the U.S. dairy industry notched yet another new record. For the rst time ever, uid milk exports exceeded domestic uid milk sales on a skim milk solids basis.
Dairy exports in 2021 are continuing to outpace the record levels set just a year earlier. Despite the signicant transportation issues that continue to plague American competitiveness abroad, 2021 is expected to be another banner year for U.S. dairy exports. During the rst half of 2021, U.S. dairy exports were up double digits over 2020. “There is a lot of demand domestically and around the world for U.S. dairy products,” Herrick said. “Global supplies are tight, and America is viewed as a reliable supplier of quality dairy products to the world.” Continual improvements in resource management and sustainability have long
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rst milking went awless. It was really kind of like a big sigh of relief. For me, it was the win that I needed.” The milking herd is housed at his farm site in bedded pack pens, which Bekius rents from his parents, while the youngstock are located a few miles away at Alex Grimm’s dairy farm. Bekius, Grimm and Grimm’s ancée, Brooke Christensen, are in the process of nalizing a partnership. Once that arrangement is complete, the two milking herds will be combined on Bekius’ farm site while the youngstock and dry cows will all be housed at Grimm’s property. “One of the reasons we really got serious about this partnership was the way the dairy industry is going, based on a labor and nancial standpoint. (Grimm) and I are the ultimate dynamic duo,” Bekius said. “The big drive behind this parlor is that once the partnership is nalized, we can work together and have time to do things off the farm.” As Bekius made plans to meet his ve-year goal, he and Grimm toyed with the idea of building a new facility before settling on a sounder decision. “We learned quickly with COVID-19 and the cost of building materials, that wasn’t feasible,” Bekius said. “So, I started looking and shopping around.” Bekius found a used parlor in St. Michael. The parlor came from a barn that was retrotted in a similar manner to the renovations Bekius was planning. “When we took it out of the barn, we didn’t really trash and bash it,” Bekius said. “We took it out cautiously and put it back together the same way in this barn.” The retrot was quick with Bekius, Grimm and their families on site to help. “We envisioned how we wanted this,” Bekius said. “We spoke to several other farmers who had done barn renovations and just did it. There were a few things we changed up as we went and made it work for us.” The barn was originally 42 stalls, with the additional 33 stalls added in 2002. For the most recent remodel, Bekius built the parlor into the old part of the barn. “We started rst by cementing gutters,” Bekius said. “We let the cows out of the barn that morning, took the barn cleaner out and got to work.” Bekius, Grimm and Bekius’ brother, Brad, laid all the concrete and did much of the construction themselves. Bekius thought a slim six hours of labor were contracted to install the pipeline. “There were a few things that didn’t go as well as we wanted them to,” Bekius said. “A few minor hiccups that we worked through but nothing major.” While the men were busy with the renovations, Christensen took on much of the responsibilities at Grimm’s farm. As one enters the barn through the milkhouse on the east end of the barn, 24 tie stalls remain where the cows were milked during this project. Behind the stalls, a wall separates the two milking systems. The parlor room immediately follows, and the north feed manger is walled off for what will be a hallway and utility room. Turn to BEKIUS | Page 11
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Ken Bekius explains the process of switching from a Ɵestall barn to a parlor Oct. 15 at his farm near Milaca, Minnesota. The parlor encompasses the original barn. To the west, and under the roof of the 2002 expansion, is the holding pen. And after that is a stacking slab where manure from the parlor and holding pen is collected. In creating this setup, Bekius used materials he had available. “We had tie stalls cemented on pegs, so we spun those sideways to make a fence for the holding area,” Bekius said. “We used the 2-inch stainless steel milk line to make the holding fence higher.” Neck rails from the tie stalls were also disassembled and used as a head rail in the parlor. “That’s supposed to stop the cows from jumping over the brisket rail,” Bekius said. The rst milking went smoothly with Bekius and Grimm in the parlor. Until the partnership is nalized and all the milking cows are in one location, Bekius will be the one in the parlor with Grimm milking at his farm. Bekius’ parents and brother will bring the cows to the holding area and help load them in the parlor. To minimize expenses, Bekius is using regular takeoffs, but has plans to invest in automatic takeoffs in the future. For now, it is taking Bekius just over an hour to milk. “Having this parlor complete and working like it does makes me feel like anything I set my mind to I can do,” Bekius said.
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ATHENS, Wis. – Water and soil are some of the most precious resources available to us and few take the conservation and quality of those resources more seriously than farmers. Conservation of those resources was the focus as the Professional Dairy Producers hosted a series of Water Tours last month, including a stop Sept. 21 at Miltrim Farms Inc., in Athens. “There are lots of people out there who are interested in improving the land,” said Jason Cavadini, an agronomist with the University of Wisconsin Research Center in Marsheld. “Bringing everyone together around the same table helps us accomplish more.” Miltrim Farms Inc., is a fourth-generation family dairy farm, owned and operated by the Trimner family. Miltrim Farms is home to 3,000 cows; 1,800 of those are milked with 30 robotic milkers, with the remaining cows milked in a double-12 herringbone parlor. Approximately 5,000 acres are cropped, raising alfalfa, grasses and clover for haylage, and corn for silage.
The farm was established in 1988, milking 300 cows on the site where their heifers are currently housed. In 2000, they moved to their current site, growing to 600 cows. Over the past 20 years, the farm has grown through carefully planned expansions to its current size. The farm, located in the Eau Pleine watershed area, consists of primarily heavy clay soils. The farm was the rst to be certied as a Clear Water Farm through the Alliance for Water Stewardship. Crop rotations in use typically run on a three- to four-year schedule. “The makeup of the soil is kind of a benet and a curse at the same time,” David Trimner said. “It really helps protect the water, but cropping-wise it is not always the best. You have to be really strategic on how you crop it. One of the things we do is try to utilize cover crops on our corn elds, to facilitate great soil health and good water inltration.” The dairy site comprises about 50 acres. Trimner said they are continually making plans to work with the landscaping and natural vegetation around the farm to help divert rainwater runoff from the dairy site to their wells, allowing them to best capture rainwater, reducing further runoff, and helping to recharge their wells. The farm operates off a system of six wells, which are not all high-capacity, because
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ConƟnued from MILTRIM | Page 12 commodate the robot-milked portion of the herd was designed and ventilated in a manner to move enough air, eliminating the need for water misters to cool cows during the heat of the summer, further helping to decrease the water needs of the operation. The barns are cleaned using reclaimed water in a ush system. The ventilation system allows the barn to be kept warm enough, approximately 40 degrees even on the coldest winter days, which keeps the ush system running without creating slippery, icy oors. The ventilation also reduces the occurrence of fog inside the barn, even on the coldest days. “Keeping the fog at bay is crucial because the robots work with camera lenses to sense where the cow is and attach the milking unit,” Trimner said. “If you were to get a lot of fog in the barn, those lenses would fog up, creating issues for the camera.” The barns are bedded using sand, about 95% of which is reclaimed through the manure separating system that is also used to reclaim the ush water. The manure that is separated off is applied to elds using drag hoses for elds up to 6 miles away from the dairy. “With that, one thing we focus on is lower rates of manure being applied to help facilitate soil health as well as preventing runoff,” Trimner said. “It also helps keep trucks off the road. We do have to truck some, because there are some elds that we are not able to lay hose to. The manure is incorporated immediately using a minimum disturbance injection, which creates less odor and makes the
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lters and grease it. We probably do these things more often than we need to, but we have always believed that oil and grease are cheaper than engines and bearings. What has been your favorite tractor you have owned? The favorite tractor that we still own is our John Deere 8330. It’s a lot nicer and newer than the 4840 and has more creature comforts. If money were not an object, what would be the next tractor you would buy? Explain. I would get one of the new John Deere quad tracks. It would save on soil compaction and allow us to get through more of our wet spots without getting stuck. Tell us about your farm. Other than two full-time employees, we do everything on our farm using family labor. I farm with my dad, Rich; my uncles Paul and Bill; my cousins Billy, Garris, and Jordan; and my brother, Chad. We buy several truckloads of yearling feeder cattle in the spring and place them on ranches that are located in areas that range from northern Minnesota to western South Dakota. After growing the feeder cattle on grass all summer, we round them up in the fall and truck them back home. We then fatten out the cattle in our feedlot.
