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Volume 23, No. 13
“All dairy, all the time”™
August 28, 2021
Improvements to support a new genera�on Heine family builds freestall barn, makes updates for a growing herd By Stacey Smart
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Noah Heine (center) and his parents, Kim and Rick, milk 45 cows and farm around 200 acres near Helenville, Wisconsin. The Heines are making improvements to support the next genera�on. Not pictured is Noah’s brother, Cody.
HELENVILLE, Wis. – Twenty-year-old Noah Heine hopes to be farming full time by age 30. And the improvements his family is making to the farm are designed to make that possible. A decade of projects are in the works to put Noah and his brother, Cody, 24, on the path to taking over the farm. A love for cows, particularly show cattle, drives these seventh-generation farmers who show at every level and are growing the herd while also working full-time jobs off the farm. Their father, Rick, refers to the herds as his sons’ 4-H project, which he and his wife, Kim, wholeheartedly support. Standing behind their boys’ ambitions to be full-time farmers and see the dairy grow and thrive, the Heines work together to fulll the dreams of a future generation. “In order to farm full time, I’m going to need to Turn to HEINE | Page 6
Fair lessons the dairy way Jones, Friske mentor young exhibitors By Danielle Nauman danielle.n@dairystar.com
MAUSTON, Wis. – With less than 2% of the population involved in agriculture, few people have ever been on a farm and have little knowledge of how their food is produced. Giving kids the chance to connect with agriculture by participating in a youth dairy project is one way Jeannie Jones and Brian Friske help make that connection. The two work together to operate Valley Hill Farms near Kendall where they milk 60 cows. They enjoy working with non-farm youth in their community to provide the experience of showing dairy cattle at county fairs. They helped nine youth, ranging in age from 7 to 17, exhibit 14 animals from the farm Aug. 18-22 at the Juneau County Fair in Mauston. “Most of the kids just manage to nd us,” Jones said. “A lot of times they are
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Valley Hill Farms exhibitors – (front, from le�) Garre� and Turner Calhoun; (middle, from le�) Kaleah Pfaff, Evie and Caed Hubbard, Electra Wilson, Madisol Elizondo, Ethan Hubbard and Marissa Kruckeberg; (back, from le�) Brian Friske and Jeannie Jones – a�end the Juneau County Fair Aug. 18-22 in Mauston, Wisconsin. Friske and Jones take the �me to help non-farm youth experience the dairy industry through a dairy project.
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Waiting for changes to DMC formula Dairy farmers in the Upper Midwest may get only limited relief from the latest pandemic relief. This new program focuses more on Class I uid milk sales, and production in the region priBy Don Wick marily goes to cheese. HowColumnist ever, additional assistance is possible. The USDA said it will update the DMC feed cost formula to better reect the actual costs dairy farmers will pay for high quality alfalfa. The change will be retroactive to January 2020. This is expected to provide additional retroactive payments of $100 million for 2020 and 2021. It is unclear when supplemental payments for the feed cost adjustment and DMC production history adjustment will be distributed.
DMC payments to continue DBA response Class III milk futures are generally in the $17 per The Dairy Business Association welcomed the latest hundredweight range. USDA Ag Outlook Board chairassistance package. In a statement, DBA described the man Mark Jekanowski said that is below previous expandemic as a once-in-a-century market disruption. “The situation demonstrates the critical need for thoughtful Turn to AG INSIDER | Page 5
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The Heines put in this feed alley last summer which has helped boost feed intake. Milk producƟon has also increased by 15 pounds per cow since moving into the new barn. rent more land and have more cows,” Noah said. “Our goal is to be milking 60 by this winter.” The Heines milk 45 cows and farm around 200 acres near Helenville. Within that group are 12 show cows the family also boards. An increase in the number of all-Americans at Heines’ Holy-Ayr Farm has led to more embryo transfer work as Noah and Cody grow their show string. “We always kept cow numbers at a barn full, but we’ve had more show cows calving in and have a low cull rate,” Rick said. “If we want to keep all these cows, we had to do something.” The growth in cow numbers spurred the Heines to expand a lean-to loang shed into a freestall barn to handle the
production per cow is up 15 pounds. “They’re eating more feed,” Rick said. “We put a feed alley in last summer, and now the cows always have clean, fresh new feed. That’s a big thing. I knew they would eat more than when we were feeding in bunks. We clean up the old stuff and take it to the dry cows.” The Heines feed baleage but are looking at using a portable TMR mixer in the near future. The Heines also built a commodity shed where they will store protein and other ingredients for the ration. “We’ve never fed TMR before, but we’re hoping to add it this fall or winter,” Noah said. Ayrshire and Milking Shorthorn are the focus of the Heines’ diverse herd which contains every breed except Guernsey. Cows are milked in the farm’s 30-stall tiestall barn. The Heines are now milking with ve units after buying two more along with a new 10-horse vacuum pump. Also new in the barn but purchased used are automatic takeoffs which were added last fall. “It’s nice not having to bend over that one extra time during milking,” said Noah who does most of the milking with Kim. Before building the barn, cows were on pasture or stayed in the tiestall barn during winter. “A couple cows had to stay outside, and I never liked that,” Rick said. “That was the main reason for the new barn. It was a place for the extra cows that didn’t t.” The freestall barn, which is open to
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overow. The new building turned out to be exactly what they needed, giving cows a more permanent home where they can excel. “The barn is a big improvement for cow comfort,” Noah said. “It’s better on cows’ feet. They’re not getting stones, and we have less hairy warts.” Rick agreed. “The cows love it,” he said. “Once they’re done milking, they come and lay right down. We bed with sand, so it’s like laying on the beach.” Cows are milking more too. Daily
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Con�nued from HEINE | Page 6 the east, measures 54 feet wide by 64.5 feet long and contains 26 4-by-8 free stalls. From posts to trusses and everything in between, the barn is a mixture of new and used. The red tin on the exterior is secondhand and so are the curtains. Breathing new life into many items, these thrifty farmers kept costs low by recycling objects people were no longer using. “We built this barn in bits and pieces so we could cashow,” Rick said. “We bought things here and there and borrowed nothing to nance it. We had insights on concrete and building barns and did all of the work ourselves. We didn’t pay anyone for labor. It took ve months, and we did a lot on the weekends. Every day we did something different.” STACEY SMART/DAIRY STAR The Heines are in the pro- The Heine family built this freestall barn with new and used materials at their dairy near Helenville, Wisconsin. The barn meacess of transitioning from tra- sures 54 feet wide by 64.5 feet long and contains 26 4- by 8-foot free stalls. ditional free stalls to ex stalls.
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The farm is transi�oning to ex stalls in the freestall barn. The exible material offers movement and is ideal for bigger cows.
About one-third of the stalls were replaced this summer, and the rest will be changed before winter. The stalls also feature an adjustable neck rail. “Bigger cows are not beating themselves up anymore,” Rick said. “The stalls provide more room for a big animal and are especially nice for our Holsteins. The stall material is exible yet durable. It offers movement and has give to it.” LED lights make the barn bright, and the Heines are also planning to add fans. The project is a work in progress, and the family has other projects
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Con�nued from JUNEAU | Page 1 friends of other kids who have shown with us.” Over the last 17 years, the duo has helped 15 non-farm youth experience the dairy industry through a dairy project. “It is just great to see these kids experience something new, learn something new, something they wouldn’t have the chance to do otherwise,” Jones said. “And to watch them grow and develop as leaders and responsible young adults, that is really rewarding.” The kids pick out their animals and are expected to do all of the work to prepare them for showing. “We provide the animals, the tools and transportation for the kids,” Jones said. “But we don’t do any of the work halter breaking. It is their project, so they are expected to put in the time and effort.” In all of their years helping kids show, Jones and Friske said they have never had a participant start working with a calf and not make it to the fair. “If they are there trying and working hard and having a tough time with one, I will step in and help out if one needs to be tied to a bale rack to learn to lead, and I’ve helped clip a couple of heads,” Friske said. “But most of the time, they get it done without any help.” Madisol Elizondo, 17, is one participant Jones and Friske have watched mature as a leader. Elizondo has shown animals from Valley Hill Farms for six years and works on the farm when she is not in school. “Madisol has really taken on the role of being a leader in the last couple of years,” Friske said. “The rest of the kids really look up to her and go to her with their ques-
tions.” Elizondo said when she began, she found a passion for working with the animals, and that she has learned many important life lessons through the cows. “I think I have always been pretty patient, but I have learned that with the cows, you have to be really patient,” Elizondo said. “They don’t always do things quickly, but that is just the way they are. You have to wait and can’t rush them.” Siblings Ethan, Evie and Caed Hubbard, and Turner and Garrett Calhoun have exhibited animals with Jones and Friske for three years. They said spending time on the farm and working with the animals is what keeps them coming back year after year. From his time spent working with show calves, Ethan Hubbard, 15, found that he enjoys spending time on the farm and has begun working on the farm on a regular basis. “It’s really not that much work. I think it seems easy because I like doing it so much,” Ethan said of preparing calves for the fair. “I just really enjoy working with the animals, and I like taking care of them at the fair.” Ethan said much of the preparation work comes in washing and bedding the animals. On the farm, Ethan enjoys daily chores like cleaning mangers. “I think everyone should try showing calves at least once,” he said. “I think they would probably like it a lot and want to do it again.” Evie Hubbard, 13, has found her niche in showmanship, having won the intermediate showmanship division for the second year. She has found that hard work put
