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MOUNT HOREB, Wis. — After farming together for nearly 40 years, Virgil and Dawn Haag are ready to let their kids, Kody and Karsen, take the lead. At the center of this transition is a new robotic barn. “These are our only two children, and we’re trying to help them in their careers,” Dawn said. “This barn wasn’t built for us. We built this barn for the future. We built it for our kids. They put the work and time into designing it.” The Haags milk 200 cows near Mount Horeb on their farm, Virhada Holsteins. Their new facility was completed this summer and features four Lely A5 robotic milking units. Robots are located opposite each other with one robot on each side of the robot room. “This creates better ow because cows disperse on opposite sides,” Karsen said. “You have cows that like the left or right side, just like with
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The Haag family — Virgil (from leŌ), Dawn, Karsen and Kody — gather in their new robot barn Oct. 12 on their farm near Mount Horeb, Wisconsin. The Haags milk 200 cows with four Lely A5 roboƟc milking units. ated an LLC in 2017. Kody and Karsen were required to work somewhere else for three years before coming home full time. Kody has been back since 2015. Karsen said she never really left but has been full time for the last two years. “The goal is for us to do less as parents and for the kids to do more and eventually take
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ConƟnued from HAAGS | Page 3 focused on. The barn contains a total of 40 fans, including fans placed over stalls and near robots. Window over cow stalls is approximately 8 mph. “If the cows aren’t eating or milking, they’re lying down,” Virgil said. “They’re so comfortable. There is no crowding with our cows, even when it’s extremely hot.” The barn has a low ceiling to prevent the loss of cool or warm air, helping to retain heat during the winter and keep the barn cooler during summer. In addition, the roof is insulated. “When it’s hot outside, the barn stays so cool inside,” Karsen said. The barn features ex stalls which Virgil said gives cows more lunge room. Cows are bedded with sand. The barn also features alley scrapers, and an automatic feed pusher was added in October. “We have a lot more feed line space in this barn compared to our old barn,” Kody said.
Each side of the barn has a special needs area with six stalls to use for herd checks, breeding and treating sick cows as well as a separate 14- by 10-foot holding area that serves as a fetch pen. The barn measures 270 feet by 122 feet and also includes a utility room. The Haags have been planning their barn since 2017 and made changes to their design during that timeframe. The family did their homework and toured well over 20 robot barns. “When we went on tours, we watched the cows,” Karsen said. “After they got done in the robot, what did they do? How long did it take for one cow to get milked? A cow will tell you a lot of things just by watching her.” The amount of hands-on time for the farmer was another detail the Haags took note of. The Haags’ hands-on time is 1.5 hours between 5 a.m. to 6 p.m., which is used to fetch cows for milking or breeding or other minor tasks, Karsen said.
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A cow is milked by one of the roboƟc milking units while another cow waits Oct. 12 at the Haag farm near Mount Horeb, Wisconsin. The robots are laid out in a tollbooth conguraƟon, creaƟng a system that is free of congesƟon. “We check on the cows at different times of the day; it’s not always the same time,” Karsen said. The Haags looked at retrot barns but decided to build new. “We thought if we’re going to do this right, we need to put the cows in the most comfortable facility,” Dawn said. Their old freestall barn is used for dry and pre-fresh animals. Calves are housed in the original dairy barn. Dawn said the new robotic facility is the start of renovations on the farm. “We need to update our calf barn too,” she said. “We have updates we want to make to the whole farm, and it’s going to be in process for a while.” More family time and less wear and tear on their bodies are benets the Haags also appreciate about their labor-
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The downturn in U.S. milk production was bigger than we thought but is likely over. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest preliminary data put September output at 18.21 billion pounds, down a somewhat bullish 32 million pounds, or 0.2%, from September 2022. The top 24-state total, at 17.465 billion, was down 0.03%. It was the third consecutive month that output lagged a year ago as low milk prices and high feed costs took their toll. The August 50-state total was revised down 119 million pounds from last month’s estimate, which put output down 0.8% from 2022 instead of the 0.2% originally reported. The 24-state revision was down 73 million pounds, 0.7%, instead of the 0.3% loss originally reported. The Oct. 19 Daily Dairy Report said, “USDA made important revisions to data in prior months, suggesting that since April, milk supplies have been lighter than previously believed. USDA revised lower year-overyear production for each of the last ve months by at least 0.1% and revised cow numbers downward in July and August by 11,000 and 14,000 head, respectively.” September cow numbers totaled 9.370 million head, down 6,000 from the August count which was revised down 14,000 head. The herd is 36,000 below a year ago and the smallest since January 2022. The 24-state count was down 2,000 from August, which was revised up 1,000 head, but is 16,000 below a year ago. Output per cow in the 50 states averaged 1,943 pounds, down 68 pounds from August, but 4 pounds, or 0.2%, above September 2022. The 24-state output averaged 1,960 pounds, down 70 pounds from August but 3 pounds, or 0.15%, above a year ago. Revisions lowered August output per cow by 10 pounds in the 50 states and lowered it 8 pounds in the 24-state data. California cows put 3.2 million pounds in the tank, down 60 million, or 3.7%, from a year ago. Cow numbers were down 9,000, and output per cow was down 25 pounds. California hasn’t posted a gain since August 2022. Wisconsin, with 2.6 billion pounds produced, was up 30 million, or 1.1%, from a year ago, thanks to a 25-pound gain per cow offsetting the loss of 1,000 cows. Idaho was off 0.6% on a 30-pound drop per cow although cow numbers were up 5,000. Michigan was up 2.7% on 11,000 more cows and 5 pounds more per cow. Minnesota was off 0.6% on 3,000 fewer cows. Cow output was unchanged. New Mexico was down 7.2% on 19,000 fewer cows and 10 pounds less per cow. New York was up 2% on 5,000 more cows and 25 pounds more per cow. Oregon was down 4.2% on 5,000 fewer cows. Output per cow was unchanged. Pennsylvania was off 0.1% on 2,000 fewer cows. Output per cow was up 5 pounds.
