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Volume 18, No. 17

“All dairy, all the time”™

October 22, 2016

What’s next for dairy? Basse dissects the 2017 market outlook By Jennifer Coyne jenn@dairystar.com

With the end of 2016 in sight, many in the dairy industry are watchful for what the new year will bring – Will prices stabilize? Will production continue to rise? Will world trade improve? On Oct. 12, Dan Basse, president of AgResource Company in Chicago, Ill., addressed those concerns with “Global Markets: The Impact,” a webinar hosted by Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin. The latest reports by the USDA World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) indicates projectDan Basse ed Class III milk AgResource prices at $15.80 Company to $15.90 per hundredweight (cwt.) for the remainder of 2016 and $15.55 to $16.45 per cwt. for 2017. Unless dairy policies change, the U.S. dollar further strengthens or cow numbers continue to grow, Basse is hopeful the industry could see a ceiling of $17.50 per cwt. for the upcoming year. “We wouldn’t make much, but it would be enough to stay in business,” Basse said. “We have to talk about reliable measures to make it to the ag prot cycle, which is still two or three years away.” Basse discussed three elements of the industry that will impact the plausibility of reaching the forecasted milk prices – the slumping U.S. beef industry, world trade opportunities and current structure of the U.S. dairy industry.

A Cinderella story

Sheeknoll Farms wins reserve supreme champion at WDE By Missy Mussman missy@dairystar.com

ROCHESTER, Minn. – It was a fairytale ending to a perfect show season for Sheeknoll Farm’s 6-year-old cow, Sheeknoll Durham Arrow, also known as Thomas. “After my grandpa, Vernon Hupf, passed away this summer, Thomas won grand champion at the Minnesota State Holstein Show and the Midwest Fall National Show at the Minnesota State Fair,” said Andy Sheehan. “She never lost. There was some divine intervention happening.” Grandpa Hupf must have helped Thomas nish her show

season in the same fashion, earning champion bred and owned, senior champion, grand champion and best udder of the International Holstein Show, and reserve supreme champion on Oct. 8 on the colored shavings at World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis. Andy, his wife, Juliana, and his parents, Robert and Jeannette, along with other Sheehan family members are part of Sheeknoll Farms where they milk 300 cows on two farmsites near Rochester, Minn. “I said a little prayer before I went in the showring,” Jeannette said. “I said, ‘Dad, get on my back, and lets have Turn to SHEEKNOLL | Page 6

From farm to table

Stensland family fulllls dream with on-farm creamery, retail store By Jerry Nelson

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Beef industry falls to largest yearover-year market decline From 2013 to 2015, the beef industry boomed with calf market prices reaching upwards of $500 per head; however, 2017 predictions indicate a drop to merely $100 per head. Yet packers have the largest margins on record, Basse said. “The margins are exploding and they’re not willing to pass along savings to the consumer,” Basse said. “Generally speaking, the price of a tenderloin is not much different today that it was a year ago.”

LARCHWOOD, Iowa – Some dreams take longer to realize than others. A long-term dream has just come true for members of the Stensland family, who have begun to process their milk in their new on-farm creamery. Stensland Family Farms has also opened an on-farm store and a retail outlet in Sioux Falls, S.D. “It’s been our dream to have an onfarm creamery for many years,” Doug said. “We even took tours of some onfarm creameries when the boys were

Turn to MARKETS | Page 5

Turn to STENSLAND | Page 10

JERRY NELSON/DAIRY STAR

JusƟn, holding his daughter, Rainlynn, 2, and Jason Stensland and their family recently built a creamery on their farm near Larchwood, Iowa. The Stenslands have also built an on-farm store and a retail store in Sioux Falls, S.D.

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After harvest this fall, many dairy farmers will have the ag plastic remnants from bags, piles or bales after using their crop throughout the year. In the past, it’s been a hassle to dispose of, but now there is a free solution for dairy farmers who live in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa or Illinois. Solution Plastics based in Madison, Wis., offers a free dumpster to dispose of recyclable ag plastic. Look for the story on page 3 and 5 in second section. In a constant search to eliminate operating costs, some dairy farmers are turning towards variable frequency drives By Mark Klaphake (VFDs) to increase energy efciency on the farm. Read about how the Landsverk family incorporated the technology on Editor their dairy, and the benets and challenges of doing so on pages 12-13 in rst section. Harvest is a busy time of year. We asked dairy farmers in the “From our side of the fence” feature about how roles on the farm change during the fall, and what their favorite and easy go-to meal is for their family. Check out their answers on page 16 in rst section. Along with harvest to keep the Herzog family busy each fall, the football season adds another element to their hectic schedule. One of Allen and Diane’s sons, Matt, is the starting center for the Upsala Area High School football team. We followed the family on Oct. 14 for our “Day in the life” feature while they milked cows in their two tiestall barns, combined soybeans and attended Matt’s game that evening. Read about the Herzog family on pages 16, 18-19 in second section. It was a bittersweet day for Leonard and Marge Geske on Oct. 15 when they sold their 42-cow milking herd and youngstock to beginning dairy farmer, Ken Bekius. The retiring couple from Thief River Falls, Minn., had been dairy farming 55 years on their farm that had been in the family for 125 years. Although they were sad to see the cows leave, they were happy to help another farmer get his start in the industry on his farm near Milaca, Minn. Read about their story on pages 2, 3 and 6 in third section. The farmers featured in our crop feature are in the midst of a busy fall harvest. Each of the reports from across our coverage area are quite different; some farmers are saying it’s the best soybean harvest they’ve ever had, some are leaving soybeans in the eld because it is too wet while others are in the middle of a great corn harvest. Read about it on pages 26-27 in second section.

