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Recycling the highest quality of sand Joneses’ separator reclaims 99% of bedding By Stacey Smart
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BERLIN, Wis. — Sand has been the bedding of choice at Trillium Hill Farm since 2014. Therefore, when the Jones family was looking to install a digester, sand was not something they were willing to give up. A separator new to the U.S. would provide the perfect means of sand separation for the Joneses — removing sand from manure while reclaiming nearly all of it for future use. Today, the dairy reclaims 98% to 99% of its sand used for bedding and has gone from buying 14 dump load trucks of sand per week to buying only six loads per year. “It’s a huge dollar sav-
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The Jones family — David (front, from leŌ), Penelope and William; (back, from leŌ) Julie, David, Chelsey, Mike holding Eddie, Ben holding Mikayla, and Samantha — milks 1,800 cows on their farm near Berlin, Wisconsin. The Joneses are recycling sand and manure with a separator and digester combinaƟon that is the rst of its kind in the U.S.
ings,” Ben Jones said. “It also saves on wear and tear on the roads. By not hauling so much sand, we’re helping to
save the road infrastructure for the community.” Ben and his brother, Mike, farm with their parents,
David and Julie, near Berlin. The Jones family milks 1,800 cows three times a day in a double-24 parallel parlor.
Cows average 102 pounds of milk per day with a 100,000 somatic cell count. Longevity is important to the Joneses. The family credits sand bedding as a major source of their success. A Stjernholm sand separator has given the Joneses the ability to reclaim the majority of sand used on their farm. “It’s amazing,” Mike said. “Achieving 99% sand separation is unreal.” Made in Denmark, Stjernholm guarantees 90% sand retention, but Mike and Ben have pushed the system to new levels. “It’s an extremely efcient system, and we make tweaks to increase efciency,” Ben said. Sand-laden manure is run through a high-efciency pump where sand is separated from the ber and liquid in the manure. The sand is then Turn to JONESES | Page 6
CreaƟng generaƟons of dairy consumers cerned with the palatability of Heimans provide milk served in schools. “We need to be able to get back to serving at least appealing milk to schools 2% milk in the schools,” Ken By Danielle Nauman danielle.n@dairystar.com
MARSHFIELD, Wis. — Being in the business of producing, processing and marketing dairy products, it is a good business practice for dairy farmers to create consumers of those products while those consumers are young. Ken and Joellen Heiman operate a trio of dairy-related businesses: Heiman’s Holsteins, where they milk 500 cows and focus on breeding for A2A2 milk; Nasonville Dairy, an award-winning
cheese plant; and Weber’s Farm Store, a retail store location where they also process uid milk and make a variety of other award-winning dairy products. All three entities are located in Wood County, in or near Marsheld. The Heimans each grew up in their respective family dairy businesses — Ken’s family has a long history with Nasonville Dairy, and Joellen’s family established Weber’s Farm Store when she was a child — so creating each generation of milk consumers is something near and dear to their hearts, they said. The Heimans are con-
said. “With the milk schoolchildren get, we have taken all the avor out. There really is no comparison in the taste of 2% milk versus the taste of 1%. … If you compare the difference between that and whole milk, which is just 3%, it is phenomenal.” The Heimans are concerned that the lack of avor, along with unappealing packaging in cartons, has deterred children from becoming not only consumers of milk, but lovers of milk. Setting out to solve what they see as a problem, the Heimans worked to provide appealing milk to local schools. Turn to HEIMANS | Page 9
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Ken and Joellen Heiman display 8-ounce milk pouches Oct. 19 at Weber’s Farm Store in Marsheld, Wisconsin. The Heimans are focused on developing a new generaƟon of milk lovers by providing 16 central Wisconsin schools milk in appealing packaging.
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Dairy Prole brought to you by your The National Federal Milk Marketing Order Pricing Formula Hearing is in recess until Nov. 27. Once the process begins again, the hearing is expected to last for a couple more weeks. The U.S. Department of Agriculture will compile and analyze the information presented at the hearing and publish a proposed decision, likely in 2024.
A tedious, giant undertaking Former U.S. trade ambassador Gregg Doud will succeed the current CEO for the National Milk Producers Federation, Jim Mulhern, at the end of the year. Doud said he has a lot to learn, including the work being done on Federal Milk Marketing Orders. “Not many people have gone through this,” Doud said. “It’s been 23 years since the last time they did this. This is a very tedious and gigantic undertaking.” Doud credits Mulhern for building consensus among NMPF members. Back to the drawing board As Dairy Star went to print, the House of Representatives was still without a speaker. James Callan Associates CEO James Callan said whoever is selected as the next speaker will have a full plate. “There’s the continuing resolution to be dealt with, funding for Israel and Ukraine, and the next farm bill, which are all tall orders for the next House speaker,” Callan said. A pause in interest rate increases Speaking at a New York event Thursday, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell indicated shortterm interest rates would remain unchanged at their next meeting Oct. 31 and Nov. 1. With a tighter nancial situation, Powell suggested an extended pause in interest rate hikes.
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Dairy numbers defy cull cow prices By Don Wick Despite high beef prices, dairy herds seem to be mainColumnist taining numbers. AgDairy broker Robin Schmahl said this is unexpected. “We’re not seeing the strong interest in culling even though we had been looking at record beef prices,” Schmahl said. At this point, there’s more interest in producing milk for cash ow purposes. “You get rid of that cow, you have the money there, but that’s it,” Schmahl said. “You take her out of the herd.” Co-op 100 report released CHS Inc. remains the largest cooperative in the United States with 2022 revenues of $47.8 billion. Dairy Farmers of American is a distant second with annual revenue of $24.5 billion. The National Cooperative Bank lists the top 100 cooperative businesses in its annual Turn to AG INSIDER | Page 5
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Farm bill discussed at World Dairy Expo First Section: Pages 10 - 11
Forage Prole: Greg Lohr First Section: Pages 18, 20
Warren, IL
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Women in Dairy: Christy Larsen First Section: Page 29
Bolen is making plans for a lifetime of farming First Section: Page 26
Dairy Prole: Zack Rose First Section: Page 33
Harbaugh exhibits World Dairy Expo’s junior show supreme junior champion First Section: Pages 23, 25
Pumpkin patch plants the seed for business First Section: Pages 31 - 32
Haags’ robot facility a turning point for next generation Second Section: Pages 3, 5
FROM OUR SIDE OF THE FENCE: What is the dairy community like in your area? First Section: Pages 15 -16
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Inside the emblem: Whitehall FFA Third Section: Pages 10 - 11
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ConƟnued from AG INSIDER | Page 2 co-op 100 report, and the Midwestern dairy industry is well represented. Land O’Lakes is the third largest cooperative nationwide. The list also includes Foremost Farms USA at No. 26, Associated Milk Producers Inc. at No. 30, Organic Valley at No. 63, First District Association at No. 68, Bongards at No. 79 and National Farmers at No. 84. A win for PETA, activist groups The U.S. Supreme Court has delivered a victory for animal rights groups and other activists by refusing to hear a case dealing with the so-called “aggag” laws. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals challenged North Carolina’s law that prevented companies from suing employees who made undercover video and audio recordings. “That law actually was enacted back in 2015 in response to a long-standing dispute between ABC News and the Food Lion grocery chain dating back into the 1990s,” said Roger McEowen, agricultural law professor, Washburn University. “At that time, PETA and other animal welfare groups challenged the law saying it violated the First Amendment, and it eventually went to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals; they agreed with PETA that the law was unconstitutional when it was applied to their efforts to gather news.” North Dakota is one of many states that have similar laws. “They can expect to be challenged if they haven’t been challenged already,” McEowen said. “They’re basically back to the drawing board on these as to how to get around that First Amendment/free speech issue.” PETA emboldened by Supreme Court decision PETA released a statement celebrating the Supreme Court decision not to hear a lower court ruling on North Carolina’s “ag-gag” law. The activist group said it “will continue to use every legal means at its disposal, including whistleblower reports and undercover investigations” as it targets large-scale farms and meat processors. Annual conservation report released The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection
Bureau of Land and Water Resource Management has released its annual report on soil and water conservation. The analysis highlights conservation efforts including the planting of cover crops, managed grazing and farmland preservation projects. In particular, the DATCP showcases the implementation of more than 7,500 nutrient management plans covering 3.45 million acres. UWRF dairy plant reopens The Wuethrich Family Grassland Dairy Center of Excellence at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls will be processing milk next month. The dairy facility was shut down for multiple years for fundraising and renovation. The facility includes updated processing equipment. Mulhern honored for service to agriculture, dairy industry During the World Dairy Summit in Chicago, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack presented an award to National Milk Producers Federation President and CEO Mulhern. Mulhern will retire at the end of the year after a 40-year career in agriculture policy. Vilsack praised Mulhern for the development of the Dairy Margin Coverage Program. A star nalist There are 16 nalists for the national FFA American Star Awards. Joseph Pulver of Randoph-Cambria-Friesland FFA is the one Wisconsin student competing for the recognition. Pulver is a nalist for the American Star in Agribusiness.