South Dakota was up 5.9%, thanks to 12,000 more cows; however, output per cow was down 10 pounds. Texas was down 1%, despite a 45-pound gain per cow. Cow numbers, still hurting from the disastrous re, were down 20,000. Vermont was down 1.9% on a 20-pound drop per cow and 1,000 fewer cows. Washington was down 1.2% on a 20-pound drop per cow. Cow numbers were unchanged from a year ago. Culling continues to slow. The livestock slaughter report showed an estimated 240,500 dairy cows sent to slaughter under federal inspection in September, down 34,700 head from August and 20,000, or 7.7%, below September 2022. The week ending Oct. 7 saw 57,100 dairy cows go to slaughter, up 500 from the previous week but 2,900, or 4.8%, below a year ago. Year-to-date, 2,435,200 head have been culled, up 93,900, or 4%, from a year ago. Checking the elds, the U.S. corn harvest is 45% complete according to USDA’s latest crop progress report, as of the week ending Oct. 15. That’s up from 34% the previous week and 2% ahead of a year ago. 53% was rated good to excellent, unchanged from the previous week and a year ago. Soybeans were at 62% harvested, up from 43% the previous week and 2% ahead of a year ago. 52% were rated good to excellent, up 1% from the previous week but 5% below a year ago. USDA announced the November Federal Order Class I base milk price at $19.75 per hundredweight, up 28 cents from October, $4.34 below November 2022, but the highest Class I since February. It equates to $1.70 per gallon, down from $2.07 a year ago. The 11-month average stands at $19.15, down from $23.76 a year ago, and compares to $16.61 in 2021. “With the exception of spot fourth quarter, dairy margins were steady to slightly higher over the rst half of October as strength in milk prices more than offset higher projected feed costs,” said the latest Margin Watch from Chicago-based Commodity and Ingredient Hedging LLC. “USDA lowered their yield forecast for both corn and soybeans in the October (World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates) with the corn balance sheet tightening from September and both markets moving higher following the report with ideas we may have seen the harvest lows. Milk prices have stabilized recently as strength in dairy product prices, particularly butter, is helping to support the milk market,” MW said. MW reported on the record butter price, citing tight cream supplies this summer, particularly in the West, limiting butter production, which combined with strong demand. It also cited data from the latest dairy products report. “Combined production of nonfat and skim milk powder declined 14.4% from a year ago, lowest August gure since 2016,” MW said. “Milk powder exports in August of 145.7 million pounds
were up 5.5% from last year with YTD exports 0.5% ahead of 2022 and the second highest on record behind 2021. August cheese exports of 79.5 million pounds were down 3% from last year, with the YTD pace trailing 2022 by 5.7%.” CME block cheddar climbed to $1.8125 per pound Thursday, highest since Sept. 19, but closed Friday at $1.7875, up 8.75 cents on the week, ending six weeks of losses but still 27 cents below a year ago. The barrels nished at $1.71, 6.50 cents higher, highest since Sept. 18, 38 cents below a year ago and 7.75 cents below the blocks. Twenty-nine loads of block were traded on the week and 15 of barrel. Midwest cheesemakers reported mixed notes regarding demand, according to Dairy Market News. Some cheddar and pizza-style cheesemakers say orders are below average for this time of year. Others are as busy, if not busier. Cheese inventories have grown at some plants but not to a concerning level. One reason is the milk supply, which is still in line with previous weeks. Reported spot prices ranged from 25 cents to $1.75 over Class III. Last year, they were $3 under to $1 over Class. Cheese production was slightly busier than the previous week, but plants expect steadier interest as the block-to-barrel price gap narrows. Cheese demand in the West is steady from retail and food service. Exports lag domestic demand although sentiment is that that prices are currently more competitive to attract greater interest from international buyers. Demand for Class III milk is strong to steady; however, some manufacturers report limited extra milk, making production schedules steady, said