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Troy Colsrud Finlayson, Minnesota Pine County 70 cows Tell us about your favorite tractor on the farm. My CIH 7150 Magnum. I have had the tractor for about three years. I bought it used. What do you use this tractor for throughout the year? I use it for spring eldwork, chopping hay and corn and fall eldwork. I really like chopping hay with it because it has enough horsepower to pull the chopper without any problem. Why is this tractor important to you? It is easy to operate and comfortable to use. It has enough horsepower to do everything I need it to do. What maintenance do you do to keep the tractor working properly? I do an oil change and lter change twice a year.
Tell us about your favorite tractor on the farm. Our JD 4840s. We have two of them. One is a 1980 tractor that we bought in 2010 and the other is a 1982 that we bought in 2016. We used the rst one so much that we bought the second one. What do you use this tractor for throughout the year? We use one for digging, plowing and chopping silage, and the other tractor gets used for planting, pulling gravity boxes and hauling manure. Why is this tractor important to you? They have been good all-around tractors that get the job done. They have good power when you need it. What maintenance do you do to keep the tractor working properly? We do oil changes when needed. In the spring, we also put in new air and transmission lters and clean the radiator out. What has been your favorite tractor you have owned? I would say it’s dad’s old tractor; a 1960 Oliver that he
What has been your favorite tractor you have owned? A Farmall B. It’s just a nice little tractor to drive. That’s been in my family my entire life. My dad found it in a rock pile and put it back together. He has had it since he was 19 or 20 years old. It still gets used now; we pull feeder wagons and ted hay with it. bought new. We used it a lot when I started farming in 1979. We don’t use it as much anymore. We would like to restore it someday. If money was not an object, what would be the next tractor you would buy? I don’t think we would ever buy newer tractors because they have too many electronics. Tell us about your farm. My brother, Vernon, and I milk 60 cows in a tiestall barn. We farm 950 acres and we raise corn, soybeans, wheat and alfalfa. We built our new barn in 2013.
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If money was not an object, what would be the next tractor you would buy? A CIH 7120 or CIH 7130. These two because they are nice tractors to use and operate. Tell us about your farm. I farm with my wife, Vickie; and our ve kids, John, Jake, Justin, Laura and Joe; and my mom, Carol. We own 420 acres and rent another 200. We raise corn and hay.
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Carl Nindorf with son Levi Montello, Wisconsin Marquette County 70 cows
Tell us about your favorite tractor on the farm. My favorite tractor is a 1989 Case IH Magnum 7120. I have owned it for about 10 years. What do you use this tractor for throughout the year? This tractor is hooked to the round baler all summer and used as a back-up mixer tractor. It runs the manure pump, blower, merger and hay rake; it’s an allpurpose tractor. Why is this tractor important to you? I would say this tractor is important to me because it’s the rst tractor I bought when I started farming. I also had it repainted and the cab interior re-done. I also grew up driving this series of Magnum tractors. They are just easy to drive. What maintenance do you do to keep the tractor working properly? We make sure oil is changed every 200 hours. We also grease it and change the necessary lters. What has been your favorite tractor you have owned? My favorite is probably our 7120s because they are very reliable tractors. If something does go wrong, you can usually diagnose it yourself and x it yourself. The 7120 on our mixer has well over 20,000 hours, so that says something. If money was not an object, what would be the next tractor you would buy? I would probably buy a Fendt. I hear they are comfortable to drive and pretty efcient. I think it would work nice on our triple cutter. Tell us about your farm. My brother, Nate, and I farm along with our parents, Brad and Denise Voth. It’s a sixth-generation farm since 1877. We milk 700 cows three times a day and farm about 730 acres. We raise some of our replacement heifers and the other animals are custom raised.
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What quality and quantity do you harvest of each crop? The rst crop can be our best yield and, weather permitting, best hay. I like to cut the cow hay early, but Timothy and brome a little later for big yields. The cow hay, like alfalfa and grasses, usually like to be cut around the end of May in normal years and then hopefully every 27 to 30 days after. This puts the fourth cut for the beginning of September, giving it time to get ready for the fall. Timothy and bromes are usually cut more at the end of June to get great yields and good quality for the show cattle, plus those grasses are more of a three cutting a year type, and most of the yields are on the rst crop.
Describe a challenge you overcame in reaching your forage quality goals. Dry, cold spring weather. It was dry over the winter and spring. When it warmed up real early, the alfalfa greened up fast, but as it was growing, we had a week of frosty mornings that nipped the alfalfa. The hay was short. We waited and got some rain before cutting. The crop grew more, and the quality was very good.
Describe your harvesting techniques for alfalfa and corn silage. I cut with a New Holland 313 discbine with rubber rollers. I like to lay hay out as wide as possible if I am raking the hay. I like cutting as it warms up to let the sugars get in the stems. With the grasses, I cut 4 to 6 inches off the ground. My hay rake is a Kuhn V12 wheel rake which does a nice job. In the summer, I like to get hay dried down and raked early in the morning to keep the leaves. I bale with a Vermeer 504 pro baler.
What are management or harvesting techniques you have changed that have made a notable difference in forage quality? Sometimes it is just being patient. You are always watching the weather, and it can change as you cut hay. Doing a good job raking is so important. When you do it, the speed and turning it just right is important. I used to have custom people help, but I could never get them there when we wanted to. So, as we sold cattle, I invested in good hay equipment. Tedders are popular andI have used a few. They help in the spring or fall but I nd that if I lay hay out wide and even, it dries pretty well, and if it is a little wet, I just wrap it. Wrapping hay at 25 to 35% moisture is like feeding dry hay in the barn. We cart hay into the barn, so if it is drier, it is less work. Also wrapping hay takes pressure off of storage spaces, and sometimes you get weather that hay just does not dry; such as heavy, wet dews and cloudy weather, you keep working the hay to get it dry. I just wrap it a few days after I cut.
What techniques do you use to store, manage and feed your forages? We have a machine shed where I stack hay in but also have a large, long heifer shed. We have big lots and can bed the overhang, giving me good storage, and as I feed off in the winter, I can open pens up. I like to set bales in the shed for a few weeks before stacking, then stack three bales high on edge. We also inline wrap hay.