Favorite quotes from this issue:

“I miss my cows, but I prepared myself for this. I’m just glad they went to a good home, and I hope they get a good start. I gave him my whole life’s work.” – Leonard Geske, Pages 2-3,6 Third Section

“We hope we’re treating people fairly and kindly. And, we hope when they choose to do something diﬀerent that they were impacted by the work here by being a part of the land and taking care of the animals.” – Shannon Kuball, Pages 4,9 Second Section

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By the Numbers The percentage of Denmark herds used for the commercial industry. Page 10 Third Section

Feed Quality value 289.86: Relative of Luebkes’ award-winning forage. Pages 7,9 Third Section

Dairy Star • Saturday, October 22, 2016 • Page 3

It’s all inside... FIRST SECTION

Classieds

Second Section: Pages 16, 18-19

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Brookings

Lake

Moody

McCook Minnehaha

Carver Scott

Sibley Lyon

Redwood

Nicollet Brown

Murray

Rock

Nobles

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Hennepin McLeod

Renville

Yellow Medicine

Wright

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Washinton

Chippewa

Meeker

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Kandiyohi

Pine Shelter Farms welcomes dairy industry representatives from Denmark for tour

Dakota Goodhue

Rice

Wabasha

Cottonwood Watonwan Blue Earth Waseca Steele Dodge Olmsted Jackson

Martin

Faribault

Freeborn

Mower

Winona

Fillimore

Dakota

Houston

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Miner

Deuel

Isanti

Hamlin

Pine Island

Anoka

Swift Lac Qui Parle

Codington

Benton

Stearns

Pope

Sherburne

Grant Clark

Mille Lacs

Morrison

Roberts

Day

Big Sto Stone

Third Section: Page 13 Pine

Douglas

Stevens

Star Youth: Kjersten Veiseth

Carlton

Crow Wing

Second Section: Pages 1, 10-11

Zumbrota

Aitkin

Todd Grant

Second Section: Pages 4, 9

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Ottertail

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Clay

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Waterville

Itasca

Hubbard

Norman

Clearwater

Polk

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Hutchinson

Lincoln Clay

Fricksons focus on nutrition, good footing to get cows bred First Section: Pages 18, 20

Turner

Bon Yankton Homme

Third Section: Pages 7, 9

Kuballs named Rice County Farm Family of the Year

St. Louis

Red Lake

Hendrickx balances managing organic dairy, herdsman job

Luebkes win grand champion forage producer at WDE

Lake of the Woods

Pennington

Bluffton

Mayer

A day in the life of the Herzog family

Page 19 Some Udder Stuff Pages 20-26

Roseau

Marshall

THIRD SECTION

Pages 4-5 Goeser predicts 2016 Midwest corn silage could produce more milk Pages 14-15 Kids Corner: The Weidmeyer family Pages 16-17 Dairy Calendar Page 18 Celebrating 50 years of World Dairy Expo

First Section: Pages 36

Third Section: Pages 2-3, 6

Freeport

Women In Jeans: Kim Engelmeyer

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Pages 26-27 Crop & Weather Report Pages 28-29 Carpenter wins International Junior Jersey Show Pages 30-31 Dairy Recipes

First Section: Pages 12-13 Kittson

Melrose

Pages 14-15 Dairying Around the World Pages 20-21 Lauren wins Expo Grand Champion Guernsey again after ghting for her life Page 25 Mid-American Hay Auction Results

A way to save on energy

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Pages 3,5 Midwest farmers encouraged to sign up for free plastic recycling Pages 10-11 The “Mielke” Market Weekly Page 12 Dairy markets Page 13 Area hay auction results

Fosston

Geske sells 125-yearold herd to young farmer

Pipestone

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ConƟnued from MARKETS | Page 1 Cattlemen are also losing, at roughly $300 per head – a substantial loss estimated at $3 billion. “There’s a lot of equity loss in the feedlot industry,” Basse said. “They’re bleeding cash.” Despite these troubles, the fourth quarter of 2016 and the rst quarter of 2017 are expected to improve and create opportunity for dairy producers due to the quantity of cattle and current grain prices. This also comes at a time when China is now allowing U.S. beef into the country without duty, improving the export market. “That’s a big deal and will be helpful,” Basse said. “The market is getting better.” Basse suggests dairy producers move cattle in the middle of November through January to capitalize on this short uptick in the market. European Union, Oceania create opportunity for U.S. dairy Across the globe, there are 141 million head of cattle – a value that has not been seen since 1993. This growth in the industry is credited to inexpensive feed costs and a surge in cattle numbers in notable countries such as India, Brazil and Argentina. “We like what we’re seeing throughout the world,” Basse said. “There are big expansions happening and countries worth watching.” While global industry growth is certain to pressure the U.S. market, global trade contingencies arise with a high demand for dairy imports in Southeast Asia and the world’s top exporters’ diminishing supply and increasing costs. Oceania – Australia and New Zealand – which accounts for 46 percent of all dairy exports, has both decreased cow numbers and exports. “They’re not as aggressive in the market,” Basse said. “Demand should ow in our favor or the EU’s, depending on price and transportation.” The European Union (EU) is positioned to be the greatest competition with 2018 production levels expected to reach amounts that were similar to those in 1992 when the quota system was put in place, Basse said; coupled with projected 25 million tons in exports this coming year. “They’ve been very aggressive to date,” Basse said. “Countries like Germany and the Netherlands have stopped growing their herds, which will help continue to stabilize the market.” However, in favor of the U.S. market, butter prices in both the EU and Oceania have skyrocketed. “For the rst time, their butter is more expensive than the United States,” Basse said. “This is an opportunity.” Additionally, dairy demand in Russia is also encouraged for non-sanctioned countries; and at the same time,