Daily Market News. Spot butter, after plunging 14.25 cents the previous week, fell to $3.35 per pound Monday, then jumped 6 cents Tuesday, only to close Friday at $3.36, unchanged on the week and 16 cents above a year ago, with 13 loads trading hands. Cream was somewhat tight until October, according to DMN, but butter makers said it opened up late last week and over the weekend. Cream spots are now in the low 1.20s, “within the scal comfort zone for churning.” Both Class II and Class III have shown slowdowns in cream end usage; therefore, butter processors say that both regional and Western region cream loads are available. Cream is tight in the West, but spot loads are available. Some butter producers are limiting purchases of cream due to current prices. Domestic demand for butter is reported as steady. Some plants are working toward further build up for anticipated remaining 2023 holiday demand while others are waiting given prices. Grade A nonfat dry milk climbed to $1.2350 per pound Thursday but nished Friday at $1.2325, up 1.25 cents on the week, highest since Feb. 13, but still 18.75 cents below a year ago. There were 18 sales on Turn to MIELKE | Page 7
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the CWT. Looking at demand, USDA’s August dairy product supply and utilization data shows total cheese utilization at 1.19 billion pounds, down 3.1% from August 2022, largest decline since April 2020, according to HighGround Dairy, primarily driven by a 4.6% drop in domestic American consumption and exports being down 16.1%. Butter usage, at 189 million pounds, was up 0.2%, thanks to strong domestic demand over-coming a 62.9% plunge in exports, which is no surprise considering U.S. butter prices are the most expensive on the planet. Nonfat-skim milk powder, at 189.6 million pounds, was down 14.2%, lowest monthly level since January 2020, said HGD, “as domestic demand plummeted 49.1%, lowest August volume on record with data back to 2011.” Exports were up 4.3%. Dry whey consumption hit 82.2 million pounds, up 2.4%, thanks to a 71.1% increase in domestic use offsetting a 38.2% loss in exports. However, on a monthto-month basis, HGD says domestic usage declined while exports rose for the rst time since March. In politics, Geoff Vanden Heuvel, director of regulatory and economic affairs for California’s Milk Producers Council, updated members in his Oct. 13 newsletter on the ongoing USDA hearing on market order milk pricing. The proposal to update and raise Class I differentials in all 3,100 counties by the National Milk Producers Federation consumed the three full days of testimony the week of Oct. 9. The hearing is on pause until Nov. 27. You can read complete details at www. milkproducerscouncil.org.
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Organic & Sustainable Farming
A relaxing farm lifestyle Wiebusches operate grass-fed, organic dairy By Amy Kyllo
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LAKE CITY, Minn. — Some of Jerry Wiebusch’s happiest farm memories, he said, go back to being a kid on the family dairy farm. Today, he works to keep dairy farming the same low-stress experience he knew growing up. Wiebusch and his sons, Chris and Eric, milk 80 grass-fed, organic cows on 120 acres of pasture at their dairy near Lake City. The Wiebusches milk twice a day, at 7:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. They have been using this timing since upping from milking once a day. They had milked once a day for two and a half years, but the loss of production posed a challenge. Their current practice of twice-a-day milking with different time lengths in between helped them get their production back up while still giving them a good schedule. “I make everything work,” Wiebusch said. “‘Can’t’ has never been in my vocabulary.” Wiebusch said their cows are not pushed for production. The farm has a 13,000-pound herd average, and they are content with that. When Wiebusch milked conventionally, his herd had a 20,000-pound herd average in 1987. Throughout his farming career, Wiebusch has pursued farming practices that create a low-stress experience.
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Jerry and Chris Wiebusch stand in their pasture Oct. 16 on their organic dairy farm near Lake City, Minnesota. The Wiebusches milk 80 cows and have 120 acres of pasture.