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It’s October, which means all the cobwebs, dust and dead ies in my house have now become Halloween decorations. Of course, they have been accumulating because we are having a second summer with vacation trips and extra Just Thinking Out Loud harvests this month. A trip out to Madison, Wisconsin, for Expo refreshed my soul. It was like being free and normal again; to see old friends, meet new ones and explore new opportunities in our dairy world. We went from lockdown and cancelations to wide open spaces with masks. I felt like a Jack Russell Terrier on caffeine. Which way do you turn By Natalie Schmitt rst? Head jerking around in all directions trying to take Columnist all the sights in one glance. Everything seemed new and exciting. WDE has always been about bringing people together, networking and learning. The cow show and colored shavings is the excuse we use to make the trip. I was watching the Red and White show with Mark, Michael and Lucas, a college buddy of the kids. Lucas grew up in the Twin Cities. He was listening to the continuous commentary of Mark and Michael about the nuances of each animal and their placing. He was catching on pretty quickly and was intrigued by the connectedness of the animals, the exhibitors, the audience and the event. This was his rst trip to Expo. He was the musical entertainment in The Tanbark the night before. Mark was looking through the show catalog and noticed the 5-year-old cow from British Columbia was a Colt P daughter. I told Lucas that the bull’s second dam was Crimson, a ush sister to Michael’s Crystal cow. Finding connections between show animals is like playing “Nth degree” on steroids. It seems everyone is connected one way or another. We had a chance to talk with John Erbson on Friday night before Shakira’s big show day. We’ve known John for years and he would often stop by for a piece of pie when he was traveling through our area picturing cattle. His farm bred this beautiful cow. It was so neat to hear him talk about her and her family›s story. Even though he doesn’t own or show her, she still carries his prex and he is still connected to her. She closed out the show day being named supreme champion. Friday night also gave us a chance to celebrate Malt’s victory in the Guernsey ring. Only 20-plus days fresh, this beautiful animal brought home the hardware again for a young family from Wisconsin. What an opportunity for this young couple to have such a big impact in their breed. We know them through Katie and her adventures with Malt in Louisville, Kentucky. I don’t know if this new connection will result in bringing a little color in our barn or not. Probably one of my favorite stories from the stands was about the winning Milking Shorthorn animal. According to our Milking Shorthorn friend from Todd County, a then 9-year-old girl raised her hand to buy the last calf at a national Milking Shorthorn sale for $300. This calf and the young girl grew up to walk away with the hardware at Expo. You can’t write a better storyline. I can see a Hallmark movie about all the hard work, struggles, setbacks and the nal triumph of walking under the spotlight for the chance to be named supreme champion at Expo. Watch for it coming on a channel near you. Now that we’re back home, the second round of harvest has kicked into gear. Our neighbor, Jake, says we’ve had almost 10 inches of rain since September. That is more rain than we had in all of April, May, June, July and August combined. It has been a welcomed sight to replenish the dry elds, but it is creating a couple of unique situations. Because we live in north central Minnesota, our growing season doesn’t let us take ve cuttings of alfalfa, until this year. With the extra rain and extended warm temperatures, the alfalfa elds have come back into production. It seems like such a waste not to take this extra crop before we turn over the eld. So, that means Mark will have to wash all the forage harvest equipment again, when it is colder and more like normal. We’re still waiting on the soybeans to nish maturing and the corn to nish drying down a few more points before we can wrap up the harvest. Mark was telling the young neighbor boys that the beans were still in the bubblegum stage when he chewed on them a while back. They all agreed we need a good killing frost to nish off both bean crops. It seems the beans which the hailstones knocked out of the pods awhile back have started to germinate with all of the rain and warm temperatures. The beans are a bit confused as to what season we are entering. It seems everything is a little mixed up this harvest season but how else would we have a good story to share over the years? As their four children pursue dairy careers off the family farm, Natalie and Mark are starting a new adventure of milking registered Holsteins just because they like good cows on their farm north of Rice, Minnesota.
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Grifns nd opportunity for connections on northwest Minnesota dairy Family earns Marshall County award By Sherry Newell Contributing writer
THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn. – When Ryan and Karen Grifn went through the Red River Valley Emerging Leaders program, a light switch came on in their heads. It told them connecting their community more closely to agriculture is a critical need. It led the Marshall County, Minnesota, dairy farm couple to consider the opportunity to tell their story an important part of their farm business. Their work to expand people’s knowledge of agriculture helped the Grifns to be named the county’s 2021 Farm Family of the Year by University of Minnesota Extension. “Any way you can impact a kid or an adult, or a kid through an adult, matters,” Ryan said. “Especially as dairy farmers, we sometimes lose sight of how few people understand us because of how busy we are, but the world is so far removed from agriculture. It’s mind boggling.” Having time to interact with the community is one reason the Grifns have landed at a small herd size of 15 milking cows and 20 heifers on their 25-acre farm
just north of where Karen grew up near Thief River Falls. The cows are registered Red and White Holsteins or Red and White carriers, in line with Ryan’s interest in genetics while raising, showing and merchandising elite animals. “We enjoy that we are able to do community outreach,” Karen said. “Whether it’s having the kindergarten class out, or taking a calf to town, we are glad we can provide access to animals.” Their children are also reasons for their unique approach to dairying. The children – Curtis, 11, Evelyn, 9, and Agnes, 6 – are in 4-H, and the two older children show cows and are active in junior breed activities. “We’re happy to have the life we have. We have (the farm) set up in a way that makes it easy to get away,” Ryan said. The family shows locally at district shows and at statewide ones when they can. Taking their cattle to World Dairy Expo, as they did last week, is critical, according to Ryan. That is because their location in far northwest Minnesota is off the beaten path. “World Dairy Expo is an absolute must with our location being extremely remote relative to other dairy areas. We don’t
exactly have people dropping by,” Ryan said. Instead, he relies on Expo and social media to market the herd’s genetics. The Grifns ended up in northwest Minnesota after meeting at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, marrying, then living in the Rochester area near Ryan’s family’s dairy farm. He worked on two Holstein farms while Karen became a licensed banker. But the couple wanted to buy a farm. Purchasing near Karen’s family farm at Thief River Falls was more nancially feasible than buying in southeast Minnesota, so in 2007 they bought 25 acres and moved north with two cows. Karen continued in banking while Ryan worked briey on a dairy, then for 4.5 years as a yard manager for a pallet factory. They poured concrete for a milk house and a at parlor, and the milk truck’s rst pickup was August 2011. Soon after, Ryan left his job and established a Pioneer seed business. Two more years down the road, Karen left her job and began substitute teaching. It gave Turn to GRIFFINS | Page 25
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Ryan and Karen Griffin, with their children – (from le�) Cur�s, Agnes and Evelyn – are the 2021 University of Minnesota Farm Family of the Year award in Marshall County, Minnesota. They milk 15 cows near Thief River Falls, Minnesota.
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Con�nued from GRIFFINS | Page 23
her the exibility she wanted. “It’s really nice. I enjoy keeping the same schedule as the kids, and it helps me nd the time to help in the community,” she said. Karen is a church worship leader, township clerk and board member of the local youth basketball league, in which Curtis and Evelyn play. Agnes fully expects
to follow in their footsteps, knowing both parents played basketball when they were younger. “My mom has a basketball trophy,” Agnes said. Karen also enjoys telling the agriculture story to visitors. “The people who come are so appreciative. Some will say, ‘We enjoyed this more than the zoo!’
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The Griffin siblings – (from le�) Cur�s, Evelyn and Agnes – help at World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin. They have regular responsibili�es with their parents, Ryan and Karen, on the family farm.
