JANESVILLE, Wis. – For the Martin family, this year’s county fair was more emotional than most. It marked the end of an era as Evan Martin wrapped up his tenure in 4-H at the age of 19. After nearly 15 years of showing at the Rock County Fair, this year was his last, which also meant it was the end of the road for his family’s fair days as well. “This is our last rst day at the fair,” said Evan’s dad, Joe, on the day they moved their cattle in. “We’re really going to miss it.” Joe and his wife, Bonnie, own and operate a 200-cow dairy near Janesville with help from their children, Abigail and Evan. Evan will be a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this fall where he is studying dairy science with plans to return to the home farm after graduation. His 26-yearold sister, a former Alice in Dairyland, also showed for many years, and in total, the Martin kids have exhibited at the county fair for about 20 years.“My kids basically grew up at the fair,” Joe said. “Abigail and her husband came for the last three days of the fair this year and were neck-deep helping in fair stuff. It’s a family undertaking, and there are a lot of hands involved. I farm with my brother, Tom, who is invaluable in helping me be able to do the fair thing with the kids.”Evan brought two heifers and two cows to show at the fair which was held July 2631. About 150 head of dairy cattle were exhibited. “This fair is a bit unique in that it’s located in an urban environment right in the middle of Janesville,” Joe said. “There’s zero parking, which is one of our challenges, but it’s also an opportunity for us to engage with an urban audience. Animals are a natural draw for the urban fairgoer. We want our kids to embrace that and share their enthusiasm for agriculture. It’s gratifying to see the next generation pick up that mantle of advocacy.”Because it was his last
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DAIRY ST R August 13, 2022Volume 24, No. 12 “All dairy, all the time”™
Celebrating a lifelong dedication to Jerseys Barlasses win breed’s Distinguished Service Award
Bill and Marion Barlass, of Barlass Jerseys, milk 450 cows and farm 1,400 acres with their family near Janesville, Wisconsin. The couple recently won the Dis nguished Service Award from the American Jersey Ca le Associa on.
The Mar n family – (from le ) Bonnie, Joe, Evan, Abigail and her husband, Calvin – pose at the Rock County Fair during the family’s nal me showing at the fair. The Mar ns’ 200-cow dairy is located near Janesville, Wisconsin. of the Jersey breed in the United States.“It’s important to encourage your breed’s improvement, and we also have to keep the younger generation involved,” Bill said. These humble farmers shy away from taking too much credit for their work. “Lots of people have contributed to the industry,” Marion said. “We’re just one of many.”The Barlass family milks 450 Jerseys and farms 1,400 acres near Janesville. Surrounded by Jerseys their entire lives, Bill’s and Marion’s longstanding affection for the Jersey cow began on their families’ respective dairy farms. Each one developed a favor for Last rst day at the fair
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JANESVILLE, Wis. – By combining their love for Jerseys with their passion for serving others, Bill and Marion Barlass have given selessly through the years to support and promote the dairy industry and their favorite breed. From working with their county’s 4-H to helping the breed in a national capacity, the Barlasses’ involvement in nearly every facet of the industry resulted in the couple winning the Distinguished Service Award from the American Jersey Cattle Association.Thisaward is presented to a breeder who has rendered outstanding service for many years and thereby made a notable contribution to the advancement By Stacey Smart stacey.s@dairystar.com By Stacey Smart stacey.s@dairystar.com
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Fewer cows being culled According to USDA, dairy cow slaughter for the week ending July 16 totaled 55,500 head. That’s up 500 cows from one year ago. Year-to-date, 1.7 million dairy cows were culled nationwide. That’s down more than 52,000 head, or 3%, from last year.
The prices paid for replacement cows in Wisconsin totaled $1,870 in July. That’s up from $1,480 in the same month one year ago. USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service said replacement cows totaled $1,710 at the end of July. That compares to $1,380 in July 2021.
Virginia Tech agricultural economics professor David Kohl was a speaker at Bell Bank’s AgView Live event. Kohl recommended producers take strong ownership of their nancials in preparation for an economic downturn. “There’s a good possibility of a U.S. and global recession,” Kohl said. “This is going to have an impact on both input and output prices.” Kohl said there’s no doubt we’re heading toward a recession. “What’s keeping the economy going? We’ve got low unemployment and high consumer spending,” Kohl said. “It’s basically people spending stimulus checks, and as soon as that runs out, you’re going to start seeing issues.”
The Farm Service Agency will also receive $1 billion to help farmers and ranchers with “limited resources.” FSA will pay up to 100% of “at risk” loans, up to $150,000. There’s another $750 million for farmers who faced discrimination from USDA before 2021.
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The Senate budget reconciliation bill includes $40 billion for agriculture programs. That includes nearly $8.5 billion for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, $7 billion for the Regional Conservation Partnership Program and $3.25 billion for the Conservation Stewardship Program. The United States Department of Agriculture also receives $300 million to quantify carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions from farmland. There’s money for farmers with prevented plant land to grow cover crops. This bill extends the $1 per gallon biodiesel tax credit from 2022 to 2024 and invests in the infrastructure needed for blender pumps. Rural electric cooperatives will receive nearly $10 billion for renewable energy projects, carbon capture and energy efciency.
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NMPF praises climate provisions National Milk Producers Federation President and CEO Jim Mulhern welcomed the inclusion of $20 billion in new funding for conservation programs in the Ination Reduction Act. “The funding increases in this package will better position dairy farmers to effectively implement the dairy sector’s Net Zero Initiative and fulll its 2050 environmental stewardship goals,” Mulhern said. “With the Net Zero Initiative, NMPF is committed to becoming greenhouse gas neutral or better by 2050.” Milk production report released During June, Wisconsin dairy farms dropped 3,000 milk cows and increased production by 1.5%. In the 24 major dairy states, June milk output was up 0.3%.
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Von Ruden returns as WFU president A familiar face has taken over leadership of the Wisconsin Farmers Union. Westby, Wisconsin dairy farmer Darin Von Ruden previously served as president for a dozen years. Immediate past president Rick Adamski stepped down and will now lead the WFU government relations department.
Captain to guide DMI sustainability effort Dairy Management Inc. has hired Lori Captain as executive vice president of global sustainability strategy, science and industry affairs. Captain joins DMI after service more than 20 years at Corteva Agriscience and its predecessor DuPont. DFA announces new hire Dairy Farmers of America appointed Kevin O’Donnell as its new senior vice president of sustainability. Most recently, O’Donnell was with an early-stage investment rm that focused on agriculture and food technology startups.
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NMPF nance position lled The National Milk Producers Federation has appointed Pat Koch as its nance and administration manager. Koch relocated from Wisconsin where she was an administrative project coordinator for M3 Insurance. Previously, Koch worked for Disney and Pixar.
Saputo converts Reedsburg facility Saputo is converting its mozzarella cheese facility in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, into a goat cheese manufacturing plant. An investment of $35 million is being made to increase capacity and expand the company’s position in specialty cheese production.
Trivia challenge Michael Regan is the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. That answers our last trivia question. For this week’s trivia, what U.S. president had a cow as a pet? We will have the answer in the next edition of Dairy Star.
Don Wick is owner/broadcaster for the Red River Farm Network, based in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Wick has been recognized as the National Farm Broadcaster of the Year and served as president of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting. Don and his wife, Kolleen, have two adult sons, Tony and Sam, and ve grandchildren, Aiden, Piper, Adrienne, Aurora and Sterling.
Wisconsin Jersey breeders honored Janesville, Wisconsin, dairy farmers Bill and Marion Barlass have received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Jersey Cattle Association. The Barlasses’ have a 525-head Jersey herd and have been active on the state and national level.
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DFA acquires two plants Dairy Farmers of America has acquired dairy processing plants in Indiana and Missouri from SmithFoods. These plants produce extended shelf life dairy and non-dairy beverages, ice cream and shake mixes for retail and foodservice clients.
Construction underway for Emmi Roth Wisconsin-based cheesemaker, Emmi Roth, has begun construction of its new headquarters and conversion facility in Stoughton. The project is expected to create 100 jobs.
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Bill and Marion exhibited at many local, state and national shows. They showed at WDE every year from its inception through 1998 as well as at the All-American Dairy Show every year from its beginning until 1999. The Barlasses had a number of champions, including a WDE champion in 1978. “We used to sell a lot of bred heifers and also bulls to Central (America) and South America,” Bill said. “We still do a little merchandising and also continue to register all of our cows.” The farm’s rolling herd average is 18,194 pounds of milk with a 5.02% butterfat and 3.71% protein content, yielding 913 pounds of fat and 674 pounds of protein. Their 2022 appraisal average is 81.9%, with 11 Excellent and 283 Very Good animals. Barlass Lester Godiva VG88% previously ranked second for milk in the Leading Living Lifetime production contest with 263,351 pounds.Bill and Marion raised three children on the farm – Brian, Kristin and Brett –all of whom have careers in the Jersey industry. Brian is a partner and the manager for the home dairy, Kristin is director of eld services for AJCA, and Brett is the manager of a large Jersey dairy in California. Kristin and her husband, Brian – who is known as “BP” – are also involved with the family farm. Bill and Marion value family involvement and are grateful to those who came before and after them while lending to their success. “We’ve been very fortunate that our kids have been so involved and interested in the Jersey industry and willing to dig in,” Bill said. “It’s not something we pushed them into; it’s an opportunity that’s always been out there. Even though Brett is not here on a day-to-day basis, he is still involved in the management decisions of the farm and houses some of his cows with us.” Marion agreed. “I think all of our kids and family have felt lucky to be a part of this,” she said. “We have lots of family that has helped us out over the years, and we also had the support of our parents, which makes a big difference.”
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The couple’s list of accolades is extensive, reaching back many years and touching many parts of the industry. Marion was WDE Dairy Woman of the Year in 2008 and Wisconsin Farm Woman of the Year in 1997. She also won the Wisconsin Jersey Breeders Association Distinguished Service Award in 1989 after serving as the editor of the Wisconsin Jersey Booster for 15 years. Bill also won the award in 1998. The couple won theAJCAOutstanding Young Jersey Breeder Award in 1984 and the A.C. Thomson Herdsman Award at WDE in 1994. Bill is also a winner of the Senior Breeder Award from the Wisconsin Jersey Breeders Association. In addition, Marion was inducted into the Rock County Agricultural Hall of Fame this year.These distinguished Jersey breeders have donated animals to support various causes including Jersey Youth Academy, the AJCA Research Foundation and the National Convention Fund when Wisconsin last hosted the AJCA-NAJ annual meetings. In the late 1990s, they were part of a Wisconsin contingency that donated animals to help re-introduce Jerseys to China through an AJCA partnership.“Wetry to breed for both type and production,” Bill said. “We used to do a lot of showing, and we always took a full string or a trailer load.”
Bill and Marion enjoy sharing their farm with others. They have hosted tour groups from around the globe as well as 4-H, FFA and collegiate judging teams from all over the country. The Barlasses have also hosted several agriculture exchange students and interns from all over the “We’reworld.very supportive of youth,” Bill said. “We’ve worked closely with the Wisconsin Jersey Junior Breeders Association, and back when we were showing, we hauled a lot of cattle down to Louisville and took a lot of juniors and gave them a herd to exhibit out of. We’re getting back into showing now with the grandkids.”Brianand his wife, Nicole, have two children – Jack and Henry – and Kristin and BP also have two children – Kennedy and Sawyer.Billand Marion’s service to fellow Jersey breeders is rooted in a heartfelt dedication to the industry and the Jersey breed in particular, and watching the popularity of the Jersey cow grow over the decades has given the couple joy. “A lot of herds added Jerseys over the years, including some well-known breeders,” Bill said. “It’s exciting to watch that growth. Jerseys make up 15% of the national herd now, but I remember when it was only 2% or 3%.”
Con nued from BARLASS 1 the breed at a young age that blossomed for years to come. Marion was raised on Owens Farms in Polk County, which is now owned and operated by three of her brothers who milk around 675 Jerseys. Bill grew up on Gil-Bar Farms which was started by Bill’s grandfather and his grandfather’s brother who switched from Milking Shorthorns to Jerseys in 1927, importing their rst Jerseys from the island of Jersey. In 1968, Bill’s parents bought the current farm and started Barlass Jerseys with 30 cows. Bill and Marion met as kids while showing Jerseys at the Wisconsin State Fair. They went on their rst date at World Dairy Expo in 1971 – the year Marion was crowned National Jersey Queen – and got married in 1975. After graduating from college, Bill began working full time at Barlass Jerseys which he and Marion purchased in the early 1980s. Marion worked in Extension and taught home economics at a high school for a short period before joining Bill on the farm. Their dairy careers took them far beyond daily chores in the barn. Generous with their time, Bill and Marion’s work permeated throughout the industry as they immersed themselves in bettering the Jersey breed and creating opportunities for youth and other breeders. The Barlasses’ contributions to the Jersey community and dairy industry are hard to Billmatch.served on the National AllJersey Board of Directors for 14 years and Marion served for more than 10. For more than 20 years, they served on show, sale and futurity committees with the AJCA. Marion is a past president, and Bill is a past vice president and director of the Wisconsin Jersey Breeders Association. Bill was also a member of the Wisconsin State Jersey Sale committee and All-American open and junior show committees. Bill has also served on the WDE Board of Directors for the past 25 years and on many WDE committees. Bill and Marion were 4-H leaders and served on the Rock County 4-H fair board – Bill for 15 years and Marion for 12. Bill also served as the fair’s dairy superintendent for 10 years. In addition, Marion was on the Biosecurity Task Force for AJCA and chairman of the National Jersey Jug Futurity Committee. “It’s always been fun to help in this way,” Marion said. “Even while growing up, I did some volunteering.”