“I don’t chase money,” Wiebusch said. “When you’re younger, you kind of chase money. Once I quit doing that, it opened up a whole different reality.” Wiebusch began farming in partnership with his dad in 1980 and bought the farm in 1988. He had gone to school to be a carpenter and remembers getting milking done by 7:30 a.m. to get to work, doing carpentry all day and then coming home to milk the cows again and do any
other tasks he needed to do. In 1992, he began considering the grazing movement. Wiebusch said he felt the Holy Spirit telling him to do so. “For some things, you don’t understand why you go in a different direction in life,” Wiebusch said. “Our life is planned; we can ght it if we want.” Wiebusch had pushed for high production in the 1980s. “It just didn’t feel right to me,” he
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ConƟnued from WIEBUSCHES | Page 8 In 1995, Wiebusch began the conventional market,” to transition to organic, and in Wiebusch said. “I made the 1998, he started selling milk choice to go the organic route. to Organic Valley. Within a month, the bottom “I’ve always taken the fell out (of conventional milk road least traveled in life,” prices). ... I’ve been riding Wiebusch said. “I don’t like high ever since.” to follow what other people In 2006, Chris joined the do, and it doesn’t bother me dairy, and then later, Eric did what people say about me or as well. Today, Chris works if they want to judge that or- full time and Eric helps part ganic farming isn’t going to time in addition to his other work. I’ve proved that wrong job. to everybody.” After Wiebusch’s sons Wiebusch said initially, joined the dairy, they fowhen he began selling milk cused away from grazing for organically, the price was a while and followed more lower for organic milk than it conventional practices while was for conventional milk. still being organic. However, “I had seen the swing in in 2012, they transitioned to
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Cows graze Oct. 16 in a pasture overlooking the building site of the Wiebusch dairy farm near Lake City, Minnesota. The Wiebusches have a 13,000-pound herd average on an enƟrely grassfed diet.
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Chris Wiebusch milks cows Oct. 16 on the Wiebusch organic dairy farm near Lake City, Minnesota. Wiebusch milks the cows twice a day, at 7:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
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HELPING GOOD MANAGERS MAKE BETTER TRADING DECISIONS Spending a lifetime trading markets has brought me to a point that rarely anything surprises me in commodity price moves. With that said, I was shocked by the $80/ton soybean meal move in recent weeks. Crush plant soybean meal cash price offers moved $80/ ton in a little over a week. It sounds like everyone was caught short and buying stepped in from truck, rail, and export markets. Basis values went from minus $32 to plus $10 in some locations, while futures rallied $38/ ton. It is almost unimaginable to see a $40/ton swing in basis through harvest with a good crop. That reflects the massive amount of buying that the market saw. What will happen if soybean supplies actually get tight this summer? Milk markets have been finding some life as of late. Futures continue to outpace actual cash traded values for various dairy products with deferred values trading higher than spot prices. Butter is the one exception to this as cash prices have traded values that seem highly unlikely to remain sustainable given how U.S. butter is competing internationally. EU and NZ butter is trading in the $2.20’s while U.S. spot trading at the CME Group is well over $3.00. Most of the excess butter exports
that the U.S. competes for has already disappeared, so it is likely that domestic butter demand will need to continue to support these values. If it doesn’t, look for butter prices to continue to follow the lead that futures are forecasting. As of this writing, November cash settled butter is trading $3.10 with January 2024 forward under $2.50. Cheese prices are being influenced by seasonal trends to respond to the more active fall demand season. This price strength is also being seen in the EU and NZ markets. One thing that is common among all of these regions is the question of how sustainable this price strength is. International milk prices are currently trading at levels that are profitable for the low cost of production producers, but barely working for those that struggle to compete with their margins. Powder markets have been improving pushing Class III and IV values higher. Whey value increases impact Class III by 5.8 times the price change of whey, while nonfat dry milk impacts Class IV 8.6 times the price change of nonfat dry milk. Recent strength has added 30 cents/cwt to Class III and $1.70 to Class IV.
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AND THEN THERE WAS ONE
Growing a family farm in Missouri BP Dairy perseveres as industry declines By Jan Lefebvre jan.l@star-pub.com
FULTON, Mo. — As the Bloss family does morning tasks on their farm, the east-facing door of their freestall barn allows the sunrise to ood the barn with light.
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Jeff Bloss checks a eld of sudan grass last summer on his farm near Fulton, Missouri. The Bloss family raises crops on 300 acres, all used to feed their dairy ca�le.
“The barn sits on a hill and looks out over all of our crop ground, and it looks different at various times of the year,” Bethany Bloss said. “You see little shoots of corn popping up, glowing and ready to thrive; then the wheat goes dormant, and then right after harvest, it’s like a clear, slick slate. When the sun comes up after Dad feeds the cows and they are all eating and the sun is blazing through the barn, it’s very pretty.” The view is one of the rewards, Bloss said, of getting up at 3:30 a.m. to start chores. Bloss is in partnership with her parents, Jeff and Amy, and her brother and sister-in-law, Jade and Elaine, at BP Dairy near Fulton. Theirs is the last dairy farm in Callaway County, located in central Missouri. Bloss’ sister, Becca, also works at the farm as does one full-time employee, Luke Chrisman. The Blosses milk 200 cows three times a day in a double-12 rapid-exit parlor. They milk at 4 a.m., noon and 8 p.m. The herd is comprised of ProCROSS cows, a cross of VikingRed, Montbeliarde and Viking-Holstein. “We have big cows that stand up on the concrete and don’t fall down,” Bloss said. Family members play to their strengths and interests on the farm. Jeff and Jade handle the eld-
work and manure application on the farm, which has 500 acres — 300 acres of it tillable, which is used to grow feed for the herd. Jeff mixes feed and manages farm operations. Jade oversees everything to do with calves. Elaine and Bloss work together as coherdsmen, including vet and A.I. work. Amy feeds calves and does another job. “She also makes breakfast,” Bloss said. “She makes the meals, so she is a very important lady.” Everyone takes turns milking. Dry cows are on pasture, but the herd is fed inside where deepbedded sawdust is used for bedding. “We have a milk contract through (Dairy Farmers of America); our milk goes to Central Dairy in Jefferson City, but it’s through Prairie Farms,” Bloss said. “There is an ice cream shop down there. Ice cream, cheese and uid milk are the three things our milk goes into.” One of the biggest changes around Callaway County and a contributor to why other dairies have closed there, Bloss said, is the growth of urban areas. “The town of Fulton has denitely grown out a lot,” she said. “There’s an asphalt plant right on the other side of the highway from us, and there are little subdivisions of people who want to live in the country, but then they also
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Bethany Bloss checks on cows Oct. 24 in the freestall barn of her family’s dairy farm near Fulton, Missouri. Bloss and her sister-in-law, Elaine, oversee all health issues for the farm’s dairy herd, including vet work and A.I.