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just have to give it your best.” Washing and clipping the animals are things Turner Calhoun, 13, enjoys doing to get ready for show day at the fair. He works with his projects nearly every day to get them ready to exhibit. “When you are showing, you should always look at the judge,” Turner said as advice for new exhibitors. “Make sure to smile a lot.” Kaleah Pfaff, 17, and Marissa Kruckeberg, 16, were the newest in this year’s exhibitor team, each showing for the rst time. “I enjoyed this so much; there is so much excitement and everyone is happy to be here,” Kruckeberg said of her rst year showing at the fair. “I also learned that sometimes no matter how much
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They built it, so Gaul went Iowa dairy farmer, son attend Field of Dreams baseball game By Krista Kuzma
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DYERSVILLE, Iowa – The famous quote, “If you build it, they will come,” from the movie “Field of Dreams” became reality Aug. 12. Major League Baseball built a stadium on the Dyersville farm where the 1989 movie was lmed, and hosted a game between the Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees. Pete Gaul, a dairy farmer near Petersburg, was able to attend the game with his 18-yearold son, Owen. “Seeing the players come out of the corn eld at the start of the game was really cool,” said Gaul, who lives about 15 miles away from the newly-built facility. “It was really cool literally playing out in the corn eld.” The stadium was built around the premise of the movie. The main character, Ray Kinsella, played by Kevin Costner, is a crop farmer who continues to hear a voice telling him, “If you build it, they will come.” So, Kinsella plows under his corn and creates a baseball eld on his Iowa farm. After it is built, the spirits of legendary baseball players arrive for a game on the ball diamond by walking through the corn sur-
rounding it. The players for the Aug. 12 game recreated that vision. The Gaul family has always liked baseball, with the kids playing in little league and watching MLB games on TV here and there whenever they had downtime from chores. “I would describe myself as a casual fan,” Gaul said. “I’m not a die-hard fan of any one team, but I like to watch a game.” Owen applied for the lottery used to purchase tickets for the game. “I didn’t even know he applied,” Gaul said. “But then he got an email that he was selected for a chance to buy tickets. He went online and got a pair. It was a surprise he asked me. I thought maybe he would ask one of his friends so I was really happy to go with him.” Leading up to the game, the community was buzzing with excitement, Gaul said. The day of the game, Gaul handed over milking the 75-cow herd and farm chore responsibilities to his wife, Kim, and another son, Ryan. “A big thank you to them to allow me to be able to go,” Gaul said. Especially because this was only the second MLB game Gaul had ever attended. The rst
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Caroline’s fall calf, show Aug. 19 showing 136 head from all breeds. “I think the dairy show committee as a whole was Pretty, placed fth in her class at the county fair, earning relieved the fair board decided to hold the fair this year,” a blue ribbon. “Caroline bred this heifer and really wanted to show said Kyle Bunkoske, superintendent of the junior dairy show. “We wanted the kids to have something to look for- her,” said her dad, Jon. The Powers family previously milked 50 cows which ward to after missing last year.” Bunkoske said the idea of putting on a dairy show in they sold in 2018. A student who Jon used to coach in 2020 was tossed about but event planners decided against dairy judging bought his herd and promised she would it due to the uncertainty surrounding COVID-19. How- give a calf back to Caroline to show, which was the dam ever, when this year came around, and uncertainty lin- of Pretty. Grady Wendorf helped Caroline show Pretty, gered in some cases, the committee decided they would leading the heifer while she held on to the end of the leash. Caroline’s friend, Emma Paulson, is the one who host a dairy show regardless of whether or not the fair originally got Caroline into showing and offered to help took place. “It’s nice to get back to a little bit of normalcy,” Bun- her. Caroline is able to lead smaller heifers while someone koske said. “Being able to provide the youth with this ac- helps push her chair. Recently, the Powers bought a rsttivity gives them something to look forward to. They’re pick Jersey embryo to be born in September for Caroline to show next year. happy to have their dairy projects again.” “She’ll be a smaller animal, so it will be easier for Competition is erce at the Dodge County Fair, which hosts both junior and open shows. The caliber of cattle Caroline to show her,” Jon said. “The Dodge County kids could be described as astounding, which explains why the are very supportive of Caroline showing. If they all could step up and help, they would.” show is sometimes nicknamed the Dodge Nationals. Caroline’s parents installed a wash rack on a blacktop “The amount of good quality animals that come through the ring here is incredible,” Bunkoske said. “It’s driveway at their home, making it easy for Caroline to a true testament to the breeders in Dodge County. There work with her animals. “I wash my heifer every day,” Caroline said. “I love are a lot of quality breeders in this county who produce really good cows. Our numbers have gone down quite a doing that. I spend the whole summer getting ready for bit in the last 10 years, but you still can place a hat on the the fair.” Caroline’s dad agreed. quality being there. When I check cattle into the ring and “She loves being out in the barn,” he said. then see them all standing there, it’s impressive.” Matthew Gunst has been showing at the Dodge Mandy Sell, the fair’s junior dairy advisor, agreed. “It’s a pretty competitive fair,” she said. “Nobody County Fair since he was 3 years old, starting out in the messes around here. It’s not just a county fair to people. little britches competition. Not having the fair last year In addition to the junior show, we have a really good open was a large disappointment to Gunst and his family. “That was a huge bummer for us,” Gunst said. “The show and futurity too.” For Caroline Powers, showing takes special effort Dodge County Fair is something our whole family has but is an experience she treasures. Born with spina bida, done every year. We really missed it. It was tough.” Gunst is a sophomore at the University of Minnesota Caroline is paralyzed from the waist down but does not let the fact she is in a wheelchair stop her from showing majoring in animal science, and agricultural communications and marketing. Gunst showed two animals this year at the county fair and also took care of and clipped a 15-animal string with his sister, Elizabeth. The Gunsts travel to many shows in the summer tting animals and also board and raise about 20 heifers in Hartford. The Dodge County Fair is fortunate to have a large list of sponsors, and every junior exhibitor receives a Tshirt from one of the fair sponsors. “We have a lot of really good support from dairy businesses that help make the show possible,” Bunkoske said. The senior champion of the junior show was a 4-yearold Red and White Holstein shown by Samantha Pitterle of Watertown – Mistik Kreek DE Hala-Red-ET EX-90. The junior champion of the junior show was Crave Upgrade 13435, a Holstein winter calf owned and exhibited by Sara Skalitzky from Waterloo. The supreme showmanship winner was Elizabeth Gunst of Hartford. “I’ve been coming to this fair since I was a little kid, and my family’s been coming here forever,” said Sell, who is also the state fair advisor for Dodge County – a STACEY SMART/DAIRY STAR role she has held for more than a decade. “It’s good to be Caroline Powers and her dad, Jon, pose next to Pret- here. The county fair is your family, and the kids are really ty, Caroline’s fall calf that earned a blue ribbon at happy to be back.” the Dodge County Fair. The Powers are from Columbus, Wisconsin.
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Now that Gaul has experienced a game at the Field of Dreams, he said he was going to sit down and watch the movie along with watching the game, which he recorded, again from the comfort of his home. “For the most part, for one night I was thinking about baseball rather than farming,” Gaul said. For other spectators, he hopes they thought about a little bit of both. “People probably got a chance to see how scenic, pretty and peaceful it is out here away from the big city,” Gaul said. “I guess my hope is that maybe some people realized that and appreciate that – the simple beauty of things out in the country.”
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EAST TROY, Wis. – Grassway Organics is like one big happy family. Friends and neighbors are always coming and going at this organic dairy that hosts Pizza on the Farm, has an on-farm store and sells farm-fresh turkeys for Thanksgiving. The Selfs also give farm tours and educate people about the industry. By bringing back a sense of tradition and the joy of simpler times, Chaz Self and his wife, Megan, are uniting their rural community. The Selfs milk around 35 Jerseys and farm 210 acres near East Troy. Every Friday and Saturday from May through September, the Selfs host Pizza on the Farm. Wood-red pizzas are their specialty, and the Selfs offer seven agship pizzas as well as three to four nightly specials. “Pizza on the Farm is our
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naïve I was.” The parents of three boys – Otik, 11, Oscoda, 9, and Xasion, 5 – Chaz and Megan purchased Grassway Organics in 2016. The following year, they moved the farm from New Holstein to its current location. Starting out with a 20-acre farm in 2011, owning a dairy farm was the ultimate goal for this couple with no farm background. In 2014, the Selfs began working with Grassway Organics in New Holstein. The owners were retiring, and the Selfs bought the business, which included cows and machinery but no land. “We had a one-year lease, and the price for land was high,” Self said. “We were outbid three times what the land was worth. So we looked at a lot of other farms. They had to be grass only and organic, which eliminated 99% of available farms. But then we found this one.” Renting the land from the Yggdrasil Land Foundation which owns seven farms nationwide, the Selfs rent a total of 390 acres. Their A2A2 grassfed-only cows are milked once a day in a swing-16 parlor. The Selfs practice intense rotational grazing on 210 acres of pasture and follow a seasonal calving schedule with cows freshening in the spring and fall. The Selfs also raise 50 beef cattle, 3,000 chickens for meat, 800 laying hens and 250 turkeys each year. All poultry is pastured. “We’re the counter-culture in dairy,” Self said. “We don’t look like farmers, and we do things differently. For example, we’re big on grazing, we don’t feed grain, calves stay with the cows, and we don’t dehorn.” Running Grassway Organics with the help of 15 employees, the Selfs are building a strong community in their area. Sharing their farm with others is central to their mission. “We like supporting our rural community,” Self said. “It’s dying and it sometimes seems like every man is out for himSTACEY SMART/DAIRY STAR self. We’re trying These two wood re ovens are used to make fresh pizza to revamp that and every Friday and Saturday from May through September bring communities for Pizza on the Farm events on the Selfs’ farm near East back together.” Troy, Wisconsin.
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Dairy farmers: What do you do for heat abatement?