But we’re not a zoo; this is every day for us,” she said. The family has added a little to the farm each year, keeping outreach top of mind. For instance, they upcycled a grain bin as a chicken coop for 40 laying hens, also using old windows in the structure, and using discarded cat litter boxes as nesting boxes. It’s another story to tell: how agriculture recycles. “I don’t know a single dairy farmer who isn’t resourceful,” Ryan said. Resourceful is one of the things Ryan must be, dairying so far from most suppliers. “Being in a dairy area would be so much simpler, but the world gets smaller every day with technology,” he said. And both Ryan and Karen agree their rural northwestern Minnesota location works for the family. “Working with (cows) makes everything else easier; it gives me a head start in school and I get stronger,” said Curtis, who, like his sister, Evelyn, regularly shows cows 20 times his size. Evelyn agreed. “It’s fun when they get used to you,” said Evelyn, who knows the details of the animals she shows. “If you don’t know much about them, then you’re not going to be able to tell the judge.” The enthusiasm of their children ts right in with Ryan and Karen’s farm philosophy. They build families: their own and those of their cows, while connecting both with the community they call home.
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Ryan Griffin prepares a cow for showing Sept. 28 at World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin. The Griffins a�end the show every year in order to build their reputa�on for Red and White Holstein gene�cs.
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Happy harvest By Steve Frericks Farm Service Agency
Happy harvest to all our area producers. Many producers have indicated that they are pleasantly surprised by how well the crop did considering the conditions of 2021. Plant genetics and late season rain really helped this crop along. Be proud of what you accomplished in 2021 despite the conditions. We certainly are proud of you. We wish you a safe, productive and protable harvest. Acreage report required for fall-seeded crops Producers planting fall-seeded crops such as winter wheat and rye are reminded of the requirement to le an acreage report with FSA for all fall-seeded crops by November 15, 2021. Late ling fees of $46 per farm apply after the November 15. Call and schedule an appointment with your service center to accomplish this task. FSA MAL policy The 2018 Farm Bill extends loan authority through 2023 for Marketing Assistance Loans (MALs). Marketing Assistance Loans (MALs) provide nancing and marketing assistance for wheat, feed grains, soybeans, and other oilseeds, pulse crops, rice, peanuts, cotton, wool and honey. MALs provide you with interim nancing after harvest to help you meet cashow needs without having to sell your commodities when market prices are typically at harvest-time lows. FSA is now accepting requests for 2021 MALs for all eligible commodities after harvest. Requests for loans shall be made on or before the nal availability date for the respective commodities. For more information and additional eligibility requirements, contact your local USDA Service Center or visit fsa.usda.gov. Elections for the 2021 county committee It is important that every eligible producer participates in these elections because FSA county committees are a link between the agricultural community and the USDA. County committee members are a critical component of FSA operations. Committees should be comprised of members who reect the diversity of producers involved in production agriculture in your county. This means that producers representing underserved groups or communities should be on the committee to speak on behalf of their constituency. Underserved producers are beginning, women and other minority farmers and ranchers and landowners and/ or operators who have limited resources. Other minority groups including Native Americans and Alaska natives; persons under the poverty level, and persons who have disabilities are also considered underserved. County committee election ballots will be mailed to eligible voters beginning Nov. 1, 2021. The last day to return completed ballots to your local USDA Service Center is Dec. 6, 2021. For more information on eligibility to serve on FSA county committees, visit: fsa. usda.gov/elections. USDA expands local, electronic communication options for producers USDA is expanding our online communications platform that the Farm Service Agency (FSA) has used for years to now include local information from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Risk Management Agency (RMA), and other USDA agencies. Subscribers will now receive important information on FSA, NRCS and RMA programs, eligibility requirements, deadlines, and more. If you are not currently subscribed to your local county USDA Service Center newsletter, please contact your service center for signup information. News will be sent via email right to your home or farm ofce, or to your smartphone, allowing you to receive immediate notication of USDA news that applies to your agricultural operation. You can also subscribe to text alerts from your county USDA service center by texting a service center keyword to 372-669. Please contact your service center for signup information. For more information visit farmers.gov/workingwith-us/stay-connected or for subscription assistance contact your local county USDA Service Center. Farm Service Agency is an Equal Opportunity Lender. Complaints about discrimination should be sent to: Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 20250. Visit the Farm Service Agency Web site at: www.fsa. usda.gov/ for necessary application forms and updates on USDA programs.
Solidifying dairy as a sustainable food source Dairy Star • Saturday, October 23, 2021 • Page 27
Our planet is on track to reach a population of 9 billion people by 2050, which experts suggest could increase the demand for food by an estimated 60%. This is an opportunity for the U.S. dairy industry, and dairy farmers are in an incredible position to lead the path forward. Buoyed by the science and research dairy checkoff has been developing for generations, the dairy community is a leader in addressing the long-term viability of agriculture throughout the world. As Midwest Dairy farmer leaders, this month fellow dairy farmer deb Vander Kooi and I had the honor By Charles Krause Midwest Dairy farmer of representing Midwest Dairy farmers at the highest level, ensuring farmer voices were part of the global conversation at the United Nations Food Systems Summit. Over the past 18 months, the Summit has brought together UN member states and constituencies for discussions about the future of food and agriculture – including thousands of youth, food producers, Indigenous people, researchers and more. The culmination event, held virtually this year, united over 51,000 stakeholders from 193 countries to workshop solutions for creating sustainable and nourishing food systems across the globe. deb and I were honored to represent our Midwest Dairy region as two of the ve dairy farmers from the United States to participate in this worldwide event. Because dairy is a sustainable, nutritious product with a considerable economic impact potential for new markets, global participants are recognizing the viability of our ideas and asking questions about how we can help expand dairy production throughout the planet. Why? Because dairy has the power to provide nourishment to underdeveloped populations while driving economic impact in these same communities – a combination that is hard to match with any other food source. Economic development on the other side of the globe may seem like a big lift as we focus on running
To do this, leading up to the Summit, participants were tasked with bringing game-changing ideas to the table to help solve the challenge of feeding the growing population. And though it may not seem gamechanging to us because we have been following the science for years, dairy’s Net Zero Initiative is being recognized internationally by participants as a key component. This commitment ensures innovation and production improvements will allow dairy products to continue being one of the most sustainably produced, nourishing foods. We were proud to showcase these goals to help others understand how small changes add up to big outcomes. As a result of the Summit, over 300 commitments were made by leaders at all levels – from young students to international leaders – to accelerate our
shared goals to transform food systems. What we each do as farmers makes a difference. We are part of the solution to a more sustainable food future for the world. And as a sixth-generation dairy farmer, it has been inspiring to see what can be done together. Translating our research and knowledge starts with a conversation, which is why we can be so proud of the seat we had at the table at this Summit, ensuring that Midwest Dairy farmers and U.S. farmers nationwide had a strong voice in the discussion. Our dairy community has always been a leader in sustainable nutrition, and it is important we continue to be represented and participate in conversations that will help our industry thrive and drive demand for dairy products globally by sharing best practices so that others with limited resources can learn and grow.