demand is rising in China as povertystricken individuals are encouraged to move to the cities, resulting in a larger consumption of dairy. “There will be an opportunity to export [to China], but it won’t be a structural change. China will not be a big importer, month-to-month partner,” Basse said. For these various reasons, the United States is positioned well to benet greatly from the export market. “We’re up 17 percent in exports and that’s primarily from cheese,” Basse said. “I believe we’re building a process to stabilize the milk outlook.” U.S. milk production, cow numbers reach record values September was a record month for milk production as August led cattle inventory up 45,000 head across the nation – resulting in herd sizes at a 20year high. With the markets expected to rise seasonally, Basse sees the growth trend continuing into 2017. “Grain and the beef market are our biggest problems,” Basse said. “A farmer’s neighbor and himself are not going to liquidate the herd with these markets.” With ush season – a natural increase in milk production during the spring and early summer months – not far away, a solution must be found. “When it’s ush time, we’ll be above capacity with record production,” Basse said. “Farmers will be dumping milk.” Part of the solution could be found in the aisles of grocery stores, as uid consumption is approximately 152 pounds per year per person, according to Basse. “That’s not a lot of milk. We’re at a record low,” he said. “At the same time, beer now exceeds per capital consumption of milk. This is concerning.” Unfortunately, that trend is expected to persist into 2017 as dairy alternatives become more popular amongst consumers, but stabilize near 140 pounds of uid milk consumption per year per person. “We are seeing craft milk products that contain greater protein content and appeal to consumers,” Basse said. “As we move forward, I believe we’ll see the structure of protein and fat rearranged to create more craft products for better consumption.” Ultimately, the dairy market outlook is promising with few challenges that loom in the future. Paying attention to the U.S. beef industry, international markets and potential future weather patterns, dairy producers are nearing a time of protability. “Our problem is the cow numbers and production,” Basse said, “but I really do like what the world market looks like.”

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Part of the Sheeknoll crew – (from leŌ) Andy Sheehan, holding daughter, Haƫe, Krista Kuzma, Robert Sheehan and Loren Olson – cheer on as Sheeknoll Durham Arrow was named Grand Champion of the InternaƟonal Holstein Show on Oct. 8 at World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis.

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“It didn’t take the judge long,” Andy said. “In his reasons, he said that she easily won.” However, not everyone in the stands knew who Thomas was because she was not in the catalog. “But word spread fast, and she became a crowd favorite,” Andy said. After winning her class, Thomas competed for and won champion bred and owned. “All the class winners were in there except the 4-year-old winning cow,” Andy said. “We knew that whoever won it was in strong contention for senior champion.” After that, Thomas was named senior champion. “The place went crazy,” Andy said. “I just couldn’t believe it.” But the excitement was not over with grand champion yet to be determined. Jeannette stood in line with Thomas and the other champions and reserve champions near the judge. When he went to select the grand champion, he walked out front and then to the middle toward the intermediate champion. But, he immediately turned away and dropped the microphone. “Out of the corner of my eye, I saw him walk towards me,” Jeannette said. “My heart was pounding and I said, ‘Oh my gosh,’ out loud over and over. He came running up to me with his arm up and I jumped up to take his hand. It was amazing. We did it. I was so emoTurn to SHEEKNOLL | Page 7

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ConƟnued from SHEEKNOLL | Page 6 tional. The judge hugged me so hard, I thought he would crush me.” Even though Andy was not on the halter, the moment will live in his mind forever. “When the judge started walking toward Mom, it was like watching a slow motion movie,” Andy said. “I saw my friends that tied with us jumping up with their sts in the air yelling at the top of their lungs. It was totally crazy.” Finally, the big nale came with supreme champion at the end of the night. “It was really cool how they introduced Thomas and talked about Grandpa,” Andy said. After much anticipation, Thomas was named reserve supreme champion of World Dairy Expo. “When the spotlight hit me, it was magical,” Jeannette said. “It was so amazing to accomplish this. I had tears in my eyes.” Since Expo, Thomas has become a well-known name; however, she had humble beginnings. She was rst shown as a novice calf by Robert and Jeannette’s nephew, Dylan Tate. “We always took their novice calves to Grandma and Grandpa Hupf’s farm so they were close,” Jeannette said. “Thomas was the last calf Dad fed on the farm.” But, when Dylan learned his novice calf’s name was Arrow, he decided a new name was in order. “He was big into Thomas the Tank Engine,” Jeannette said. “He named her Thomas, and it just stuck.” Since then, Thomas has made multiple appearances at several other shows. “We showed her as a junior 2-yearold at the Minnesota State Fair,” Andy said. “The judge from Quebec told us, ‘She’s going to be an awesome cow someday, you just watch.’”