Robert Condon Horicon, Wisconsin • Dodge County 600 cows
Describe the facilities you have for all dairy animals on your farm. We have freestall barn built in the 1990s to house our milking cows. It is not cross-ventilated or tunnel-ventilated but it was the Cadillac of barns in the ‘90s. It is a modied ve-row barn that was built in sections. Cows are grouped based on lactation, age and size. Bred heifers are housed in our old freestall barn built in 1965. We cut open the ceiling to allow rising hot air to escape and removed the steel side walls for better airow. There were no water troughs, just one single waterer in the yard, so we added more waterers. Calves are housed in three barns, including the tiestall barn we retrot in 2015. We make use of our older buildings for weaned heifers up through breeding age. In 2015, we built a new GEA double-16 parallel milking parlor. What impacts has the heat had on your herd this year? I am not disappointed in milk loss, but it is noticeable. We were at 97 pounds per cow, which dropped to 91. We have had a lot of temperatures in the 80s with high humidity. It has been warmer than the average summer, but what you lose in milk production, you gain in crop production. What do you do for heat abatement? We built our barn in an east/west direction so when the sun rises and sets it is not shining on the cows. We installed an automated cooling system in the late 1990s. We have sprinklers set up on two quad systems for a total of eight sections. The sprinklers run on a timer, turning on for one minute every 10 minutes beginning at 65 degrees. As the temperature rises, the shower time increases in frequency and duration. One section runs at a time because we do not want to draw down our water pressure. We also have 36-inch fans above the stalls spaced 24 feet apart and 48-inch fans spaced 40 feet apart. The ceiling is insulated which helps keep heat out. We have 20 water troughs spaced throughout the barn with at least two in every pen. We provide four inches of water trough per cow. There are six fans in the holding area and a lot of fans in the parlor. It is nice and cool in there, and cows like to hang out in the parlor after milking. We have a fan system in the calf barns that is my own invention. It is a tube system that blows a small amount of fresh air down into each pen. The old air tumbles out and the tunnel fans at the end of the barn suck it out. This keeps the calves cooler. In your dairy career, what has been the best management practice you have incorporated on your farm to help animals with heat stress? Installing fans. We did not have any when we built the rst part of our freestall barn, but we had success after we added them. We incorporated fans immediately with subsequent additions. This barn was built with 12-foot sidewalls on the curtain sides to produce natural airow. A 1 mph wind moves 88 feet of air per minute, resulting in one air exchange per minute, and fans make this system even better. What are heat abatement strategies you are exploring to implement on your farm in the future? We have been talking to builders about making this a hybrid tunnel-ventilated barn. The curtains would come off and be replaced with translucent panels, and the back wall would be lled with fans along with fans on the ceiling. What was the hottest summer during your dairying career, and how did it affect your herd and your management on heat abatement? We bought the farm in 1988. It was a drought year, and we had weeks upon weeks of hot weather. It was miserable. We started buying fans. Every year since has seemed easier since we were just starting out and had no established production yet. After that rst summer, we knew we needed to do something. We were in a 1960s freestall barn with a steel roof, one fan and one waterer. There was no heat abatement here at the time. It was an old dinosaur of a farm when we bought it. When we built the new barn, it paid for itself very rapidly. Tell us about your farm. I farm with my wife, Lisa, our daughter, Kimberley, my brother, Joe, and my nephew, Andy. We milk 530 cows and farm 750-800 acres of corn and alfalfa. I am a fourth-generation farmer, but none of us have taken over our parents’ farm.
Wayne, Samantha and Justin Giese Edgar, Wisconsin Marathon County 55 Cows Describe the facilities you have for all dairy animals on your farm. Young calves are housed in individual crates with positive ventilation tubes above them. The rest of the heifers are housed in one shed. The heifers from weaning up to 1 year old are in pens with a pack. After that, they move into a freestall setup until they are two weeks from calving. Most of the cows (milking and dry) are housed in a tunnel ventilated tiestall barn. A select few cows are housed in individual pens. What impacts has the heat had on your herd this year? Milk production went down during the really hot periods this year, and we’re still not sure if we will get it all back yet. Conception rates haven’t really been affected because when it gets hot out, we usually switch to putting more embryos in both cows and heifers versus breeding them. We’ll go back to doing more breeding in late September. What do you do for heat abatement? We run a couple more fans in front of the cows throughout the summer. On those hot and humid days, we spray the cows down a couple times per day. In your dairy career, what has been the best management practice you have incorporated on your farm to help animals with heat stress? Tunnel ventilating the barn made a big difference. We also opened up the north end of the barn to get more air movement through the barn. What are heat abatement strategies you are exploring to implement on your farm in the future? We have started looking into putting air conditioning in the barn but do not feel like we have enough information about how it will affect the cows seeing as we let the cows out at night. We are concerned the temperature change every 12 hours might cause respiratory problems. We have also considered looking into a swamp cooler and/or adding more fans above the cows. We will be tunnel ventilating the heifer shed before next summer. What was the hottest summer during your dairying career, and how did it affect your herd and your management on heat abatement? This summer was probably the hottest summer we can remember. Not only was it hot but it was also very humid much of the summer. It really made us aware that we need to do more to keep the herd comfortable. Tell us about your farm. Sam-Way Dairy is owned by my wife, Samantha and I, along with our son, Justin, who is 15. We have 55 cows and usually have around 75 heifers on our farm. We focus mainly on high-type genetics, and do a large amount of ushing and in vitro fertilization each year. We also crop 208 acres, all of which we own. We do not hire any help although my dad, Russ, helps us put the crops in. Turn to OUR SIDE | Page 16
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away (pun intended). What are heat abatement strategies you are exploring to implement on your farm in the future? We are planning on building a heifer shed and will be exploring options with ventilation and cooling for that. Currently, we wouldn’t change anything in our main freestall barn.
Describe the facilities you have for all dairy animals on your farm. Adult cows are housed in one main freestall barn. Heifers are scattered all over in buildings and pastures. What impacts has the heat had on your herd this year? Cows have milked well. Reproduction and hoof health have been awesome. We have had an outbreak of Klebsiella, and that has been our biggest challenge this year.
Travis Bly Bly Dairy Farm Waubun, Minnesota Mahnomen County 295 cows Describe the facilities you have for all dairy animals on your farm. Cows are housed in a 5-row freestall barn with drive-thru feeding and curtain sides. We milk in a swing-over double-14 PBI rapid exit parlor. Calves and heifers are in curtain barns. What impacts has the heat had on your herd this year? Production held up well through the heat, but we had a little more health problems. We aren’t sure if these extra problems were heat related. What do you do for heat abatement? We have 11 52-inch fans hanging vertically over the cows near the feed bunk. We soak the cows’ backs with water as they leave the parlor. The cows tolerated the heat well. The lower humidity during this summer helped a lot. In your dairy career, what has been the best management practice you have incorporated on your farm to help animals with heat stress? The big fans. What are heat abatement strategies you are exploring to implement on your farm in the future? We wonder if bigger fans would be compatible with other fans. What was the hottest summer during your dairying career, and how did it affect your herd and your management on heat abatement? This year’s the hottest, but there were years with higher humidity which were more difcult. Tell us about your farm. We have been here since 1975, starting with 32 cows. We grow our forages and buy concentrates. We sell bull calves at 1 week of age and raise all heifers. We have been breeding for the A2 gene and believe it is the future. The farm owners consist of Les and Cindy, son Travis and Travis’ son, Will.
What was the hottest summer during your dairying career, and how did it affect your herd and your management on heat abatement? This summer has been one of the hottest and most humid in quite a while. I remember in the past when we had hot spells and the cows would drop 20 to 30 pounds What do you do for heat abatement? We have VES fans over the in milk. We are better prepared now. stalls and sprinklers over the headlocks. Tell us about your farm. North Creek Dairy has been in the In your dairy career, what has been the best management Hoffman family since 1903. The fth generation is being raised practice you have incorporated on your farm to help animals here. We milk three times a day and raise our heifers. We are exwith heat stress? We are huge fans of the VES fans. Seth and Erin cited about our fans, and we also installed an activity system last Anderson from Ettrick, Wisconsin, were the rst people to intro- month and have high hopes for that. We work with a great team of duce us to them, and the rst time we saw them we were blown people and are excited about our possibilities for the future. Tom Dwyer West Bend, Wisconsin • Washington County 95 cows
What are heat abatement strategies you are exploring to implement on your farm in the future? We do not have any plans at this time for implementing any other heat abatement strategies on our farm in the near future.
Describe the facilities you have for all dairy animals on your farm. Our facilities include a 102-stall freestall barn for milking cows, a recently constructed calf barn, and a new 60-by-140 heifer barn.
What was the hottest summer during your dairying career, and how did it affect your herd and your management on heat abatement? The memory of 1988 lingers with us, along with 2012. A loss of milk production prompted us to make changes.
What impacts has the heat had on your herd this year? The heat has had minimal effect on our animals this year.
Tell us about your farm. Our farm has been in the What do you do for heat abatement? We have addfamily since 1869. My wife, Mary, and I purchased ed large wall fans and fans over the stalls to crossthe farm from her parents. Mary has been involved ventilate our older freestall barn and also added more waterers. Our at the farm since graduating from high school. We are focused on calf and heifer barns have curtains front and back that are always neatness, our cows and growing quality feed. Mary and our daughopen in warm weather to provide airow unless we have storms. ter, Shannon, share most of the responsibility for cows. I work a job off the farm in addition to being at the farm to do maintenance, In your dairy career, what has been the best management eld work, feeding, etc. We run 280 acres of alfalfa, corn, winter practice you have incorporated on your farm to help animals wheat and soybeans. We grow and harvest most of our own feed. with heat stress? Adding cross-ventilation fans for our milk cows We are fortunate to have family and friends to help at key times. was the best thing we did. This resulted in little change in milk production during hot spells.
Mark Fedders Doon, Iowa • Sioux County 230 cows Describe the facilities you have for all dairy animals on your farm. Our milking herd is housed in freestall barns that are bedded with sand. Our dry cows are kept in a pasture during the growing season. Our replacement heifers are kept on a bedded pack. What impacts has the heat had on your herd this year? We have lost some milk production and have seen fewer animals in heat. Our somatic cell count has also gone up.
ed to our dairy farm. Those two items have helped abate some of the heat stress and have made our cows a lot more comfortable during the hot summer months. What are heat abatement strategies you are exploring to implement on your farm in the future? It would be nice if we could convert our cow barns to tunnel ventilation. What was the hottest summer during your dairying career, and how did it affect your herd and your management on heat abatement? The summer of 2012 was one of the hottest summers I can remember. That was the year we decided to add stir fans and install our sprinkler system.
What do you do for heat abatement? We use exhaust fans to ventilate our barns, and stir fans and sprinklers to help cool the Tell us about your farm. My wife, Teresa, and I have four chilcows. We also use a feed additive to help the cows cope with dren, Emily, 17, Abby, 15, Ashley, 13, and Logan, 11. This dairy operation was started 50 years ago, in 1971, by my parents, Robheat stress. ert and Donna. My parents help around the farm. We dairy farm, In your dairy career, what has been the best management feed some hogs and fatten our Holstein steers. We also raise our practice you have incorporated on your farm to help ani- replacement animals. Our farm has received some timely rains mals with heat stress? Installing the stir fans and our sprinkler this summer, and the corn, soybeans and alfalfa we raise are all system have been the best heat management tools we have add- looking good.