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The Barlasses’ unwavering commitment to the Jersey is at the core of their efforts which have made an impact both close and far from home. “I hope we’ve helped to keep the Jersey breed active and in the limelight,” Bill said. “Registered Jerseys have given us some opportunities we probably wouldn’t have had with a commercial herd. Hopefully we’ll continue with Jerseys through 2027, and then it will be 100 years that our family has worked with the breed.”
Dairy Star • Saturday, August 13, 2022 • Page 7 You Know Farming, AND SO DO WE. 400 Brickl Road | West Salem, WI 54669-0125 Toll Free: (800) 658-9030 | Web: BricklBros.com Specializing in Custom-Designed Agricultural Facilities Since 1970. Big or Small, We Design/Build Them All. Designers | Construction Managers | Builders Con nued from MARTIN | Page 1 year, Evan planned to savor every moment he had left in 4-H. “I’m looking forward to doing everything I can this year,” he said. … “I would also like to do really well in my showmanship class. This year, I’m hoping to take a run at the master showman class.” A Rock County Fair tradition for 12 years, the master showmanship contest showcases the top two showmen from each species. If participating in the class, the showman must show not only their own animal but all the other species as well. Evan has shown swine and poultry at the fair in addition to dairy, which his dad felt might give him a leg up. “The master showman contest encourages kids to get out of their comfort zone,” Joe said. “It’s competitive yet lled with camaraderie. The kids teach each other and help each other out. It’s a lot of fun to watch.” Evan did achieve that goal this year when he took second in his showmanship class with one of his cows, landing him a spot in the master showmanship contest. “This was awesome for Evan and very rewarding for Bonnie and me to witness as parents,” Joe said. Evan also earned blue ribbons on both of his cows – one won her class, and the other was second. Evan is a member of the Consolidated 4-H Club which has 70 members, seven of which are dairy members. Joe and Bonnie serve as the club’s dairy project leaders and also previously served on the fair board, doing a 30-year term between the two of them.Their club’s theme this year was, “Red, White and Moo – Remembering
STACEY SMART/DAIRY STAR Evan Mar n washes his 2-year-old cow, Love, at the Rock County Fair July 26. This was Mar n’s last year showing at the fair. You in 2022.” Pictures of all the kids who graduated from high school or were moving on like Evan were displayed above the cattle. Along with Evan’s photo was a picture of his brother, Austin, who passed away in the seventh grade from pediatric cancer. Austin would have graduated from high school this year. The fair is a favorite family tradition of the Martins, and for Joe, this year’s county fair was the 50th he attended.“The fair is an awesome time of year,” he said. “My lifelong passion for the fair, kids and dairy all comes together at this event. I love watching the kids thrive – whether my own or those in my dairy club. I’m a dairy guy, and I love the whole showing cattle thing and taking care of cattle from the county fair to the national level and everything in between.”
In addition to dairy, Evan also takes woodworking and crops projects to the county fair. “I’ve taken crops and dairy to the fair every year,” he said. “I did archery once and a couple years of chickens and pigs. I started woodworking projects once I was old enough to use powerThistools.”year, he made a bench out of old barn wood for in front of the milking parlor while his crops project consisted of haylage and a slab of straw. Evan said he has received a blue ribbon every year for his woodworking projects.“Cattle are my focus and consume the most time, but I like to do other things too,” he said. Evan’s favorite fair memory occurred in 2014 when his cow was named honorable mention grand champion.“Shewas the rst calf I ever brought to the fair, and I brought her back as a cow when I was 12 years old,” he Whensaid.he was younger, Evan loved going on rides, but now he said that one of the things he likes doing most at the county fair is looking at the other projects. He also enjoys taking shifts at the Farm Bureau tent serving food with his friends. Evan also looks forward to the water ght in the courtyard on Sunday afternoon every year on the last day of the fair. This would also be Evan’s last year showing at the Wisconsin State Fair. When the county fair was done, the Martins had to pack back up for the state fair as the fairs occur in backto-back weeks. “If I have enough time, I’m going to keep showing at the district show, but it won’t be the same as the county fair,” Evan said. “I think this is going to hit me more next year on show day.”
When the Rock County Fair ended this year, Evan spent some time alone in the stock pavilion soaking up the fair environment one last time as he said goodbye to a sacred piece of his childhood.“Itwas a poignant moment as we were packing up to leave for the last time,” Joe said. “It hit the kids harder than I thought it might. But it only hurts to be done with something when it means so much to be doing it.”
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The McNulty brothers – Bill (le ) and Sam – pause for a picture July 10 at their farm near Black River Falls, Wisconsin. They hosted Jackson County’s dairy promo on event, Sundae on the Farm. the brothers are glad to see the barn continue to serve a purpose. “The renter had an ad in the paper that we responded to,” Sam said. “He is buying some forage from us, and the barn is being utilized.” The McNultys’ focus on their crops and raise heifers. Sam has a 26-cow beef herd, and the chicken barn holds 6,000 laying hens. Bill runs a custom farming business. Bill and Sam grew up farming with their father, Bill Sr., and
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BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis. July 10 was a hot, sunny Sunday ideal for an ice cream sundae. Residents of Jackson County enjoyed the dairy treat during the county’s Sundae on the Farm at the McNultys’ farm near Black River Falls. A spin off from the typical farm breakfasts usually celebrated for June Dairy Month, Sundae on the Farm offered ice cream sundaes, grilled cheese sandwiches, cheese curds and milk. “We went through 1,500 grilled cheese sandwiches,” Bill McNulty said. “We had estimated at least that many people would come.” Bill and his brother, Sam, own the McNulty family’s farm. Folks parked in hay elds close to the farm and had a scenic tractor ride to the event. Volunteers of Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin shared facts with kids, who then received goody bags. Small children had the opportunity to dig for coins in a sawdust pile. A line of antique tractors was on display as well as a petting zoo with piglets and goats. The McNultys’ farm was home to about 150 milk cows until April when the herd was dispersed. One of the milking barns is rented now, and By Abby Wiedmeyer abby.w@dairystar.com
The brothers run their custom farming operations separate from each other and help each other with the farm’s acres. In 2016, while milking 150 cows on three sites, Sam decided to diversify by renovating a barn to accommodate laying hens. The project involved gutting a parlor and old freestallWhenbarn.therenovations were about halfway complete, Sam’s market for eggs fell through, and the project was put on hold. When a private buyer approached him, he had only eight days to complete the setup before birds were scheduled to arrive. With the help of friends and family, the barn was ready in time. “I like the birds,” Sam said. “It started out as another gimmick to make a dollar, but I’ve come to enjoy Althoughit.” the dairy cattle are gone, there are over 200 head of steers and dairy heifers on the farm all together. Bill and Sam both have grown boys who work full time on the farm. Between custom cropping and the acres at home, the McNultys will farm over 2,500 acres this year. The brothers said they were glad to take a break to host the event. “The volunteers did the bulk of it, and it went good,” Bill said. “We lost a little farming time but not much.”
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Guests are given a tractor ride around the McNultys’ farm July 10 during Sundae on the Farm near Black River Falls, Wisconsin. The dairy barn is used for raising heifers since the cows le in April at Bill and Sam McNultys’ farm near Black River Falls, Wisconsin. The McNultys hosted Jackson County’s dairy promo on event July 10.
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LANCASTER, Wis. – Vesperman Farms was already a destination for people looking to enjoy an agritourism activity in Iowa County when Kyle Vesperman decided to build on the business and start making ice cream. He is three years into the project. “Ice cream is a comfort food and an impulse buy,” Vesperman said. “When you’re feeling down in the dumps, you get ice cream to make yourself feel better, and when you want to celebrate, you celebrate with ice cream.”Vesperman owns 200 acres and utilizes 40 of them to operate Vesperman Farms, an agritourism destination in Lancaster where the fall season offers a corn maze, hay rides and pumpkin picking. When Vesperman rst started making ice cream, he decided to promote the product by giving away free samples. He traveled from Lancaster, where the product is made, to Dickeyvile, Fennimore and Prairie du Chien. When he discovered that people were following the free samples, he decided to change the business model to ice cream trucks. “There’s just a neat idea of an ice cream truck,” Vesperman said. The business model proved useful, because the onset of the coronavirus pandemic coincided with the startup of the ice cream truck. Vesperman said 2020 turned out to be a good year for the ice cream truck because it was always parked outside where people could safely distance themselves from each other. Additionally, when all the other events were canceled, there was no competition for Vesperman. “We were the only event, and ice cream is a nostalgic thing and a feel-good thing,” Vesperman said. In his second year in the ice cream industry, Vesperman added a second truck to ll the demand for his product.Theicecream is made at the farm in small batches. Vesperman uses an unavored, pasteurized ice cream base. The batch freezer is about the size of a refrigerator and is similar to a churn-style ice cream maker. The unavored base is put in the machine along with the rest of the ingredients like vanilla, chocolate and candy. The contents are churned, cooled and ready to go after about 10 minutes. A lower chute opens up so the nished product can be collected in a tub. Each batch yields about 2.5 gallons of ice cream. The 12 avors available from Vesperman Farms include chocolate, vanilla, butter pecan, brownie fudge, coconut, cookies and cream, cookie dough, cotton candy, maple nut, mint cookie, sea salt caramel and strawberry. Cookie dough is the top seller.
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Kyle Vesperman peeks out of an ice cream truck July 25 at his farm near Lancaster, Wisconsin. Vesperman makes ice cream on his farm and sells in stores and from the truck. Turn to Besides selling scoops from the trucks, Vesperman Farms ice cream is also available in pint containers in 20 stores near the Lancaster area and a couple locations in Iowa. The farm received a Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin grant which helped kick-start the wholesaleVespermanefforts.said he is grateful for dairy farmers’ efforts in the industry for providing the milk that makes ice cream possible. “If we didn’t have the farmers and the cows, we wouldn’t have anything to sell,” Vesperman said. “We take the product and add our next steps to it and bring a lot of happiness to a lot of people. It all starts with the cow and the farmer.” Vesperman is the fth generation to run his family’s farm but the rst to sell ice cream. The farm has been in the Vesperman family since the 1900s. Vesperman’s father and grandfather raised beef, hogs and crops. With four kids and a farm crisis in the mid-1980s, Vesperman’s parents diversied by growing vegetables on a small scale and selling at local farmers markets. Vesperman’s dad eventually got a job off the farm, and the farm did not produce much for a few years. As his siblings grew and gained employment in town, Vesperman decided to continue his parents’ model of direct marketing and started a pumpkin patch when he was in high school. He sold pumpkins at his grandma’s house which was on Main Street in Lancaster.Vesperman sold pumpkins all throughout high school, at which time agritourism was becoming popular.“The rst corn mazes were starting to pop up, and I started to see an agritourism thing happening,” Vesperman said. In 2003, Vesperman brought people to the farm to buy pumpkins instead of selling them off his grandmother’s porch. He also had his rst corn maze that year. The farm operated out of a small original building on the premises for a decade before building a lean-to and introducing food to the venue.
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The 13th annual Ridin’ For a Reason fundraiser is underway July 16 near Omro, Wisconsin. Each year, the fundraiser benets a person in the community who is in need of nancial and moral support.
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Dairy farmer Kevin Krentz has participated in the event nearly every year since it began. Last year, Krentz’s nephew was the recipient of the money. “I’ve been doing this for many years,” he said. “Either my son or I drive the tractor. It’s a great event for a great cause, and the turnout is amazing someKrentz,years.”who milks 600 cows and farms 1,400 acres near Berlin, could not make it to this year’s event, so a neighbor drove his tractor for him – a John Deere 6175R. Krentz said it is a utility tractor that he uses for spraying and hauling manure. “It’s amazing how many people will either pull over and watch, or come out of their houses with lawn chairs and bring the kids out to see the parade of tractors go by,” Krentz said. “It’s really nice to see everyone waving at you and having fun watching everything.” Krentz also sometimes drives a John Deere 6170R that Hintz signed after going with Krentz to the factory to watch it get built. Krentz moves bales and does a lot of hay mowing and grass cutting with the tractor as well as fertilizer application and corn planting.
“Craig is my cousin so I wanted to help this year with parking and in any other way I could,” Stone said. “It was my rst year volunteering because I could never nd the time before. But since it was for my cousin, I said I would do it. Now that I’ve gone to it and seen what this event is all about, I’ll park cars every year. It’s a great fundraiser.”Stone stayed for the picnic and rafe as he enjoyed catching up with his cousins and neighbors. “The whole day was great,” he said. “When I went home to milk cows, there PHOTO COURTESEY OF BERLIN JOURNAL NEWSPAPERS
PHOTO COURTESEY OF BERLIN JOURNAL NEWSPAPERS Craig Challoner is the beneciary of this year’s Ridin’ For a Reason fundraiser. Challoner, who is gh ng pancrea c cancer, drove his tractor for part of the 18-mile ride.
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Thirty-three tractors par cipate in this year’s Ridin’ For a Reason fundraiser. Drivers ranged in age from 18 to 92 years old.
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What guidance or advice did you seek before tackling the summer projects? Having already remodeled the other side of our barn two years ago, we had a much better idea of what we were doing this time. My father-in-law is a handy man and knows how to tackle most projects. The only advice we had to seek was for pouring the gutter bottom and making sure the pegs for the corner wheels were in correctly.