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The Sheeknoll Farms crew – (front row, from leŌ) Jasenko Gavranovic, Luke Olson, Elena Sheehan and Connor Kendall; (back row, from leŌ) Loren Olson, Jared Tessmer, Adam Johnson, Andy Sheehan, holding Haƫe Sheehan, Juliana Sheehan, JeanneƩe Sheehan, Robert Sheehan, Krista Kuzma, Kelly Kendall and Dan Kendall, holding Alex Kendall – gather together aŌer Thomas won reserve supreme champion on Oct. 8 at World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis. Thomas proved that judge right this year at Expo. Before this year, Thomas has made two other trips to World Dairy Expo, in 2013 and 2014 placing 14th in her class both years. Outside the showring, Thomas is just another one of the Sheehan cows. “She doesn’t slough off in the barn,” Jeannette said. “She had a 305-day milk yield of nearly 30,000 pounds.” Thomas is in her fth lactation and has had ve calves in April each year using only ve units of semen. “The judge said in his reasons during senior champion that she appeared that she does it all herself and doesn’t have to be babied,” Andy said. “That’s

true for our cow. She’s not high maintenance.” After their Expo success, the Sheehans plan to start an IVF program with her and classify her in the next month. “We’ve had recent demand for females and embryos out of her,” Jeannette said. For the Sheehans, winning Expo was not just about Thomas. It was about all the work they have accomplished as a family. “We work together to develop cows that pay the bills by milking well, but look good, too,” Jeannette said. “We’re proud of the fact that we bred her, fed her and showed her. This success shows that we are rst and foremost breeders.”

Robert felt the same way. “The National Holstein president came up to me and said, ‘Do you realize what you did for all the small dairy farmers out there? You gave them hope that things like this can happen for them, too,’” he said. And for the Sheehans, it was a dream come true. “She looked good on the right day for the right judge,” Andy said. “She ew under the radar. She was the underdog.” Jeannette agreed. “Never in my wildest dreams did we think we would do this well at Expo,” Jeannette said. “It was amazing. It was like a Cinderella story.”

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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has an- they are in that $14 or $15 range and for a lot of nounced plans to purchase $20 million of surplus farms, that is below their cost-of-production.” Milk prices are at levels not seen since 2009. cheese for food banks and other govAg Insider ernment nutrition programs. Cheese Praise for USDA intervention supplies are at all-time record highs, House Agriculture Committee which has brought the milk price lower. Ranking Member Collin Peterson USDA made a similar announcement in praised the USDA dairy purchase, sayAugust, but it failed to support the maring the dairy industry needs stability ket. Vilsack expects different results and more work will be done to improve with this dairy purchase. “It was anthe dairy safety net. The National Milk nounced at the end of the scal year. It Producers Federation also commended was a small window of time for procesUSDA for the $20 million cheese pursors to take advantage of the program,” chase. In a statement, NMPF President/ Vilsack said. “The full $20 million that CEO Jim Mulhern said more work was authorized was not fully utilized. By Don Wick needs to be done in Congress to imOnly about $7 million was. That’s why prove the Margin Protection Program. this announcement has greater signiColumnist cance, because you have 12 months, not just one month to give the industry the ability Milk supplies increase for ‘16 and ‘17 According to USDA’s supply/demand report, to utilize all $20 million of authority.” At a dairy roundtable event in Wisconsin, Vilsack also re- dairy cow numbers are increasing faster than exleased results of new USDA report that highlights pected. That, in turn, resulted in more milk producthe impact exports have on the dairy industry. The tion in the forecasts for this year and next. Class III study claims the Trans-Pacic Partnership could milk prices are now projected at $14.30-$14.40 per create $150 million to $300 million in annual U.S. hundredweight for 2016. That’s down from $14.75$14.90 last month. October 2017 Class III milk is dairy exports. expected to be in a range of $14.20-$15.10. AFBF: More help is needed The American Farm Bureau Federation said the Rabobank issues dairy forecast Globally, milk production has declined in recheese purchases announced by USDA should help to lower inventories and provide support to dairy cent months. Rabobank dairy analyst Emma Higfarmers. AFBF market intelligence director John gins said that should support milk prices into 2017. Newton said the purchases, along with more than However, those price increases will be limited by $11 million in Margin Protection Program pay- weak demand. ments to dairy producers, are helping, but dairy farmers need more assistance. “Dairy farmers un- Cheese consumption on the rise Americans consumed 35 pounds of cheese in derstand that milk prices are very volatile; they go up and go down like a roller coaster. This past year 2015. The growth in per capita consumption was has been more like death by a thousand cuts because the highest since 1999, up nearly 3 percent. Conprices have come down and stayed down. They are sumption of cheddar totaled 10 pounds per person not catastrophically low in that $9 or $10 range, but in 2015, up 3 percent from 2014. Mozzarella con-