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Mulhern Dairy Cory Mulhern, pictured with his children, Riley Mulhern, 19, Emma Mulhern, 16, Brynn Tweten, 12, and Miles Tweten, 14 Fountain, Minnesota Fillmore County 960 cows Describe your farm and facilities. We have two farm sites. Our original site has a double-14 parallel parlor and the newer site has a double-6 herringbone parlor. Both sites have freestall barns with sand bedding.
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are chopped in one day so we cover piles in the same day. It helps with quality. The chopping crew knows this is standard procedure so we all work hard to get through the day efciently.
How many acres of crops do you raise? We raise about 1,400 acres. Describe the rations for your livestock. For our milking cows, we feed a ration of corn silage, dry corn, a custom mix and winter triticale or an alfalfa blend, and Dairy Max or Yield Max, depending on the season and what is available. We feed the dry cows corn silage, wheat straw and winter rye. The heifers are fed winter rye and corn silage. Forage sorghum replaces the winter rye after we harvest it. What quality and quantity do you harvest of each crop? For alfalfa, we usually get 6 tons of dry matter at 22% protein with 160 relative feed quality. For the Yield Max, we get about 4.5 tons of dry matter with 15% protein and 170 RFQ on the rst and second cutting, and 18% protein with 180-190 RFQ and 10 undigested Neutral Detergent Fiber for the second and third cutting. For Dairy Max, we get about 4.5 tons of dry matter with 18% protein and 190 RFQ. Describe your harvesting techniques for alfalfa and corn silage. We have our own custom harvest business so we harvest on a regular basis. It consists of a mix of family and hired employees doing
What techniques do you use to store, manage and feed your forages? All our forages are stored in piles. The piles sit for about one month before we start feeding them. Our main feeder defaces the piles and keeps them clean with minimal waste. Cows are fed once a day.
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them. We always make sure to have plenty of weight on the pile when packing. We also use CHR Hansen inoculant and spray the top with another inoculant called SiloSolve OS before covering the pile with a vaper barrier followed by plastic. All hay-type forages
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Describe a challenge you overcame in reaching your forage quality goals. We know how important timing and competing with Mother Nature is when putting up a quality forage, so we have had to buy bigger equipment in order to get everything done more quickly. About four years ago, we starting spraying the second inoculant on the pile along with adding a vaper barrier as a second cover. It has signicantly reduced our waste at the pile and is the reason for far less spoilage. How does quality forages play a part in the production goals for your herd? Better quality forages keep us at the production level we want. Currently, our cows milk 90 pounds of milk per day with 4.3% butterfat and 3.2% protein. Having better forages also
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means having fewer byproducts to purchase, and a higher forage diet reduces the need to buy forages off the farm. Both of these things help reduce costs. What are management or harvesting techniques you have changed that have made a notable difference in forage quality? Two years ago, we switched from using an alfalfa and corn rotation to the current forages. We were trying to make all acres available for manure every year and reduce tillage. The grasses require more nitrogen, which helps us use more of our manure. We are also able to have the quality crop production of rst-year rotation corn every other year rather than once every four years like we had in our previous rotation. The grasses have improved digestibility. While pounds of milk are the same, we have better components. Rumination has also increased by 20-30 minutes per day. Tell us about your farm. My wife, Billie, and I farm together with my aunt and uncle, Greg and Barb, and my grandparents, Gene and Beth. I am the third generation in my family to farm and started about 25 years ago. All our cattle are raised on our own farmsites. In addition to the dairy we also have a custom harvesting and manure pumping business.
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USDA announces pandemic assistance for dairy farmers The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced the details of the Pandemic Market Volatility Assistance Program as part of meetings with farmers and a tour of farms with Senator Leahy. In June, Secretary Vilsack committed to providing additional pandemic assistance for dairy farmers in an exchange at a hearing with Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Leahy. Through the program, USDA will provide about $350 million in pandemic assistance payments to dairy farmers who received a lower value for their products due to market abnormalities caused by the pandemic. The assistance is part of a larger package including permanent improvements to the Dairy Margin Coverage safety net program. “The Pandemic Market Volatility Assistance Program is another component of our ongoing effort to get aid to producers who have been left behind and build on our progress towards economic recovery,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. “Family dairy farmers have been battered by the pandemic, trade issues and unpredictable weather and are the life-blood of many rural communities throughout Vermont, the Northeast and many other regions. This targeted assistance is the rst step in USDA’s comprehensive approach that will total over $2 billion to help the dairy industry recover from the pandemic and be more resilient to future challenges for generations to come.” Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the senator with the most seniority on the Agriculture Committee, said: “I thank Secretary Vilsack for directing this assistance to small dairies in Vermont and across the country, just as he told me he would when we spoke earlier in the summer. This will help to make up for losses suffered by these family farms due to the pandemic and together with the positive adjustments to the Dairy Margin Coverage Program will be good news for farmers go into the fall.” Under the Pandemic Market Volatility Assistance Program, payments will reimburse qualied dairy farmers for 80 percent of the revenue difference per month based on an annual production of up to 5 million pounds of milk marketed and on uid milk sales from July through December 2020. The payment rate will vary by region based on the actual losses on pooled milk related to price volatility. USDA will make payments through agreements with independent handlers and cooperatives. Handlers and cooperatives will distribute the monies on the same basis July - December 2020 payments were made to their dairy farmer suppliers and a formula set by USDA. USDA will reimburse handlers and cooperatives for allowed administrative costs. USDA will contact eligible handlers and cooperatives to notify them of the opportunity to participate in the Program. USDA will distribute payments to participating handlers within 60 days of entering into an agreement. Once funding is provided, a handler will have 30 days to distribute monies to qualifying dairy farmers. As part of the program, handlers also will provide virtual or in-person education to dairy farmers on a variety of dairy topics available from USDA or other sources. A handler will have until March 1, 2022 to directly provide educational opportunities to dairy farmers. Additional details about the program are available and will be updated at the AMS Dairy Program website. The program is part of $6 billion of pandemic assistance USDA announced in March to address a number of gaps and disparities in previous rounds of assistance. Other pandemic assistance to dairy farmers includes $400 million for a new Dairy Donation Program to address food insecurity and mitigate food waste and loss; and $580 million for Supplemental Dairy Margin Coverage for small and medium farms. Outside the pandemic assistance, USDA will also make improvements to the Dairy Margin Coverage safety net program updating the feed cost formula to better reect the actual cost dairy farmers pay for high quality alfalfa. This change will be retroactive to January 2020 and is expected to provide additional retroactive payments of about $100 million for 2020 and 2021. Unlike the pandemic assistance, this change will also be part of the permanent safety net and USDA estimates it will average about $80 million per year or approximately $800 million over ten years for dairy headed into the upcoming Farm Bill. Full details on these additional actions to support dairy farmers will be provided when regulations are published in the coming weeks. Dairy farmers should wait until these details are available to contact their local USDA Service Center for more information.
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USDA offers livestock producers drought assistance Emergency haying, grazing of CRP may be available By Steve Frericks
County Executive Director Stearns County FSA Office
Fall harvest will quickly be upon us. Here at the Farm Service Agency, we understand the stress of trying to nd enough feed to keep livestock fed this forthcoming year because of the current drought conditions. Mother Nature has thrown a curve ball this year forcing producers to think outside the box. Below are a few options that can potentially help during these difcult times. Most importantly, stay safe working through harvest. Take the extra time needed, get sleep and pay attention to details to avoid any injury. Be proud of what you have accomplished with less than ideal conditions. The FSA announced that ranchers and livestock producers can apply for assistance from the Livestock Forage Program for grazing losses incurred in 2021. Drought conditions in eligible counties have triggered availability of the LFP. The LFP provides compensation to livestock producers who have suffered grazing losses due to drought. We encourage producers to contact an FSA ofce for an appointment and to learn what records they need to have on hand in order to apply for assistance.
The program covers eligible full season improved pasture, warm season improved pasture, cool season improved pasture, native pasture, forage sorghum, short season small grains, long season small grains, annual crabgrass and annual ryegrass. For losses due to drought, an eligible livestock producer must own or lease grazing land or pastureland physically located in a county meeting drought intensity criteria rated by the U.S. Drought Monitor. A map of eligible counties may be found on the FSA website. Eligible livestock include alpacas, beef cattle, buffalo/bison, beefalo, dairy cattle, deer, elk, emus, equine, goats, llamas, reindeer or sheep that have been or would have been grazing the eligible grazing land or pastureland during the normal grazing period. Producers must provide a completed application and supporting documents to their FSA ofce within 30 calendar days after the end of the calendar year in which the grazing loss occurred. Applicants should collect records documenting their losses and evidence that the grazing land or pastureland is owned or leased. Additional supporting documents include federal grazing permits and contract grower agreements. Livestock producers must complete the LFP application and required supporting documentation no later than Jan. 31, 2022, for losses that occurred throughout 2021. For more information, contact a FSA county ofce by phone or visit farmers.gov/recover.