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Cows are let out on grass last spring at BP Dairy near Fulton, Missouri. The farm is owned by Bloss family members, who milk 200 ProCROSS cows, a cross of VikingRed, Montbeliarde and VikingHolstein. have neighbors. There are also some beef farms and connement hogs in the area.” As suburbia spreads around their property, farming becomes trickier. “There are people who want to live in the country but don’t want to deal with things in the country, like the smell of cow manure or hog manure, or just general things,” Bloss said. “It took a while, but we’ve gotten to where we’ve made allies — we’ve made friends around us — but still the biggest challenge is the growing of the town.” The family made a decision to begin dairy farming near Fulton in 2016 when their current farm site became available to rent. “My dad and his dad farmed together for 42 years near LaRussell in southwest Missouri,” Bloss said. “My dad milked cows there in a tiestall barn until they went to a double-3 herringbone.” The Bloss family quit milking cows and pivoted to operating a commercial hog barn for a time, doing their own farrowing and raising their animals from feeder pigs to nish. Then, they decided to get back into dairy farming. “We bought ProCROSS cows from the Bucks (Dave and Ann) near Goodhue, Minnesota,” Bloss said. “We milked those cows and threw our own genetics in with them for a few years.” By this point, Jeff and Amy, looking to the future, decided they would need to split off from the partnership with Jeff’s father to accommodate their growing family, which also includes two older sons, Nate and Kurt. At that time, Kurt chose a different career, but Nate was part of the farming operation. When a dairy farm became available for rent, the Bloss family saw a chance to work together to grow their dairy operation. The parlor had a good setup, Bloss
said, but needed repairs after sitting idle. “We started with one dry cow and 24 milk cows, and we got all those from the Bucks,” Bloss said. “From there, we got the ball rolling and bought (cows from) a few dairies that were going out, and we started growing our herd.” As Nate’s own family began to grow — he now has ve sons — he left the partnership to pursue another job and create his own commercial hog farm. Today, BP Dairy continues in spite of tight prot margins in dairy farming, and the family is in the process of buying the property. “We have been very hard-nosed; we put our head down and keep ghting through,” Bloss said. “A lot of times we go without things, but we have meat in our freezer and food on the table. Some people like to live in luxury, but we don’t live like that because it’s just not realistic on the amount of money we do make. The reason we keep going is because we love what we do.” Bloss said the family also believes in the viability of their farm. “We have really good tillable acres — we actually just harvested 300 tons of corn silage this year, which is crazy,” she said. “We’re able to apply our own manure. We have a dragline and a tool bar, and we’re not limited on pounds per acre. We have a 500-foot freestall barn, so we have plenty of room to expand. Our parlor is really nice, and we can expand it as well because there is room.” This means their farm can grow. “We’re a very tight-knit family,” Bloss said. “That’s probably the biggest benet to all of this — you get to work with your family. I hope that we can expand so that we can continue to live the lives that we live now and that, whenever my sister and I get married and have families, we can all be part of it.”
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A busy day in the routine
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Con�nued from NAATZES | Page 15 Trace is preparing to go to medical school and is a medic for Dodge Center Ambulance Services. In addition to dairy farming, Tristin has a custom baling business. Brodee helps him in the business by doing raking. Some of the things Karen said she likes about the farm are her freedom to set her own schedule and her opportunity to raise her kids there. Willie agreed. “(You) don’t make much money, (but it’s) a good way to raise kids and give them a good work ethic,” he said. Willie and Karen are middle school sweethearts who married at ages 18 and 19. Besides family working on the farm, the Naatzes also have one full-time and four parttime employees. The Naatz family milks twice a day for their regular herd, but fresh cows are milked four times a day. To accomplish this, the fresh cows are milked both at the beginning and the end of every milking.