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The Stjernholm sand separaƟng system at Trillium Hill Farm has been up and running since April near Berlin, Wisconsin. The system, which originates in Denmark, guarantees 90% sand retenƟon.
washed and reclaimed for future use. The system rotates between four augers, pushing out clean sand into the adjacent collection room. Ben said the system cleans the manure before it enters the separator and has a macerator to prevent things like hoof blocks and ear tags from entering the system. “This is great for any farm not wanting to accept the status quo,” Ben said. “We didn’t want to bed with manure solids when adding the digester. We like the luxury that sand provides the cows. Sand is a better-quality product that results in healthier, happier cows.” The Joneses are reclaiming 52 tons of sand per day and are using the sand ve days after it comes off the auger. “Bacteria counts are very low, and the sand has no smell,” Mike said. Once the sand is removed from the manure, the manure is processed through a 2.5-million-gallon digester, capturing methane to make renewable natural gas which is cleaned on-site and injected into an Alliant Energy pipeline that connects into Ripon, Wisconsin. Three Petals RNG/Novilla RNG owns and runs the digester, which produces an equivalent in gasoline production upward of 600,000 gallons per year. The digester was built within 12 months of contract signing with Trillium Hill Farm.
Ben said Trillium Hill Farm is one of only three farms in the U.S. using the Stjernholm sand separating system and the only farm in the country using it with a digester. The Joneses have been reclaiming sand since April and began sending gas to the pipeline in October. “When you pump manure, there’s no sand in it,” Ben said. “There is truly no other system providing clean sand like this in the world.” By utilizing technologies from other industries, Stjernholm invented a system capable of reclaiming unprecedented amounts of sand. “The heart of the system is based on a system we’ve been running for 26 years in the wastewater industry,” said Thomas Christiansen, Chief Commercial Ofcer and managing partner of Stjernholm. “From the dairy point of view, we know what’s coming in — sand and manure. But the wastewater industry is more challenging because we don’t know what’s coming in. There is a very high demand for separation ability.” The result is clean sand that looks like it came straight from the beach. To achieve this outcome, a certain type of sand must be used with the separator. Before installing the sand separator, the Joneses used virgin or generic, quarry-based sand. Turn to JONESES | Page 7
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Now, they use a silicone-based sand that is perfectly round with no abrasive edges to cause wear on pumps or cling to things. The Joneses prefer this sand, citing it as better for cow comfort and health. “The sand is 150 microns,” Mike said. “It’s extremely ne, yet hard. Diamond is a 9 on the hardness scale, and this sand is a 7. It keeps its round particle size and is part of the reason we jumped off the cliff on all of this. Everything is the same particle size, which makes it easy to separate and reclaim.” The sand separation process is a closed, interconnected system that takes place in an enclosed, heated building. “Everything is clean and accessible,” Ben said. “We don’t have to deal with a bunch of manure splashing around. In some sand-separating buildings, there are more gases in the air, but the odor in here is minimal. It’s a very clean system.” The Joneses like the system’s small footprint. The sand storage area is a compact 80 feet by 60 feet, while the equipment room measures 40 feet by 60 feet. “We don’t have to store a lot of sand because we use it fresh, which helps with the footprint too,” Mike said. The sand separator runs on 48 horsepower, and the entire sand separation room runs off less than 80 amps of power, making electrical costs minimal. There are few moving parts, and maintenance costs are low as well, Mike said. About 30 minutes per day is spent tending to the system, which includes 10 minutes in the processing room
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and 20 minutes moving sand. This does not count sampling time. Five hand samples are taken per day to test the manure. “We take samples at different points of manure coming in and out,” Mike said. “We weigh it on both sides. This is how we know we are reclaiming 99% of the sand.”
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The Jones family uses a ne yet hard sand that has a consistent parƟcle size, making it easy to separate and reclaim. The Jones family nds this type of sand to be a beƩer choice for cow comfort and health than the sand they used previously.
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BRODHEAD, Wis. — Todd and Trish Hoesly have always focused on type. Breeding cows that last is their passion and the trademark of Hoesly Registered Holsteins. After nearly 40 years of devoting their time to developing deep-pedigreed cow families, the Hoeslys are planning to share their life’s work in a complete dispersal Nov. 15. The Foundation Families Celebration sale will be held on the Hoeslys’ farm near Brodhead where they milk 60 cows. Approximately 130 cows and heifers will sell. “The timing is right,” Todd said. “We’re getting worn out, and all the equipment is too. The farm needs a lot of updates, and we’re at a point where we don’t want to make that investment.” The Hoeslys met at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Todd was a dairy science major; Trish was an art PHOTO SUBMITTED major who had never stepped foot on a dairy farm. The couple has two grown The Hoesly family — Paige (from leŌ), Trish, Todd and Jake — pause for a photo at the Wisconsin State Fair in 2016. The Hoeslys milk 60 cows on their farm near Brodhead, Wisconsin, and are holding a complete dispersal Nov. 15. children, Jake and Paige. “Paige moved back from Arizona and is putting her life on hold to help us with the sale,” Todd said. “She didn’t time allows. Todd’s dad, EJ, is 85 years Trish said. “It’s all family doing the ily memories were made while showold and comes to the farm every day to work.” ing. want to miss this.” Working hard to build a beautiful Jake works for a business that helps help wherever he can. “We’ve never had any hired help,” herd of cattle, Todd said their best famrestore prairie and lls in on the farm as Turn to HOESLYS | Page 12
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Today they are providing milk to over 11,000 children attending 16 central Wisconsin schools. The milk the Heimans are delivering to the schools — both white and chocolate — is packaged in 8-ounce plastic pouches, into which the children are able to easily insert a small straw. The Heimans have been packaging milk in half-gallon pouches for over 50 years, and they believe the pouches are ideal packaging for school-aged children. “The kids love them; they have no trouble using them,” Joellen said. “They are like the little juice packets parents buy for kids.” From an environmental standpoint, the pouches are a benet as well. “We’ve reduced the amount of garbage produced by 80%,” Ken said, adding that the use of biodegradable plastic, made from corn, is an option, but that would increase the pricepoint of each pouch of milk. The individual pouches are labeled with plant codes and dates, with the traditional packaging labels containing the nutritional information placed on the outside of each crate of milk. The Heimans offer eight-packs of 8-ounce chocolate milk pouches in their store for retail sale. “We produce four different white milks — whole, 2%, 1% and skim — so it’s kind of hard to have that stocked in the 8-ounce sizes,” Joellen said. “But if people want, they can special order 8-ounce white milk pouches from the store.” Packaging milk for schools is not completely uncharted territory for the Heimans. Prior to the Obama administration school lunch initiatives, they packaged milk for several local schools. “When that initiative came down, (schools) needed to switch to 1% milk, and we did not have that labeling at that time,” Joellen said. “We had to discontinue providing that service.” While the Heimans have been processing milk in packaging for school consumption, they continually are looking to streamline the process. “From our side of it, we had some
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major investments to make,” Ken said. “One thing we needed to do was to purchase another (pouch packaging machine) because we wanted to decrease our processing timeline. Also, we can’t afford any downtime.” Ordering a new pouch packaging machine was not an easy task, Ken said. When they purchased their rst machine, it was made in Canada. Since that time, the design patent was sold to a European company, requiring them to order the machine from Europe and have it shipped back to Canada before bringing it to their location. As the Heimans continue to make the investments in their businesses, they hope to bring their milk to more area schools. “All the milk we are providing to the schools is A2A2 milk, which has a more easily digested protein,” Ken said. Making milk easily digestible for the youngest consumers is a priority for the Heimans. Ken said they are working at removing half the lactose from milk through ultra-ltration and then converting the remaining lactose to glucose and galactose, keeping the avor prole identical to milk that has not been converted. “That will virtually eliminate any issue with lactose intolerance,” Ken said. “It should be that there is less than one-half of 1% of people who can’t handle lactose. That would be normal. Right now, we are looking at nearly 30% of people who think they are lactose intolerant.” Along with the taste and packaging issues, the Heimans are frustrated with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s regulations regarding labeling of milk and the way milk is perceived by the general public. “People don’t understand that whole milk is really 97% fat-free, but we are restricted by the USDA from labeling it that way,” Ken said. “Milk is such a healthy, low-fat product naturally. Why do we need to alter it to such an unappealing state to meet these nutritional guidelines they impose? These are things that should be left up to local school boards to oversee.”