Haying and grazing of Conservation Reserve Program acres is authorized under certain conditions to provide emergency relief to livestock producers due to certain natural disasters. Drought conditions are tough for livestock producers, but emergency haying and grazing use of CRP acres can provide temporary relief to these producers. Emergency haying and grazing of CRP acres may be authorized within a county to provide relief to livestock producers in areas affected by a severe drought or similar natural disaster. Emergency haying and grazing status is reviewed and authorized each Thursday using the U.S. Drought Monitor. Counties are eligible for emergency haying and grazing due to drought conditions
on a county by county basis, when a county is designated as level D2 according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. CRP contract holders who would like to use this option must contact the county FSA ofce prior to conducting any haying or grazing activity and receive written approval. To date, 61 counties in Minnesota have triggered eligibility for emergency haying and grazing on CRP acres. A list by state and map of eligible counties are updated weekly and available on FSA’s website. Producers who do not meet the drought monitor qualications but have a 40% loss of forage production may also be eligible for emergency haying Turn to FSA | Page 26
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A summer day to remember Summer has always out four teams in the playbeen my favorite seaoffs, two of which were son. As a kid, it meant no ranked in the Top 10 for school. Of course, that Division 2. meant more work on the Despite our epic perfarm, but I didn’t mind. formance in the playoffs, It was better than being we were given the lowstuck inside all day. As est seeding at state. Two an adult, it also means no of the teams we would school – for my kids that face hadn’t lost a game all is. And that means we get year. We were the underto spend more time todog. But that’s OK – evBy Stacey Smart gether as a family making eryone loves an underdog. Staff Writer memories to last a lifeWe have one softball time. team at Catholic MemoThe highlight of my summer this rial; therefore, everyone plays on varyear was watching my daughter’s sity. We have 13 players. We play in the high school softball team win the Di- Classic 8 conference against all Divivision 2 state championship, making sion 1 schools. These are high schools June 30 one of the most exciting days where 70-plus girls might be trying out ever. Playing at state is a once-in-a-life- for the team. They have a lot of talent time opportunity for many. And to win to pick from, and some of the schools it all is even more of a rarity. have three or four softball teams. We Felicity has played on Catholic Me- have one. There are no cuts. We don’t morial High School’s varsity fastpitch have that luxury. Our record was 15-9 softball team since she was a freshman. going into the playoffs. As a junior this year, she played a vaCatholic Memorial was not expectriety of ineld positions before nding ed to win state, so they had nothing to her niche in left eld. lose. No perfect record to try and preHer team started off the season a bit serve. No top seeding to defend. The rough going 0-4 in their conference. No other teams underestimated what our one had played high school softball in girls were capable of. They play some nearly two years, and four of our start- great defense and are hot at the plate, ers, being freshmen and sophomores, too, looking to hit not walk. In fact, we had never seen varsity competition be- had the No. 1 and No. 2 hitters in the fore. state on our team. But it was their year. Catholic MeNow back to June 30. The exmorial picked up steam and won 17 of citement level was unparalleled, and its last 20 games before heading off to nerves were high as us parents, who the state tournament, including wiping were wearing matching state bound T-
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shirts, waved around fat heads of our daughters and cheered at the top of our lungs. We were joined by other family members, friends and students who came to cheer on the Catholic Memorial Crusaders. That day was the stuff movies are made of. The rst game came down to the last strike. It was the bottom of the seventh inning. We were up by one run, and the other team was up to bat. The bases were loaded with two outs and a full count on the batter with the winning run at second. (This is equivalent to the ninth inning in Major League Baseball as high school softball plays seven innings.) Our hearts exploded in anticipation as we waited for the next pitch. Strike three. We won the state semi-nal 4-3 and would be playing in the state championship game at 6 p.m. This nal game of the season was just as dramatic – maybe more so because the weather also played a factor. Two rain delays and a lightning delay set the game back about two hours, which took it late into the evening. After the third delay, a rainbow appeared directly over the eld, and we knew it was going to be a good night. My daughter made a leaping catch in left eld in the rst inning that prevented runs from scoring. And later on, she made another great catch under the lights to save additional runs. The two teams took turns leading all the way to the last inning. It was edge-of-your-seat action, and we were the team down by one run going into the top of the seventh. Catholic Memo-
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The 2021 Dane County Dairy Breakfast turned out to be a wonderful event. We all had nervous energy before the event, getting things tidy and making sure we had done as much as we could to be prepared for the big day. Duane mowed the grass in the eld road through the corn eld that was going to be the entrance to the farm. We all felt that was a neat way to come to the breakfast. Most people have never experienced anything like it. The day before the breakfast, Kristin Olson from the dairy promotion committee and I participated in a live interview By Tina Hinchley with Madison News 3 to Farmer & Columnist promote the event. This segment was to highlight the return of the Dane County Dairy Breakfast that was canceled in 2020 and to showcase our cows, calves, the robots and mention the mask mandate for Dane County. We shared what precautions were going to be in place and that the mobile vaccine clinic would be at the farm. There were four segments, and Kristen had everything prepared to discuss. Not long after the early morning interviews nished, volunteers began to arrive to set up tents, tables and to drop off trailers and displays. Antique tractors from the neighbors lined the driveway with a great display for tractor lovers of all ages. Everyone was buzzing around all day and in to the evening to get things prepared for the next day. It was so hard to fall asleep knowing that in a few hours we would be out getting the nishing touches done. Anna and I went out early to put bedding in the dairy barn, loang shed and freestall barn to make sure everything was looking great. Duane mixed feed for the cows and heifers, and helped get tractors on the wagons that would haul breakfast goers from the eld to the ticket area. Volunteers arrived before the sun came up to start cooking breakfast. The sky was overcast, and there were a few raindrops to control the dust. But, the sun came out, and it was a great day. The breakfast consisted of two pancakes, a scoop of cheesy eggs, two types of cheese or string cheese, Yodelay yogurt, white or chocolate milk, coffee and the regular xings. Oh, I almost forgot dessert: delicious vanilla or salty cow ice cream from Sassy Cow Creamery. Everything was delicious, and nobody left hungry. After breakfast, guests could shake and make their own butter, and play games and activities to learn about the dairy industry and how milk is produced. Kids 13 years and younger could participate in the scavenger hunt around the farm to see and learn dairy facts with a chance to win a T-shirt. That adventure took the kids all around the farm and many of the other agricultural products that were on display. The kids ventured by the chickens, ducks, turkeys and even found the kittens that were by the calves. Yahara Pride Farms and a number of other partners teamed up to present the Farmers Protecting Water Quality tent. Kids planted a seed to take home while their parents learned about the efforts of farmers and community partners in Dane County to work hard to promote water quality. Any opportunity to share the positive impact that farmers are doing in their communities gets consumers to re-think and come to a better conclusion about farming. Near the entertainment stage, the Down From The Hills bluegrass band played and entertained many while they took a break and tapped their feet.
Pam Jahnke, farm director of the Wisconsin Farm Report, introduced our family and asked us a few questions regarding farm tours, our crops and what our robots and the technology have done for our family. Pam presented Alice in Dairyland Julia Nunes, who has been Alice for two years due to the pandemic. She is also from a farm that has robots so it was interesting for everyone to hear her speak about her family farm. Next up was Cayley VandeBerg, the Wisconsin Fairest of the Fairs. Before I knew it, the volunteers were picking up and packing things away. It was already 11:30 a.m., and the morning had own by. There were so many people who came to the breakfast, but I was only able to visit with a few here and there. I wanted it to last longer. All my kids came over as we were saying goodbye to our neighbors and friends but also new
friends we met during the breakfast. By the time we all sat down for a moment, a rush of good feelings and also exhaustion came over us. It is a lot of work, but events like these can only happen when people come together to create something very special for others to see and experience. Dairy breakfasts are about sharing our farms with others who otherwise would never have an opportunity to learn about what we do, how we live and what we love. They are a living connection with our communities, and we must never let the dairy breakfasts end. 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.
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Dairy calves commonly experience painful disbudding procedures as a part of the standard of care. Approximately half (52%) of pre-weaned dairy calves are disbudded prior to 8 weeks of age, but only 28% of disbudded calves are given pain mitigation therapies for the procedure. Furthermore, a survey of 189 organic dairies in the U.S. indicated that only 26% use a local analgesic, non-steroidal anti-inammatory drug or sedation to relieve pain related to horn removal procedures and conventional nongrazing herds (CON-NG; n=64. Organic-approved options for pain management are limited to substances approved by the United States Department of Agriculture National Organic Program. However, even those permitted by the National Organic Program face barriers to common use, such as opposition by farmers, difculty of administering and a lack of Food and Drug Administration approval for use in cattle. Despite this reluctance to implement pain alleviation methods, some organic farmers have expressed interest in or currently implement plant-based alternatives. The most popular pain management method is lidocaine injected as a cornual nerve block. Although lidocaine reduces pain and stress, it may be an obstacle for some producers. Lidocaine must be injected into the cornual nerve, which is very close to the eye, the injection itself causes pain, and calves feel pain once the numbing effect dissipates. There has been recent consumer and producer interest in natural, noninvasive treatments, leading producers to consider using herbal medicine. However, there is little research on the effectiveness of herbal-based medicine. White willow bark has shown to be a useful analgesia in humans, and its utility to alleviate pain in calves remains of interest, especially for organic dairy producers. Commonly, white willow bark is used in combination with other medicinal herbs and analgesics to alleviate inammatory pain in disbudded calves under organic management, but there is no evidence on whether white willow bark has any effects on inammation in calves. At the University of Minnesota West Central Research and Outreach Center dairy in Morris, we wanted to assess the effects of intravenous unixin meglumine injection (Banamine®) and three oral doses of white willow bark on inammation and salicylic acid concentrations in healthy calves. We used 25 crossbred bull calves for the study. Seven days prior to the study, calves were acclimated to handling and restraint before disbudding. During each of two treatment periods, calves were assigned to receive either 57.6 mg/kg oral white willow bark (low), 115.1 mg/kg oral white willow bark (medium), 230.3 mg/kg oral white willow bark (high), 2.2 mg/kg i.v. u-
nixin meglumine or no treatment. Flunixin meglumine lowered inammation (see Figure 1), while the white willow bark was ineffective at reducing inammation and achieving a minimum plasma salicylic acid concentration necessary for analgesia in calves. The estimated amount of salicin needed to achieve analgesia in calves is quite large considering that white willow bark has a minute amount of salicin. Even if a standardized white willow bark extract, such as a 15% salicin product was used, it would have to be given at a total dose of approximately 6,933 to 9,707 mg/kg (equivalent to 1,040 to 1,456 mg/kg of salicin). This dose could potentially be given over one to three days in drinking water or milk as demonstrated with aspirin in other studies. However, this method may be impracticable considering time and nancial constraints. Furthermore, there is currently no evidentiary support on whether white willow bark at high doses given over several days has any effect on inammation in calves. Results of this study indicate that the white willow bark doses used in this experiment are unsuitable for producing analgesia in calves. Flunixin meglumine lowered inammation, while the white willow bark was ineffective at reducing inammation. In the future, this research project will look at additional alternative methods for disbudding and pain management and provide scientic evidence to producers.