That Thursday, at 7 a.m. in the calf barns, Brodee was starting to feed calves and Wyatt was giving grain and hay. Calf feeding took about an hour. The Naatz family uses a portable milk dispenser. Calves are fed using bottles until weaning, but they also have water in buckets. Currently, the Naatzes have over 30 calves on milk. At a little after 7 a.m., Ian Thomas, a milk quality specialist from Leedstone, was in the milking parlor, testing the pulsators and preparing to check the wash cycle of the milkers once milking was completed. By 7:40 a.m., milking was wrapping up, and Karen and Tristin started cleaning. A little after 8 a.m., Karen was in the ofce, printing off lists for herd check from DairyComp and checking over CowManager. At 8:20 a.m., Dr. Amy Dahlke, of Anderson Veterinary Services, arrived to do the weekly herd check. Karen said they do weekly herd checks to
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Karen Naatz works in the office Oct. 19 at the Naatz family’s dairy farm near Mantorville, Minnesota. The Naatzes use DairyComp and CowManager to help manage their herd.
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Tris�n Naatz pressure washes the parlor Oct. 19 a�er milking at the Naatz family’s dairy farm near Mantorville, Minnesota. The Naatzes have milkers going on by 3 a.m. each day. help stay on top of breeding and any health issues. The check started with pregnancy checks before moving on to the fresh cows. Dahlke nished by checking on a hoof of a lame cow, completing the herd check around 10 a.m. While herd check was going on with Karen and Tristin, Brodee was cleaning manure off of a lot and getting fresh bedding down. He spent most of the rest of the day hauling manure. Once herd check was complete, Karen and Tristin entered information into DairyComp and then headed to the house for breakfast and a break around 11 a.m. At 10 a.m., Willie began mixing the total mixed ration for the day. He mixes four batch-es every day. The Naatz family uses baleage, corn silage, dry hay, NovaMeal and a custom mix of corn and minerals. The Naatzes purchase most of their feed, including buying corn silage from neighbors. That afternoon, Willie wrapped up most of his mixing by 2 p.m.
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Brodee Naatz sprays out the portable milk dispenser Oct. 19 at the Naatz family’s dairy farm near Mantorville, Minnesota. The Naatzes feed their calves with bo�les un�l weaning.
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ConƟnued from NAATZES | Page 16 At 2:15 p.m., Karen and Tristin were starting to get calves bedded. Their calves are housed in hutches and in a calf barn. Calves stay on their farm until 5 months of age when they are taken to a custom heifer raiser. Once calf bedding was done, Karen was in the house, doing bookwork and
making supper, and Tristin and Willie were working on the manure spreader project Willie had started earlier in the afternoon. They nished around 4 p.m. At 3:30 p.m., employees arrived for evening milking, and by 4 p.m., milkers were going on cows. Evening milking is done by employees.
While milking was happening, Willie worked on scraping the barns, adding more sand and grooming the free stalls. The barns are scraped in three sections, so he scraped at 4 p.m., 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. In between scraping the barn, he mixed feed for the dry cows. Finally, he pushed up feed before going in for supper at 6:45 p.m. Karen and Wyatt fed calves at 6 p.m. There was a new calf born, which
meant extra work for the calf feeders and milkers. Fresh cows that are not heifers receive Bovikalc and Inforce 3. The Naatzes test the colostrum with a Brix scale. Any colostrum over 22 is bagged and pasteurized. New calves are fed colostrum, tagged and dehorned. By 7:45 p.m., Karen and Wyatt were in for the evening. Employees completed milking by 9:30 p.m.
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Dr. Amy Dahlke works on a cow’s hoof Oct. 19 at the Naatz family’s dairy farm near Mantorville, Minnesota. Thursdays are herd check days.
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All the guys around here are getting near the end with corn harvest. They are RAINFALL getting started on TOTALS hauling manure. We Last 2 Weeks haven’t made any cornstalks; it has been wet. We try to 0.38” do a couple hundred bales. The irrigated corn ran around 180 Since April 1 bushels per acre, 12.93” and the non-irrigated was closer to 120-140 bushels per acre. Farmers are in good shape with the fall harvest in the area.
We are picking up cornstalk bales. We did 400 and are going to try doing 1,500. The spotty rains have RAINFALL held us back from TOTALS Last 2 Weeks getting in the fields to do more. We finished combining last week and are washing it 1.5” up. We have a couple hundred acres of Since April 1 12.6” tillage to do. We do most of our tillage in the spring unless it is an area on which we haul manure in the fall. There is probably about a third of the corn in the fields.