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MADISON, Wis. — World Dairy Expo attendees had the opportunity to attend a farm bill panel discussion Oct. 5 in Madison. The panel, moderated by Katie Schmitt, featured Gregg Doud and Pete Kappelman. Doud helped write the 2012 farm bill and was chief agricultural negotiator in the Ofce of the United States Trade Representative from 2018 until 2021 and is the new Chief Operating Ofcer of the National Milk Producers Federation. Kappelman, a dairy farmer and senior vice president of member and government relations for Land O’Lakes, Inc., has represented farmers on six farm bills, including the current one, and is also on the NMPF board. Schmitt is an outreach specialist with the Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding. As of Sept. 30, the deadline for the 2023 farm bill was missed. Doud said the farm bill will not be passed this year. He said the House needs a new speaker before the bill will go through. As of the writing of this article, the House speaker position is vacant. “The rst question U.S. agriculture should ask the new speaker is, ‘Is the farm bill, or will you please make the farm bill, a big priority to get done?” Doud said. Both Doud and Kappelman expect to see Congress pass an extension to the farm bill. Doud said this extension will likely pass sometime between mid-December and the end of January 2024. How long the extension will be is unknown, he said. Kappelman said that he would expect it either will be a short extension of a few months or a long extension to carry it past election season. Currently, most of the items in the farm bill continue to be funded even without a working farm bill through the end of the year. Kappelman said that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funding will not be allowed to lapse, crop insurance is permanently funded, the conservation title has contracts, and the commodities are funded through the end of the year. Dairy pricing is protected both by the farm bill and
by permanent law. In the Agricultural Act of 1949, the U.S. permanently protected items of national need, including milk. The law, which each farm bill temporarily supersedes, says that the U.S. government will buy milk products at 75% of parity if the price goes too low. The price parity is based on milk prices, adjusted for ination, from 1910 to 1914. According to this formula, the price per hundredweight on milk today, based on May data, would be about $50.70, according to statistics by the Congressional Research Service. Kappelman said the “dairy cliff,” as it is sometimes called, is something that could happen but will not. Because the prices are more than 2.5 times higher than the current commodity prices, the government must make other decisions before the end of December or be forced to pay these prices. “We seem to be good at getting up to the edge of the cliff without ever really going over it,” Kappelman said. Because paying these prices is not a viable option, this forces Congress to write a farm bill, Doud said. This year, dairy farmers have been seeing payments from the Dairy Margin Coverage program. Kappelman said the program paid out $1.1 billion in payments through the end of July. If an extension to the farm bill is not led by the end of the year and milk prices are still such that payments from DMC would be applicable, Doud said an extension to the farm bill would need to be led before April. Once the program is reinstated, payments would eventually catch up, the panelists said. Doud said a priority from a dairy perspective for the farm bill is foreign market development and market access programs. He said that U.S. spending on this has been at for 16 years. According to a study done by IHS Markit, prepared for the U.S. Grains Council in February 2022, the benet cost ratios made by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Export Market Development Program mean that each dollar invested from 1977 to 2019 in market development created an increase of $24.71 in agricultural export value. “The way forward in our dairy industry is to grow and to do that is the export market,” Doud said. “Where else in the world are we going to make more meat or more dairy? The answer is there’s really only one place: here, North America. ... Our better days are ahead of us. We’ve got enormous opportunity here.”
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ConƟnued from FARM BILL | Page 10 The farm bill runs revenue neutral, which means that no new money is coming into the farm bill. The money that exists must be shufed around. Doud said the farm bill is usually nonpartisan. The panelists said the discussions on the farm bill are generally between regions and commodities versus political parties. Currently, the U.S. farm bill will fund $1.5 trillion over 10 years. Of this money, $1.2 trillion is part of SNAP, for a total of 81.1% of spending, Doud said. Kappelman said that though it can be harder to see in our country, food security is national security. “Growing food and feeding people are related,” Kappelman said. “Given the small percentage, the 1%, that are feeding the 99%, we can’t afford to have (SNAP and the farm bill) be separate.” Of the money in the farm bill, most of it would be politically difcult to move between titles. However, Doud said there is $34.7 billion of Ination Reduction Act money that the Chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Sen. Debbie Stabenow has designated to be spent on conservation. Doud said this money only goes through 2026, which is different from the other money in the farm bill which extends to the end of the decade. He said that though this aforementioned money could potentially move around, there are disagreements between Stabenow and Sen. John Boozman on how this money should be spent. Kappelman said moving this money into the farm bill under the conservation title would be an “easier lift.” He said that Natural Resources Conservation Service, manure management, agronomy and crop management and carbon
credits all represent conservation dollars that can benet farmers. Doud said money is sometimes taken from the research title of the farm bill. “I had a boss in Washington who described it this way,” Doud said. “Taking money from the research title of the farm bill is like drinking your rent money.” Kappelman said that the U.S. is being outspent in agriculture research by both China and Brazil. In 2015, the USDA Economic Research Service found that China was spending approximately double compared to the U.S. on research and development. One of the asks that Land O’Lakes is making of Congress this year, Kappelman said, is that research would be done to show how far behind the U.S. is in research. Something that could affect the farm bill, depending on the timing of its completion, is the hearings related to the Federal Milk Marketing Order reform that are in process. Kappelman said he wants legislation to go into place in the farm bill outside the FMMO hearing process to mandate data from creameries to help determine the make allowances that are part of guring milk pricing. Kappelman said the make allowance changes have been neglected for 15 years. “We need that make allowance survey,” Kappelman said. “We need to know what their costs of production are so we can set the make allowance appropriately. We don’t have that complete data. We need mandatory, audited data.” Doud said other items affecting dairy on the farm bill include common food names, which will help U.S. trade negotiators and the bringing of whole milk into schools.
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ConƟnued from HOESLYS | Page 8 “We showed the whole gamut — local, state and national,” Todd said. “When the kids were little, we really enjoyed the local shows.” Todd purchased his rst registered Holstein calf when he was 9 years old. “I went to the bank with my dad and took out a $500 loan,” Todd said. “Our herd was all grade at the time, and poof, we took off from there.” Since then, Todd has bred 181 Excellent cows, 10 All-American and junior All-American nominations, and one junior All-American Red and White winner. “We build deep pedigrees,” Todd said. “That’s always been our thing. We had about seven key cow families we developed over the years, and there are many members of these families in our herd today.” Notable matriarchs include Egypt, Prudence and Roulette. “Egypt accomplished everything a cow could, and we have 31 of her descendants in the herd selling,” Todd said. Egypt was EX-92 5E, a Gold Medal Dam and a Dam of Merit that made over 300,000 pounds of milk in her lifetime and lived to be almost 16. “She was a good transmitter that had six Excellent daughters,” Todd said. Prudence was scored EX-94 3E with a 96-point mammary system. She made 250,000 pounds of lifetime milk and was senior champion at the district show. Roulette was an EX-90 Gold Medal Dam with 300,000-plus lifetime milk. All three cows perfectly t the Hoeslys’ tagline of “Striving for superior type and longevity” and were the
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Todd is looking forward to reviving his show career. “My whole family has shown at (World Dairy) Expo on the colored shavings except for me,” Todd said. “At some point, I want to lead one up there.” Trish is hoping their cattle will bring others success in the show ring as well. “It would be cool to see some animals go to farms where they will be developed for show cows,” Trish said. “I’m excited to see them go on and continue the family legacy.” Todd agreed. “I hope our cattle go and do well for people,” he said. “I hope they create good family memories for others as they have for us.” The Hoeslys’ hearts are full as they go into their nal weeks of sale preparation. “We’ve been doing this for so long, it’s hard to imagine doing anything else,” Todd said. “When I wake up, it’s almost a feeling of dread; can we pull this off? The dread of seeing the cows gone is another thing going through my mind. I don’t know how I am going to speak that day.” As important as the cows are to him, it is the memories made while working together as a family that Todd treasures most. “My greatest accomplishment is working with Trish and the kids to build this and create the memories,” Todd said.
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lage. Crops were later this year due to all the moisture we had. We combined our soybeans just a few days ago as well, yielding around 65 bushels per acre at 15%-16% moisture, which we are happy with. We have corn to harvest, but that won’t be for a while yet.
How long have you been dairy farming? I have always been involved in my family’s farming operation, but I started full time in 2017 after completing an agricultural degree at university.
What is the dairy community like in your area? Nowadays, we are predominantly a housing and cash-crop area, but there are still a few dairy farmers left, with nine dairy farms left in the county.
Tell us about your farm. My family operates a 120cow dairy operation. We have a DeLaval swing-12 parlor with sand-bedded free stalls. We are strictly a family operation, with multiple family members involved. Due to us living in Canada, our milk system is supply-managed, meaning we have a quota system for every kilogram of butterfat (milk) we produce. With that being said, we do not ship to just one processor. Every other day, a milk truck picks up our milk and takes it to a different processor. The farmer doesn’t get to dictate where their milk ends up since the milk processors all have their own quotas to ll as well. We also raise quite a few animals for veal or fats. In addition to our own animals, we purchase calves from a neighboring dairy. Any Holstein bulls that we have will be grown to about 800 pounds and shipped for veal at an auction barn about an hour away. Any crossbred calves we have will be fattened to around 1,300 pounds and shipped to Cargill, also an hour away. The main crops that we grow on our farm (for feed or to be sold) are alfalfa/timothy for hay, red clover for hay and seed, corn for silage and seed, soybeans as a cash crop and barley mainly for straw. What was the growing season like for you in your area and how far along are you with harvest? When we planted in May, it was dry conditions. Following planting, however, we basically had a rain every few days for the entire summer. The rain made it hard to take hay off but sure did make all the crops grow like crazy. We are nishing up corn siMike Burk, pictured with Jaycee Burk Marionville, Missouri 100 cows How long have you been dairy farming? I’m a fth-generation dairy farmer and have been on my own since 1989. The only time my family didn’t milk cows was during World War II, because my grandfather had two sons who were drafted. We’ve always milked Jerseys. Tell us about your farm. My son, Kyle, and I manage the farm alongside part-time help. Kyle is taking on more of the roles on the farm. We’ve had freestall barns since the 1980s and milk in a double-10 parabone parlor. Our milk is shipped to Dairy Farmers of America in Springeld, Missouri. Some of the milk goes to Hiland, which is a milk bottling plant. Some of our milk also goes to a Kraft plant. We bed the free stalls with kiln dried sawdust from a local cabinet shop; they give it to us for free. We’ve been doing that for many years. I use a sawdust shooter to put it down in the stalls. We farm 1,000 acres, all of which is used for feed. We plant corn for silage and grass hay that we make into baleage. We also plant soybeans, sorghum, rye or winter wheat, depending on what we need for feed. What was the growing season like for you in your area and how far along are you with harvest? We have been in a drought for the last two years. Our corn hasn’t had any corn on it. We’ve gotten good heights, but then it’s gotten so dry. It’ll still make 12 to 15 ton, but then doesn’t have any corn in it. We’ve gotten rain this year, but we haven’t had any soaking rains. We chopped our corn in July. We are planting rye now. Neighbors have a few soybeans left to harvest. We will probably get another cutting of hay yet this year.