sumption grew 1 percent and ‘other cheeses,’ which includes Swiss, Hispanic and cream cheeses, grew by nearly 4 percent. Top 100 ag co-ops In its annual report on cooperatives, USDA reports agricultural co-ops posted a record net income of $7 billion in 2015. That’s up 14 percent from 2014. CHS remains the largest co-op in the country with revenues of $34.7 billion, down $8 billion from the previous year. Dairy Farmers of America is the second largest U.S. cooperative, followed by Land O’Lakes. California Dairies is ranked sixth and Northwest Dairy Association/Darigold is tenth. Associated Milk Producers, Incorporated at 12th. Select Milk Producers, based in New Mexico, and Foremost Farms USA are ranked 14th and 15th. Twelve other dairy cooperatives made the ‘Top 100’ list. New rules proposed for livestock haulers A new proposal from USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service would make livestock haulers responsible for the welfare of livestock. Currently, the farm operator or slaughterhouse are the ones being held accountable. USDA gave an example, saying if a trucker hauling livestock drove too fast and the animals slipped and fell, action would be taken against the driver. Deere Partners with Scherer Deere & Company announces a joint development agreement with Scherer Design Engineering, Inc. to develop and commercialize kernel processing solutions for self-propelled forage harvesters. Scherer has manufactured aftermarket rolls and kernel processors since 1999.

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Stiles leaves MDA Kevin Stiles, who has been the senior vice president of business development for Midwest Dairy Association, has a new job. The Iowa Poultry Association and Iowa Egg Council have hired Stiles as executive director. Iowa Poultry Association President J.T. Dean praised Stiles for his work as an advocate for farmers. Six new CFANS Alumni Society board members named The University of Minnesota College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences Alumni Society has six new board members. They are Jeff Stamp of Bold Thinking LLC, Michelle Medina of the Minnesota Farmers Union, Roberta Ryan of the Wildlife Science Center, Annie

Trivia challenge For the 50th anniversary World Dairy Expo, the shavings in the Coliseum were gold in color. That answers our last trivia question. For this week’s trivia, how much does a gallon of milk weigh? We’ll have the answer in the next edition of Dairy Star. Don Wick is a partner and broadcaster for the Red River Farm Network, based in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Wick has been recognized as the National Farm Broadcaster of the Year and served as president of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting. Don and his wife, Kolleen, have two adult sons, Tony and Sam, and ve grandchildren, Aiden, Piper, Adrienne, Aurora and Sterling Wick.

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Jus�n Stensland makes cake ba�er avored ice cream at his family’s new retail store in Sioux Falls, S.D. Their store also features fresh and aged cheeses, avored and unavored milk, and farm-raised beef. pasteurized milk simply tasted better to us.” Besides the traditional avors of milk such as chocolate and strawberry, Stensland Family Farms is selling non-homogenized milk, also known as cream line milk. Family is the major driving force behind the Stenslands’ new creamery. The addition of the creamery and the farm and retail stores allows employment for 12 members of the Stensland family. Doug’s brother, Mark, had worked in the corporate world for 28 years. Longing for a change, he recently quit his job with GE Financial in Kansas City and became the general manager of Stensland Family Farms. “I admire the boys because they stepped off the ledge and said ‘Let’s do this,’” Mark said. “I see great potential here. I want to get more local farmer’s products into our store. I’m working just as hard as when I was in Kansas City, but now I’m working for my family.” Jason and Justin’s sister, Leah Moller, is the operations and marketing manager for Stensland Family Farms. “We have the freshest cheese curds and handdipped ice cream in Sioux Falls,” Leah said. “It can be as little as 12 hours from the cow to the ice cream cone. We also plan to begin selling our own farmraised beef.” The full kitchen at the retail store gives the Turn to STENSLAND | Page 11

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Con�nued from STENSLAND | Page 10 Stenslands plenty of options. “One of the items we’re going to feature is chocolate cake made with Grandma Stensland’s recipe,” Mark said. “We’re also going to offer homemade carrot cake and streusel. And, we’re making the cones for the ice cream right here in the store.” Family members’ roles continue to evolve at Stensland Family Farms. Jason and Justin’s brother, Kyle, recently joined the operation as crops manager and Doug has now become the dairy’s herdsman. Justin’s wife, Chelsea, and Jason’s wife, Paige, have been boosting their new on-farm creamery via social media. Jason, Justin and Leah all have young families. The Stenslands are developing their cheese and ice cream recipes on the go. “We’re constantly experimenting with different avor combinations,” Justin said. “A lot of our recipes are the result of trial and error.” Tours will be a major feature at Stensland Family Farms. The dairy farm is located about 25 minutes from Sioux Falls. “We plan to start giving tours of the dairy in the spring,” Leah said. “We want to encourage anyone and everyone to come out to our farm and see where their milk and cheese and ice cream comes from. We want to show them how our cows live and let them watch the robotic milkers at work. Our hope is that people will feel like they are a part of our family dairy operation.” The Stenslands have been studying other successful dairy operations that have on-farm processing plants. One such operation is Shatto Milk Company, located near Osborn, Mo., about an hour

northeast of Kansas City. Last year, Shatto Milk Company had some 174,000 visitors tour their farm. “We don’t expect anywhere near that number, but it’s a good goal to shoot for,” Jason said. Even as Stensland Family Farms ramps up production in their new creamery, Jason and Justin are already looking ahead to the next challenge. “Our ve-year goal includes establishing stores in more locations,” Justin said. “Mark has mentioned starting up a retail store in Sioux City. Our creamery has been designed so that it has a lot of extra capacity. We wanted to keep all of our options open for the future.” “The main thing is that we will be doing this together as a family,” Jason said. Family is what makes this work. We are all in this together.”