Tell us about your farm and your plans for the rest of the year. I farm alongside my in-laws, Scott and Genise Witt. My wife, Sarah, is a school teacher, and we have two young children. We milk registered Holsteins and Jerseys in our tiestall barn and crop around 115 acres. Our plans for the remainder of the year include nishing out the remaining small tasks in the barn (drinking cups and sealing the manger) and hopefully working a little easier than we did this summer.
How will this project benet the farm? We are excited to see how having both sides of the barn remodeled will benet the cows. With the increase in size in Holsteins, it will be nice to have large enough stalls for the animals when they are housed in the barn over winter. Previously, we struggled having adequate stall sizes for not only our mature cows but also for some of our larger rst calf heifers.
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while the cows are outside. It also gives me a good chance to walk the cows which I nd mentally helpful for myself and the cows. I like that there is more space outside for some of the older cows too.
Tell us about your favorite summer project you have ever worked on. Even though the hours were long with lots of hard work, the barn remodels are probably my favorite. Seeing the cows adapt to the new stalls and clearly be more comfortable makes all the hard work and wheelbarrow trips worth it.
Tell us about your farm and your plans for the rest of the year. My farm consists of 120 Jersey and Jersey crossbred cows and a few other random animals. I own the farm and run it with one hired man. I buy all my feed and plan to continue doing this as long as it works and I am able to. peas and triticale during the remodel process.
Tell us about your favorite summer project you have ever worked on. I generally do not enjoy summer projects, but I would have to say that putting in the lanes went the smoothest. Pounding the posts and everything was a little easier because I knew what to do from putting up the perimeter last year.
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What are projects you are working on around the farm this summer? Last summer, I had built a perimeter fence for pasture, and this summer, I added lanes and paddocks. This allows me to rotationally graze my cows. It was a learning experience with trying to keep three groups of cows organized. I did this project because I began shipping my milk to Scenic Central and am participating in the Cows First program which requires the cows to have access to pasture. When do you t time in for these jobs? I can usually get things done in the middle of the day. Chores are usually done anywhere between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. While it’s hot out, the cows go out to the pasture from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. How will this project benet the farm? This allows the pasture to be more productive because I can manage the paddocks. I am also saving on bedding, and manure is easier to manage because the cows are outside half the time. I am saving on electricity because the fans can be shut off Aaron Schmitz Ontario, Wisconsin 40 cows
What are projects you are working on around the farm this summer? This summer, we remodeled the north side of our stanchion barn. In 2020, we had remodeled the 16 stalls on the other side of the barn and put in CS-60 no-fronts from Freudenthal. The improvement to cow comfort and milk production we saw was benecial. We knew we wanted to remodel the other side of the barn, so last year we bought all the stalls. This summer, we actually took on the project. This side was much more labor intensive as the barn walk had to be narrowed with a new gutter poured in order to make the stalls as long as we wanted. We were able to increase stall length from 58 inches and 64 inches to 72-inch stalls in the 19 stalls that we remodeled. We took on the entire project ourselves, with the help of a few family friends. We are unable to get a skid loader in our barn, so everything had to be wheeled in and out. All in all, we ended up with around 25 yards of new concrete in the barn. When do you t time in for these jobs? Knowing that it was a big project, we had planned to tackle the project the month of July. We started July 5 with demolition and we’re back milking in the new stalls a little over three weeks later. We spent long days in the barn, starting with milking three groups of cows in the morning, working all day long prepping for concrete, and then back milking our three groups of cows in the late afternoon. We did have to stop and spend three days chopping Star Blends has been helping Midwest farm families by providing, high-quality feed, dairy nutrition, and commodity contracting for more than 20 years.
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What guidance or advice did you seek before tackling the summer projects? I attended some pasture walks in various counties. I also worked with a conservationist from Sauk County who helped me plan the designs. And, I watched some YouTube and TikTok videos and got little tips from people that way.
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Katie Pfeiffer New Lisbon, Wisconsin 120 cows
Tell us about your farm and your plans for the rest of the year. I work on my parents’ farm. Together, we milk 50 cows and own 320 acres and rent another 80. I own a farm 1 mile from them where we raise our youngstock. We sell some corn and nish all our steers. In the spring, we make maple syrup. We’re busy farming all summer, and in the fall, we rent out silage baggers. It keeps us busy trying to deliver baggers and chop our own silage. I don’t have any special plans for the rest of the summer but will be busy farming and will make some time to go bow hunting this fall. them in, but they catch up and end up passing the elds you tilled. These practices also save fuel and cut down on runoff. Cover crops help save the soil. It’s the way farming really should be done, but it’s like changing your religion almost. It can be hard to do when you’ve done something one way your whole life. What guidance or advice did you seek before tackling the summer project? My former Farm Service Agency guy was very good about recommending things for me to try. He was really the key to getting the whole thing started. He told me you might not see good results the rst year but to stick with it, and I would see good results later on and get the payback. The people I buy seed from have given me recommendations too. My neighbor has told me what variety of barley to use, and those elds outyielded the other seed I used. Variety is very crucial in getting a good yield. He sprays nitrogen instead of using other fertilizers, so I might try that next year also. He is getting just as good of yield with less cost. Tell us about your favorite summer project you have ever worked on. There is a bike and nature trail that cuts through our land that I helped clean up a couple years ago. I planted quite a few Christmas trees and cut the grass to help beautify the property. My wife, Judi, walks the dogs on that trail almost every day. Tell us about your farm and your plans for the rest of the year. This is the farm I grew up on, and I am the third generation to farm on this homestead. Judi and I purchased the farm from my parents in 1996. Our farm name is Teemar, which I came up with when I was a teenager. Joey helps on the farm in addition to working full time for a custom manure hauler and going to school to become a diesel mechanic. We milk 55 cows with a Lely robot that we installed in 2015. We have a lot of pasture on our 325-acre-farm, which is good for the animals and good for the environment. I feed a TMR and cows are also set up to go outside for a couple hours each day to graze. The heifers graze too.
Tony Finder Knapp, Wisconsin 50 cows What are projects you are working on around the farm this summer? This summer, I put a new oor in our cattle trailer. We purchased the trailer cheap to move youngstock to our other farm a mile down the road. The oor was getting bad so I put rough sawed white oak in it. I’m also working on a Farmall Super C I bought last fall, non-running, from my uncle’s estate auction. My dad drove it as a kid so I felt it should stay in the family. I haven’t had much time for that yet, but I’ll get to it. When do you t time in for these jobs? I usually work on projects in the shop on rainy days, but we haven’t had any of those this year. I spend a couple hours at night after chores working on them.
What are projects you are working on around the farm this summer? We have been focused on doing less tillage and planting and harvesting cover crops. We just took off winter wheat which we sold. I combined 110 acres which is a lot for us. But we didn’t take the straw off the eld; instead we chopped it back in. I spread manure on parts of that eld and planted some tillage radish, crimson clover and barley into it. I was lucky enough to get a bunch of rain so it should have a lot of moisture, which is especially needed on the clover. When do you t time in for these jobs? I hire most of it out because I don’t have a lot of equipment. Hiring out eldwork is probably the best move I ever made in farming. It allows me to stay with the latest technology, and the guys who specialize in this really know what they’re doing. I’m a cow guy and more interested in the cows than the crops, so hiring the guys that are good at it was a smart decision for me. My son, Joey, cuts almost all of our hay and helps a lot with harvesting our haylage and corn silage. How will this project benet the farm? I really believe that it’s better to spread manure on the crops you grow rather than working it in the soil because then you’re that much closer to the water table. There are no roots if you work up all the land, which allows the manure to get deeper into the water table. When you do little or no till, you have to have crops growing on that land all the time otherwise the weeds can get away on you. Barley and rye have so much root mass that they do a good job of choking out the weeds. It’s important to have a cover crop on until the next crop goes in. No-till crops don’t look as pretty when you rst put
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the elevator and move feeder wagons around when I’m nished with it. What guidance or advice did you seek before tackling the summer projects? I didn’t seek any advice from anyone on these. Tell us about your favorite summer project you have worked on. My favorite project was my John Deere MC. When I was just a little guy, my grandpa logged his farm. He had a guy there cutting wood, and he was using the MC to pull tops out of the woods. Years later, it came up for sale on a thrift sale. It hadn’t run in years. I purchased it and got it going again. It still needs to be painted, but everything else has been xed on it.
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The Schuellers (from le ) – Ma hew holding Croix and Bri any holding Wren – operate Des ny Farms, LLC near Marsheld, Wisconsin. They milk 1,100 cows.
What are the top traits you look for in breeding your dairy herd, and how has this changed since you started farming? Ron does a diligent job of searching for bulls from all different companies. He has 50 years of experience that helps him pick which characteristics work for our herd. We do enjoy using promising young bulls; however, we mostly choose proven bulls. We’ve found that correct feet and legs and high udders are the two main features that give cows longevity in our herd.
Page 18 • Dairy Star • Saturday, August 13, 2022 Breeding Prole 717.354.5040 | New Holland, PA Discover daring KP Roll engineering with an edge. Impressive crop mat penetration with incredible wear resistance. Turn your kernels into TOUGHgold. TOOTHY&Llw1100inewrap bale wrapper WIDE BODY 8200 series Wide body forage boxes H7116I-capacity Rakes hsmfgco.com/dealer FIND A DEALER LEGACY FORWARD Matthew and Brittany Schueller Destiny Farms LLC Marsheld, Wisconsin 1,100 cows Describe your facilities and list your breeding management team. We have seven freestall pens with headlocks with 140-190 cows per pen. Cows are at a 120%-150% stocking density. We separate cows into certain pens depending on their age, mobility and volume of milk they make. Every day, we have an A.I. technician identify which cows are in heat from our activity monitoring system, and he will set the headlocks in that specic pen and breed those cows in heat. What is your current pregnancy rate? It is at 30%. What is your reproduction program?Do you use a synchronization program? How do you get animals pregnant? Every cow gets enrolled into a double ovsynch program. They rst get bred between 78 to 84 days in milk. We do not cherry-pick any cows before they go through our double ovsynch program, besides the evening before timed A.I. A week before the rst pregnancy check, they receive a GnRH shot in case they are open the following week. The idea is that if they are open, we save a week of getting their cycle ready for breeding again. However, if they are pregnant anyway, the GnRH shot does not affect them at all. If they are open at the 29- to 35-day pregnancy check, our veterinarian checks with an ultrasound to verify their corpus luteum is ready for Lutalyse and therefore will be ready to breed that week. We also monitor heats with a system. If someone comes into heat after the rst service, they will get bred again off our heat detection
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What guidelines do you follow to reach the goals for your breeding program? Our breeding program starts before the cow even freshens. So, our rst goal is to make sure they transition correctly. After that, we want them to transfer out of our fresh pen – around 10 to 15 days for cows and 20 to 30 days for heifers – to go to their appropriate pen for the rest of their lactation. We schedule a maintenance hoof trim for each cow at least twice in their lactation but also send them through the hoof trimming chute whenever there is a lame event. If we can keep the cow calm, happy and milking well without a lame event or health event, then we start our reproductive program. The crucial part is shot compliance and completion. We have seen the most success on cows that are successful in all of the above.
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sexed, 35% conventional and 30% beef. Cows: 10% sexed, 40% conventional and 50% beef. We have done just a few ushes in our herd but hope to do more in the future. What is your conception rate? How does this differ with different types of semen? We have successfully maintained a 45%-55% conception rate over the past year after working with consultants and making changes to our program. It’s great to see results from our hard work. We haven’t noticed that much of a difference between Holstein and Angus. What is the greatest lesson you have learned through your breeding program? Consistency is key. What is the age of your heifers at rst service? 14 months. How does your heifer inventory affect your breeding program? We have learned through the past few years that we need to have about 30 heifers coming in a month for replacements. We don’t raise more than that because raising heifers is costly. We have different managerial views; some believe heifers are the newer genetics and have more potential, and the others believe the older cows have proven themselves and have more potential. Tell us about your farm. Matthew and I farm with his parents, Ron and Lori, on our 1,100-cow dairy farm in central Wisconsin. Ron started the farm in 1970 with just nine cows, and with hard work and determination, he grew and expanded to the farm size we have today. We have around 15 employees plus ourselves who keep our operation running 24/7. We raise calves until they are 6 months old, and then we send them to Nebraska until they are two months out from calving. Then they return home before calving and enter the herd after calving. Once they enter the herd, they don’t leave until they have a career change. We work very closely with our veterinarians, nutritionist and other consultants to have the most effective protocols in place for our cows. We are fortunate to have great employees who continue to help us reach our goals time and time again. Matthew and I are so thankful to Ron and Lori for continuing to set us up for success with their experience and leadership.
DANIELLE NAUMAN/DAIRY STAR Ma hew and Bri any Schueller walk through the fresh cow pen at Des ny Farms LLC near Marsheld, Wisconsin.
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What role does genetics have in reaching the goals of your farm? Genetics have a huge role in reaching our farm’s goals for the future because we are creating the future. We want to use new technology and traits to continue to better the cows we have. What percentage of your herd is bred to sexed, conventional and beef semen? Heifers: 35%
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Cows are grouped according to age, mobility and produc on at Des ny Farms, LLC near Marsheld, Wisconsin.