What do you enjoy about milking cows in your area of the country? I would have to say the sense of community. Since there are so few of us in the area, everyone knows everyone else. It is so easy to just pick up the phone and ask a neighbor a question or see what other farmers are doing. What is a growing trend in the industry in your area? Quite a few farmers have sold their cows in the last ve years and have switched to cash-cropping their land. A few others have sold their land for development and moved north where land is cheaper. What are the two biggest challenges of dairy farming in your region? One of the biggest challenges of farming in general in my region would be land prices. My area is getting to be more of an urban area, with more houses being built. Just across from us is a 200-acre farm that is going into houses. Buying a farm is nearly impossible in my area as the average land price is more than $100,000 CDN an acre. The second biggest challenge would be dealing with people who aren’t used to country living. When driving a tractor on the road, you have to be so aware of your surroundings and double or triple check your mirrors before turning. So often, a car will pass me after I’ve put my turn signal on and I have started my turn. I probably watch behind me more than I do ahead of me because the true dangers of driving on the road in a tractor are generally behind me. What do you do on your farm to stay competitive in the dairy industry? We try to keep everything as simple as possible. What is the dairy community like in your area? We have several milk and cheese plants close by. Our climate is pretty mild. We’ll have sub-zero temperatures that only last for three or four days. It easily warms back up. There’s probably 15 dairy farms left in our county. Two or three years ago, there were 40. What do you enjoy about milking cows in your area of the country? I’ve always liked the cows. With Jerseys, I can do things myself, like sorting cattle. We are only 45 minutes from Branson, Missouri. We can take the kids to Silver Dollar City; that’s a big amusement park. We also live near the Bass Pro Shop museum, Johnny Morris’ Wonders of Wildlife National Museum and Aquarium. What is a growing trend in the industry in your area? A lot of people are putting in robots, but there is only maybe on person in our area that has one. I see a lot of technology, but that can be hard with the price of milk. Lots of farmers are diversifying with a beef herd. What are the two biggest challenges of dairy farming in your region? The cost of land is prohibitive. We see a lot of 5-acre plots being sold. Everybody wants a nice house and 5 acres. South of us, a guy had a farm for years, and he raised beef cattle. Now, they’ve turned it into 20 homes. The universities and colleges used to push grazing, but that has fallen by the wayside too. They used to hold pasture walks. We still have good infrastructure, but we’ve lost a lot of numbers. What do you do on your farm to stay competitive in the dairy industry? Our Jerseys have been competitive. They take a couple dollars less to feed a day, and their milk maybe makes $1 more per day than other breeds. If a Jersey falls off on milk, she’ll still have higher butterfat than a bigger cow. That bigger cow, you’ll have to work harder to maintain her body weight. We also have a ve-year contract with the stock yards to nish cattle. We built 200-head pens for the feeder cattle to be in. We are paid on per pound of gain, and they are fed a total mixed ration. That has helped to diversity our farm. Turn to OUR SIDE | Page 16
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ConƟnued from OUR SIDE | Page 15 Siska and Justin Reece pictured with their children Levi (from left), Logan, Silas and Solomon and Siska’s parents, Tina and Bert MooRiah Dairy Melba, Idaho 1,100 cows
How long have you been dairy farming? 20 years. Tell us about your farm. Our farm milks 1,100 purebred Jerseys in a double-20 parallel parlor on 400 acres. We have 3,000 cattle in total. What was the growing season like for you in your area and how far along are you with harvest? We just nished harvest and are currently planting for spring. We double-crop everything. We do alfalfa, triticale, sudan grass and eld corn. They were a little drier this year. What is the dairy community like in your area? We are small in our neck of the woods. There are lots of dairy farms in our valley, most ranging from 5,000-10,000 cows. What do you enjoy about milking cows in your area of the country? Idaho is God’s country with four distinct seasons. We love our cows, and we love our down-home country community. What is a growing trend in the industry in your area? Technology — probably the same here as with most areas. All of the technology: robots, collars, pedometers, computer upgrades, phone apps and even on our farm, ultra sound machines. What are the two biggest challenges of dairy farming in your region? Labor and milk prices. With McDonald’s starting at around $20 per hour here and landscaping at $25-$30 per hour, we have a hard time keeping good employees for what we can afford to pay. We proudly have a great team currently, and they stay because of how we treat them, but it’s just a constant battle here. Last milk check Class III was $18.39; we are paid a few dollars less at $16.66. I am paid on my Jersey components though, so that equated to $22.49. Each creamery has their own formula to gure out pay price. Ours is a few dollars under Class III. What do you do on your farm to stay competitive in the dairy industry? We manage tightly and manage well, and we constantly try to stay ahead of the problems and consistently improve in all areas. Always learn more, and don’t be afraid of change. Adam and Crystal Preston, pictured with sons Aiden (left) and Avery Quincy, Michigan 1,000 cows How long have you been dairy farming? 17 years. Tell us about your farm. We farm with my cousin Brian, father Glenn and uncle Keith. We have 1,000 acres of corn for silage and grain. We also have 700 acres of alfalfa for haylage. We have 13 employees and ship our milk to Michigan Milk Producers Association. What was the growing season like for you in your area and how far along are you with harvest? We were extremely dry in May and June. The corn was in the ground for a couple weeks before germination. Some elds had three different germinations in 20 feet of the row. Then in July, we had above average rainfall. The smoke from Canadian wildres also affected us for several days. We are done with corn silage and half done with dry-corn harvest. What is the dairy community like in your area? We have a few dairy farms in our county. A lot sold out in the past ve years.
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What do you enjoy about milking cows in your area of the country? We are blessed to have a great extension team and strong 4-H programs. We have lots of dairy farming friends within an hour or so of us. What is a growing trend in the industry in your area? A growing trend in our area is selling meat off the farm. What are the two biggest challenges of dairy farming in your region? The price of milk and the price of purchased feed. What do you do on your farm to stay competitive in the dairy industry? We are very efcient with our labor, have very productive land and have a high-producing herd of cows. Jacob and Lydia VanEvera, pictured with Owen. Olivia not pictured. Cobleskill, New York 40 cows How long have you been dairy farming? 10 years on our own, several more years than that while working with Lydia’s parents (since 2006). Tell us about your farm. We own and operate a small family farm where we milk around 40-45 registered Holsteins, Jerseys and Milking Shorthorns in a tiestall barn. We are selfemployed with no employees. Our milk is shipped to Agri-Mark Cooperative. We also crop around 275 acres and do mostly baleage and dry hay, along with grain and corn meal. We also enjoy showing our calves and cows with our two children at local, state and national shows, and are continually striving to strengthen our genetics and breed better animals. What was the growing season like for you in your area and how far along are you with harvest? Our most recent growing season was very wet. We are nished with hay harvest and will be doing high-moisture corn soon. What is the dairy community like in your area? We have a fairly strong dairy community with the dairy farms that are still in business. We have lost several farms in recent years for different reasons such as having no family succession, experiencing tough economics and/or facing labor shortages. What do you enjoy about milking cows in your area of the country? We love our cows and have a strong passion for dairy farming. We enjoy the landscape of upstate New York, the close proximity to resources for the farm and daily living in general. What is a growing trend in the industry in your area? Most recently, several dairy farms have started diversifying and growing and raising beef cows to supplement income. Some farms have opened small farmstands on their farm to sell their meat products along with other local products. What are the two biggest challenges of dairy farming in your region? A big challenge facing farms in our area is that small and mid-size dairy farms are having to make the choice to get bigger or sell out due to economics. The price to produce milk continues to rise for smaller farms as we don’t have economies of scale, thus longterm sustainability is lacking with the input costs and the now-decreasing price of milk. A second challenge — not for us really, but for larger farms — is labor shortages. What do you do on your farm to stay competitive in the dairy industry? Our family began raising beef, pork and chicken a few years ago, and this has grown into a side business for our family. We recently built a store on our farm where we can sell our farm-raised meat, along with local milk and ice cream and other local products. We realize that for our small farm to operate and be able to continue to operate, we need to diversify for additional income. This has worked well for us to do alongside our dairy and has opened up additional marketing resources for us. Our hope is to continue to grow the store, once opened, to provide our community with a variety of locally grown and produced products. Scott Smit, pictured with his wife, Megan, and their children Weston (from left), Lincoln and Levi Lynden, Washington 400 cows, including dry cows How long have you been dairy farming? 16 years. Tell us about your farm. Our cows are housed in a freestall barn, and we recently installed six Lely A5 robotic milking systems. Calves through springers are raised on-site. We farm a total of 500 acres. Employees include me, my dad and one full-time employee as well as my wife and three boys. Milk is shipped to Darigold. What was the growing season like for you in your area and how far along are you with harvest? The growing season starts in late April to early May with our rst cutting of grass and ends in late October. Corn is planted in early May and harvested in mid to late September. What is the dairy community like in your area? Around 70 dairies are in Whatcom County. What do you enjoy about milking cows in your area of the country? The climate is very mild with not a lot of extremes, maybe a week or two of 85-90 degrees in the summer and two to three weeks of cold and snow in the winter. What is a growing trend in the industry in your area? Denitely automation and making things more efcient to employ fewer people. What are the two biggest challenges of dairy farming in your region? A main challenge is the price of land at $20,000 to $30,000 per acre. What do you do on your farm to stay competitive in the dairy industry? We use automation whenever possible. We also breed Angus to the lower end of the cow herd and sexed semen on the top end and heifers, and we keep no more replacement heifers than we need for keeping up with our herd-turnover rate.