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Kimberly Maasen (le�), Zach Majeres (center) and Jason Stensland begin the process of making white cheddar cheese curds at Stensland Family Farms’ on-farm creamery. The Stenslands are con�nually experimen�ng with diﬀerent avor enhancements for their cheese curds.

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Leah Moller and her uncle, Mark Stensland, stand behind the ice cream bunker at Stensland Family Farms’ new retail store in Sioux Falls, S.D. Leah is in charge of opera�ons and marke�ng while Mark is the general manager of the opera�on.

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FOSSTON, Minn. – Nearly 20 years ago as computers became more affordable, the use of on-farm technology slowly grew; with that, variable frequency drives (VFDs), too, increased in popularity. “Overall, VFDs have been very helpful on our farm,” Bryan Landsverk said. “It was an easy way to save energy.” Landsverk milks 300 cows on his family’s organic dairy near Fosston, Minn. Landsverk Dairy, Inc., is a partnership between Landsverk, his father, Robert, uncle, Donny, and cousin, Ronn. Over a ve-year period, the Landsverks have incorporated VFDs onto their farm to improve energy efciency, but also milk quality and cow comfort. The computerized electronic devices convert single or three-phase power sources to three-phase modulated electrical power to vary the speed of a motor, essentially limiting

the amount of power given to a motor so that it does not run at full capacity unless needed. “On a dairy farm, the main uses are variable speed vacuum pumps, milk pumps, fans and, sometimes, well pumps,” Scott Sanford said. “VFD vacuum pumps usually make econom-

ic sense when milking three times per day or more than six to eight hours each day.” Sanford is an outreach specialist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, focusing his efforts in energy efciency in agriculture. Through his work as a specialist, and previ-

ously as an engineer, Sanford has used VFDs in the design of new products and on research equipment. VFDs can reduce power consumption on equipment with varying loads such as vacuum pumps or used to control environmental conditions with

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The Landsverks (from leŌ) – Bryan, Robert, Donny – milk 300 cows near Fosston, Minn. Over the course of ve years, the family has incorporated VFDs onto their farm. Not pictured Ronn Landsverk.

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fans. Temperature, pressure or level sensors can be used as inputs to the VFD’s computer to automatically control the motor speed in fractions of a second. In 2011, when Landsverk and his family were milking in a double-12 parlor, their local electrical company evaluated on-farm energy use and suggested implementing VFD technology to lower energy costs. Reviewing the most expensive areas, the vacuum and milk pumps were of top concern. “They walked through a list of suggestions and what the paybacks would be. It didn’t take long to realize what we should do,” Landsverk said. “Anytime we can pump the milk slower, we get better quality milk. The solids are not separated as easily.” Payback on the two devices was immediately noticed. “They’re like LED lights with a quick return on investment,” Landsverk said. “It’s nice our company wasn’t pushing us to use more energy. They were helping us out.” The VFDs were only runTurn to ENERGY | Page 13

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ConƟnued from ENERGY | Page 12 ning in the parlor for a short time before the Landsverks incorporated six robotic milking systems onto the dairy in 2014. Each robot is equipped with two VFDs. In addition, the freestall barn was redesigned into a cross-ventilated system with 36 54-inch fans, operating under one VFD. Monitoring the speed of the fans cut one-third of the Landsverks’ electrical use on the dairy. “The fans are only running one-tenth slower, but energy costs are one-third less,” Landsverk said. VFD vacuum pumps will typically reduce electrical costs by 50 to 65 percent, according to Sanford, similar savings are noted with VFDs on variable speed fans. “For barn fans, the control is set to ramp up speed if the temperature starts to rise and increases the speed if the temperature continues to rise,” Sanford said. “If the temperature drops, the fan slows down, maintaining a steady temperature. If a standard thermostatic controller is used, the fan turns on, draws in fresh air, cools the barn down, and then shuts off; the barn warms up and the cycle is repeated.” The Landsverks also have two VFDs connected to the manure separator, as well as two in the water holding tank, for a total of 17 devices on the dairy. “We’re running a lot of motors,” Landsverk said. “[VFDs] have been a huge upgrade. It’s been a good thing.” However, VFDs were not always a good thing for Landsverks Dairy, Inc. Once the technologies were installed in the new facilities, problems with programming arose and resulted in distress within the herd, causing an increase in mastitis cases. “I learned a lot about electronics. It really makes a difference where the VFD is placed and what they are controlling,” Landsverk said. “The incorrect programming was creating the wrong frequency for motors. Once we reprogrammed the VFD, although it looked identical, you could hear a change in the way the fans sounded.” VFDs emit radio frequency noise that has the potential to interfere with cow ID systems and computerized equipment, Sanford said. “Noise is often mistaken for stray voltage, but it’s not the same,” Sanford said. “It causes static on a ra-

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How do you balance farm and family time during harvest?