O d Our dairy i community i h has always been a leader in sustainable nutrition ... our own farms. But it is all about perspective. The average dairy herd in the United States is around 300 cows. The average dairy herd for the world? Two cows. Ninety-nine percent of the herds on Earth have fewer than 100 cows. Most average farms around the world will not need robotic milkers, but we can share all we have learned about genetics, animal care, sustainability and more. And while there is no one-size-ts-all solution, it is important we continue strengthening the dairy community throughout the globe by sharing our knowledge, research and innovation others can apply to become successful dairy farmers – to help create thriving communities in other countries and to help people embrace dairy as a primary source of sustainable nutrition.
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AABP research roundup on calves Whitney Knauer, DVM University of Minnesota
The American Association of Bovine Practitioners had their annual meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, from Oct. 7-9. Cattle veterinarians, veterinarian students and researchers from around the United States and Canada met in person and virtually to share the newest research, recommendations and best practices to enhance cattle welfare and help producers improve the health of their cows and the protability of their operations. The rest of this article will describe three current studies presented at the meeting relevant to calf health. The rst study was presented by researchers from The Ohio State University in which they sought to describe the prevalence of bacteremia (bacteria present in the blood) in clinically healthy dairy calves. To do this, they enrolled 45 clinically healthy calves and drew blood in the rst and fourth week of life to determine if they could nd bacteria present in the blood. Results showed that 22% and 14% of calves had bacteria present in their blood in the rst and fourth week of life, respectively. All bacteria cultured were bacteria commonly present in the intestine. Results suggest there are clinically healthy calves in the rst week of life on dairies that have bacteria present in the blood, which could have implications for future disease in these animals. The researchers did not sample enough calves to determine the impact of their ndings on future disease during the pre-weaning period. The second study presented research done at the University of Montreal where they evaluated the prevalence of pneumonia in pre-weaned dairy calves in the rst two weeks of life (exam 1) and weeks 4-8 of age (exam 2). They enrolled 198 calves on 20 farms using both individual and group housing (10 of each). They evaluated them at both time points with a clinical respiratory scoring system, lung ultrasound and took swabs to look for respiratory pathogens. All calves also had blood drawn at exam 1 to test for passive transfer of immunity. Researchers found that 20% of enrolled calves had clinical or subclinical respiratory disease present in the rst two weeks of age, with 65% of calves having clinical or subclinical disease at exam 2. Results suggest some calves do have respiratory disease that can be diagnosed in the rst two weeks of life, and the risk of clinical and subclinical pneumonia increases as calves age. The researchers also found no difference in pneumonia prevalence based on pre-weaning housing type.
The third study relevant to calf health was presented by researchers from Michigan State University where they evaluated new serum total protein guidelines and how those categories were associated with calf health during the preweaning period. Researchers evaluated 4,199 calf records from 2014-17. Calves were categorized into four groups according to their serum total protein levels: excellent (n=1,729) was STP > 6.2; good (n=1,456) STP = 5.8-6.1; fair (n=905) STP = 5.1-
Results suggest some calves do have respiratory disease that can be diagnosed in the first two weeks of life, and the risk of clinical and subclinical pneumonia increases as calves age. 5 d poor (n=246) 6 STP ≤ 5 h h llooked k d at 5.7; and 5.1. Researchers then records to evaluate differences in risk for calf hood disease. They reported an overall scours prevalence of 38%, and that all categories (poor, fair and good) had higher risk of scours compared to calves with a STP > 6.2. Calf pneumonia was diagnosed in 18% of calves, and the risk of pneumonia was higher in the poor category as compared to excellent, with no other differences observed. In general, researchers report that the higher the calf’s STP, the greater protection for any disease. The summary result of these three research projects highlight important points for producers. First, there are healthy calves on your farm that probably have pathogenic gut bacteria in their blood stream. Second, very young calves can have clinical respiratory disease, and disease risk increases with age. Third, higher STP levels in the blood are protective against both scours and pneumonia. These three studies, in combination, add more evidence to what we already know: getting adequate volumes of high-quality colostrum into calves within the rst 12 hours of life is the single most important thing we can do for calves to get them off to a good start. This will help reduce the risk of those bacteria in the blood stream becoming pneumonia or septicemia, and will reduce the risk of respiratory disease during the pre-weaning period. If you have questions about colostrum management, reach out to your veterinarian or local extension educator for more information.
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Success of selection for DPR
Dairy Star • Saturday, October 23, 2021 • Page 29
By Mike Schutz
University of Minnesota
Since February 2003, genetic evaluations for daughter pregnancy rate have been available in the United States for selection to improve dairy cow fertility. Not very many years ago, a herd pregnancy rate of 20% had become commonplace, if not the standard for dairy herd fertility. Success in breeding cows has improved in recent years. Many things have changed since 2000, including the publication of predicted transmitting abilities for DPR and inclusion of that trait in Lifetime Net Merit calculations, but also changes to management systems to synchronize or program cows to breed or use technologies to detect heifers and cows in heat. Before we consider the genetic impact of selection on DPR over the past 18 years, it is worthwhile to consider the trait itself. Technically, it seems odd to select individual cows for DPR. After all, DPR is the percentage of eligible cows successfully bred in a 21-day period. So, it is a group measure not an individual cow measure. The trait that is available is the number of days open (interval from calving to successful insemination), which can be recorded for individual cows and veried through breeding and calving dates from DHI records. However, the correlation between days open and DPR is strong, and the relationship is that each percentage increase in DPR is approximately equal to a reduction of four days open. Ultimately, PTA DPR is reported because selection for greater PTA DPR is desirable, which is more like PTA for most other production traits. The opposite would be true of a PTA for days open. Figure 1 depicts what has happened to DPR trends in Holsteins over time. The phenotypic trend (solid maroon line) is simply the average DPR calculated from number of days open by cow birth year from 1957 to 2019. Note that following a long period of decline in DPR, it began to increase again after 2000 and has steadily increased since. The decline in DPR from 37.8% to 24% was equivalent to an increase of 55 days open, or more than two reproductive cycles during that time. Fortunately, the improvement has come more rapidly, increasing the equivalent of 48 days open since 2000. The genetic trend (solid gold line) is the average cow breeding value by birth year and is adjusted so that average breeding value for cows born in 1957 is set to zero instead of the current 2015 genetic base. What is obvious is that there was a nearly linear decline in Holstein fertility from 1957 to about 2003 when PTA DPR were rst released. From the genetic trend, it is also clear that, genetically, the reduction in DPR has stopped. But it is also clear genetic selection has not had a great direct impact on improving cow fertility. The familiar relationship, phenotype equals genetics plus environment, allows one to calculate the environmental trend. Because there is no reason to assume environment other than management would cause great shifts, especially improvements, in DPR, it is safe to assume that the environmental trend is mostly management. The management trend (blue line) in Figure 1 shows clear gains over the past 20 years. The timeline corresponds to the increasing popularity of ovsynch and other timed A.I. protocols. Later increases likely also arose from
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Of kindergartners, cows Page 30 • Dairy Star • Saturday, October 23, 2021
Childhood is a wonder-lled time. Each day brings new discoveries, many of which involve cooties. It’s been so long since I was a kid, events that happened during my childhood are in the Ancient History section of the library. There are times when my behavior is eerily similar to Walter Matthau’s character in the movie Grumpy Old Men. My wife suggested that I counter my growing curmudgeonliness by going on a eld trip with a group of kindergartners. So, I spent a few hours at South Dakota State University’s dairy farm amidst a throng of kindergartners. I wanted to observe the tykes as they learned how milk and ice cream begins its journey to their tummies. I was a dairy farmer for the rst 40-some years of my life, so visiting a herd of Holsteins isn’t exactly
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Does the fall milk slump still exist?