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FORAGE PROFILE Greg Lohr, GT Dairy LLC, of Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin | Sauk County | 235 Describe your farm and facilities. We milk with four DeLaval robotic milking systems that we installed in April 2018. My parents started this farm in 1961, and we milked in a 134-cow tiestall barn for a long time. I manage the cows with the help of a few employees, who are key pieces of the farm’s success. Gary Dobratz, employee of 27 years, manages the daily feeding and eldwork. Juan Luis, employee of two years, manages the calving transition, heifer care and supports Greg’s efforts in the robot barn. We utilize the old facilities for dry cows, calving and 6 months and older heifer care. All heifers under 6 months are being raised by Paramount Farms of Darlington, Wisconsin. We breed selected animals to Angus bulls and market all the bull calves at 1-2 weeks of age. My brother Tom helps when we need it. We ship milk to Scenic Central. What forages do you harvest? Alfalfa haylage, grassy hay, corn silage, canary grass, corn silage and soybeans for a cash crop. Rye is doublecropped on irrigated and heavy sand as forage; this has improved land output and given us a consistent dry-cow forage annually. The wetland along the creek bottoms was put into canary grass years ago and has proven to be good for the
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Greg Lohr stands in front of a perfectly faced bunker silo of corn silage Oct. 16 at his farm near Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin. Lohr milks 235 cows with four roboƟc milking systems and farms approximately 700 acres. Describe the rations for your livestock. We feed our cows a total mixed ration. Our milk cows ration consists of twothirds corn silage, one-third haylage, protein mix, highmoisture corn and a little bit of grassy hay. The dry cows get corn silage, grassy hay, rye grass, a small amount of highmoisture corn and a mineral
mix. The heifers ration consists of haylage, corn silage, grass, a mineral mix and high-moisture corn. Describe your harvesting techniques for alfalfa and corn silage. Most of our forages are custom harvested by New Age custom harvesting crew. The alfalfa is chopped,
cut merged and chopped in 29-day intervals. They use a 30-foot self-propelled triple mower, a merger and a selfpropelled chopper. Our corn silage is harvested with a 10row New Holland self-propelled chopper. They run two Turn to FORAGE | Page 20
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ConƟnued from FORAGE | Page 18 at a time. We harvest the rye ourselves because we need to utilize 8-foot bags to be able to manage the face of the bag during feedout. We use a pull-type New Holland chopper and H & S silage boxes, and we rent an ag-bagger from Daryl Manthe of Lodi/Dane, Wisconsin. We also chop silage that doesn’t t into New Age’s schedule. What techniques do you use to store, manage and feed your forages? We use bunker silos to store hay and corn silage. The Harvestore silo stores the high-moisture corn, and the rye grass is stored in 8-foot bags. We manage the
bunker silos with a facer and feed with a Knight Reel TMR. Grassy and canary grass hay is baled in large squares by Golden Grains Custom Farming Throughout your career, have you changed the forages you plant, and how has that decision helped your operation? We have added rye grass in the last ve years to help with feed shortage. It is cheap and easy to grow. We plant it on irrigated ground; it performs well on sandy soil. Describe a challenge you overcame in reaching your forage quality goals.
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An exclusive club membership Harbaugh exhibits World Dairy Expo’s junior show supreme junior champion By Danielle Nauman danielle.n@dairystar.com
MARION, Wis. — It is a small and exclusive club for the people who know what it feels like to have the spotlight land on the animal they are exhibiting during World Dairy Expo’s supreme champion ceremonies. Sixteen-year-old Logan Harbaugh earned his membership card at this year’s WDE in Madison, when his Ayrshire fall calf, Grand-View Champ Dyna, was named the supreme junior champion of the junior show. “It was a moment in time that I will never, ever forget,” Harbaugh said. “It is always rewarding to work with an animal that you think has a lot of potential, but to see them go on and reach that potential and accomplish things you only dreamed of, ... there really are just no words for that experience.” Harbaugh has been showing dairy cattle for most of his life with his family — parents Lynn and Sara, brother Jacob and sister Madison. The Har-
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Logan Harbaugh poses with his Ayrshire fall calf, Grand-View Champ Dyna, aŌer she was named supreme junior champion of the junior show Oct. 6 at World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin. Harbaugh has been showing dairy caƩle for most of his life with his parents, Lynn and Sara, and his brother and sister, Jacob and Madison.
baughs have a small farm in Marion where they focus on raising top-caliber heifers. A Holstein boy by birth, Harbaugh has developed an afnity for working with colored breeds that was born of a partnership with the late Mike Hellenbrand. “I’m really not partial to
any breed,” Harbaugh said. “I couldn’t care less what color they are when they are that caliber of animal that can compete at Expo.” Harbaugh said it took him several days to assimilate to the idea of what he experienced during the closing moments of Expo.
“Any time you win anything at Expo, it is exciting,” he said. “But this experience, exhilarating as it was, was even more special because the award Dyna received was given in memory of Mike Hellenbrand. Mike was instrumental in introducing me to colored breeds and giving me the op-
portunity to work with animals of that caliber.” In recent years, the Harbaughs have formed a partnership with Tim and Katie Busch of Cecil, bringing toplevel Ayrshires into their show program. “We have really enjoyed working with Tim and Katie,” Harbaugh said. “They have some great heifers, and it has been a lot of fun working with them.” Dyna placed second in the International Ayrshire Show’s fall calf class before being named junior champion of the junior show and reserve junior champion of the open division. Dyna is a member of Busches’ franchise cow family that descends from GrandView Oly 2 Diva EX-90 2E. The family is responsible for as many as 11 consecutive generations of Excellent Ayrshire cows in the Busches’ Grand-View herd. Sired by Cedarcut Colata’s Champion, Dyna is a daughter of Grand-View Predator Dollar-ET VG-89. Dollar is a daughter of Grand-View BBBK Dreamer-ET EX-94 5E, a two-time All-American nomination for the Busches. Dreamer is backed by seven generations of Excellent cows. Turn to HARBAUGH | Page 25
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Ayrshire associate judge Steve Searles congratulates Logan Harbaugh Oct. 2 as Grand-View Champ Dyna was named junior champion of the InternaƟonal Junior Ayrshire Show at World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin. Dyna will sell as a highlight at the Grand Finale at Grand-View sale next spring.
Dyna will sell as a highlight at the Grand Finale at Grand-View sale next spring. “My dad and I went and looked at Tim’s heifers back in February, and that is when we found Dyna,” Harbaugh said. “She was made right and was very dainty, maybe almost a bit on the small side.” Dyna took well to the Harbaughs’ show program, and the Harbaughs began ne-tuning the calf to start her 2023 show campaign. “Dyna really never has had a bad
day,” Harbaugh said. “She does everything she needs to do, and she just really does it herself. She’s been a very enjoyable heifer to work with because she makes it look easy.” The rst show in which Dyna hit the ring was the Midwest Spring Ayrshire Show where she placed second in her class before claiming reserve junior champion of the junior show. At the Northeast Wisconsin High Protein Show, Dyna swept the Ayrshire heifer show before being named supreme junior champion.
At the Midwest National Summer Ayrshire Show, Dyna placed second in class and was named the All-Wisconsin fall calf. She was named the Wisconsin junior champion in both the open and junior divisions, and the Midwest junior division. Dyna was tapped as the Midwest reserve junior champion as well. Dyna continued her winning ways this summer at the Wisconsin Junior State Fair, being named the junior champion Ayrshire on her way to claiming the honorable mention su-
preme junior champion banner. While he normally plays a big role in preparing Dyna at each show, Expo was different from normal for Harbaugh. As a member of Shawano County’s Wisconsin championship 4-H dairy cattle judging team, Harbaugh had to say goodbye to Dyna and her herdmates when they were loaded on the trailer to head to the Alliant Energy Center. “I wasn’t really worried about her, because we had a great crew that would be caring for her at the show, but that didn’t stop me from thinking about it a lot,” Harbaugh said. “I was trying to focus on the judging contest, but it wasn’t always easy. As soon as I was done giving reasons, I headed down to the barn to see how things were going before the banquet.” Harbaugh’s time spent at the National 4-H Dairy Cattle Judging Contest was well-spent, as he topped the oral reasons portion of the contest on his way to nishing seventh overall and anchored his team’s sixth place nish. With the International Ayrshire Show beginning with heifers Monday afternoon, Harbaugh said he was involved with putting the nal show-day touches on Dyna’s preparations. However, those limitations did not diminish the pride he felt with the way the heifer performed. “When something like this happens, you really need to enjoy it and take it all in,” Harbaugh said. “Calves like Dyna are hard to come by, and you don’t have these results all the time. It’s certainly not something that happens every year.”