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Hrs., #533168 ................... $535,000 JD S790 2020, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 736 hrs., 584 Sep. Hrs., #536004 ...................... $459,500 JD S790 2018, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 1511 hrs., 1214 Sep. Hrs., #543163 .................. $352,900 JD S790 HILLCO 2021, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 414 hrs., 299 Sep. Hrs., #275515 ......... $574,900 SELF-PROPELLED FORAGE HARVESTERS Claas 900 2008, Kernel Processor, PRWD, 4648 hrs., 3609 CH Hrs., #533151................... $119,900 Claas 940 2020, Kernel Processor, PRWD, 650 hrs., 480 CH Hrs., #532728....................... $399,900 JD 6810 1997, Kernel Processor, 4288 hrs., 2974 CH Hrs., #544057 ................................... $39,900 JD 6850 1998, Kernel Processor, 3841 hrs., 2790 CH Hrs., #531752 ................................... $66,000 JD 7500 2004, Kernel Processor, PRWD, 2865 hrs., 2000 CH Hrs., #532727...................... $159,900 JD 7500 2007, Kernel Processor, PRWD, 4671 hrs., 3152 CH Hrs., #532807...................... $159,900 JD 7500 2007, Kernel Processor, PRWD, 5000 hrs., #535846 ............................................. $95,000 JD 7550 2011, PRWD, 2114 hrs., 1557 CH Hrs., #536003 ................................................. $187,500 JD 7550 2008, Kernel Processor, PRWD, 2273 hrs., 1517 CH Hrs., #541362...................... $167,500 JD 7780 2014, Kernel Processor, PRWD, 3035 hrs., 1973 CH Hrs., #180600...................... $176,800 JD 7780 2013, Kernel Processor, PRWD, 3247 hrs., 2109 CH Hrs., #274502...................... $189,900 JD 7800 2006, Kernel Processor, PRWD, 4000 hrs., 2533 CH Hrs., #541361........................ $84,000 JD 7980 2013, Kernel Processor, PRWD, 2122 hrs., 1413 CH Hrs., #527155...................... $175,000 JD 7980 2014, Kernel Processor, PRWD, 3400 hrs., 2366 CH Hrs., #532823...................... $157,000 JD 7980 2013, Kernel Processor, PRWD, 3204 hrs., 2022 CH Hrs., #532824...................... $152,000 JD 7980 2014, Kernel Processor, PRWD, 2275 hrs., 1405 CH Hrs., #532826...................... $165,000 JD 8300 2021, Kernel Processor, PRWD, 53 hrs., #191810 ............................................... $409,000 JD 8300 2016, Kernel Processor, PRWD, 370 hrs., 187 CH Hrs., #270227.......................... $329,900 JD 8400 2015, Kernel Processor, PRWD, 2103 hrs., 1158 CH Hrs., #186943...................... $238,750 JD 8600 2016, Kernel Processor, PRWD, 1482 hrs., 995 CH Hrs., #144025........................ $275,000 JD 8600 2015, Kernel Processor, PRWD, 2129 hrs., 1420 CH Hrs., #166134...................... $238,100 JD 8600 2016, Kernel Processor, PRWD, 1807 hrs., 1088 CH Hrs., #187536...................... $300,000 JD 8600 2016, Kernel Processor, PRWD, 2428 hrs., 1408 CH Hrs., #532553...................... $254,000 JD 8600 2016, Kernel Processor, PRWD, 1305 hrs., 815 CH Hrs., #539356........................ $309,000 JD 8700 2017, Kernel Processor, PRWD, 2084 hrs., 1237 CH Hrs., #186945...................... $325,500 JD 8700 2016, Kernel Processor, PRWD, 1607 hrs., 1103 CH Hrs., #525709...................... $324,000 JD 8700 2016, Kernel Processor, PRWD, 1261 hrs., 933 CH Hrs., #532572........................ $393,000 JD 8800 2017, Kernel Processor, PRWD, 1523 hrs., 862 CH Hrs., #524820........................ $355,000 JD 9700 2020, Kernel Processor, PRWD, 1025 hrs., 653 CH Hrs., #543646........................ $503,000 JD 9800 2019, Kernel Processor, PRWD, 1882 hrs., 1300 CH Hrs., #543355...................... $390,000 $497,000 2019 John Deere 9600 1216 hrs., #532049 2016 John Deere 8800 2582 hrs., #175182 2017 John Deere 8800 1088 hrs., #541392 2018 John Deere 8700 1808 hrs., #187542 2018 John Deere 8600 1478 hrs., #188792 2021 John Deere 8400 30 hrs., #275280 320-365-1667#188806, 2461 hrs.
JD S680 2014, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 2248 hrs., 1668 Sep. Hrs., #531966 .................. $195,000
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JD S770 2018, Corn/Bean, 2WD, Duals, 1421 hrs., 1051 Sep. Hrs., #421313 $277,000
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JD S680 2012, Corn/Bean, 2WD, Duals, 2300 hrs., 1600 Sep. Hrs., #532046 .................... $150,000 JD S680 2016, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 1842 hrs., 1250 Sep. Hrs., #532830 .................. $249,000 JD S680 2017, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 1541 hrs., 1084 Sep. Hrs., #541254 .................. $278,000 JD S680 2015, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Floaters, 2096 hrs., 1546 Sep. Hrs., #543860 .............. $187,900 JD S690 2017, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 3100 hrs., 1945 Sep. Hrs., #535149 $165,000
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JD S790 2019, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 1390 hrs., 1110 Sep. Hrs., #532032
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JD S780 2020, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 796 hrs., 596 Sep. Hrs., #188309 $454,900 Hrs., #531647 $439,900 JD S780 2018, Corn/Bean, 2WD, Duals, 1081 hrs., 700 Sep. Hrs., #531873 $319,900 JD S780 2020, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Singles, 828 hrs., 640 Sep. Hrs., #532517 $439,000 JD S780 2020, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Singles, 661 hrs., 473 Sep. Hrs., #532549 $465,000 JD S780 2019, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 869 hrs., 650 Sep. Hrs., #542133 $389,900 JD S780 2018, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Singles, 1349 hrs., 1070 Sep. Hrs., #543265 $349,000 JD S790 2021, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Tracks, 435 hrs., 308 Sep. Hrs., #191075 $582,500 JD S790 2018, Corn/Bean, 2WD, Duals, 1247 hrs., 914 Sep. Hrs., #273973 ...................... $334,900 JD S790 2020, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 1094 hrs., 684 Sep. Hrs., #274274 $449,900 JD S790 2021, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 325 hrs., 231 Sep. Hrs., #275632 $534,900 JD S790 2020, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 1148 hrs., 864 Sep. Hrs., #275917 .................... $429,900 JD S790 2021, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 519 hrs., 382 Sep. Hrs., #276139 $524,900
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JD S790 2021, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 450 hrs., 316 Sep. Hrs., #533167 $529,000 JD S790 2021, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Singles, 365 hrs., 276 Sep.
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JD S780 2021, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 278 hrs., 161 Sep. Hrs., #191038 ...................... $529,000 JD S780 2021, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 291 hrs., 217 Sep. Hrs., #191047 ...................... $504,900 JD S780 2021, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 218 hrs., 168 Sep. Hrs., #191048 ...................... $507,900 JD S780 2021, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Singles, 342 hrs., 281 Sep. Hrs., #191053 ................... $528,000 JD S780 2021, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 117 hrs., 79 Sep. Hrs., #191064 ........................ $518,900 JD S780 2021, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 391 hrs., 310 Sep. Hrs., #191065 ...................... $509,900 JD S780 2021, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Floaters, 258 hrs., 189 Sep. Hrs., #191345 .................. $546,000 JD S780 2019, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Floaters, 1274 hrs., 888 Sep. Hrs., #275242 ................ $369,900 JD S780 2018, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 1603 hrs., 1130 Sep. Hrs., #276170 .................. $329,900 JD S780 2018, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 1000 hrs., 772 Sep. Hrs., #523885 .................... $379,000 JD S780 2020, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 880 hrs., 633 Sep.
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JD S660 2012, Corn/Bean, 2WD, Duals, 1700 hrs., 900 Sep. Hrs., #539380 ...................... $185,000 JD S670 2013, Corn/Bean, 2WD, Duals, 2786 hrs., 1916 Sep. Hrs., #191646 $139,900 JD S670 2014, Corn/Bean, 2WD, Duals, 2229 hrs., 1622 Sep. Hrs., #531781 .................... $155,000 JD S670 2016, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 1372 hrs., 820 Sep. Hrs., #531783 .................... $259,995 JD S670 2015, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Floaters, 1000 hrs., 750 Sep. Hrs., #531784 ................ $279,900 JD S670 2014, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 1931 hrs., 1270 Sep. Hrs., #543638 .................. $168,000 JD S680 2014, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 1987 hrs., 1420 Sep. Hrs., #189953 .................. $202,000
JD S680 2015, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Singles, 2437 hrs., 1762 Sep. Hrs., #190078 ............... $191,000 JD S680 2017, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 1943 hrs., 1362 Sep. Hrs., #191923 .................. $271,000 JD S680 2017, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 1487 hrs., 1053 Sep. Hrs., #273646 .................. $254,900 JD S680 2014, Corn/Bean, 2WD, Singles, 2354 hrs., 1713 Sep. Hrs., #276314 ................. $219,900 JD S680 2015, Corn/Bean, 2WD, Duals, 2755 hrs., 2048 Sep. Hrs., #524469 .................... $165,900 JD S680 2012, Corn/Bean, 2WD, Duals, 2575 hrs., 1817 Sep. Hrs., #524875 .................... $132,500
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Dairy Star • Saturday, August 13, 2022 • Page 21 Equipment and pictures added daily • Go to www.mmcjd.com Locations throughout minnesota & western wisconsin! CALL TODAY! (320)365-1653 SEE OUR COMPLETE INVENTORY WITH PICTURES AND DESCRIPTIONS AT: www.mmcjd.com 2020 John Deere 9800 1199 hrs., #536344 2020 John Deere 9900 748 hrs., #532921 $342,000$373,000 $409,900 $304,900$532,800$564,000$386,000 Financing subject to pre-approval through JD Financial. Some restrictions apply. See dealer for details. 1-YEAR INTEREST WAIVER ON SELECTON SELF-PROPELLED FORAGE HARVESTERS COMBINES Case IH 7088 2010, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 3175 hrs., 2476 Sep. Hrs., #531665 ........... $99,000 JD 9560 STS 2005, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Singles, 3291 hrs., 2065 Sep. Hrs., #531329 .......... $82,900 JD 9650 STS 1999, Corn/Bean, 2WD, Duals, 5395 hrs., 3467 Sep. Hrs., #276232 ............... $34,900 JD 9670 STS 2011,Corn/Bean, 2WD, Duals, 3677 hrs., 2503 Sep. Hrs., #188158 ................ $99,900 JD 9670 STS 2008, Corn/Bean, 2WD, Duals, 4233 hrs., 2830 Sep. Hrs., #276373 ............... $79,900 JD 9770 STS 2009, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 4550 hrs., 3172 Sep. Hrs., #190521 ............. $81,000 JD S660 2014, Corn/Bean, PRWD, Duals, 1555 hrs., 1181 Sep. Hrs., #532082 .................. $189,500
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Eight years ago, I was a ripe college graduate with my sights set to the sky of what I could accomplish as a storyteller in the dairy industry. Dairy Star presented an opportunity for me to tell your stories, for which I am eternally grateful. I arrived on many farms a complete stranger with a notebook and camera in tow, and you welcomed me. While another opportunity has me forging a new path in dairy communications, I’d be remiss to not take this space to reect on the most memorable times spent a part of this tight-knit dairy community.Myinterviews took me across the coverage area, and just a half mile shy of the Canadian border. I waited for rainstorms to pass inside milkhouses and interviewed many from a tractor cab. In a few instances, some saw me mere days before the birth of our children and have heard stories of the Coyne boys keeping us on our toes. I spoke with countless families who received notable awards in their communities, who welcomed younger generations home, and those who adapted their farms for the future of the industry. I cried at a kitchen table as a couple shared their terminal cancer diagnosis, and I gleamed with pride for you when your daughter was named Princess Kay of the Milky Way. Each and every one of these interactions was unforgettable. Some offered beverages, others lunch or snacks for the drive back to the ofce. One summer morning, Lawrence “Duke” Pennings, of Blomkest, Minnesota, was as hospitable as a man from the South. The then-86-year-old and his grandson, Wes, welcomed me to their farm with a platter of freshly-cooked bacon, eggs and pancakes; a true feast. Conversation was pleasant as we spoke of the Iowa native’s start in the industry and the utter happiness he had to continue farming alongside his grandson. After that article printed, Duke reached out and offered his thanks for the effort I put into portraying his life’s work. It was never me who deserved the recognition.