Dairy Star • Saturday, October 23, 2021 • Page 31
Many areas have experienced their rst frost of the season or will in the days ahead. For cows, these cooler temperatures are welcome following a summer with near-record heat across much of the Midwest. Despite the more ideal temperatures for cows, farmers nd themselves disappointed with milk production this time of year. The fall milk slump is an age-old phenomenon. Something to Ruminate On Although changes are less drastic than 10 years ago, the United States Department of Agriculture statistics consistently show the lowest milk production per cow takes place in the last quarter of the year as shown in the chart below. In fact, October and November are the lowest months for milk per cow across most Midwest states. Conversely, milk components (butterfat and protein) approach their seasonal highs during this time. Always look at production on an energy-corrected basis, particularly in the fall. Monitor combined pounds of fat and protein shipped rather than raw volume of milk. By Barry Visser As with most production challenges on farms, Nutritionist this drop in production cannot be solved with a single quick x. Heat stress has a prolonged effect on milk production. Summertime midlactation cows typically do not recover from summer heat stress, so they have depressed milk production during the fall. Early-lactation cows have reduced peak milk production during the fall season due to the negative impact of heat stress in the dry period. These cows also experience the stress of calving during heat stress, so it is common to see peak milk 5 to 10 pounds lower this time of year compared to previous months. Intuitively, cows that start lower in production will peak lower and shift the overall lactation curve downward. Photoperiod and day length have a clear impact on milk production. In 2002, while at the University of Illinois, Dr. Geoff Dahl summarized 10 research trials showing an average increase of 4 to 5 pounds with long-day lighting. Milk production is highest when cows are exposed to 16 to 18 hours of bright light each day. Conversely, dry cows exposed to short days of about eight hours of light milk better after freshening than those exposed to long day lengths of summer. Feed changes are often blamed for the fall milk production drop. In some cases, these changes are signicant and abrupt. However, some farms that have complete or partial carryover of wet corn sources for several months still deal with lower fourth quarter milk production. If new corn silage and harvested wet corn are a factor on your dairy, incorporating rapidly digestible forms of carbohydrates may be the best short-term solution. Recognize that starch availability in wet corn
changes signicantly as fermentation progresses and needs to be monitored in the months ahead. Energy requirements go up in the fall as animals prepare for cold weather. Dry matter intakes are often high this time of year, resulting in reduced feed efciency. Cows commonly appear nonresponsive to dietary changes in the fall. In our Midwestern climate, net energy for maintenance requirements dramatically rise for cattle in September and are greatest in late October and early November, not in the middle of winter like one might expect. Ruminants require as many or more maintenance calories to adapt to cold compared to surviving the cold. This preparation includes changing hair coats, placing fat under the skin for tissue insulation and raising basal metabolism. Most lactating dairy cattle are not housed outside in the winter, reducing the extent of these changes. However, they instinctively know it is going to get cold and will spend calories to prepare. The extent to which these factors impact production is unique to each farm and management system. Evaluate which solutions are practical for your dairy. These may include controlled lighting, heat stress abatement, and efforts to manage reproduction and herd inventory variations. Work with your nutritionist and management team to evaluate and monitor feed changes. As always, let the cows tell you if you are making the right decisions. Barry Visser is a nutritionist for Vita Plus.
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Eight days and over 20 miles walked, working on the Expo Daily Edition and another World Dairy Expo is in the books. After missing out on 2020, being back at the Alliant Energy Center in late September was a homecoming of sorts for many of us, some who traveled thousands of miles to return. I have had a longstanding love affair with World Dairy Expo and have experienced Expo from several different vantage points over the years. Sitting back, recalling all of the memories makes me smile; the highs and By Danielle Nauman lows, the exhaustion and exhilaration, all make up Staff Writer the experience of World Dairy Expo. My days spent at Expo have evolved over the years. Working long days on the Expo Daily Edition is a far cry from days as a cattle exhibitor or working on a barn crew. While I don’t get to enjoy the day-to-day routine of cows, socialization and camaraderie in the barn, I do get to help share the entire Expo experience through the Daily Edition. My rst trip to Expo was abbreviated, and I do not recall it. I was about 2 months old. The weather turned colder than expected. I would guess that like most new moms, my mom did not have the faintest notion of what the reality of a baby at a cow show might be. My grandparents came to the rescue and took me home for
the rest of the week. After that I sat a few years out. My rst real Expo memory was in 1987, when I showed on the colored shavings for the rst time. I showed my Holstein fall calf, Mar-Jerry Commissioner Chenell, and missed the medals by just a few. I remember the enormity of the ring and the realization that no matter how well Chenell had done throughout the summer, we were a pretty little sh in a pretty big pond. I remember the Milk Buds and the long walk from the barns to the Coliseum oor, but mostly what I remember was the awe of being amongst the Hollywood superstars of my childhood – the people and cows I read about in the Holstein World and the Wisconsin Holstein News. It was the rst time I saw Brookview Tony Charity in person, and I will never forget watching her win her fourth title. I still get shivers thinking about it. Over the years, I got to spend more time at Expo. I met more people, from all over the world, and it really became part of the fabric of my life. I got to meet and interact with some of the icons I had only read about as a little kid: Lowell Lindsey remembering my name, and asking me how Chenell was doing, recalling both of us after he judged the Wisconsin Junior State Fair; Bert Stewart stopping and asking about my heifer, telling me how much he liked her. Those were just a few of the times I got to interact with some of the industry personalities I had grown up idolizing. I had the opportunity to lead in three different breed shows over the years. I had a heifer, Mar-Jerry Midnight Emerald, named junior champion of the junior show, long before the juniors had their own show; that AgriGraphics headshot still hangs on my wall.