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WARREN, Ill. — A freshly inspected milkhouse, a whitewashed tiestall barn and a mixed herd of young cows makes up the beginning of Kyle Bolen’s dairy career. Bolen said he always wanted to milk cows and never thought he would get the chance. When he met someone on Facebook who needed help exiting the industry, he saw his opportunity. “You just have to have faith that it will all work out in the end,” Bolen said. “You’re not going to get rich doing it, but you have to enjoy doing it.” Bolen started milking for his now landlord, Cindy Smith, in August 2022. They planned to operate on 50-50 shares, but their market would not allow it. Instead, Bolen purchased Smith’s 66 cows outright and took over her milk market to Dairy Farmers of America in March. Bolen is renting the facilities and 20 acres of hay ground. Since taking over the herd, he has culled heavily and taken on 10 board cows, so he is now milking 32 cows. This has allowed him to get his somatic cell count under 100,000 and help with
are rent additional ground to grow corn and get enough equipment together to harvest corn silage and snaplage next year. Then, he would upgrade to a total mixed ration with the aim of increasing production and quality. Bolen’s long-term goal, he said, is to buy the property, and then he could justify adding buildings. He hopes to acquire enough equipment to build a machine shed, which would also provide loose housing for the animals. Further down the line, he is open to the idea of a freestall barn and parlor as well. “If it’s just me, I’ll probably just stay in the tiestall,” Bolen said. “But if I have kids who want to keep it going, then I’ll make it so they can eventually put up a parlor.” Bolen’s wife Laura works as a school teacher in Beloit, Wisconsin. Between her long commute and BoABBY WIEDMEYER/DAIRY STAR len’s chore schedule, they manage to Kyle Bolen stands in his rented barn Oct. 12 near Warren, Illinois. Bolen has nd time to spend together by choring been milking his own herd of cows for just over a year and said he hopes to own as a team on the weekends. the facili�es someday. While the barn is functional, Bolen has had challenges over the wincash ow. All the cows were bred to He hopes to build the herd to double ter and when it rains with things not beef, so he has been selling the calves its current size and switch out the en- draining properly. He hopes to imwhile he transitions to A.I. His rst tire 36-stall barn. prove the drain from the cow yard to two calves from A.I. were born this While milking, Bolen feeds corn avoid ooding in the barn like he had summer. in the tie stalls. After chores, the cows to deal with his rst winter. Bolen’s colorful herd consists of go to a concrete yard with a drive-by Bolen said his favorite part about Holstein, Jersey, Normande and Milk- feed rail. They are fed a round bale farming full time is not having to go ing Shorthorn crosses. He prefers of hay, which Bolen unravels for to work to punch a clock. Before takHolstein and does not mind having them. He is managing things the way ing the opportunity to milk cows, he Milking Shorthorns around, but he is his landlord did before him while he was working in a machine shop. He glad to have something to start with. makes plans for changes. moved from the Janesville, Wiscon“I’m young enough that I can just sin, area to pursue his dream and said, stand (the bale) up like a pop can and so far, he does not regret the decision. unroll it,” Bolen said. “It takes me 20 “It’s something I’ve always wantminutes to do it by hand. I tried un- ed to do, and I nally got the opporturolling it with the skid (loader), but it nity to try it,” Bolen said. “At least, if took longer and burned fuel.” it doesn’t work out, I can say I did it.” The rst things Bolen plans to do
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A calf rests a�er chores Oct. 12 at Kyle Bolen’s rented farm near Warren, Illinois. Bolen purchased a herd and started milking just over a year ago, and this is one of the rst calves born from his A.I. efforts, signifying the beginning of his growing herd.
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The hazards of agri-driving
My daily drive from home to the Dairy off course, but the thundering of my frantic Star ofce in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, and heartbeats said otherwise. back should be about 30 minutes one way. When we had been married awhile, I However, commute time stretched to 45 began intensifying my comments, someminutes for much of summer and into fall times using an understandably harsh tone. due to road construction. The rough winter Afterall, should we slip into the ditch, the had turned that stretch of freeway into a side of the car to hit the tree, the mailbox, series of potholes and coughed-up chunks the fence post or the unsuspecting cow of wrecked road. Repairs had been sorely would be mine. I also began ercely debatneeded. ing him when he claimed I was being a bit That does not mean that I didn’t resent paranoid. the inconvenience. Patience is not one of Then came the best idea since the my strong suits. dawn of mankind — the rumble strip. As My husband, Mark — tires passed over the strips, as an ex-dairy farmer and both audible and tactile jolts current conservation manthrew distracted motorists ager through Stearns County back into alert. Across rural Soil and Water ConservaAmerica, those married to tion District — is a slower agri-drivers wept tears of driver than I am. Yes, there relief. is a clear cause-and-effect The middle-of-the-road relationship between level rumble strips came rst, of agricultural involvement stopping agri-drivers from and speed of driving. If the coasting over center lines. former is higher, the latter After that came the shoulBy Jan Lefebvre is lower. However, there der rumble strip, which was Staff Writer are other traits exhibited by even better for my situation. people who drive under the Today, lesser-traveled inuence of agriculture. roads do not always have shoulder rumble When Mark and I started dating over strips, but most roads do, so driving with 30 years ago, he and his brother were work- Mark has become argument-free — at least ing toward taking over their family’s dairy as far as driving habits go. farm. During times that Mark was driving In years to come, when the history of me through anyplace rural, I noticed his road paving is written — which is sure to tendency toward watching scenes of agri- happen as people everywhere will demand culture taking place in equal measure to ac- it — the dawn of the rumble strip will be tually watching the road. I came to realize credited with rekindling the romance of he was one of a large group of agri-drivers Sunday drives and possibly saving a numwith a similar problem. ber of marriages. While we were in the dating phase I must admit, though, due to my slower and I didn’t want to show the true nature speed of travel that road construction deof my impatience, I would remain silent manded of me the last few months, I obwhile gripping the passenger door handle served more thoroughly the sights of farms and holding my breath as the car would and elds I passed to and from work. inch closer and closer to the side of the For instance, as Dairy Star reported road. Mark would be looking at the elds on the drought in our readership area, I beyond and saying things like, “That guy’s noticed farmers doing more corn chopping growing erosion over there,” or “Those are than usual because their crop had failed to some beautiful soybeans.” thrive and was past any hope for improveAt the last second, just before what ment. I saw cattle on sparse pasture whose seemed like a certain plummet down to features were obscured by the smoke of the bottom of the ditch, he’d jerk the car Canadian wildres, and I wondered if their back into place. If the shoulder of the road health was being affected. wasn’t paved, sometimes the tires hitting One day, as I drove in the newly paved the gravel was enough to knock him back right lane in a slow convoy because the left into focus. Otherwise, it was sheer luck lane was closed, I saw in a eld to my right that he always noticed in time and I am still that a large bird was sitting on the back of here today to write this column. a steer, who didn’t seem to mind giving his Mark tended to scan the agriculture visitor a ride. The bird was there for a few taking place to his right, so I don’t recall seconds and then hopped off to the far side crossing into lanes of oncoming trafc. of the steer and out of sight. I’ve heard that can be a symptom demonIt was then that my car slipped off the strated by left-side-favoring agri-drivers, edge of the road and my right tires thumped creating even more stress for their pas- down to the unnished shoulder. I sidesengers. Luckily for me, Mark favored his brushed an orange and white construction right side. barrel that was sitting there unused, but the About a year after we met — when thing managed to stay upright. 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Tell us about your family and farm. My husband Dennis and I have two daughters together, Allison Ambrose and Autumn Larsen. Allison has three children — Devon, Layla and Aliana. My oldest son, Dustin, helps me on the farm when he is not working. My other son, Tyler, stays home with me. Dennis’ daughters, Monica Larsen and Michelle Day, are both grown and moved away. Dennis and I bought our farm from my brother in 2011. My grandfather built the barn in 1917, and we have worked hard to maintain it. Our cows go to pasture every day that they can. Our heifers are raised in a shed we built in 2021. What is a typical day like for you on the dairy? I am up before 5 a.m. and start with coffee. I get to the barn by 5:15 or 5:30. Dustin is here by then, and together we get the cows in the barn. Dustin feeds them grain while I start milking. He feeds the calves their milk, and by the time he’s done with that, I’m usually ready to switch cows. Our barn holds 42 cows, and in good weather, we usually switch a few. After switching cows, Dustin leaves for work. Then I feed hay to the calves, scrape and lime the barn, and nish cleaning up the milkhouse. After chores, I do housework and take care of my son Tyler, who is autistic. Dennis takes care of him in the morning while I do chores, and then he works off the farm part time during the day. During the day, I take care of any sick animals we might have and run errands until it’s time to start chores again at 4:30 p.m. When he’s not working, Dennis cleans the barn, feeds round bales to the cattle and takes care of the machinery maintenance. What decision have you made in the last year that has beneted your farm? We planted sorghum-sudangrass on the ridge this year because our rst crop of hay didn’t turn out and by then we were in drought conditions. We were told sorghum-sudangrass grew well, and it worked out OK for us. We have grazed it, and it did not yield quite as well as we had hoped. It was due to lack of rain.