Vonda and Steve Ponto Watertown, S.D. Hamlin County 44 cows How long does harvest last for your farm and what jobs does this entail? Harvest takes about ten days if we don’t break down. We chop most of our corn for silage and only harvest a little of it for grain. We also get corn stalk bales from our neighbor in trade for some of our manure. How do you get the extra work done? We do whatever it takes. Our roles are exible, although Steve remains in charge of feeding the cattle. Our youngest daughter, Stephanie, helps a lot and we get additional help from our neighbors. We live in a great neighborhood with very good camaraderie. One of our neighbors packed all of our silage for us and we are letting him use our combine to harvest his crops. How do you balance farm and family time during harvest? We do everything together, so our family time and farm time blend. Stephanie is a high school senior and her activities are our activities. We will milk the cows with her from one end of the barn to the other and will have some wonderful conversations along the way. What is your family’s favorite, easy-tomake meal during harvest and what is the recipe? Spaghetti bake. Beat two eggs with a 1/4 cup of grated Parmesan cheese, 1 teaspoon of pepper and 1/2 teaspoon of garlic salt. Boil some spaghetti noodles and brown ground beef. Mix the noodles with the beef, the egg mixture and a jar of spaghetti sauce. Place the mixture in a greased cake pan, top it with your favorite cheese and bake it at 350 degrees for 40 minutes. What do you enjoy about the harvest? We enjoy watching the crop come in and knowing that we will have a good supply of feed for our animals this winter. We are very grateful for the good harvest and the good neighbors who help us. Describe a favorite memory from a past harvest. In 1978, Steve’s dad, Harlan, was knocked down by a bull. Harlan had to have emergency surgery to drain the excess uid off his brain. Our neighbors came over one day with ve combines and 23 trucks and harvested all of our corn in a day. That is one harvest I will never forget. Tell us about your farm. We milk our 44 registered Brown Swiss three times a day, but have a hired man to do the evening milking. We also have 40 registered polled Herefords. Steve is a third generation Brown Swiss dairyman and Vonda is a third generation Hereford cattlewoman. We have a passion for farming, but it’s not as deep as the love that we have for each other. We have four children. Our son Cody Williams and his wife, Kasey, farm at Colman, S.D.; our daughter Merideth Maier and her husband, Brandon, dairy farm at Thorp, Wis.; our son Gerrit Ponto is a deputy sheriff at Herreid, S.D.; and our daughter Stephanie is a senior at Deuel High School. After high school, Stephanie plans to attend SDSU and major in dairy production.

Wendy and Ben Rysavy Owatonna, Minn. Steele County 190 cows How long does harvest last for your farm and what jobs does this entail? Harvest can take anywhere between six to eight weeks if everything goes well; however, with the 11 inches of rain in September, it’s going to probably take longer. Everything is so wet this year, so we may have to wait until it freezes to get some of the crop out. We usually start with corn silage, then high moisture corn, beans, then corn with tillage in between and after. How do you get the extra work done? Roles change slightly. We try to get everyone in the eld as soon as we can each day. I (Ben) usually do most of the daily chores of mixing feed and feeding during harvest time. Wendy helps with morning milking before she gets the kids off to school, and she heads to her full time job as a hair stylist. Our kids, Hailey and Marcus, and Ben’s younger sister, Katelyn, do the calf feeding. Also, Ben’s dad, Joe, brother-in-law, Dan Kaplan, brother, Jake, uncle, Jerry, and a good buddy, Racey Underwood, are here so we don’t have to hire anyone extra during harvest time. How do you balance farm and family time during harvest? Trying to balance dairy farming and family alone is hard to do. But when it’s harvest time, it’s even more of a challenge. Everyone has a job on the farm to do, so we have that time together. But, getting away is difcult. Wendy gets the kids to where they need to be or arranges a ride for them from either Ben’s mom, Cheryl, or her mom, Joan Robbins. And I (Ben) try to get to what I can. Wendy and I get about an hour or so each morning together milking cows. What is your family’s favorite, easy-tomake meal during harvest and what is the recipe? Wendy has a full-time job on top of the farm so meals are tricky. She does a lot of crockpot meals, or orders pizza. Here is a favorite of ours: Meatball sliders 1 large onion, chopped 1(12 oz.) pkg. frozen cooked Italian style meatballs 1 jar pasta sauce 1 Tbsp. balsamic vinegar 1/2 tsp. crushed red pepper akes Put in crockpot on low setting for four to ve hours, then high for two to 2.5 hours. Serve on slider buns with a slice of cheese. What do you enjoy about the harvest? When I (Ben) get to be in the tractor doing tillage. Describe a favorite memory from a past harvest. As a kid I (Ben) used to like to get out of school to help pick ear corn and ll the cribs. Tell us about your farm. We farm with Ben’s parents, Joe and Cheryl, brother Jake, and brother-in-law, Dan Kaplan. We have about 450 acres of corn, 200 acres of beans and 180 acres of alfalfa. We raise all our youngstock and the steers to feeders. We recently added 160 beef cow/calf pairs to our farm. We milk twice a day in a double-8 parallel parlor.