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In 2018, the Super Bowl came to Minnesota. To celebrate the state’s rich agriculture sector on a national stage, Land O’Lakes hosted the Farm Bowl, which brought together dairy farmers from across the United States to participate in an obstacle course with renowned footballBeforeathletes.andduring the event, I met these stars. They took the opportunity to use the newspaper as a way to share their own messages about farming. Former NFL center and current farmer, himself, Jason Brown said, “No matter your age or where you’re from, we can all get excited about agriculture.” I think that sentiment still rings true. My own small claim to fame came in the form of a ve-second clip from the All-You-Can-Drink Milk Stand at the Minnesota State Fair. I was serving milk with a group of central Minnesota dairy farmers when a local broadcasting station stopped by for footage. Lucky for them, my hand placement in delivering a cup of milk was square in front of the camera. It has always been a joy representing the dairy community on a larger scale and for the greater good. I hope my contributions were valuable. I attended Dairy Day at the Capitol and had the pleasure of serving on a committee for the Minnesota Milk Producers Association. Each time, a group of forward-thinking individuals came together with a vision that could better the industry. Throughout my time, I participated in many trade shows and industry events. When Dairy Star took on the responsibility of publishing the World Dairy Expo Daily Edition, not only was I tasked with overseeing that publication, but I also made connections with dairy farmers across the globe. Every experience has shown me a different facet of the industry. And in doing so, I formed relationships –many I am condent will be long lasting. As I look down my new path, this new opportunity, I am reective of all the opportunities that brought me here. When opportunity knocked for me to tell your farm story, you took it. Maybe you took it for yourself, but in doing so, you also took it for the entire dairy community. Thank you for taking that opportunity to share your stories and insight, for without it, Dairy Star would not be what it is today. By Jennifer Coyne Staff Writer
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Now nationally known Wisconsin Ayrshire Breeders’ Association show holds new recognition By Danielle Nauman danielle.n@dairystar.com senior champion. Following Precious as the reserve intermediate champion was Stillmore Vicking Irena exhibited by Brent and Kari Kinnard of Kewaunee.B-Ruthless Gentle Revenge, owned by Kurt Wolf and Cannon, was selected as the junior champion heifer. TwinCounty Bacardi Breezer-ET was selected as the reserve junior champion for Josh and Casey Hushon of Genesee.Kozy Kountry K-Sire Peppermint was named the honorable mention junior champion for Tim and Katie Busch of Cecil.In the youth show, MoyAyr Predator Lively was tapped for senior and grand champion honors by Kruse. Lively is owned by Steve, Pauline, Rebecca and Emily Schmidt of Delavan.Onword Lazy M Distinct Arrow, the top junior-owned aged cow, was recognized as the reserve senior and reserve grand champion of the show for owners Kenzie Ullmer, Monica Schwittay and Tyler Boyer of KruseSeymour.named Sco-Lo Kingsire Boom as the intermediate champion of the youth show. She was exhibited by Cael, Chase and Caden Cannon of Epworth, Iowa. Following Boom as the reserve intermediate champion was Arthuracres Handsome Annalise exhibited by Matthew Thompson and Cooper Wolf of Darlington. Honorable mention intermediate champion of the youth show was Wingerts Bigtime Journey exhibited by Eva Gilmore and Avery Kotlarczyk of Madison. Kruse selected Grand View Tuxedo Devyn as the junior champion of the youth show, after her win in the fall calf class. Devyn was exhibited by Jacob, Logan and Madison Harbaugh and Tim Busch of Marion. For reserve junior champion of the youth show, Kruse selected B-Ruthless Resilient exhibited by Jamie Black, Cooper Wolf and Cael, Chase and Caden Cannon of Epworth, Iowa. The youth show honorable mention junior champion was the top-placing youth-owned fall yearling, Grand-View Vicking Dream On-ET, exhibited by the partnership of Ullmer, Jaskolski and Schwittay of Seymour. Spring calves 1. Old-N-Lazy KS Metallica exhibited by Kurt Wolf and Michael Maier 2. Coulee-Crest Rushmore Callie exhibited by Emily Nooyen Winter calves 1. Bar-Vue Rooster Piper exhibited by Irrthum Farm Inc. 2. Wingert’s B Dont Be Jealous-ET exhibited by Kaelyn, Kenadee and Keegan Weigel and Melissa Sprecher Turn to AYRSHIRE
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FOND DU LAC, Wis. – The former Wisconsin State and Midwest Regional Ayrshire Show carried a new name this year. And, a new national recognition.TheMidwest National Ayrshire Show was held Aug. 2 in Fond du Lac. Kaleb Kruse of Dyersville, Iowa, ofciated the show and placed 130 Ayrshires.The winning 4-year-old, Palmyra Predator B RuthlessET, exhibited by Kurt Wolf and John Cannon of Epworth, Iowa, was named the senior and grand champion female and best uddered cow of the show.The second place 4-yearold, Miss Malibu Mimosa, owned by Michelle Wolf, Duane Cole and Melissa Burns of Epworth, Iowa, claimed the titles of reserve senior and reserve grand Honorablechampion.mention grand champion honors went to the intermediate champion female, the winning junior 3-year-old, Margot Precious, exhibited by Kurt Wolf and Michael Maier, also of Epworth, Iowa. Moy-Ayr Predator Lively was the honorable mention
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Wisconsin Ayrshire Queen Abby Charapata (from le ), Kurt Wolf holding the intermediate and honorable men on grand champion cow Margot Precious, Michelle Wolf holding the reserve senior and reserve grand champion Miss Malibu Mimosa, Ryan Krohlow holding the senior and grand champion Palmyra Predator B Ruthless-ET and judge Kaleb Kruse are pictured at the Midwest Na onal Ayrshire Show Aug. 2 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
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2. Redcarpet GW Belle-ET exhibited by Jacob, Logan and Madison Harbaugh and Bryleigh, Ryker, Corbin and Ledger Ferry Fall yearlings
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1. B-Ruthless Gentle Revenge exhibited by Cooper Wolf and Cael, Chase and Caden Cannon
1. Sco-Lo Kingsire Boom exhibited by Cael, Chase and Caden Cannon 2. Ram-Ayr Reagan Destiny exhibited by Rachel Hefel and Mark Fisher Junior 2-year-olds
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1. Stillmore Vicking Irena exhibited by Brent and Kari Kinnard 2. Family-Af-Ayr Gentle Devil exhibited by Family-Af-Ayr Farm 4-year-olds 1. Palmyra Predator B Ruthless-ET exhibited by Kurt Wolf and John Cannon 2. Miss Malibu Mimosa exhibited by Michelle Wolf, Duane Cole and Melissa Burns 5-year-olds 1. Moy-Ayr Predator Lively exhibited by Steve, Pauline, Rebecca and Emily Schmidt
2. Redwood Dempsey Shardha exhibited by Steve and Sara Schneider Aged cows 1. Bonert Rousch Renata exhibited by Eric Lang 2. Onword Lazy M Distinct Arrow exhibited by Kenzie Ullmer, Monica Schwittay and Tyler Boyer Lifetime component merit cows 1. P&A-LM Jagar Ja-Lo exhibited by Andy, Jennifer, Kaitlyn, Abbi and Zach Hauser
1. TwinCounty Bacardi Breezer-ET exhibited by Josh and Casey Hushon 2. Kin-Land Kingsire Alice (Kingsire) exhibited by Kaelyn Weigel Winter yearlings
1. Wingerts Bigtime Journey exhibited by Eva Gilmore and Avery Kotlarczyk2. Twin-Country Bikini Breeze-ET exhibited by Kurt Wolf and John Cannon Senior 2-year-olds 1. Old-N-Lazy Monotonous-ET exhibited by Kurt Wolf and Michael Maier2. Palmyra Lochinvar B Rejoice exhibited by Kurt and Michelle Wolf, Dani Tews, Laurie Adams and Rachel Linke Junior 3-year-olds 1. Margot Precious exhibited by Kurt Wolf and Michael Maier 2. Arthuracres Handsome Annalise exhibited by Matthew Thompson and Cooper Wolf Senior 3-year-olds
1. Fishersons Vicking Keegan exhibited by Rachel Hefel, MacKenna and Jace Fisher and Paxton Mashek
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PHOTO SUBMITTED Suzie Benoit (from le ) holding the honorable men on grand champion Lazy M Lothario Living It Up-ET, Tami Mueller holding the reserve grand champion Heavenly Hushpuppy EXP, Suton Paulson holding the grand champion DND Pirelli Onsight EXP and judge Kaleb Kruse are pictured during the Midwest Regional Milking Shorthorn Show held Aug. 2 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
FOND DU LAC, Wis. – At the Wisconsin Midwest Regional Milking Shorthorn Show Aug. 2 in Fond du Lac, judge Kaleb Kruse of Dyersville, Iowa, placed 62 head of MilkingKruse’sShorthorns.selection for the grand champion cow of the show was DND Pirelli Onsight EXP, exhibited by DownN-Dirty Cattle Company of Mabel, Minnesota. Heavenly Hushpuppy EXP, who was named the intermediate champion after winning the milking yearling class, was named reserve grand champion of the show for Eric Lang of Brooklyn, TheIowa.reserve senior and honorable mention grand champion was Lazy M Lothario Living It Up-ET, exhibited by Herman and Michael Maier of Lazy M Farm LLC in Stitzer. The honorable mention senior champion was Circle B Late Night Limarita, exhibited by Matthew Borchardt of Caledonia,HeavenlyIllinois.Zebra, owned Minnesota cow named champion by Eric Lang, was named reserve intermediate champion. Mikes-Dar Transform Legit, owned by Mikes-Dar Farm and Matthew Borchardt of Harvard, Illinois, was named the honorable mention intermediate champion.Forhisjunior champion, Kruse selected BDM PV Rockstar Margarita-ET, exhibited by Suton Paulson of Rockford, Illinois. Reserve junior champion honors went to the winning winter yearling, Heavenly Zeeks Sunshine, exhibited by Paulson and Makenna Reed of Rockford, Illinois. Following as the honorable mention junior champion was Old-NSlow Lady’s Lapdance-ET, exhibited by Scott Wolf and Jeremy Kinslow of Epworth, Iowa. Lazy M Farm was awarded the Premier Breeder banner, while Clayton Schwendimann of Hartford was the Premier Exhibitor.Inthe youth division, DND Pirelli Onsight EXP was also named senior and grand champion of the show for Down-N-Dirty Cattle Company. The intermediate champion was named the reserve grand champion of the youth show by Kruse. She is Lazy M Jekyll Zella EXP, exhibited by Britton Allen of FollowingStitzer.her as the reserve intermediate and honorable mention grand champion was Millcreek Lottery Lollipop, exhibited by Wyatt Navis, Skylar Case and Trista Barry of Waupun. Honorable mention intermediate champion honors went to C Schwende Advent Perkalicious, exhibited by Clayton Schwendimann of Hartford.Thereserve senior champion of the youth show was Triple S Lad Easy Money EXP, exhibited by Navis and Barry. Easy Money was the top-placing junior-owned 5-year-old cow. Following her as the honorable mention senior champion was the second-place junior-owned 5-year-old, Lazy M RR Bianca, exhibited by Jadeyn Mueterthies of Lawler, Iowa.The youth division junior champion was BDM PV Rockstar Margarita-ET, exhibited Turn to MILKING SHORTHORN | Page 27 By Danielle Nauman danielle.n@dairystar.com
1. Heavenly Zeeks Sunshine exhibited by Suton Paulson and Makenna Con | Page 26 Reed2. Elron Capella Wintergreen exhibited by C&C Genetics Junior best three females 1. Herman and Michael Maier, Lazy M Farms LLC Milking yearling 1. Heavenly Hushpuppy EXP exhibited by Eric Lang Junior 2-year-olds 1. Heavenly Zebra exhibited by Eric2.LangMikes-Dar Transform Legit exhibited by Mikes-Dar Farm and Matthew Borchardt Senior 2-year-olds 1. Lazy M Jekyll Zella EXP exhibited by Britton Allen 2. C Schwende Wild Party by Clayton Schwendimann Junior 3-year-olds 1. Lazy M Lethal Justice exhibited by Scott Wolf Senior 3-year-olds 1. Heavenly Juice Box exhibited by Matt and Abby Opland 2. C Schwende Advent Perkalicious exhibited by Clayton Schwendimann 4-year-olds 1. DND Pirelli Onsight EXP exhibited by Down-N-Dirty Cattle 2. Ridale Royal Spotlight ET exhibited by Wyatt Navis and Trista Barry 5-year-olds 1. Circle B Late Night Limarita exhibited by Matthew Borchardt 2. Lazy M Jekyll Arizona exhibited by TJ Wingert Aged cows 1. Lazy M Lothario Living It UpET exhibited by Herman and Michael Maier, Lazy M Farm LLC
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1. Lazy M Lars Gretchyn EXP exhibited by Herman and Michael Maier, Lazy M Farm LLC 2. Wingerts Triple Crown All In exhibited by Tammy Voegeli and Ann Lerum Spring yearlings 1. Mapleton Vly Rockstar Moxie exhibited by Mapleton Valley Farm LLC2. Rose Lane Cyclone Paisley exhibited by Wyatt Navis and Trista Barry Winter yearlings
2. Circle B Rockstar Get Lit exhibited by Matthew Borchardt Fall calves 1. BDF PV Rockstar Margarita-ET exhibited by Suton Paulson2. Lazy M Bender Back exhibited by Herman and Michael Maier, Lazy M Farm LLC Summer yearlings
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What is your biggest accomplishment in your dairy career? Spearheading the decision for switching to milking robots. I was the nal say in which robots we chose, the layout of the addition on to the barn for the project and even the robot room pit depth was based off my height.
What are things you do to promote your farm or the dairy industry? I have a TikTok account where I have done some farm videos that have done well with viewings, but I know I need to do more to promote the dairy industry.
What advice would you give another woman in the dairy industry? Something I learned after becoming a mom was it is OK to take time to spend with your kids if you can. Feeling like I am missing out on so much time with my son is probably the hardest part of dairy farming for me. There are a lot of days where I only get to see him for a short time before he goes to bed. So that’s why I selshly take my Thursdays and Fridays between chores to spend with him. I try to cram everything into the rst three days, or I come back down after he’s in bed to nish up loose ends. When you get a spare moment, what do you do? My spare moments are spent riding horses or reading books.
What have you enjoyed most about dairy farming or your tie to the dairy industry? I enjoy working alongside my family every day. I like knowing I am part of the 1% of the population that is feeding this country and world. It’s not easy working in an industry that most people are disconnected from but still criticize under a microscope, but someone’s got to do it. I’m lucky enough to love what I do.