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Tell us about your most memorable experience working on the farm. Last year, my favorite cow, Mufn, was out to pasture overnight with the rest of the herd. I woke up around 4:30 a.m., and all the cows were running back and forth through the pasture. I thought a neighbor’s dog was chasing them, so I ran out in my bare feet and nightgown to chase them away. Instead, I discovered Mufn had gotten her collar caught on an old peg drag and was running with it. She is a dwarf cow, so her udder hangs really low. She got cut up on her legs and udder and was bleeding everywhere while dragging this old piece of equipment. I had to get my husband to help me untangle her, and we eventually got her loose. The vet was able to get her stitched back up, and she is still OK today. What have you enjoyed most about dairy farming or your tie to the dairy industry? I enjoy the fact that it was my grandpa’s and then my dad’s farm. I grew up in the yellow house that my daughter and grandkids now live in. I am proud that I can still do this and that I got to raise my kids here. It’s created a good work ethic for them. Not a lot of people are able to stay small and keep their kids interested in the farm. It’s not a job; it’s part of me. What is your biggest accomplishment in your dairy career? It’s an accomplishment that every year since Dennis and I have owned the farm, we have been able to make improvements. We built a new heifer shed, we have built a lot of new fence and roadways, and we have made improvements to the barn to keep it sturdy and straight. It’s an accomplishment to be able to keep farming. What are things you do to promote your farm or the dairy industry? I stay positive about what we do and tell anyone who asks to come and see what we do. I also stay informed through publications and am a member of Farm Bureau. What advice would you give another woman in the dairy industry? You
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What is a challenge in the dairy industry you have faced and how did you overcome it? Money has always been a challenge. Sometimes paying bills is like managing a triage in a hospital. We try to do as much vet work ourselves, and we have started doing herd health to
When you get a spare moment, what do you do? I keep a garden, and I enjoy naps when I can. I also really enjoy birds. I have raised turkeys as pets, have geese and always have a ock of chickens.
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AABP research roundup focuses on calf health, performance
The American Association of Bo- that improved recording compliance vine Practitioners had their annual generally included use of a computer meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, software system, if records were loSept. 20-23. Cattle vets, veterinary cated in the calf barn and recording students and researchers from around by non-family employees. Producers the U.S. and Canada met to share the also reported that treatments were not newest research, recommendations recorded because calf health records and best practices to enhance were not commonly analyzed cattle welfare and help proby veterinarians. ducers improve the health of The second study pretheir cows and the protabilsented research performed at ity of their operations. Three Iowa State University where current studies relevant to researchers evaluated the calf health were presented at need for analgesics in day-old the meeting. calves following caustic paste The rst study was predisbudding. This research sented by researchers from was driven by the increase By Whitney the University of Guelph, in use of caustic paste in the Knauer Canada, where they investiU.S. (performed on 33% of University of gated the barriers to recorddairy calves in the U.S.) and Minnesota ing calf health data on dairy that only 5.6% of operations farms. use anesthesia or analgesia for this To do this, they administered a procedure. Researchers enrolled 75 survey to 88 dairy producers in Ontar- newborn Jersey calves into three treatio, which asked a variety of questions ment groups: Control (CON, no paste including demographics, current prac- administered); paste alone (PW, paste tices on record keeping and analysis, with no pain mitigation); and paste and factors that would improve record- with pain mitigation (PA, paste with ing compliance. a lidocaine block and a non-steroidal Overall, researchers found only anti-inammatory at the time of dis19% of respondents recorded all calf budding). Results indicate that corillness events, with 43%, 38% and 13% tisol levels (a measure of stress) are of respondents recording all antimicro- suppressed in the PA group compared bial, anti-inammatory and support- to the PW group, in support of the adive treatments, respectively. Factors ministration of pain control for caustic
paste disbudding even in very young calves. Analysis is continuing to evaluate the behavioral response to caustic paste disbudding in these calves. The third study relevant to calf health was presented by a veterinary student from the University of Wisconsin where they evaluated the association between ambient temperatures during the rst 10 days of life on the development of pneumonia to 28 days in Holstein calves. Records from 2,888 calves from 2020-23 were evaluated. Ultrasonographic pneumonia (a lung ultrasound score ≥ 2 out of 5) was detected in 53% of calves. Results found that the odds of developing ultrasonographic pneumonia were 80% greater in calves exposed to a 10-day average temperature under 68.1 degrees compared to calves exposed to a warmer 10-day average during the rst 10 days of life. This temperature is warmer than the lower critical temperature of young calves (56.1 degrees) that has previously been established to de-
scribe cold stress. The summary results of these three research projects highlight important points for dairy farmers. First, there is room for improvement in calf health record keeping practices on farms, and producers should work with their veterinarians to make sure that calf health records are being analyzed in a useful way. Second, pain mitigation may be needed for caustic paste disbudding in very young calves. Third, ambient temperature is associated with an increased odds of respiratory disease in calves and at a higher temperature than is currently understood. While these three studies are not intuitively linked, they each provide information for farmers who are interested in improving animal welfare in their calf programs. If you have questions about calf health record keeping, pain mitigation for disbudding or the risk of pneumonia on your operation, reach out to your veterinarian or local extension educator for more information.
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Pumpkin patch plants the seed for business four seeds in each mound. “I thought we would only make 20 From dairy kid planted mounds, but we made more like 80,” said. “It was kind of hard and kind to entrepreneur Lee of fun.” By Abby Wiedmeyer abby.w@dairystar.com
NORWALK, Wis. — Nineyear-old Lee Rasmussen was carving pumpkins last year and had the idea to save the seeds and plant them on his family’s dairy farm. A year later, with help from his family, he is running a pumpkin stand at the end of his driveway and learning about gardening and business. “It’s a fun experience,” Lee said. “I like meeting the new people, and I like growing (pumpkins).” Lee is the son of Levi and Kati Rasmussen. The family milks 65 cows in a tiestall barn near Norwalk. They farm 350 acres, but Lee got his rst lesson in crop farming through the pumpkin patch project this year. When the time came to plant the patch this spring, Lee had misplaced the seeds he saved from the previous year. His mom purchased new seeds, and they followed the directions on the packet to gure out how to plant the patch. Lee and his dad started by clearing all the sticks out of a section of a dirt cow lot before cultivating the section. Levi also brought fresh dirt from another part of the lot to add to the ground. Next, Lee made mounds in which to plant the pumpkin seeds. They
Lee worked on the mounds with help from his dad, his grandpa and his family’s employee, Dawson. Lee had to weather the dry year along with his dad and all the other farmers attempting to grow crops this year. He used a sprinkler to water his patch constantly. His dad was impressed with the work ethic he saw in his son. “He never complained,” Levi said. “It was his rst time doing any sort of farming or gardening, so I’d have to tell him to water them, but then he’d go right out and never complained about it.” Once the pumpkins were ready to harvest, the family set up an honor stand so that people could help themselves while Lee was in school. On nights and weekends, however, Lee has had to restock the stand. If he is home when someone stops by, he helps people pick their own pumpkins. When he is not available, people leave the money in a box his grandpa made for him. There have been times when Lee wanted to visit friends but had to stay home to work on the patch. He has been allowed to keep the proceeds from pumpkin sales and has a goal to meet. “My goal for money is $1,000,” Lee said. “I’m putting half in savings for next year for the pumpkin patch and the other half I’m just spending.”
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Lee Rasmussen shows off his pumpkins Oct. 18 on his family’s dairy farm near Norwalk, Wisconsin. Rasmussen is halfway to his goal of $1,000 from his rstever pumpkin patch.
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The Rasmussen family — CharloƩe (from leŌ), Lee, KaƟ, Levi, Maddie and Annabelle — gather on their farm near Norwalk, Wisconsin. The Rasmussens milk 65 cows and started a pumpkin patch this year.
The family initially thought of parking a few trailers of pumpkins in nearby towns, but with pumpkins getting sold as fast as Lee can pick them, they will likely keep to their roadside model. Promotions for the patch were helped by a Facebook page that Kati helped Lee establish. Throughout the summer, Lee posted weekly updates with videos where he tracked the growth and progress of the patch. Lee planted one mound with giant
pumpkin seeds, which are still growing. He said they will need to use pallet forks to move the pumpkins once they are fully grown. With big plans for the future, the support of his parents will continue to be instrumental to the process. Kati said they are happy to provide it. “We believe that instilling an entrepreneurial spirit and good work ethic at a young age provides a good basis for future success as well as a boost for self-condence,” she said.
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How did you get into farming? I was born into it, and it is something I have always wanted to do. I took over, fully in charge of decisions, in 2017. What are your thoughts and concerns about the dairy industry for the next year? Prices are among my biggest concerns, both income and outputs. I am also concerned about oversupply of milk. That seemed to have been a really big issue in our area this past year. What is a recent change you made on your farm and the reason for it? I haven’t changed too much. I would say updating wornout equipment has been important to keep things running smoothly. I have been updating the lighting in the barn, switching over to LED xtures. I have about threequarters of the barn done. That has made a huge difference, making the barn brighter. It makes the barn more pleasant and has made milking a lot nicer. Tell us about a skill you possess that makes dairy farming easier for you. I am able to do almost everything myself and be self-sufcient. I only hire out my breeding and the vet work I am unable to do. What is the best decision you have made on your farm? Switching to a chopper with a kernel processor has been a big one for making silage. Another good decision was to install manger plastic. I updated my heifer shed this past year; it is a three-sided shed and only
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Zack Rose takes a moment with one of his cows Oct. 22 on his farm near Owen, Wisconsin. Rose milks 51 cows and is in the process of taking over his family’s dairy farm.
had concrete where they ate. We poured concrete under where the bedding is, and it has made it much easier to clean and take care of.
it myself, at a lower cost.
What strategies do you use to withstand the volatile milk prices? During times of low milk prices, I do the What are three things on things that absolutely need the farm that you cannot to be done and compensate live without? I couldn’t live for that when milk prices are without the cows because better. without them, dairy farming wouldn’t actually exist. How do you retain a good I also couldn’t live without a working relationship with full line of equipment. I like your employees? I don’t arbeing able to do things when gue with those who are helpI want or need it done rather ing me, and I try not to be exthan wait for someone else to tremely bossy. Instead, I try come do it. I can typically do to be clear about what needs
to be done, how I would like it done and why I would like it done that way. What do you enjoy most about dairy farming? I enjoy working with the cows and the people who are involved in the industry. What advice would you give other dairy farmers? If you don’t love it, probably don’t do it. If you don’t love dairy farming, you will end up hating every minute of it.