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I was asked to lead some pretty awesome juniorowned Milking Shorthorns for my friends at Hard Core Farms in 1994, and was even chosen as the winner of the Keith King Outstanding Junior Exhibitor award, without ever owning a Milking Shorthorn. I still treasure that jewelry box. The challenge of leading SSF Winston Lindsay to a third-place nish for Bonnyburn Farms in 1995 is one I will not likely forget. She was a Jersey juniortwo-year-old who I owned a share of the year before, and was the second Jersey I had ever owned. I was helping Bonnyburn that year and while walking the cows, Callum McKinven noticed that Lindsay actually seemed to like me and lead for me, which was a rarity; Lindsay was a bit on the opinionated side. I was sent to buy a pair of whites for show day. I took a few years off from Expo; just making the odd trip down a few times after my son was born. Eventually it became apparent that he was drawn to the world of show cows. We ended up returning to Expo as participants and exhibitors in 2007 when he was old enough to participate in the youth showmanship contest, using a borrowed calf. My dad recognized the blossoming passion Austin had and in 2008 they purchased a couple of Jersey heifers. One of those heifers was good enough to merit the trip. I remember the pride I felt watching Austin make his rst foray onto the colored shavings with Smart Jade OSU Rock Satin. He earned a sixth-place medal that day and Satin was named reserve junior champion of the junior show. Satin is long gone, but that’s still a vivid memory. Expo led me down the path towards a career change in 2009. I met with the people of Dairy Agenda Today, taking a job as a part-time salesperson. I am a terrible salesperson, but the editor asked me about covering events in Wisconsin, and in 2010, I covered my rst WDE show. For the next six years, I would juggle exhibiting with my son and covering the shows for both Dairy Agenda Today and Cowsmopolitan, a proposition that was sometimes stressful, but usually enjoyable. Throughout my years of showring coverage I had the privilege of a front-row seat to watch friends rise to the tops of their classes and take home banners and accolades many only dream of; and I have been present to watch friends get the opportunity of a lifetime, donning a tuxedo in the center of the ring. There are many favorite memories, champions, and cows that never quite got it done. I can get lost in reliving those memories. Austin experienced some successes in the youth contests, and pulled out a top-ve nish in showmanship before he decided that tting was more his cup of tea. He participated six years in the youth tting contest, racking up third and fth place nishes, followed by four consecutive years of placing second. As breeders we have enjoyed some successes, too. Our rst Smokin Hot-bred milking-age female to walk the colored shavings was Smokin Hot Rendition Letitia. She placed third as a senior two-year-old in 2014 and fth as a senior-three-year-old in 2015; and was best bred and owned in the class both of those years. In 2016, Smokin Hot Lightning Strikes placed second as a summer yearling and was pulled out for junior champion at the end of the evening; those are thrills I won’t likely forget. Every calf that is born, every heifer that calves in brings a promise and hope of being the one who leads out the class. That hope is what keeps myself and others like me going, making the pilgrimage to Madison every fall.
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This is a continuation from a column that appeared in Sept. 25 Dairy Star.
One of the greatest characteristics of the dairy community is that we always nd ways to help each other in times of need. As I mentioned in my last column, sometimes the people who help us are family, friends and neighbors, sometimes those people are folks we hardly know. A young lady we hardly knew stepped up to help Monika at the state fair. Back home, our family, friends and neighbors stepped up to help us out when we needed it most. The 4-H dairy show is held on the rst Saturday of Dairy Good Life the state fair. As one of our county’s chaperones, I was already there with Dan and Monika. Our friend, Ron, did Saturday morning milking so Glen and Daphne could ride down to the show with Glen’s mom – and bring a batch of TMR for the show cows. We were in the Coliseum, enjoying the show, when Glen got a message from his brother about a possible tornado at home. Glen made several phone calls to his sister, Vicky, and our neighbors, but it was quite a bit before anyone answered. When he nally got through to Randy, our closest neighbor to the south, Randy conrmed that a severe storm had a just gone through. The storm had knocked By Sadie Frericks out the electricity and temporarily disrupted cell phone Columnist service. But the worst news from Randy was: “Your cows are out. They’re in my soybean eld.” Talk about panic. Cows out at home when you’re two hours away ranks right up there with dairy farmers’ worst nightmares – even worse when they’re tromping on your neighbor’s crops. Glen called Ron to ask if he could drive back out and help with the cows. Ron milks for us once a week, so he knows our farm well and our cows know him well. Ron said he’d go as soon as it was safe. Glen decided he’d watch Monika show her heifer and then head home. Dan, our nieces, and nephew had already shown. About the time Glen and Daphne left, our milk truck driver, Eric, called to say he couldn’t get into our yard because the power line that feeds our farm was lying on the county road. Another great characteristic of the dairy community is that word travels fast – especially when there’s trouble. Our friend, Lucas, was driving from the state fair to his farm in western Stearns County when he heard about the storm. He called and offered to stop and help. Since he was a good hour ahead of Glen, I took him up on his offer. The next update I got was from Lucas. By the time he arrived at our farm, the cows were back in and our electric co-op was working on the downed line. He said we had lots of tree damage and a couple calf hutches tossed around, but it looked like all the buildings were ne. Vicky and her family were just leaving after checking over the farm, as well. What we didn’t piece together until later was how the cows got out and got back in. We gure that when the storm rolled in, the cows stampeded from the pasture to the barn. The pasture narrows into the lane that connects our pasture and our cow yard, creating a funnel of sorts. When the cows got to the lane, the convergence pushed a couple through the electric fence and into Randy’s soybean eld. Ron said only 30 cows veered into the eld; the other 60 made it into the cow yard. By the time Ron got there, the 30 vagabonds were a half-mile south of our farm. When Ron hopped out of his truck and told the girls to go home, they turned around and marched north. Randy and our neighbor, Joe, kept the cows off the road in their side-by-sides. Ron trekked up the road ditch behind the cows. When they reached our farm, Eric, our milk truck driver, opened the cow yard gate and helped usher them into the yard. We’ve never been more grateful for help – and for cows accustomed to herding. Glen’s rst words to me after he got home were, “It sure looks different here.” The storm – whether it was a tornado or a derecho or just a bad thunderstorm – uprooted or topped 18 trees in our front yard alone. Another half-dozen or so were damaged in the pastures. I haven’t counted the damaged trees in our windbreak. The solitary spruce by our silos missed falling on our skidloader by 6 inches. Glen’s uncles came with chainsaws to help start the clean up process. My dad came the next weekend with his chainsaw. Before now, I couldn’t have comprehended how much mess 18 down trees can make in a yard. We heard afterwards that wind speeds during the storm reached 75 miles per hour – which might explain why Randy found one of our empty calf hutches a half-mile away in his dry cow pasture. By the end of the day, we had nothing to give but thanks. For Ron, Randy, Joe, and Eric, whose help with the cows was invaluable. For the linemen from our electric co-op, who had our power restored by 4:30 that evening so we could milk. And for everyone else who came to our aid. We truly are grateful for all of your help. Sadie and her husband, Glen, milk 100 cows near Melrose, Minnesota. They have three children – Dan, 13, Monika, 11, and Daphne, 7. Sadie also writes a blog at www. dairygoodlife.com. She can be reached at sadiefrericks@gmail.com.
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LEGENDARY COWS
Twice the impression Klingsporns’ 10-year-old cows hold their own By Jennifer Coyne jenn@dairystar.com
PINE ISLAND, Minn. – To have one high producing, healthy 10-year-old cow in the milking herd is one thing, but to have two is something else. And for the Klingsporn family, those two animals are nothing more than a solid representation of the herd they work with and the cows they are trying to breed for. “These two older cows keep their health and keep producing,” Kevin Klingsporn said. “They keep up with the younger ones, which is really something.” Klingsporn and his family – wife, Melisa and their children, Dylan and Lydia – dairy in partnership with Klingsporn’s parents, Linda and David, and brother and sister-in-law, Luke and Brianne, and their children, Ella, Ezra and Esmay, near Goodhue County’s Pine Island. The family’s herd of 170
cows is comprised of Holstein and some Brown Swiss. Amongst that diverse group of cattle are two matriarchs, 10-year-olds Chels and Virna. Both Chels and Virna made the list of Dairy Herd Improvement Association’s 2020 Lifetime Cow by Fat and Protein Pounds records, with Chels being named in the top 10. “I notice these cows in the herd, just because they’re the older ones,” Klingsporn said. “Sometimes, the hired help asks about them and it gets me thinking. I almost get a little scared to look them up because I don’t want to jinx how well they’ve done.” At the time the list was published, Chels had completed 2,795 days in milk, with 289,129 pounds of recorded milk. Her combined fat and protein was 21,649 pounds. She is now in her eighth lactation, having freshened July 30, with just under 8,600 pounds of milk to date. “Her rst two lactations gave us some trouble. I know
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The Klingsporns – Kevin, holding Dylan, and Melisa, holding Lydia – stand with their two 10-year old cows, Chels and Virna, at their dairy farm near Pine Island, Minnesota. The Klingsporns milk 170 cows with Kevin’s family.
she had issues with milk fever,” Klingsporn said. “We knew if she kept that up, she wasn’t going to be in the herd much longer. Her next calf was no trouble at all, and that’s how it’s been.” Throughout her time in the Klingsporns’ herd, Chels has given three heifer calves; one is currently milking and another was recently dried off. Similarly, Virna has done
just as well for the Klingsporn family. Her records at the time the DHIA list was published indicated 2,736 days in milk with 284,432 pounds of milk. Virna’s combined fat and protein was 19,602 pounds. Virna is currently dry, having just completed her eighth lactation. Over the years, she has given the herd four daughters, including one in milk right now.