Figure 1. Flunixin reduced inammaƟon compared to white willow bark in dairy bull calves
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One seat, one rider If a piece of equipment only has one seat, the driver’s seat, then the driver should be the only one on that piece of machinery. The only exception to this rule is if a tractor or combine has a buddy seat that is meant for a temporary additional rider. Children love to go for rides but be strict and say no if there is only one seat. Tough love keeps kids safe. Always tell someone where you are working If you are going to go disc the back 40, then let someone know where you will be, should something happen or just to check in to make sure you are OK. If you move to a different eld, update them on your status. Cell phones and two-way radios are fabulous communication tools. Do not take shortcuts They will come back to haunt you. Jumping across a moving PTO or trying to unclog the chopper or baler while it is running are probably not the best ideas if you would like to keep your limbs. Take the extra few seconds to shut off moving parts or engines. Be aware of your surroundings Know where children or workers are before moving machinery. Know where eld approaches, tile inlets, trees, barns, sheds, vehicles, drainage ditches and buffer strips are located and make sure your help knows too. Having to replace machinery parts or x tile inlets is never a cheap or fun task. Eat, drink, sleep Fatigue can sneak up on a person and pretty soon one is sleeping behind the wheel. Take a 20-minute nap and keep a jug of water in the tractor to stay hydrated. Have someone bring lunch or supper and keep a few healthy snacks (apples, granola bars, etc.) on hand for an energy boost. Also, get out of the tractor once in a while for some fresh air and to stretch. Do not wear loose clothing or strings Too often we hear about a farmer getting caught in an auger or PTO because of their clothing. Take off the baggy sweatshirt or remove hood strings before working in these conditions. Cut the fringes off pants and repair holes in jeans. Use machinery lights and ashers Many road drivers do not heed to farm machinery as they should so be proactive and make sure they can at least see your lights. If your machinery has poor or no lights, only travel on roads during daylight hours and have someone follow behind in a vehicle with their ashers on. Wear appropriate protective gear Wear a dust mask, and do not enter a grain bin without a safety harness. Every year we hear about farmers getting trapped in grain bins. Grain is not safe to walk across, especially when it is in a bin and 20 feet deep. If one absolutely has to enter a grain bin, wear a safety harness and have another person outside the bin to be the spotter. Also, grain gets dusty so wear respiratory protection; your lungs and airways will thank you. Farmers, stay safe out there in the elds and on the roads. Happy harvest.
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Lately I ponder how it would be If each child had come with a handbook It could be delivered after their birth I would surely take more than a quick look
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The book about my dear 12-year-old Dane Would be colorful and thick Notes about his need to have something in his hands From yarn to work with, or magnets that form and stick
Ira’s book would warn of the trials of being 14 Able to work, drive and play football But still able to farm with his Ertl toys When he needs a break from it all
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Many parts of the Midwest faced moderate to severe drought this summer, leading to substandard hay growth and early corn silage harvest. Many of these areas received recent rains, but it is too late to impact total yields for hay and corn silage this harvest season, leaving some Something to Ruminate On farms scrambling to nd forage alternatives. With an early corn silage harvest, some may be able to use recent moisture for a fall cereal grain crop. Small grain forages, such as spring-planted oats or an oats-andpeas mix, have been a part of our forage inventories for decades, By Barry Visser but now we are also Nutritionist seeing more creative uses and applications of small grain forages. It is increasingly common to see oats planted mid-summer and harvested in the fall or winter triticale or winter rye planted in the fall and harvested the following spring. While there is nothing nutritionally unique about feeding small grain forages to lactating dairy cows, a few subtle nuances can help maximize small grain forage quality.
Soil fertility signicantly impacts forage quality Unlike its minor inuence on corn and alfalfa silage quality, soil fertility can have a rather dramatic effect on the crude protein, potassium and magnesium content of small grain forages. Small grain forages grown without adequate nitrogen fertility will often be 3 to 5 percentage units lower in crude protein as compared to small grain forages with adequate nitrogen fertility. In addition, small grain forages are annual grasses and are luxury consumers of potassium from the soil.
As such, small grain forages can be widely variable in potassium content, ranging from 1.5% to 3.5%. That variation becomes important if the small grain forage is going to be used in the prefresh diet because the potassium content affects the dietary cation-anion difference (DCAD). A similar situation is true for the magnesium content of small grain forages, which is dependent on the liming history and pH of the soil. Magnesium levels in small grain forages can range from 0.10% to 0.30%, depending on soil magnesium status. Cows fed transition diets low in magnesium are more susceptible to transition tetany. Because soil fertility can affect mineral content of small grain forages, sending samples to the laboratory for complete wet chemistry mineral analysis is always a good practice.
Maturity also plays key role The energy and ber content of small grain forages are highly variable and primarily dependent on the stage of maturity at harvest. The harvest stage is most often determined by the need to get the crop off the eld to allow a subsequent crop to be planted or developed. When small grain forages are harvested in the vegetative stages, it is not uncommon to observe forages with less than 45% neutral detergent ber (NDF). Similarly, winter triticale and rye harvested the following spring can have low NDF content. Small grain forages harvested in the vegetative stages with low NDF content are ideal candidates for lactating cow diets. Small grain forages also can be harvested after seed head emergence, and these forages will have NDF content similar to straw. Mature small grain forages will have NDF greater than 60% and make desirable dry cow and heifer feed. The quality of NDF in small grain forages is also highly variable and changes rapidly as plants mature. The uNDF240 content of small grain forages harvested at early maturities can be as low as 10% of dry matter but when harvested at mature stages, uNDF240 can rise to more than 30%
of dry matter. Likewise, the rates of NDF digestibility fall dramatically with advancing maturity. One exception to this maturity challenge with small grain forages is oats planted mid- to late-summer and harvested in the fall. Oats growing under conditions of diminishing day length develop very differently than oats planted in the spring and grown under conditions of expanding day length. Fall oats do not lignify to the same extent nor do they fully develop seed, resulting in very high sugar content (we have observed fall oats with greater than 15% sugars) and extremely high NDF digestibility potential. Find the right t It would be easier if we could say that one species of small grain forages is best for lactating cows and another species should be reserved for other animals. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Quality of these
Thi on top off a year with This, ih a wide array of weather challenges and field conditions, means that what works for one farm will not work for another. fforages varies i greatly l with i h soil il ffertility ili and d plant l maturity. This, on top of a year with a wide array of weather challenges and eld conditions, means that what works for one farm will not work for another. Work closely with your nutritionist to evaluate the quality of your forages, manage your inventories, and feed the forages that best t both your cropping system and your different groups of animals. Barry Visser is a nutritionist for Vita Plus.
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My mind has been a jumble of thoughts and ideas for this week’s article. There is so much to say, and yet, I struggle to nd the right words and images. In ve days, we lost our daughter-in-law, my uncle and my younger sister. John and Nancy’s deaths were blessings for they were struggling with health issues. The death of Sara was unexpected, shocking and tragic for someone so young. We have all been in a daze and dealing with grief in our own ways. Never have I been so thankful for the routine of milking and chores. We are up to 50 head and have hit a break in our calving schedule for a few weeks. Perfect timing to put up fourth crop hay and chop dry land corn silage. As we work our way down the barn, the pulsators keep a steady beat to the silence as we travel through our thoughts and memories, stopping to enjoy a moment never to happen again, but thank-
ful for the memory. An occasional deep exhale signals another step on our journey to healing. My mantra this year is, “Be present in the moment.” My image of this goal was to enjoy the sunrises and sunsets with more purpose and awe. To savor time playing with our grandchildren in laughter, tickles and giggles. To treasure having family gathered around a table together. I have since discovered it also means to stand in silence and just wait, to pause and be present. While I’m celebrating the joys, my mind wants to linger and stay put. While I’m in the middle of grief and sorrow, my mind wants to race or skip through this section and start working on the next step, asking questions that need answers – anything that will move me out of the present moment. Kind of like skipping liver and onions for dinner and heading straight for the peach pie for dessert.
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I’m discovering I don’t need to camp out in sorrow and sadness, but that I must linger and be present for the moment before I move forward. For when we come out on the other side of this long, dark valley, we can celebrate Just Thinking Out Loud the joys of life and the special moments with a renewed appetite. For some reason, I’ve been thinking about Noah’s Ark quite a bit lately. It certainly isn’t because we have had so much extra rain. We all know Noah survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain, but we forget that By Natalie Schmitt isn’t the end of the stoColumnist ry. Once the rains stop, Noah had to wait for the waters to recede revealing dry land once again. There was no rushing through this process or journey. Noah just had to wait and be present. When it was all over, God promised Noah to never ood the world again. A sign of his promise was a rainbow. Warm, soft gentle rains have nally found our farm in the past few days. A little late for the crops but much needed to restore the land and our souls. I mix and ll the calf bottles outside in the rain. Out of the blue, a tidal wave of emotions and tears roll over me, catching me off guard. Tears and rain drops drip off my chin. Then as quickly as it came, it subsides and I nd myself drifting between sorrow and glimpses of joy in the blessings of having these special people in our family. As I pull my wagon lled with calf bottles and grain to the domes, I realize it has stopped raining. I look back to the barn and lose it. Here, a perfectly full and bright rainbow touching down just behind the barn arching to the back side of the house where we hosted Michael and Sara’s wedding rehearsal dinner two years ago; two places where Sara left her heart. The outpouring of prayers these last few weeks have surrounded us like a family quilt on a snowy day – full of comfort, warmth and love. I don’t know where I found this interpretation of a prayer, but it has hit close to home. “Prayer doesn’t only happen when we kneel or put our hands together focusing on things we expect from God. Prayers are thinking positive and wishing good for others. When you hug a friend. That’s a prayer. When you cook something to nourish family and friends. That’s a prayer. When we send off our loved ones saying, ‘Drive safely,’ or, ‘Be safe,’ that is a prayer. When we forgive someone that is prayer. Prayer is a vibration, a feeling, a thought, an action. Prayer is the voice of love, friendship and genuine relationships. Prayers are an expression of our silent being. Keep praying always.” Thank you for all of your prayers and hugs for our families. We are so blessed to be present in this moment together. As their four children pursue dairy careers off the family farm, Natalie and Mark are starting a new adventure of milking registered Holsteins just because they like good cows on their farm north of Rice, Minnesota.