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We finished chopping a week ago. We averaged around 30 tons per acre. We have 300 acres of corn to combine; RAINFALL there is a lot of corn TOTALS out there. We have Last 2 Weeks been doing some fall burn-down spraying and hauling hay home. We are supposed to 0.6” get a winter storm this weekend, and our high temperatures are going Since April 1 to be in the 20s. We 19.9” hauled some manure yesterday (Oct. 23). We are hoping to haul dry lots and get the corrals clean because we have the heifers in pasture and need to bring them home.
We are done with harvesting and have started on fall tillage. Our beef calves have been moved home RAINFALL from the pasture. TOTALS There are still a lot of Last 2 Weeks acres of corn in the neighborhood that need to be harvested. 2.75” We are mowing ditches and clipping weeds here and there. Since April 1 We have received 15.55” some substantial rain recently. The moisture will improve our drought situation and help our pastures.
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We finished all of our combining last week. Cornstalks are made and picked up. We have had some real- RAINFALL ly good windows of TOTALS opportunity to get the Last 2 Weeks work done. We would like to get more seeding done for cover 1.8” crops. In the area, around 50% of the Since April 1 corn is out and prob23.3” ably 95% of the soybeans is done. Some people have put up hay in the last couple of weeks. There are a lot more cover crops in the area this year.
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I finished combining corn and made some cornstalk bales. Also, I got the soil tested and have been RAINFALL hauling manure. In TOTALS the area, most people Last 2 Weeks are either finishing up beans or are done and are working on corn. 1.5” Corn yields this year vary a lot from farm to farm, depending Since April 1 10.5” on their type of nitrogen application. Those that incorporated their nitrogen or used anhydrous ammonia are seeing better yields than those who applied nitrogen that needed rain to take it down since we did not get enough to take it down properly.
We got about 4 inches of rain in the last 48 hours (Oct. 23-24). It seems like it rains almost every RAINFALL TOTALS day or every other Last 2 Weeks day. We have not combined our beans yet; there are still too many green stems. I 10” am guessing we will need to wait for it to Since April 1 23.6” freeze to do that, and it sounds like that will happen next week. We are lucky enough to have enough manure storage that we would be OK if we don’t get any manure hauled this fall.
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We’re trying to find corn dry enough to put in the silo, and it’s been problematic because the fields RAINFALL TOTALS are inconsistent. We Last 2 Weeks have found some that was planted on tilled ground that we have been able to harvest. 0.5” Next week, we will get after it more Since April 1 earnestly. Combines 14.24” are still rolling steady — some beans are still out there, but corn is in progress. We made some quite decent cornstalks on Sunday that yielded 40 nice big round bales of stalks. We’re confident they’ll keep.
We finished hauling manure Oct. 11 and got out with the semis just in time before the rain RAINFALL TOTALS came. We spread rye Last 2 Weeks seed at 60 pounds per acre as a cover crop for erosion 2” control, along with pot ash. That was the first time we ever Since April 1 broadcasted it; we 14.30” usually plant it with a drill. I knew it was going to rain and the seed would hopefully get germinated without having to work it up. Our water table was low, but we’re getting some needed rain, so that will help.
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Three inches of rain fell last night (Oct. 24). RAINFALL We had been making TOTALS good progress, but the Last 2 Weeks rain is going to slow us down. We still have 1,300 acres of corn 4.5” silage to chop, which now needs to be dumpcarted out of the fields, Since April 1 requiring more time. 17.60” We won’t be able to get the trucks in the fields anymore this year. We are half done with beans, but they will have to wait until we get the silage out. Our high-moisture corn will have to wait, too, until the chopping is all done. Carting 1,300 acres of silage out of the fields will require all hands on deck.
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Right when we don’t need it, we have to recharge the soil for next year. I’m still waiting on a RAINFALL TOTALS combine. They’re Last 2 Weeks rolling fast around here and getting a lot of crops off. I’m one of the last ones who 2.6” still has beans to do, so most people Since April 1 18.4” are combining corn around here now. We also have corn to combine as well. I did take a fifth crop of hay because it was above my knee. It was a pretty good crop. This week, we are for sure going to put heifers back out on pasture.
We’re still working on soybeans and are close to finishing if it doesn’t rain. A lot of people in our RAINFALL TOTALS area are in the same Last 2 Weeks situation — they are either done or close to finishing up. Our 3” yields have been decent so far. A few guys started to pick Since April 1 corn around here the 18.95” last few days. We still have a couple hundred acres of high-moisture corn to do that we plan to start soon.