“I don’t think she’s even had milk fever issues,” Klingsporn said. “She’s struggled with mastitis here and there but nothing too drastic.” Both Virna and Chels have made nearly 600,000 pounds of milk in their lifetime combined. Turn to KLINGSPORNS | Page 35
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Chels (leŌ) and Virna are two 10-year-old cows at the Klingsporns’ dairy near Pine Island, Minnesota. Chels and Virna have made a combined 600,000 pounds of milk in their lifeƟme.
“That’s impressive that they’ve been able to work that hard and for that long,” Klingsporn said. “In this day and age, that’s really good because you also have other younger animals that are coming in that are milking good too.” The Klingsporns have a history of milking older cows. When Klingsporn was an adolescent, he remembered having a cow that was 15 or 16 years old and made the DHIA list.
“We don’t do anything special. We just do everything we can to keep them healthy.” KEVIN KLINGSPORN, DAIRY FARMER
“We don’t do anything special,” Klingsporn said. “We just do everything we can to keep them healthy.” On average, the herd retains animals that are moderate in size with a lot of capacity. The herd receives a TMR of earlage, corn silage, haylage, cotton, double rolled corn, straw and protein mix. They are housed in a sand-
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Women In Dairy Shannon Boschma Athens, Wisconsin Marathon County 70 cows, 70 heifers/calves
Family: I have been married to my husband, Hank, for 11 years now. Together we have three children, Gabe, 7, Jonah, 6, and Lily, 2. Tell us about the farm. Hank bought the farm we are on while we were dating in 2009. I joined him here after we married in 2010. We are not rst-generation farmers, as both of us come from a long line of dairy farmers. But we are the rst generation on Fence Road in Milan. At Sky-Reach Holsteins we are currently milking 60 of the 70 cows and raising another 70 heifers and calves. Our name may need an update though, as our barn is adding more color variety; Guernseys, Jerseys and even a Brown Swiss. Our family dairy farm sits on 40 acres on the northwest corner of Marathon County. We rent and crop feed consisting of corn, beans, alfalfa and grass/clover hay for our cattle on another 120 acres. The majority of the labor on our farm is completed by Hank, while my responsibilities lie in the bookkeeping, house and yard upkeep, raising the children, taking care of the calves in the calf barn and hutches, and any other odd jobs that may come up that I can help with. What’s the busiest time of day for you? I have a small daycare out of our home as well, so during the school year the busiest time is denitely that 5-8 p.m. Families are leaving with their kids for the day, I am prepping and serving supper to our kids as well as completing homework checklists with our two oldest boys, then bath/shower and bedtime/reading routines with Gabe, Jonah and Lily, and then running out to feed calves, goats and pets sometime in that timeframe. I feel like I get the most accomplished in the early mornings – paying bills, doing some bookwork for the farm and daycare, feeding calves, doing some light cleaning in the barns or house. When you get a spare moment what do you do? I really enjoy gardening. I like experimenting with new vegetables and planting formats. Most recently, we added pallets to expand my garden area, and then I started tracking which veggies grow best in which planting area. I also spend way too much time browsing Pinterest for new recipes to try, organizing tips, cleaning hacks and especially fun activities or crafts to do with the daycare kids. Tell us about your most memorable experience working on the farm. My earliest on our farm would have to be the late nights when we were dating, working on water cups in the barn. I was a DHI eld technician at the time, so any night I nished testing in the area I would stop in to help, or stay the weekend at the farm. The barn had been sitting empty for a period of time when Hank purchased the farm, so working to get water through all the rusty water lines again was quite a laugh; some nights we’d be drenched. The most memorable, recently, includes the kids. Gabe getting up before us, wanting to go work in the barn. He has been a great help getting feed build up and calf pens cleaned out this summer. Jonah practicing leading the Jersey calf for the little britches show, and seeing it jump like a deer in circles around him. And, watching Lily get excited to go ride in the tractor to get a bale of hay to feed the cows.
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Janice and Philip Klink, Klink Dairy LLC Hartford, Wisconsin Washington County 235 cows
and I manage my time to allow me to complete that list. What do you enjoy most about dairy farming? I enjoy being my own boss and doing something different every day.
How did you get into farming? I grew up on a third generation dairy farm and was interested in making that my career. As I grew older, my brother Keith and I continued to farm and eventually bought into the business.
What advice would you give other dairy farmers? Make sure your cows are comfortable, well fed, and content. After all, they are the money makers. What has been the best purchase you’ve ever made on your farm? Building a freestall barn and milking parlor. This has reduced our labor needs, made the cows more manageable as far as diet and cleanliness, and it’s physically easier to milk them.
What are your thoughts and concerns about the dairy industry for the next year? The higher feed prices are particularly tough for milk producers as milk prices are trending lower. Also, the milk companies limiting the quantity of milk they will allow to be shipped is another concern. What is the latest technology you implemented on your farm and the purpose for it? All of our newer tractors have GPS technology. Tasks such as tilling, planting, spraying, and harvesting are easier with GPS as we have a more precise way to track our position. GPS technology, working in conjunction with computer vision cameras and sensors, allows crops to be distributed more evenly across a eld and allows seeds to be planted at the correct spacing and position to maximize yield. This allows the ability to drive faster without running over and damaging the crop. It also means the same ground is no longer covered twice.
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Philip and Janice Klink milk 235 cows in Washington County near Harƞord, Wisconsin. What is a management practice you changed in the past year that has beneted you? We started doing more conservation tillage, particularly no-till, to decrease soil erosion, increase water retention, reduce chemical runoff, and lower farm energy use. What cost-saving steps have you implemented during the low milk price? We always try to produce highquality forage to lower our cost of what supplements need to be purchased separately.
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How do you retain a good working relationship with your employee(s)? We keep their wages competitive and allow them to have time off. Tell us about a skill you possess that makes dairy farming easier for you. Time management and planning skills allow me to ensure that crops are planted, and harvested at the right time, in the right quantities and using the best methods. I always have a list of jobs I want to get done every day
What has been your biggest accomplishment while dairy farming? Raising a family of four children to be responsible, hard-working adults by including them in the day-to-day chores as they were growing up. What are your plans for your dairy in the next year and ve years? Maintain what we have and hopefully continue growing feed and producing top- quality milk. How do you or your family like to spend time when you are not doing chores? My wife and I enjoy snowmobiling, motorcycling, and taking family trips.
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