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A few weeks ago, Dan bumped into me in the milk house. “Whoops. Is that your bad shoulder?” he immediately asked. “Nope,” I replied. “I don’t have a bad shoulder anymore.” After almost two years with a shoulder injury, saying those words out loud gives me all the feels. And now that I’m on the other side, I have a great appreciation for all the lessons I learned during recovery. Dairy Good Life The most important lesson I learned was the importance of having concrete goals. Shortly after my rotator cuff tears and frozen shoulder were diagnosed, I read a study that said most patients diagnosed with frozen shoulder only regain 80% of their shoulder function. I was horried. Glen said, “Hey, 80% is better than none.” But 80% was not acceptable to me. I wanted full use of my shoulder. When my new physical therapist asked me what my goals for my shoulder were, I replied without hesitation: “Carry a milker with my left hand. Do a cartwheel. And swim front crawl.” The second lesson I learned is that the barn is the By Sadie Frericks best place for physical therapy. Columnist Early in the rst December after the attack, I fell a couple times on the ice and took a couple kicks from cows that jarred my shoulder. Each of those jars sent me backward both in physical therapy and psychologically. One of my care providers suggested I take a break from barn chores for a couple months to allow my shoulder to heal. Willing to do anything to help my shoulder, I agreed. Two months later, my shoulder recovery had progressed a little, but I was mentally done with staying out of the barn. I returned to milking and decided to use milking as my physical therapy. I started out using my right hand to hold my left arm up enough to prep cows. Every time I reached up to pull the cane out of the pipeline with my right hand, I reached up as far as I could with my left hand. It wasn’t long before I could reach the pipeline. Then, I started pushing against the pipeline to build strength. I kept looking for ways to stretch and strengthen my shoulder while milking. Due to the sheer number of repetitions of each exercise I did, my shoulder strength and mobility began improving by leaps and bounds. About that time, my physical therapy appointments were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, because my injury was not considered critical. I continued with my barn physical therapy and the progress kept coming. Small victories, like being able to reach behind my back to put my dipper back in its holster, turned into big victories: rst, being able to carry a milker again with my left arm, and then being able to lift it up to the pipeline. The third lesson I learned – do your own research – played an important role during this time as well. I did a ton of Googling and reading about shoulder function, shoulder injuries and recovery strategies. I researched – and tried – dozens of different therapies: passive stretching, assisted stretching, isometric strengthening, traditional strengthening, acupuncture, massage therapy, heat therapy, infrared light therapy, injections, prescription NSAIDs, CBD oil, etc. Several months into recovery, I developed new pain in the front of my shoulder that radiated down into my bicep. Googling led me to an answer and a solution: trigger point therapy. Trigger point therapy turned out to be one of the most useful modalities I tried. For me, understanding what was wrong and nding solutions were important parts of my recovery. The last lessons might be the most important: Be patient. Be brave. Keep trying. Some things in life can’t be rushed. Shoulder injury recovery denitely falls into that category. When I felt strong enough this spring to try swimming front crawl, I started with 25 yards of front crawl at a time. Research suggested swimming until pain grew to a 3 (out of 10 on the pain scale) then stopping for that session. It took a lot of patience to work back up to crawling a half-mile. When I felt strong enough to try doing a cartwheel again, I summoned up all of my bravery. There was no way to ease into doing a cartwheel again. I had been doing handstands again, but they’re not the same as the impact and one-arm support needed for a cartwheel. I reminded myself that the worst that would happen is I would fall on my head. I took a deep breath, gave it a try, and I did it. Without pain. The feeling of victory in that moment was incredible. Two weeks ago, I completed my second triathlon of the season. I swam, biked, and ran without any pain. Two years ago, when I had to withdraw from the race due to my injuries, I thought racing again might never happen. Many times during recovery, I thought the same thing. At one point, I tried to convince myself I would be OK if I never swam front crawl again or did a cartwheel again. But deep down, I knew I had to keep trying. I couldn’t give up on my goals. Whatever your goals are, be patient, be brave, and keep trying. Sadie and her husband, Glen, milk 100 cows near Melrose, Minnesota. They have three children – Dan, 13, Monika, 11, and Daphne, 7. Sadie also writes a blog at www.dairygoodlife.com. She can be reached at sadiefrericks@gmail.com.
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Wisconsin youth compete at 4-H judging contest Siemers, Manitowoc counties will compete at World Dairy Expo By Danielle Nauman danielle.n@dairystar.com
FOND DU LAC, Wis. – Wisconsin 4-H’ers got back into the swing of dairy judging as they participated in the state 4-H dairy judging contest Aug. 9 in Fond du Lac. Senior contestants vied for the opportunity to represent Wisconsin at one of three national 4-H judging contests later this fall. The contest was held in conjunction with the Midwest Ayrshire and Milking Shorthorn Show and included 96 competitors. 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 high-school aged members. The youth evaluated 10 cow and heifer classes of Holsteins, Ayrshires, Milking Shorthorns and Jerseys. In the senior division, contestants delivered four sets of oral reasons while junior participants answered type analysis questions on four classes. TAQ questions are designed to help
youth recognize signicant functional type traits and assist in developing a placing for the class. The team from Manitowoc County comprised of Lauren Siemers, Clarissa Ulness, Emma Vos and Jenna Gries will represent Wisconsin at the National 4-H Dairy Cattle Judging Contest at World Dairy Expo in Madison. The team, coached by Angie Ulness and Paul Siemers, nished with a dominating 94-point lead over their nearest competitor. Lauren Siemers won rst place in the senior division and placed third in reasons. Clarissa Ulness placed fth overall and eighth in reasons, and Emma Vos placed sixth overall. “I am very excited to be able to judge at Expo,” Lauren Siemers said. “I went into the contest with the goal of placing in the top ve. I’m really glad my team was able to win, and I am able to go with a great group of women that have been my friends for years. My team is what I enjoy most about judging.” This year marks Siemers’ last year of eligibility for the 4-H contest, which she said
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The senior team from Manitowoc County – (from leŌ) coach Angie Ulness, Clarissa Ulness, Emma Vos, Jenna Gries, Lauren Siemers and coach Paul Siemers – won the state 4-H dairy judging contest Aug. 9 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. They will represent Wisconsin at the NaƟonal 4-H Judging Contest Sept. 27 at World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin. makes her accomplishments bittersweet. She said she has been attending dairy judging practices for over 10 years. “My dad has coached dairy judging for as long as I can remember, so I started going to practices when I was 7 or 8 years old,” Siemers said. “My family has always looked at the dairy project as a package deal. In order to show and have our animals at the farm, we had to do everything. My dad really pushed me through it.”
While she now enjoys the competitive aspect of dairy judging, evaluating dairy cattle is not something that has always come easy to Siemers. “There were a couple of years I was pretty fed up with it,” she said. “I have not always been successful at judging. Starting to give reasons is what helped me out. It made me think through my placings more. That is when dairy judging really started to click for me, when I had to defend my
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The Top 10 judging contestants – (in order from leŌ) Lauren Siemers, Manitowoc County; Sarah Hagenow, Columbia County; Brooke Hammann, Barron County; Emma Dorshorst, Wood County; Clarissa Ulness, Manitowoc County; Emma Vos, Manitowoc County; Abigail Powers, Dunn County; Brady Bleck, Sheboygan County; Justyne Frisle, Barron County; and Sophia Kamm, St. Croix County – are recognized in the Wisconsin State 4-H Judging Contest. Forty-two senior contestants parƟcipated in the contest. Hailey Zernicke and Kaylee Ferfecki. Sarah Hagenow from Columbia County walked away with top honors in the oral reasons portion of the contest, scoring 191 points out of a possible 200. Winning the oral reasons competition is a feat she has accomplished three times throughout her 4-H dairy judging career. Hagenow was also the secondhigh individual in the contest. Rounding out the remaining spots in the overall Top 10 were Brooke Hammann of Barron County in third place; Emma Dorshorst of Wood County in fourth; Abigail Powers of Dunn County in seventh; Brady Bleck of Sheboygan County in eighth; Justyne Frisle of Barron County in ninth; and Sophia Kamm of St. Croix County in 10th. Wisconsin 4-H sends the top four senior individuals who were not on one of the top two teams to the North American International Livestock Exposition Youth Dairy Judging Contest in Louisville, Kentucky, in November. Hagenow and Hammann have participated in the NAILE contest and are ineligible to attend, allowing for Dorshorst, Powers, Bleck and Frisle to comprise Wisconsin’s NAILE team. For the junior division, the team from Fond du Lac County came out on top, just seven points ahead of the
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Women In Dairy Angela Peirick Watertown, Wisconsin Dodge County 86 cows Family: My husband, Danny, and I have three sons – Bentley, Dakota and Easton. We farm with Bev and Ralph Peirick (my in-laws), Danny’s cousin, Josh Peirick (wife, Caitlin and daughter, Olivia), and Danny’s brother and sister-in-law, Nick and Mandy Peirick. Tell us about your farm. Danny and I own 86 cows that are housed at T & R Dairy Farm LLC, which is owned by Ralph and Bev Peirick and Tony and Shawn Peirick. T & R Dairy Farm consists of 200 cows with a rolling herd average of 25,000 pounds of milk. We farm around 1,200 acres and grow corn, alfalfa, soybeans, wheat and rye. We also do some custom jobs for the neighboring farms in the area. This includes planting, spraying and chopping. What is the busiest time of day for you? Early morning and early evenings are my busiest times of the day as I am outside doing my chores. We have a few box stalls in the barn where some cows go to get a little extra TLC. I will shovel out the stalls, feed and water those cows. I will pop in and out of the parlor to help Danny milk. I sometimes assist with calving. I also have a little barn (was once the original farmhouse when Grandpa Peirick bought the property) where I raise my few registered calves and show animals. When you get a spare moment, what do you do? In my spare time, I am usually cleaning up after my three boys or enjoying my time in my garden tending to my owers and plants. I enjoy canning and preserving, and especially eating my nished products. Tell us about your most memorable experience working on the farm. Danny, Getting out and socializing is pretty awesome too. I’ve met many nice people who Mandy and I took over milking for Tony April 1, 2009. I remember being so ner- have helped me and answered any questions I may have. vous that I was going to do something wrong. I had Danny watch me place the units on all of the cows during that milking to make sure I didn’t mess anything up. How do you stay connected with others in the industry? I like to chat with the representatives who show up at the farm to drop off supplies or have products to What have you enjoyed most about dairy farming or your tie to the dairy sell. I also enjoy going to cattle shows to watch and learn new techniques. I like industry? I absolutely love being around the animals. I have loved animals my chatting with exhibitors afterward to see what sires they are using and what sorts whole life, and working with them is just a dream come true. After starting to milk of rations they are feeding to their show animals. Going to cattle sales and shows in 2009, I decided I wanted to start my own herd, so I bought two heifers of my and meeting other farmers is neat too. There is so much you can learn just by inown in 2010, and my family lines are aspiring well. I enjoy taking my cattle to the troducing yourself. county fair to lead them around and show off the kind of cattle I enjoy breeding. Who is someone in the industry who has inspired you? Danny has always been an inspiration for me. I married into the dairy life. I came from horses when I was younger, so Danny would always tease me and say that I would some day join the cow side which did eventually happen. His love for farming is inspiring. He works so hard, and I hope we can teach our boys to love something just as much.