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An unparalleled experience
Beukema exhibits homebred calf to World Dairy Expo champion honors By Danielle Nauman danielle.n@dairystar.com
NEW RICHMOND, Wis. — Over two weeks later, Haley Beukema is still pinching herself, checking to make sure that everything she experienced at this year’s World Dairy Expo was not just a dream. “It was a whirlwind of emotions packed into just a few days,” Beukema said. “I’m still not sure everything has sunk in yet.” Beukema’s bred-andowned Guernsey calf, CB VG Jack Dont Forget Me-ETV, accomplished something during the International Guernsey Show in Madison she never dreamed possible. The calf topped the winter calf class before being named junior champion of both the open and junior divisions. “It was so special for me,” Beukema said. “Her mom was the cow that did it for me, and now her daughter did it all too.” Beukema owns Dont Forget Me and her mother, Dix Lee Kojack Dont Doubt MeETV, in partnership with Brynn Grewe and Lauryn Weisensel. Dont Doubt Me calls the Grewe family’s Valley Gem Farm in Cumberland home, while Beukema and her parents, Paul and Liz, care for Dont Forget Me and other show heifers on their small New Richmond farm. “Once Dont Forget Me was pulled in rst, I started to get a little nervous,” Beukema said. “From there, I was just praying she wouldn’t get dropped down. Once the class was over, I didn’t think the week could get better.”
When the pair went back into the ring for the selection of the youth show junior champion, Beukema said she was elated to receive the handshake from associate judge Ted DeMent. “This was my last year showing as a junior,” Beukema said. “When Dont Forget Me was named the junior show junior champion I was freaking out. I couldn’t believe it.” Beukema said she gured the ride was over for her and Dont Forget Me. “At that point, I really could not have imagined it getting any better,” Beukema said. Then the calf got the nod from ofcial judge Kevin Hartmann to stand in contention for junior champion, and Beukema said the butteries uttered in her stomach in earnest. “I glanced up at the screen and saw how she looked, and then I realized the judges were standing there, talking about my calf,” Beukema said. “Then, the nerves really kicked in.” While Beukema presented the homebred calf as best she could, Hartmann viewed her as an impressive winner and offered the nal handshake of the heifer show to Beukema. “What a great calf; she is extremely hard topped and has that tremendous depth and openness of both fore and rear rib,” said Hartmann in his reasons as he named the calf junior champion. “I almost think I was in shock,” Beukema said. “It really hit me later that night when the junior champions went back out for the selection of grand champion. The enor-
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Judge Kevin Hartmann congratulates Haley Beukema as he names her Guernsey winter calf, CB VG Jack Dont Forget Me-ETV, the junior champion of the InternaƟonal Guernsey Show Oct. 2 at World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin. The calf was also named junior champion in the youth division.
mity of standing out there with those cows was amazing.” For Beukema, the opportunity to participate in the supreme champion ceremony is one she will never forget. “Most people will never have the opportunity to walk under the spotlight like that,” Beukema said. “The rarity of the experience does not escape me. It is really once in a lifetime.” Dont Forget Me is a Springhill Jack Daniels daughter of Beukema’s show-winning Dont Doubt Me and was the
result of in vitro fertilization. “Dont Doubt Me IVFs really well for us, and we have had good luck getting daughters out of her,” Beukema said. “This spring, we sold a full sister to Dont Forget Me in the Shades of Excellence II sale, and she was the top-selling Guernsey in the sale.” Beukema said it was hard parting with that calf, named Dont Tempt Me, last spring, but the partnership members were committed to offering their best animals for public auction.
“Last spring, Dont Forget Me was a little on the smaller side,” Beukema said. “She always had a ton of rib, but she needed more time to put everything together.” Dont Forget Me made her show ring debut at the Midwest Spring Guernsey Show held in April in Madison, where she placed fth in the class. By the time the Midwest Summer Guernsey show rolled around in July, Dont Forget Me Turn to BEUKEMA | Page 21
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Haley Beukema watches the judges during the InternaƟonal Guernsey Show Oct. 2 at World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin. This year’s show marked Beukema’s nal as a junior exhibitor. had continued to improve and placed second in class, while being named junior champion in the youth division and reserve junior champion in the open division. “I was really happy with the way Dont Forget Me developed throughout the summer,” Beukema said. “All year, the winter calf class has been a really tough class in the Guernsey breed. Last spring, I never imagined we would get to this point this year.”
“I almost think I was in shock. It really hit me later that night when the junior champions went back out for the selection of grand champion. The enormity of standing out there with those cows was amazing.” HALEY BEUKEMA
Dont Forget Me’s Monday night triumphs were not the only highlight of Expo week for Beukema. At the conclusion of Sunday night’s awards banquet for the National Intercollegiate Dairy Cattle Judging Contest, Beukema learned she was a part of the national championship team from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Because of her involvement in the judging contest and Monday’s noon start time for the Guernsey show, Beukema had to leave the pre-show preparations of Dont Forget Me in the hands of her partners. “It was hard not being there at the beginning of the week to see how she was coming along,” Beukema said. “I am blessed with terric partners and a great show family who were there to get her ready.” Beukema said it was an odd experience for her to just show up on show morning. “I’m usually a lot more involved with preparing my animals for the shows,” Beukema said. “But even though I didn’t make it to the barn until 4 the morning of the show, I couldn’t have dreamed of a better week.”
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