What is a typical day like for you on the dairy? My day in the barn starts at 5 a.m. My rst hour is spent pushing up what’s left of the feed, washing robots, checking the computer to see if there are any cows that appear to have had issues overnight, walking the pens to nd cows that are highlighted overdue since their last milking and lling foot baths in each group. By 6 a.m., I am scraping manure in all the pens in the freestall barn. That takes me to 7:30 or 8 a.m., when all head locks are set so I can administer any reproduction injections, do herd health, when it’s scheduled, and assist with breeding. My last hour is usually spent going through computer reports. Morning chores usually take us until 9 a.m. or 9:30 a.m. Then, we all head home for an hour-long breakfast break. Each day is different, but on Mondays, we put sand in all the free stalls, which could either take two hours or if I’m by myself, most of the afternoon. Tuesdays and Wednesdays, I spend my time on robot maintenance, which is everything from changing inations and hoses regularly to assessing the attachment efciency and doing any improvement repairs. Evening chores start between 3:30 and 4 p.m., and I am the one in the skid loader scraping. If not in the elds, we are usually done between 5:30 and 6 p.m. My dad and I switch off who comes down at 9 p.m. to push up feed one more time, check fresh cow pens and clean up the robots. I handle all robot alarms. There are some nights I end up coming back down multiple times for a variety of reasons that might cause them to shut down. On Thursdays and Fridays, I start my barn tasks early so I can make it home by 6 a.m. to spend the day between chores with my son if we aren’t in the elds. I have every other Saturday afternoon and Sunday off. What decision have you made in the last year that has beneted your farm? This past year we decided to upgrade our mature cow group’s free stalls. We all worked together to gure out which stalls would work best and would be easy enough that we could do the installation ourselves. While we were putting them in, I made sure to doublecheck that they were going to be the correct size because our previous stalls were 25-years-old. Our cows’ type and size is much different from when the barn was built. Tell us about your most memorable experience working on the farm. When we milked in the parlor, it doubled as social time, and we would always have neighbors or extended family stop by just to chat. Another memory would be from when we named all the cows. There was a cow named after my mom, and she kicked a gate into my dad’s face and broke his nose. There was also a time that my dad and uncles were inventing new ways to do things, such as ways to stir the manure pit. They built their own oat stirrer, and my uncle volunteered to be its captain. It didn’t take long to learn they didn’t gure in steering, and wind turned it in just the right direction. Let’s just say it was a crappy day but still full of laughs.
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FOND DU LAC, Wis. The Wisconsin 4-H dairy judging contest was held in conjunction with the Midwest National Ayrshire Show and the Midwest Regional Milking Shorthorn Show Aug. 1 in Fond du Lac.The contest included more than 100 competitors, and the youth evaluated 10 cow and heifer classes of Holsteins, Ayrshires, Milking Shorthorns and Jerseys. Judges in the senior division delivered four sets of oral reasons as part of their contest while junior participants answered type analysis questions on four classes. When the dust settled, the Columbia County team of Paige Sweatt, Ava Hebgen, Brady Dorshorst and Rebecca Murphy claimed rst and will represent Wisconsin at the National 4-H Dairy Cattle Judging Contest at World Dairy Expo in Madison. Sweatt also placed fourthColumbiaoverall. County was
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coached by Craig Carncross and Nicole Hebgen and edged out the second-place team from Wood“WeCounty.might have the youngest team ever going to compete at Expo,” Hebgen said. “We have three rst-year seniors on the team, with one second-year senior, but man, are they amazing.”Hebgen said that for herself and Carncross, this team has been a labor of love. “This makes all of the countless hours of practice, the miles driven and the many late nights all worth it,” Hebgen said. “Craig and I are so proud of our team. Now it is time for more practice to gear up for the big dance.”Thesenior team – Emma Dorshorst, Emma Bangart, Brooklyn Schwoerer and Sara Dorshorst – from Wood County will represent Wisconsin at the All-American Dairy Show Invitational Youth Dairy Judging Contest in September in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The Wood County team is coached by Matt Dorshorst and Tim Heeg. Emma Dorshorst was the overall top individual in the contest as well as the high individual in oral reasons. Sara Dorshorst placed ninth in reasons. Emma Dorshorst, 19, will be entering her sophomore year at the University of WisconsinMadison, where she double majors in dairy science and vocal performance and has been evaluating cows for nearly as long as she can remember. “I started going to dairy judging practices with my dad when I was pretty young. That gave me the opportunity to start looking at cows and to gure out what dairy judging really was,” Emma Dorshorst said. “I enjoy the fact that I am competing as a team but also as an individual. I am the one making the decisions on the placings, and I am the one defending those placings with my reasons.”
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Dorshorst, Neuser are top individuals By Danielle Nauman danielle.n@dairystar.com
Columbia, Sheboygan counties win state 4-H judging contest
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The senior team from Columbia County – (from le ) Craig Carncross, Brady Dorshorst, Rebecca Murphy, Paige Swea , Ava Hebgen and Nicole Hebgen – take top honors at the Wisconsin State 4-H Dairy Judging Contest on Aug. 1 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The team will compete at the Na onal 4-H Dairy Judging Contest during World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin.
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Dairy Star • Saturday, August 13, 2022 • Page 31 us 100%; and if we didn’t, he was ne with that too. That allowed me to come to love it on my own terms.” Like anyone who has picked up a clipboard and sorted through a group of cows, Emma Dorshorst said she has had some struggles when it comes to placings and oral reasons. “I really love learning new terminology,” Emma Dorshorst said. “But, sometimes I have struggled with learning exactly how I should be using that terminology in my reasons.” She relies on her father’s advice, and she often shares that advice with others. “My dad tells me when I struggle, think about which one I would want to take to the show ring,” Emma Dorshorst said. “When I’m at a contest and I’m having a hard time with a class, I can hear him tell me that in my head, and it helps.”As advice for those working to better their own dairy cattle evaluation skills, Emma Dorshorst recommends the tried and true route of practice. “The more cows you look at and analyze, the more natural it will become for you,” she said. “I was once told that when you rst start judging, you are thinking about your placings or your reasons and hoping you got them right. Then something switches and suddenly you are giving your reasons for the choice you made, defending your placings. The more sets of reasons you give, the more condence you gain.” Jenna Gries of Manitowoc County, Sara Kronberg of Rock County, Dylan Raymond of St. Croix County and Kaylee Ferfecki of Shawano County will compete at the North American International Livestock Exposition Youth Dairy Judging Contest in Louisville, Kentucky, in November.Rounding out the top ve senior teams were Shawano, Rock and St. FIRESTONEAG.COM#FARMHARD *Two-year free replacement on radial tires. Certain limitations and conditions apply to both. Firestone tracks. Built for dependability. WE AREN’T AFRAID OF COMMITMENT. WE’LL GIVE YOU 9 years. Coverage as strong as our tires. WW Tire Service Bryant, SD • (605) 628-2501 Friedrich’s Tire & Oil Sauk Centre, MN • (320) 316-3701 Rule Tire & Auto Willmar, MN • (320) 403-2783 Perfect Circle Tire Waldo, WI • (920) 528-7277 WE REPLACEMENTHANSONHAVESILOPARTSAVAILABLE!AVAILABLE! 105 County Rd. 10 Albany, MN 320-845-4690 Niagra 15 KW w/powershaft ......................$900 Winpower 12 KW USED.......................................$800GENERATORS We Sell and Generators!Service Each WINCO PTO generator is designed using the highest quality components and the best workmanship available. Marathon 10 HP ...................................$650 Weg 10 hp ............................................$650 (2) Reliance 5 HP .................................$450 (2) Baldor 5 HP .....................................$450 WE STOCK FRACTIONAL TO 10 HP SINGLE AND 3-PHASE MOTORS!• quick • dependable • nearly 40 experienceyears MOTOR REPAIR 120/240W70PTO-31-PHVolts69,000watts CroixFollowingcounties. Emma Dorshorst in the top 10 individuals were Gries, Kronberg, Sweatt, Raymond, Ferfecki, Hailey Zernicke of Shawano County, Clarissa Ulness of Manitowoc County, Julia Searls of Iowa County and Sophia Kamm of St. CroixToppingCounty.the junior age division was the team from Sheboygan County consisting of Alison and Audrey Gartman, who placed fth and sixth, respectively, and their teammates Natalie Mauk and Carsten Huenink. The Sheboygan County juniors are coached by Crystal Sinn and Kelly FollowingJens. in second in the junior team contest was the team from Fond du Lac County, consisting of team members Cameron and Dylan Ryan, who placed fourth and seventh, respectively, along with teammates Isaac Loehr and Leah Mess. The Fond du Lac juniors are coached by Matthew Kramer, Joe Loehr and Chad Ryan. The junior judges from Rock County captured third place as a team followed by Shawano County in fourth and Pierce County in fth. Laney Neuser of Manitowoc County topped the individual portion of the junior contest followed by Braeden Bechel of Pierce County who placed second. Rounding out the top 10 junior individuals were Gracin Speich of Rock County, Cameron, Alison, Audrey, Dylan Ryan, Shyanne Hammann of Barron County, Olivia Dittman of St. Croix County and Eleah Watson of Wood County. The 4-H’ers qualied to compete at the state contest by competing at one of two regional 4-H Area Animal Science Days held in June. The junior division includes members in third through eighth grades, while the seniors are highschool aged members. Con nued from WISCONSIN 4-H | Page 30
The top 10 senior individuals of the Wisconsin State 4-H Judging Contest –(from le ) Emma Dorshorst, Jenna Gries, Sara Kronberg, Paige Swea , Dylan Raymond, Kaylee Ferfecki, Hailey Zernicke, Clarissa Ulness and Sophia Kamm.
The team from Sheboygan County – (from le ) Crystal Sinn, Natalie Mauk, Carsten Huenink, Alison Gartman, Audrey Gartman and Kelly Jens – wins the junior division of the Wisconsin State 4-H Dairy Judging Contest on Aug. 1 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. 320-352-6303
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Not pictured is Julia Searls.
Honorable mention grand and intermediate champion honors went to Gold Rush Apie Jump Around, exhibited by Laylaa Schuler of Platteville. The best bred and owned cow of the youth show was Cha-Lo Phantastic Telilah, exhibited by Chalee Line and Shawn and Austin Jahnke of PrairieFennimore.GemMidnight Storm, exhibited by Cameron Ryan of Fond du Lac, was named the junior champion heifer in the youth show. Krohlow selected Knapps GP VG Apie Treasure-ETV, exhibited by Lucas and Lauryn Weisensel, Scott Weisensel and Valley Gem Farms, as the reserve junior champion of the youth show. Just A Dream Java Lilac, exhibited by Jace and Jolin Dolphin of Luxumberg, was selected for honorable mention honors. The partnership of Kayleigh and Kelsey Haag and Lauren Jones of Dane tallied up enough points to be named the Premier Junior Exhibitor. Spring calves 1. Prairie Gem Atlas Covergirl exhibited by Lauryn Weisensel, Prairie Cream and Valley Gem Farm
Guernseys lauded at Midwest show 4-year-olds take home champion honors By Danielle Nauman danielle.n@dairystar.com
WEST SALEM, Wis. – The Midwest Guernsey Show was held July 30 in West Salem. Ryan Krohlow of Poynette placed 132 head at the show organized by the Wisconsin Guernsey Breeders’ Association.Krohlow went with his top-placing pair of 4-year-old cows as his selection for senior and grand champion of the show. Knapps HP MB Trina-ETV, exhibited by Tim and Megan Schrupp of Paynesville, Minnesota, took home the champion honors. Valley Gem Hit It Devora, exhibited by the partnership of Brynn Grewe, Hannah Hurst and Kyle Polk of Cumberland, was selected to be the reserve senior and reserve grand champion cow. Trina was also named the best uddered cow of the show, while Devora took home best bred and owned honors. Honorable mention senior champion was Kadence Fames Lovely, exhibited by Kadence Farm of NewDixGlarus.LeeKojack Don’t Doubt Me-ETV was named the intermediate champion and was selected to be the honorable mention grand champion for owners Haley Beukema, Brynn Grewe and Lauryn Weisensel of Cumberland.Reserveintermediate champion honors went to Pond N Pine Beau Nutter Butter-ETV, owned by Kayleigh and Kelsey Haag and Lauren Jones of Dane. Wandering Acres Novak Millie, exhibited by Prairie Cream and Valley Gem of Cumberland, was named the honorable mention intermediate champion. For junior champion, Krohlow chose Prairie Gem Midnight Storm, exhibited
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by Cameron Ryan of Fond du Lac. He followed with Coulee-Crest Theo Lilybell, exhibited by Levi Kindschi of Loganville, as the reserve junior champion. The topplacing summer yearling, Empire JCP Trinidad, exhibited by Tim and Megan Schrupp, was selected as the honorable mention junior champion. Valley Gem Farms of Cumberland took home the banners for both Premier Breeder and Premier Exhibitor of the Show.In the youth show, Dix Lee Kojack Don’t Doubt Me-ETV was named intermediate and grand champion for her owners, followed by Pond N Pines Beau Mandy who was named the reserve intermediate and reserve grand champion of the youth show for owners Kayleigh and Kelsey Haag and Lauren Jones.