What are your plans for your dairy in the next year and ve years? I hope to be able to complete the purchase of the farm. I have been slowly buying cows and equipment. I own about one-third of the cows and nearly all of the equipment. I need to buy the remaining cows and the land. How do you or your family like to spend time when you are not doing chores? I like relaxing or going to help friends with things they need help with.
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External parasites, like ies, mites and lice, are often easy to detect when observing dairy cattle behavior and appearance. Severe inltrations of internal parasites can result in roughness of hair coat, anemia, edema and diarrhea. However, the subclinical impact of internal parasites is largely hidden, yet costly. According to a study at Iowa State University about ve years ago, undetected subclinical disease caused by internal parasites can cost $190 per animal. The greatest impact Something to Ruminate On internal parasites have is generally reduced feed intake, which means reduced intake of essential nutrients, including protein, energy, minerals and vitamins. The damage done by internal parasites to the gastrointestinal tract can also reduce absorption of these nutrients critical to cattle health and wellbeing. By Barry Visser Parasite control in heifNutritionist ers Strategic deworming in growing heifers improves weight gain and overall performance. Calves under 1 year of age are more susceptible than older cattle. Older cattle have been frequently exposed to the parasites and develop a degree of resistance. The lifecycle of internal parasites in young heifers is three to four weeks. The general recommendation is to deworm at least once during the summer and in late fall. Assuming this fall treatment occurs after a hard frost, heifers do not need to be treated at spring turnout. Latefall deworming kills the internal parasites and heifers should not be at risk for re-exposure in the barn during the winter. What about the milk cows? In the lactating dairy cow, the presence of internal parasites results in reduced milk production. Changes in how cows are housed and managed have generally reduced the need to deworm lactating cattle at the same intensity as heifers on pasture. The rst step in a deworming program for lactating dairy cows is determining the parasite contamination potential. Dairy cattle on rotationally grazed pasture during lactation present the highest risk for internal parasitism. Alternatively, lactating cows on low-density dry lots or in connement have an extremely low potential for internal parasite infestation. Many herds house their dry cows on dirt lots or pasture where parasite exposure is the highest. Even though the lactating cows are in connement, they could carry worm loads from the dry period. Since dairy cows are most likely to show a positive response during early lactation, the rst choice for a deworming program is to treat soon after calving. If prefresh dry cows are housed in connement, this may be a logical time to treat as well. By removing all the internal parasites during the prefresh period, the cow will be better able to handle stress associated with transition and early lactation. Transition group deworming also provides a safety net for heifers entering the herd and ensures that parasites will not affect milk production, growth or reproduction. Deworm according to your herd’s needs A variety of products are available for control of internal parasites. Pour-on and feed-grade additives are the most common deworming products for dairy cattle. Note that certain products are approved for dairy heifers but not for adult cattle. Work with your veterinarian and herd health advisors to determine which products t the needs of your dairy. Implementing an effective parasite control program will allow your herd to maintain optimal health status and maximize performance. Barry Visser is a nutritionist for Vita Plus.
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pened, but it did. So, I reposted it, and the ashback hit others like it did me. Wow, 10 years already — I lived and beat cancer. Wonderful friends and family cheered me up in the comments, reminding me that, when you have cancer, you don’t need to ght it alone. I didn’t save the photo for myself, but I will be prepared down the road to know that Facebook has a memory that I will look forward to see in the future. Tina Hinchley, her husband Duane and daughter Anna milk 240 registered Holsteins with robots. They also farm 2,300 acres of crops near Cambridge, Wisconsin. The Hinchleys have been hosting farm tours for over 25 years.
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No apples this year Wolf River tree on a break I crave applesauce, hot And all the apple things to make Bow season is upon us Youth hunt was a treat Henry and Dane scored big ones — We have big buck fresh meat November deer season — A calendar page away Cards, cousins, laughter, fun I plan fun as cows come my way My clipboard is a jumble Of ideas, notes, and a cow list It is a good thing I know the girls I am watching the gate — I insist All the books, all the books I wish I could read more To my kids, myself Oh, reading I do adore Here comes Goober, I had better watch the gate Carmelita, Pancake, Limerick-out Muriel, Sherlock — you wait Moving cows has a rhythm My body knows it well Sway this way — go out Shift that way — they can tell In my barn boots I feel quite at ease Clipboard and pen in hand Doodling words like these
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Central Minnesota agriculture is simply amazing. We often become complacent in our little world and tend to forget just how impressive our ag community really is every day. The efciency in getting crops harvested when the time is right, the production per dairy cow or even the quality of forages being harvested is impressive without question. We have seen this rst-hand with how crop genetics have impacted our world during a drought year. Crop reports are coming in much better than expected, which hopefully is taking away some of the stress being felt by many. As you race to the nish line to get this crop in, take the time to enjoy why you have chosen this occupation. Be proud of your hard work and the fruits of your labor. The staff at FSA certainly is proud of you. Eligibility for elections for the 2024 county committee The Farm Service Agency county committee elections will begin Nov. 6 when ballots are mailed to eligible voters. The deadline to return ballots to local FSA ofces, or to be postmarked, is Dec. 4. County committee members are an important component of the operations of FSA and provide a link between the agricultural community and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Farmers and ranchers elected to county committees help deliver FSA programs at the local level, applying their knowledge and judgment to make decisions on commodity price support programs; conservation programs; incentive, indemnity and disaster programs for some commodities; emergency programs and eligibility. FSA committees operate within ofcial regulations designed to carry out federal laws. Newly elected committee members will take ofce Jan. 1, 2024.
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At choir practice last week, the director asked us to share the highlight of our day. Many said a long walk through a tree park as colorful leaves danced to the ground. Another member said an extra long nap. My highlight was making it to choir practice. One of the tenors said his highlight hadn’t happened yet. He was waiting to see how his day would end, maybe anticipating a special moment before the day was done? His answer intrigued me and caused me to ponder. Could the best part of the day be at the end of day as you crawl in bed giving thanks that all is well? Reecting on divine intervention in the large moments is easy. Sometimes it takes a while to spot the small, quiet moments which are overshadowed by the pace of a busy day. I was never so thankful to crawl in bed a few nights ago, giving thanks that everyone was safe and sound. It had been one of those days where it was a struggle but could have been so much worse. I was thankful for helpful neighbors, understanding state patrol ofcers
and snowplows. Yup … it is one of those stories you’ll never forget and never want to do again. Harvest had been going smoothly. The high-moisture corn was a bit on the dry side, but the yields had been phenomenal. Yes, we had been in a severe drought situation all summer, but we were thankful for the irrigation system to supplement our feed supply. Recently, the custom combine started chewing through the dry corn. It was bouncing around 18% moisture, so we needed to ll the drying bin before hauling it to the elevator. A few days later, it was ready to be moved south to be ground into chicken feed. We are not large grain operators, so we don’t have the big equipment to haul large amounts of corn. We hook the large tractor up to two large gravity boxes and start the slow trip south. The only way to reach the elevator is to drive along the edge of U.S. Highway 10 with ashers and slow-moving vehicle signs in plain sight. The speed limit on this stretch of road is 65 mph, with most people cruising at 70. We have less than 10
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joying every available minute of their favorite season. The cooler temperatures also mean less grilling and more baking. Fewer steaks and burgers, more roasts and meatballs. My go-to meatball recipe is one that was developed in my kitchen over the years. I’ve been recording all of my kitchen creations in a blue notebook since 2014 – recipes developed prior were written on scraps of paper and tucked into a green folder. There are multiple iterations of these meatballs in the pages of my notebook. The rst meatball entry dates back to 2016. The recipes that followed include trials of binders, seasonings, and baking temperatures, etc. Almost three years ago now, I settled on egg, Greek yogurt, and oat bran as the best binders for meatballs. Then, a couple months ago, I went to make meatballs and realized we were out of yogurt. There was cottage cheese in the fridge, so I tried that and we liked the resulting meatballs even more. In the margins around the basic recipe, I’ve inked all of the variations I’ve tried, with “Excellent!” noted next to the ones that turned out well. In one corner of the page, an entry reads: “Made with vanilla Greek yogurt by mistake. Oops.” Chalk it up to distracted cooking. I was probably rushing, and nothing good happens when we rush. I had grabbed the vanilla yogurt out of the fridge instead of the plain. I didn’t notice until I was mixing everything together, smelled vanilla, and realized my mistake. There was no way I was wasting that food and my efforts, so we had vanilla meatballs for supper that night. They actually weren’t that bad, but I wouldn’t recommend them. In my notebook, there’s an inscription next to this meatball recipe that says, “Best meatballs yet!” in extra large handwriting. I used to write “best ever” next to recipes, but “ever” signals
nality. Yet implies that, perhaps, this won’t be the nal version. I’m always tinkering with recipes. In fact, as I’ve been writing this, I’ve been pondering whether heavy cream could be substituted for the cottage cheese. I used cottage cheese in a hotdish the other day when I didn’t have enough heavy cream and the result was delicious. Dairy ingredients are delightfully interchangeable. I believe “yet” is a great maxim to embrace in more than just cooking. All that we endeavor to do is better when we’re open to trying something new, – trying again, and continually striving for the best.
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