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A supreme showman not once, but twice Nickels wins it all again at Wisconsin State Fair By Stacey Smart
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WATERTOWN, Wis. – Winning supreme showmanship at the Wisconsin State Fair is hard enough to do one time, yet alone two. But on Aug. 5, Kylie Nickels became the second person to accomplish this feat at the Wisconsin State Fair junior show at the halter of her Red and White fall calf, Lyn-Vale Warrior Rose-Red. “I was really surprised when I won,” Nickels said. “One of my strongest competitors was there, and I was very nervous and stressed that morning.” The 20-year-old from Watertown has been showing cattle since she was 4 years old, starting at Dodge County Fair’s little britches show. Nickels’ showmanship abilities progressed dramatically. “I went from being a very visibly tense showman to being more relaxed and comfortable with my animal,” Nickels said. “I got to where I looked smooth in the ring.” Nickels won the supreme showmanship honor for the rst time in 2019 with a Jersey winter yearling. In addition to two consecutive supreme showmanship wins, Nickels has also won her age division for showmanship ve times at the state fair. Nickels took rst place in the 19-year-old showmanship class this year, beating out more than 20 exhibitors before entering the supreme showmanship class with the winners of each age division. Nickels said demonstrating knowledge of her animal’s shortcomings helped her stand out in the class. “Conrmation wise, you have to own up to your animal’s faults and lead her out of that,” Nickels said. “When the judge asked me what my heifer’s faults were, I told her. Then she asked how I would x those faults. I told her my heifer does not have the best feet and legs, so I wouldn’t switch her feet around during an actual show because that wouldn’t play to her strengths.” During her reasons, the judge said Nickels was alert and serious but did not overshow her animal. “My heifer cooperates really well,” Nickels said. “She’s an absolute sweetheart to work with and that helps a lot.” Nickels cited overall cleanliness as another important factor and said she follows a strict show program at
home. During show 15 show heifers. During the summer, season, Nickels Nickels works at shows and sales carwashes her animals ing for and tting animals all over the every night and has Midwest. Nickels said she also spends been spending three time at Troy and Sarah Wendorf’s farm. hours per day with “My interest in cattle came from them since May. working at the Wendorfs’ place,” Nick“I put a lot of els said. “The Wendorf family has time into this,” been a mentor to me and my brother. she said. “I wash, We started working with them when lead and routinely we were 5 or 6 years old. They gave clip for good hair us animals to show, and we tied with growth. I also monthem. Now we’re helping their kids at itor their diet and shows.” clean their pen evNickels’ parents, Tom and Penni, ery night.” grew up on farms but never showed Nickels’ facattle. However, they fully supported vorite thing about their children’s desire to show. showing cattle “I want to thank my parents for is the work that that,” Nickels said. “They were more goes on behind the than happy to let me and my brother scenes. show. They’ve always been there for “Anyone can us. They also take care of our animals take a halter and when we’re not at home.” lead an animal in When it comes to offering advice to the ring,” she said. novice showmen, Nickels said, “Don’t “It’s knowing how be afraid. Just do it. Stay calm even if to do the work at your animal is not cooperating and try home every sinPHOTO SUBMITTED to lead her the best you can. The more gle day that really Kylie Nickels wins supreme dairy showman with tense you get, the more tense the animal makes a difference. Lyn-Vale Warrior Rose-Red Aug. 5 at the Wisconsin gets. In the beginning, you might end It’s more rewarding State Fair. She is pictured with her parents, Tom and up being in last place. But if you work to win with an anihard, it will pan out at some point. My mal you’ve put the Penni Nickels, of Watertown, Wisconsin. brother and I started out last in every hours in preparing class. We were not discouraged. We instead of just handling the halter.” Dawson, get started in showing,” Nick- kept going.” Nickels is an experienced tter who els said. “We’ve also boarded each othNickels worked with mentors to lent her clipping talents to other junior er’s animals and helped one another out buy better genetics but stands by work members at the state fair as she helped at shows.” ethic as the most critical component of prepare their animals for the show. Nickels is a junior at the Univer- success in the show ring. “If you’re not able to clip the ani- sity of Wisconsin-Madison majoring in “Just because you have one bad mal yourself, then it must be clipped dairy science with a certicate in agri- day doesn’t mean you should give up by a family member or another junior cultural business. She works part time at on your whole dream,” she said. “Dedimember,” Nickels said. Budjon Farms in Lomira and also raises cation and hard work pay off.” Her sharp eye for cattle and expertise in the show ring combine to make Nickels a talented showman skilled in the presentation of her animals. Nickels began dairy judging as a kid – an activ6$8. &(175( 01 ity she believes built her competence in 3KRQH the area of showing. “Participating in judging was a ZZZ PPFMG FRP huge help to me,” Nickels said. “It helped develop my eye for cattle. I’m able to look for faults in an animal and determine how I can x the problem or help her out.” Nickels received $500 in prize 2014, 1764 hrs., Kernel Processor, money for winning supreme champion RWA, 3 Speed Transmission, dairy showman. By taking home suDohrman Inoculate System, preme showmanship accolades for the second time at the Wisconsin State Fair, Rear Weights, Guidance and Nickels followed in the footsteps of Harvest Lab Ready one of her mentors, Kyle Natzke. Also from Dodge County, Natzke is a two$ time supreme showmanship winner like Nickels. “Kyle helped me and my brother,
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The Torgerson family Dale (pictured) and Brenda, daughters Erin, Katy and Myle Viroqua, Wisconsin Vernon County 40 cows
What has been the best purchase you have ever made on your farm? Dale would say two things: his father’s very rst tractor, a 1130 Massey Ferguson, and the skidloader. Dale bought the tractor and restored it years after his dad had sold it and passed on. This makes the day on the farm feel like his dad is there with him. The skidloader is a back-saver, a make-life-easier machine. Chores would be a lot harder without that tool in his daily farming life.
How did you get into farming? This is Dale’s family farm; we purchased it from his mother a few years after his father’s passing. What are your thoughts and concerns about the dairy industry for the next year? The small family farm, that’s my concern. I pray and hope we can stay aoat. We are a family farm. We still believe in it. If the small dairy farm goes away, you will lose your rural communities also. What is the latest technology you implemented on your farm and the purpose for it? We purchased our own used chopper and boxes this last year to help us keep our cost down instead of hiring this work to be done. It has proven to be benecial for us so far. No, it’s not a new technology, but to us it is. What is a management practice you changed in the past year that has beneted you? We have two areas of management we have been focusing on. Our daughter, Erin, has started handling the raising of calves more and choosing the bulls for certain cows at breeding time. This gives a different view to both of these areas. The calves get more attention and a variety of bulls are chosen. She enjoys having these management tasks on her plate. What cost-saving steps have you implemented during the low milk price?
What has been your biggest accomplishment while dairy farming? Buying the family farm. Also, the accomplishment of working hard and nally becoming an organic dairy farm three years ago.
We try to handle things more on our own at the farm versus hiring it done. We have to be more self-sufcient in order to keep the costs down. If something is broke and we can manage xing it, Dale gets it xed on his own. How do you retain a good working relationship with your employees? Employees? That’s our daughters. They are our help. We have three, and they help with putting cows in, cutting hay, baling, hauling, moving heifers and pretty much everything else. We all get along. We’re family. Tell us about a skill you possess that makes dairy farming easier for you. Dale has the skills to x just about anything. He repairs his own machinery when needed, which helps a lot when you are farming. He is a wonderful father and husband. To me as a wife, that is the best skill ever.
What do you enjoy most about dairy farming? It’s our life. I work off the farm, but this is our life. We are raising our girls the right way. I love the smell of fresh cut hay, a newborn calf, watching crops grow, walking through the elds, and being able to get lost in our farm anytime I want. Life is truly beautiful here, and to us, it’s the best way to raise a family. What advice would you give other dairy farmers? Have faith, stay strong and true to yourself, and never give up. It’s a struggle, but you have to know that struggle is everywhere. When you succeed, it is all because of you. When you are done at the end of the day, it is you that did it. Be proud to carry on the dairy farm life. Not everyone gets this wonderful chance to live it.
What are your plans for your dairy in the next year and ve years? Keep moving along in farming, day by day, hoping for success all around, learning more each day and having our family working together. How do you or your family like to spend time when you are not doing chores? Well that’s a tough one. Time isn’t free, I know that. Dale likes to golf. Erin milks 100 cows off the farm for a very nice family, and she loves to go shing and spend time with her boyfriend. Katy and Myle love to jump on the trampoline, draw and go shing. I love to be home with my family. With two jobs off the farm, we don’t get too many days where we are all around. Vacation doesn’t happen here. You make that choice when you choose to run your own farm, but we wouldn’t change a thing.
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