2. Miss Me Reputations Tall Tale exhibited by Mikayla Knorn Winter calves 1. Empire Lonestar Lynara Stark-ETV exhibited by Tim and Megan Schrupp 2. Valley Gem Apie Moment Like This-ETV exhibited by Valley Gem Farm, Grant Fremstad and Justin Velthuis Fall calves 1. Prairie Gem Midnight Storm exhibited by Cameron Ryan 2. Coulee Crest Theo Lilybell exhibited by Levi Kindschi Summer yearlings 1. Empire JCP Trinidad exhibited by Tim and Megan Schrupp 2. Flambeau Manor D Lace exhibited by Chelsey Jensen Spring yearlings 1. Prairie Gem Drone Hold Em Up exhibited by Prairie Cream and Valley Gem Farm2. Empire Drone Starks Saby exhibited by Tim and Megan Schrupp Winter yearlings
1. Knapps Drone Hot Topic exhibited by Ashlee Crubel 2. Kadence Freedom Laurie exhibited by Olivia Jennrich Fall yearlings 1. Knapps GP VG Apie Treasure-ETV exhibited by Lucas and Lauryn Weisensel, Valley Gem and Scott Weisensel 2. Lang Haven Herald Kaylah exhibited by Kirstie Langrehr Junior best three females 1. Valley Gem Farm 2. Empire Guernseys Milking yearling 1. Prairie Moon Fame Addison-ETV exhibited by Prairie Moon Guernseys 2-year-old futurity 1. Wandering Acres Novak Millie exhibited by Prairie Cream and Valley Gem Farm2. Pond N Pines Beau Mandy exhibited by Kayleigh and Kelsey Haag and Lauren Jones Junior 2-year-olds 1. Pond N Pines Beau Mandy exhibited by Kayleigh and Kelsey Haag and Lauren Jones 2. Hi Guern View Drone Aleah exhibited by Chelsey Jensen Senior 2-year-olds 1. Wandering Acres Novak Millie exhibited by Prairie Cream and Valley Gem Farm2. Valley Gem Ladysman Mesa exhibited by Valley Gem Farm Junior 3-year-olds 1. Pond N Pines Beau Nutter ButterETV exhibited by Pond N Pine and Gold Rush2. Valley Gem Hit It Total Random exhibited by Valley Gem and Matt Brahmer Senior 3-year-olds 1. Dix Lee Kojack Don’t Doubt MeETV exhibited by Haley Beukema, Brynn Grewe and Lauryn Weisensel 2. GR-Kadence Sherlock Spiced Latte exhibited by Kadence Farm 4-year-olds 1. Knapps HP MB Trina-ETV exhibited by Tim and Megan Schrupp 2. Valley Gem Hit It Devora exhibited by Brynn Grewe, Hannah Hurst and Kyle Polk 5-year-olds 1. Kadence Fames Lovely (Fame) exhibited by Kadence Farm Aged cows 1. GR-Coulee Crest Superman Tia-ET exhibited by Mikayla Knorn 2. Golden J Freedom Okyra exhibited by Chelsey Jensen Senior best three females 1. Valley Gem Farm 2. Kadence Farm Produce of dam 1. Valley Gem Farm and Laylaa Schuler2.Valley Gem Farm Dam and daughter 1. Valley Gem and Laylaa Schuler 2. Pond N Pines Exhibitors herd 1. Valley Gem Farm 2. Pond N Pines DANIELLE NAUMAN/DAIRY STAR Judge Ryan Krohlow (from le ), Lauryn Weisensel, Brandon and Kim Grewe, Haley Beukema holding the intermediate and honorable men on grand champion Dix Lee Kojack Don’t Doubt Me-ETV, Chad Ryan holding the reserve senior and reserve grand champion Balley Gem Hit It Devora, Megan Schrupp holding the senior and grand champion Knapps HP MB Trina-ETV, Tim Schrupp, Wisconsin Guernsey Princess Ashlee Garbers and Na onal Guernsey Queen Raegan Kime are pictured at the Midwest Guernsey Show July 30 in West Salem, Wisconsin.
How do you or your family like to spend time when you are not doing chores? We take very little time off. Luckily, our eight grandkids are all within a half an hour so we can spend an evening with them once in a while. We really enjoy that.
How did you get into farming? I was born into it. My grandpa started the farm in 1888. My oldest brother, Gail, joined the operation rst. I went to school in Madison and started medical school to be a doctor. When I was growing up farming, I always wanted to get off the farm. Once I left, I missed it. I came back and formed a partnership with Gail in 1972. The farm is in a limited liability company now.
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What are your thoughts and concerns about the dairy industry for the next year? Fuel, feed and fertilizer are my biggest concerns for the next year. Fuel is the main concern because when that price went up, it upped the feed price and the fertilizer price. Availability is going to be a concern too. Right now, you can get what you need if you can pay more for it, but I don’t know if that is going to last. What is a recent change you made on your farm and the reason for it? We went to direct shipping milk in December 2021. We thought we would see an improvement in butterfat, and we thought the trucking cost would go down. Neither of those things happened, but it has still been a good change overall. It is more convenient, and we also do not have to test each load of milk anymore because they do that at the dairy. It’s only our milk in that tank. We also bought a wheel loader to mix feed with out of the bunkers. That has saved a lot of time with having a bucket twice the size of the skid loader bucket. Tell us about a skill you possess that makes dairy farming easier for you. I am good with the computer. This helps me because I do all the books for the farm. What is the best decision you have made on your farm? To build a parlor. We built our parlor in 1997, and we should have done it 20 years sooner. We went from 250 cows in three stall barns, two of which had switch cows. We are now milking 1,000 cows easier than we ever milked 250 cows. What are three things on the farm that you cannot live without? Our Hispanic workers because they are reliable and do things the way we want. The side-by-side because it goes somewhere all the time. The automatic calf feeder because we are able to raise really good calves with it. What strategies do you use to withstand the volatile milk prices? None. We have done risk management programs in the past, and we got tired of putting money into a program only to get nothing back. We do not use crop insurance either. We had an awful drought year in 2012 and received no payout. We realized if we didn’t get a payout that year, we never would. We did have good luck with the Dairy Margin Coverage program last year. How do you retain a good working relationship with your employees? We pay them well. We also provide housing which they would rather have than more money. We also acknowledge good work. Since we address when something is not done right, we want to make sure we also acknowledge when something is done right. What do you enjoy most about dairy farming? I like seeing the genetic progress we are making. We have been using good bulls for a lot of years, and it is fun to see a heifer come in and easily milk 100 pounds. We used to try for a cow to do that well, and now the heifers do it easily. What advice would you give other dairy farmers? Nobody does things the same way so it’s hard to give advice, but learn from others and what worked and what didn’t. What are your plans for your dairy in the next year and ve years? For the next year, we will coast the way we are. We have been working to get to 1,000 cows for a while so we need to maintain that. In the next ve years, we will need heifer facilities. Right now, they are on multiple locations. There is a lot of labor spent moving cattle around.
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LFM has been a tool used for years. The program has changed in the past couple of years to the benet of the dairy producer. The pricing can now be entered every Friday. Even though you need to contract two months at time, it settles out each month, thereby eliminating the quarterly average price to receive an indemnity. The premium cost is the same for LGM as the DRP, so it may have an advantage in the likelihood of an indemnity payment scenario. When it comes to futures, I would use caution, especially entry level marketers. The potential for margin calls can be difcult both on the farm’s cash ow as well as the mental health aspect of receiving ongoing calls to pay margins in the event of price increases. With the potential need for cash to pay margin calls, a farm may also need a signicant line of credit availability at their bank. Perhaps a question to be addressed with all the marketing ideas is how much, or what percentage of, milk should be protected. No one answer is the correct answer for all farms. Some producers may feel no protection is necessary and another may want 100% coverage. My recommendation is to assemble a marketing plan for the current year and the following year using a variety of tools.Example: DMC covering 25%, forward contracting at 25% and LGM at 25%. The DMC will be $.1125/cwt, the forward contract about $.10/cwt, and the LGM may be the variable premium of $.55/cwt. If this were the case, your average premium cost would be approximately $.25/cwt, with a 75% coverage for all your production.
Protecting your milk price
Over the years, it seems that producers are reluctant to protect a milk price when it is higher. But, they end up wishing they had when the milk price drops and then tend to lock in a price lower than a cost of production. It is natural for all of us to want a higher price, especially when they are low. And, when in an upward trend, we tend to think it will just keep going. Remember, the best cure for high prices is high prices. Have we seen the high prices? Are we on the downside?So,the inevitable question is, “What should I do?” Well, there are as many choices as opinions, or so it appears. Let’s start with looking at some real choices.First, every farm should be enrolled in the Dairy Margin Coverage program. This will protect up to 95% of the actual production history, up to 5 million pounds, with a government subsidized premium. This is a no-brainer, as it provides a $9.50 margin, using government feed prices and a national milk price. I have tracked this for a number of farms, and it isn’t quite that good for everyone’s actual milk mailbox price received, but it’s the best alternative for that amount of milk. Other common choices, for additional milk over and above the DMC milk, may include: contacting with a local processor for a xed price, buying a put, using the Dairy Revenue Protection program, Livestock Gross Margin or futures – be careful. Contracting with a processor provides the advantage of low cost (usually around $.10 per hundredweight). It limits your upside but will protect your downside should the milk prices drop. Some producers feel like they got burned this spring in locking in a good price at the time, but the price ended up being much lower than they could have gotten had they not done anything. If looking at this option, remember to scale up and scale down contracts over time to allow for a more average price. Buying a put will give you a minimum price and allow an upside potential. The only issue on these is the potential cost. My recommendation is to limit the fee to $.35/cwt or less, which today may be difcult. Using DRP is a method to use as a quarterly average to protect your milk price. The government has a subsidy to help off-set the price, yet these too look to be a bit expensive for quarters two and three of 2023 at approximately $.58/cwt and $.65/cwt, respectively. Though DRP is a great tool in your toolbox, remember that the whole quarter must average above your price, and sometimes, one good month might negate the two struggling months when it comes to quarterly prices.
By Tom Anderson Columnist From My Perspective
There is no one magic formula for every farm or every milk price scenario. Each farm needs to determine the risk they wish to take and how much risk to shift to the person on the other end of the contract. The key to a successful marketing plan is to create a plan and stick with the plan on a consistent month-to-month basis. If not, it seems you may always be on the wrong side at the wrong time. A farm management person or marketing company can assist in making a plan and executing the plan in a timely manner. Tom Anderson is a Farm Business Management faculty member at Riverland Community College.
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Blue Hilltop, Inc. Dana Berreau 507-879-3593 / 800-821-7092 Box 116, Lake Wilson, MN 56151 Your Mixer, Spreader, Hay Processor Headquarters We carry: I have a shed where I greet my visitors. It is decorated with cow photos, paintings and a lot of promotional posters with the celebrities showing off their milk mustache. I must admit that I think this was the best milk promotional campaign ever. Back in the 1990s, there were some health issues that were surfacing that could be simply corrected by drinking milk throughout childhood. Osteoporosis, bone fractures and loss of bone density were being diagnosed at an alarming rate. These conditions have no cure but could have been prevented by drinking nutritious, economically-affordablewholesome, milk.This promotional campaign started by targeting women who usually have the choice of purchasing milk at the grocery store but within the next few years targeted all audiences. The rst famous mustached women in magazine ads were Naomi Campbell, Christie Brinkley, Joan Rivers, Lauren Bacall and Isabella Rossellini. The success of this promotion led to many athletes and celebrities participating and helping to get the healthy message out to everyone to drink milk. The list continued to grow and so did the promotion of them showing off their mustache, muscles, beautiful teeth and strong bones. In my collection of now vintage posters I have Mia Hamm, Jackie Chan, Venus and Serena Williams, Curly Howard, Whoopi Goldberg, Marc Anthony, Pikachu and Rulon Gardner. I got these vintage posters years ago from someone who had a pile of them in their back room and surprised me with them. They quickly went up on the walls in the tour shed, but we also framed many and have them on display in our bathroom in the robot barn. It is so fun to hear people talk about and recognize these younger versions of celebrities and the campaign.InMarch, a family came for a birthday party for Kelly, the mom, who wanted to milk a cow. As the family members arrived, they were looking around and saw the poster of Rulon Gardner, the Olympic gold medalist, holding milk pails in front of a cow with milk splashing. I admitted this is one of my favorites, and Kelly’s son, Hunter, said Gardner is one of his heroes. Hunter is not old enough to remember the campaign but has seen enough vintage images to know what it means. Drink milk. I quickly went to see if I had a spare copy of the poster, and I did. So, I gave it to him, and he was so impressed that I gave it to him for free. The tour was great, and just recently, I got an email from Kelly that said they had moved to Missouri and found a camp that Gardner was hosting. They told him all about our farm and the whole experience milking a cow and the poster. Hunter got to wrestle around with him and learned a bunch of new techniques and had him sign the poster. She sent me photos and said thank you for making his day extra special. This is exactly what this promotional campaign is supposed to do. These celebrities are real people; they drink milk for their healthy bodies, bones and beautiful smiles with white teeth. Hunter will forever remember Gardner; he will always be a milk drinker because his family loves milk and knows the health benets will help him be a better wrestler too. With the decline in uid milk consumption being threatened by consumers choosing vitamin water,
sparkling water and avored water along with coffee and other soft drinks, we need to get the message back out there. Milk has the best nutrition, and is the most economical recovery drink that is all natural and tastes great. Even if it is avored, it still has more of the nutrients like calcium, phosphorus, B vitamins, potassium and vitamin D. Plus, it is an excellent source of protein. Tina Hinchley, and her husband, Duane, daughter Anna, milk 240 registered Holsteins with robots. They also farm 2300 acres of crops near Cambridge, Wisconsin. The Hinchley’s have been hosting farm tour for over 25 years. WI 608-994-2401
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The mental strain is a big one, because so much of my mental health relies upon my physical strength at the moment. I don’t know if I have ever been so happy to be able to throw hay bales and have sweat running into my eyeballs as I was this summer during a functional week. Another C word to go with these awful ones: considerate humans. I am so increasingly thankful for them. Chopping. I am writing this to the background noise of a busy farm. The manure trucks are whizzing past the house, trying to empty a pit onto the freshly chopped hay elds. Ira and Dane are in the bunker; one pushes as the other packs our third crop haylage. They have managed this crop’s placement in the bunker entirely themselves. The chopping crew gives them compliments and constructive criticism. For two teenagers, they are doing a great job. They are on day three of going back and forth, back and forth, watching the farm’s activities from their perches on the pile. I am assured we will be done chopping today, which then means the necessary job of covering the pile with plastic and tires.
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AtChemotherapy.Cancer.thispoint,I have two miserable treatments left. I am fairly bald with only a bit of peach fuzz on this white head of mine. Looking in the mirror is an experience these days. I tell myself that my eyes still look like me and on a good day are still shining bright and a smidge sassy. During chemotherapy week, I feel like I am crawling slowly to do everything, and that while my eyes are wide open, I can only see a sliver of the light of the sky. Perhaps the best way to describe it is standing in the feed alley of the freestall barn looking up at the peak to see the sky, and that is all the sky I can see.
By Jacqui Davison
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The Cs of summer
Construction. It seems everywhere you look there is a pile of lumber waiting to be put into position for a new building on this farm. The cement has been poured for the commodity bays on the end of the to-be-built shed. This shed will replace the one lost in the re this spring, with certain things in place to better serve our farm at its current state; hence, the commodity bays. It is being built on the footprint of the old shed with a slight expansion in size. We are also putting up a three-sided shed near the calf barn for straw and hay storage. This will save time and be so convenient for the calf barn team. Our faithful cement crew poured a pad and set posts for a row of maternity pens alongside the transition barn. We have been discussing this addition for a few years and are nally putting it into reality. This will allow us to use our current calving pen as a bedded pack for injuredCritters.cows.My ock of wooly wonders has escaped but once this summer (so far). Peter got them back in by rattling dog food in a pail. You should have seen their dismay when they realized it wasn’t their grain. The laying hens are keeping us supplied with gorgeous eggs on the daily. I never cease to be delighted by this gift. The not-so-attractive broilers have at last taken up residence in their very cold homes. Our annual butchering party was this past week, and I think Dane is the happiest of all about it. He has been the token critter-feeder all summer and was happy to have less water to haul every day. The pigs went to the fair in June and came home in freezer packages. Freezers are full; winter sounds tasty. Children. Chaos. Camaraderie. These farm kids we are raising are pretty amazing. Yes, they can make Peter, Stacy and I crazy to be sure, but they are great help and entertainment. Henry, Finley and Cora have enlarged the sandbox twice this summer. Henry decided they were running low on sand again this week and brought not only a half a skid loader bucket of sand but all the wood cast offs from the hay shed construction. They spend every moment they can out there building pastures, pens, chopping hay, digging pits and more. As we sat down to lunch one day, the two boys informed Peter (with smug grins) that they were already done chopping their hay. Oliver and Dane are two peas in a pod that occasionally need to be separated to make sure their individual brains work. Ira can do a man’s work in the shop and never fails to amaze me with his tractor skills. They all work hard and play harder. On hot days, after work is done, they escape to the creek to catch craysh or construct every child’s dream slip-n-slide: bunker plastic with hay bales at the bottom to make a pool. Cows. Cooking. I can’t forget these two. They are both so crucial to my sanity this summer. This past week was a rough one for the cows. The compost pile grew in size, unfortunately. I know that it is part of farm life, but it’s never an easy pill to swallow. The kitchen is where I am when I am not in the barn. A friend made mention of my wearing an apron as if it were my superhero cape. It is. When I put my apron on, I am mentally ready to cook, even if my body is complaining.Ihopeyour summer has found you content. Jacqui and her family milk 800 cows and run 1,200 acres of crops in the northeastern corner of Vernon County, Wisconsin. Her children, Ira (14), Dane (12), Henry (7) and Cora (4), help her on the farm while her husband, Keith, works on a grain farm. If she’s not in the barn, she’s probably in the kitchen, trailing after little ones, or sharing her passion of reading with someone. Her life is best described as organized chaos – and if it wasn’t, she’d be bored.
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By Jim Bennett
The best way to determine if your cooling systems are working properly is to get into the barns on a hot day and observe. Just because fans are operating, and the electric meter is spinning, does not mean that cows are being sufciently cooled. Bennett is one of four dairy veterinarians at Northern Valley Dairy Production Medicine Center in Plainview, Minnesota. He also consults on dairy farms in other states. He and his wife, Pam, have four children. Jim can be reached at bennettnvac@gmail. com with comments or questions. 715-579-0531
Tunnel-ventilated barns can work with no ceiling and circulating fans, typically located above the free stalls, to provide airow at the cow level, but it can be difcult to achieve sufcient airow at all areas in these types of tunnel barns. Tunnel-ventilated barns sometimes may need strategically placed positive pressure inlets to draw more air into the barn, especially if the barns are veryNaturally-ventilatedlong. barns allow air to ow in naturally though open side and end walls. Air typically leaves through an open ridge or through a powerventilated open ridge. As hot air rises and exits the ridge, there is very slight negative pressure which allows outside air to enter, but the effect of even a slight breeze can be much greater than this. Fans in naturallyventilated barns are used to create air movement in cow living areas, not to move air down the barn and exhaust out the end. Fans over free stalls are meant to cool cows by providing signicant air movement in the free stalls. Thus, air movement above the stalls is of little or no value. This means fans need to be angled down to the cow level and preferable to the level of a cow lying down. It also means that the old idea of placing fans about 10-feet times the fan diameter in inches is wrong, because few fans are capable of providing sufcient airow at that distance. The best way to evaluate airow in stalls is just to get in there and feel it. Count the number and note the location of stalls ventilated by each fan. In some barns, only a few stalls below each fan have noticeable airow because fans are too far apart, are not angled downward sufciently or have migrated in position so that they blow air somewhere else rather than where the cows are. What about water? Cows do not sweat much, so they need water applied to the skin to create evaporative cooling. This includes in the holding pen. There needs to be air movement to aid in evaporating the water from the skin. Typically, at least one-half gallon of water should be applied per nozzle each time the nozzle turns on for feed line sprinklers. Nozzles plug easily, and it is very common to nd sprinkler systems with many plugged nozzles. Like fans, nozzles often get out of adjustment and shoot water somewhere other than the backs of cows. Sprinkler system settings also seem to change over time, until someone notices they are not on for a long enough period of time or do not come on frequently enough.
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I’m not sure how it works at other people’s farms, but around here, I start a little project like replacing a rotted door in the milking parlor and it tends to snowball into xing everything in that area. It’s just not very efcient to get out a bunch of tools and get all set up then only repair one thing and go put everything back away in the shop. If I have the tools out and I’m set up, I might as well repair all those things that have been annoying me for a while. My wife, Emily, likes to compare my way of working to the children’s book, “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.” It’s an accurate description.Weneeded to repaint the walls of the pit in the parlor as the paint was aking off. It is just so much brighter with nice, new paint in there. Emily started painting the pit. Then, it turned into giving our new employee a dust mask and a grinder to prep the metal in the parlor. We’ve been repainting all the steel one section at a time. It’s hard to put paint on and get it dry between milkings in an area that’s always wet, so to keep ourselves and the cows from looking like we all got assaulted by a crew of painters, we paint what can be done in an hour so it has plenty of time to dry before the next milking. The parlor looks nice with all that shiny new paint. We better wash the milk lines and receiver jar extra well or they’ll look dirty even if they would have looked pretty good previously.
I told Emily that it won’t take me long to replace a door in the parlor that goes to the heifer shed area behind our barn. I was wrong, like usual. What should have been simply prying off some old rotted trim boards and a door and replacing it with a nice nail on door and frame turned into a six-hour project quickly. I found the post on one side of the door was completely rotted off from the ground to 12 inches up. I had to pull some of the steel off the wall and cut the post off then jack the wall up a bit to put a new section in. That accomplished, it was time to install the door. But because they don’t make door frames sized for pole barn walls, I had to frame it in and mount it in a nontypical way if I wanted it ush with the inside wall of the parlor. I got that all done and trimmed it out with some broken and dented cedar boards we’d stashed in the hayloft leftover from house projects. It pays to save stuff like that. Now if I can just get the garage door company here to replace a broken sliding door the cows like to run into with an overhead door, the milk inspector will have no more doors to worry about because they’ll pretty much all be new.Today, we are loading up the kids’ 4-H calves and hauling them to the fair so I’ll nish this up by wishing you all the best of luck in whatever you’re being judged on whether it’s the quality of your 4-H cattle or cleanliness of your stainless steel in the milkhouse. Until next time, keep living the dream and add 50% to the expected time to complete a project when someone asks if you want to be honest. Tim Zweber farms with his wife Emily, their three children and his parents Jon and Lisa by Elko, Minnesota.
Looking at the date on our last inspection sheet in the milkhouse, it’s time for our state milk inspector to show up again and remind us of things we probably should have xed before he got here. We also got a note that we’re most likely going to be seeing the federal milk inspectors this year too. It seems I always have the intention of doing the little repairs he points out in the barn, but unless they directly affect milk quality, they never seem to make it to the top of the list until around six months later when he’s due back again to check I actually got them done. He won’t be disappointed as we’ve all been busy xing and cleaning above and beyond what he mentioned in February.
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We are in the thick of the summer crop season with all of the usual drama. My position on our farm doesn’t include any kind of a starring role for the crop decisions or management nor planting, tending and harvesting. My qualications to write about the crops and all of the details are more limited than they should be, so please excuse my ignorance. But, making good feed for the cows is really important, and I am invested in that. The measure of our crop year is the key to the quality of what the cows eat for the year. The protability of a dairy farm’s balance sheet can be linked closely to how our crops fare, the feed quality and whether everything went smoothly, or if other less desirable outcomes were more the norm for the growingThat’syear.what I’ve learned in nearly 30 years of being involved in our farm’s crop production. Like almost every year, this year has already had its high and low points in the 700 or so acres we are farming. Here’s my take on it so far. This year, the 40 acres of peas we planted on contract for a local canning company yielded well. There was no rain right before harvest, so the pea combines did not tear up the eld or get mud on the roadways as sometimes has happened because the company’s harvest schedule is carefully timed. We were told our eld was one of the best yielding elds of all they harvested this season. Some other years, our pea eld has yielded poorly. A shot of rain just a few days before harvest this July helped the peas ll their pods out well. Our pea eld is harvested just at the time when we usually need some open land for manure hauling, so we were glad when the harvest was nished and we could get started on that. We didn’t have time this year to grab some of our peas to clean and freeze. Luckily our neighbors were thoughtful enough to bring us several bags they had frozen from our eld to enjoy. Like many dairy farmers in this region, our summer revolves around the cutting schedule, bunker silo management and preparation, getting the hauling and bunker packing crew lined up, merging and chopping the haylage and then covering the bunker silo when it’s sufciently packed. Mike, Rolf, Dave and Will take the lead on all of these tasks, with our children lling in through the years, mostly on the silo prep and covering. I’m there, too, holding down the plastic during the critical times when the wind threatens to blow it away. The others do the important work. Every time the bunker is ready to go, the haylage gets chopped, hauled and packed, and then I’m there again along with whomever we can nd to cover the pile with plastic and tires. It all seems to go like clockwork for rst, second, third and fourth crops. Not this year. Not the third crop. The alfalfa was cut and merged. The hauling and packing crew were in place, and we were all set. Rolf drove our chopper to the eld across the road to start. He started the engine to chop. Something was wrong; didn’t sound right. He turned it off and lifted the engine cover to investigate. He saw a broken fan blade and, sadly, cat parts. Not good for the cat nor the chopper. No chopping happened that day. Luckily a custom chopping crew was just nishing up in the area in alfalfa elds for a large dairy’s third crop. Arrangements were made for them to start in our elds at 6 a.m. the next day. They were done by the time we had nished milking, and we were able to cover the bunker and call it a successful third crop. The fan needs replacement and whether the right blade is available is still a question mark. So, the dilemma may linger into the fourth crop but hopefully, not corn silage. The rye straw is our next task. The weather is perfect right now to merge or rake the 40 acres of straw into windrows so Randy, our friendly custom baler, can get the job done. The only problem is that this year, our cousin Peter’s rye crop had bigger windrows from other years when we harvested his rye straw. Yesterday, Mike spent a frustrating few hours of trying to get the rows turned with the rake getting plugged. In the end, the decision was to let the straw dry some more. After a few more moisture tests to check, and drier air than we’ve had lately, the straw was t to bale. As I nish up this column, I watch the atbed loaded with large straw bales going past the window where I type. The bales will be unloaded and tucked back into the commodity shed where the rain can’t get them tomorrow if it indeed does rain as Hooray;predicted.onemore crop performance taking a curtain call for 2022. Jean dairy farms with her husband, Rolf, and brother-in-law, Mike, and children Emily, Matthias and Leif. They farm near St. Peter, Minnesota, in Norseland, where she is still trying to t in with the Norwegians and Swedes. They milk 200 cows and farm 650 acres. She can be reached at jeanannexstad@ gmail.com. By Jean Annexstad Columnist
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