Tammy Breth St. Anthony, Minn. Stearns County 44 cows How long does harvest last for your farm and what jobs does this entail? We are combining corn. We have about 260 acres and 110 of them are corn. I would say we should be done the rst week of November. We combine corn, pick corn and do over 200 bales of corn stalks. How do you get the extra work done? Everyone pitches in where they are needed. Jerry or Dillon combine, Jerry, a friend, Junior Watry, and the kids unload and Jerry, Junior or Steve stalk chop. Dillon and Miranda will rake the corn stalks, then Jerry and Dillon will bale them and our children, Miranda, Dillon or Makayla will haul them. Jerry will be back in the yard to unload the bales. When we pick corn, Dillon does the picking and Roger Breth hauls the loads. I do the milking and get help from Makayla, Emily and Miranda with chores. Jerry and Dillon help with morning milking. How do you balance farm and family time during harvest? We try to have supper together, sometimes it will be in the eld. We try to have movie night once a week, but sometimes that gets hard this time of year. What is your family’s favorite, easy-tomake meal during harvest and what is the recipe? Meat Loaf 2 cups soda crackers 1 1/2 pounds ground beef 1 egg 1 tsp. salt 1/2 cup chopped onion 1 small can tomato soup 3 Tbsp. brown sugar 1/2 tsp. pepper Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake one hour covered. Uncover and put one cup of ketchup and 1/2 cup of brown sugar mixed together over the top and bake another 15 minutes. I do use oatmeal instead of crackers when I don’t have any home. I also use tomato soup that we canned. Some other favorites include chili, sausage, hot dogs, beef vegetable or chicken soup. What do you enjoy about the harvest? I like that all the hard work and worries that you had in the spring and summer have paid off. Also, seeing that the crop did well. Describe a favorite memory from a past harvest. The most memorable time was when the kids were younger and the excitement they have to go in the gravity box and push the corn down. Especially the time when Jerry was unloading the cob corn and Dillon and Miranda were in the box. Miranda got pulled in the corn and Dillon tried to grab her but only ended up with her shoe. She ended up coming head rst out of the box door where Jerry grabbed her before she went up the elevator. Tell us about your farm. Jerry and I have four children, Dillon, Miranda, Makayla and Emily. We milk in a tiestall barn. We plant corn, oats, and alfalfa. We also do some custom wrapping.

John Schouviller Callaway, Minn. Becker County 120 cows How long does harvest last for your farm and what jobs does that entail? Harvesting takes us a good month. We started three weeks ago and we still aren’t done. We chop, combine, haul silage and unload silage into the bunkers. We also do 100 acres of our corn in snaplage and we combine 40 acres. We also did a couple hundred acres of custom chopping for our neighbors this year. How do you get the extra work done? Usually my two cousins, my brother and sister-in-law, Mike and Lois, and their ve children, Betty, Bobbi, Adam, Sami and Nick, me and my wife, Linda, and our kids, Nicole, Kelly and Matt, and my dad, Nick, work together to get everything done. We also had a few neighbors we custom chopped for that came and helped us haul loads of corn and silage. During this time of year, our children who are at school, come home when they are able and help with harvest or chores in the barn to get things done. Regardless of how busy we are, we always start chores at 4 a.m., and again at 2:30 or 3 p.m., everyday. How do you balance farm and family time during harvest? We don’t do much together except work. We do, however, try to take time once in a while to go out to eat or spend some time visiting in the elds when we eat lunches or dinner. What is your family’s favorite, easy-tomake meal during harvest and what is the recipe? We like just a plain hot roast beef sandwich with mashed potatoes and gravy. 1 roast Roast seasoning Water Potatoes, cut and peeled (enough to feed however many people you need) Roast juice 1 pkg. gravy mix Flour or cornstarch Bread Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Place the roast in a roasting pan. Season it with whatever seasoning you wish. Cover the bottom of the pan with water and cover roast with tinfoil. Place in the oven for four hours or until done. While that is cooking, peel and cut the potatoes and place in water until tender. Drain the water and mash the potatoes. For the gravy, take the juice from the completely cooked roast, add a package of gravy mix and our or cornstarch to thicken. Box everything up and take to the eld. What do you enjoy most about the harvest? I usually help with the bunkers, but I love seeing the corn come in and see what we can get off the elds. Describe a favorite memory from a past harvest. That would just have to be visiting with our family and even some neighbors while having lunch in the eld. Tell us about your farm. We milk 120 cows in a single-12 parlor twice a day. Our cows are housed in a freestall barn that can hold 125 cows. The stalls are bedded with sand. We farm 450 acres of land with 70 to 80 acres put into wheat for straw and cash crop while about 100 acres is planted in alfalfa and 250 acres are in corn. Most of the crops we grow goes through the cows. I farm with my wife, Linda, and our children, and my brother and sister-in-law, Mike and Lois, and their ve children.

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ConƟnued from FRICKSONS | Page 18 the middle of the winter. How often do you do pregnancy checks? We mostly pregnancy check through the milk when we DHIA test, so every month; however, if a cow is not responding, then we have the vet check her. That’s not very often. We don’t see the vet very much. What is your breeding philosophy? How do you select bulls? What traits do you focus on? Does fertility play a role in bull selection? I leave that up to the experts. I use all Accelerated Genetics bulls, which are picked for our herd by our A.I. Technician, Andrew Horn-

berg. He chooses bulls that are high in milk, have a good daughter pregnancy rate and have quality type. Since we sell a lot of our heifers, we want them to be quality when they go to another farm. We just don’t have much room to keep them and raise them on our farm. Then, we buy a few heifers when we need replacements. This year from about April until the beginning of September, we used sexed semen on our whole herd – both heifers and calves. After that, we switched to using all Angus. That way we could sell the calves at the salesbarn. When we’ve used Angus in the past, you can’t tell that the calves are out of Holsteins. They look no different than the beef calves. What percentage of your herd is bred through A.I. or a bull? Our herd is bred using 100 percent A.I. If you use A.I., who breeds your cattle? Our A.I. technician, Andrew Hornberg. Do you have a different philosophy when breeding heifers vs. cows? Not really. We might use a bull that is a little better in calving ease for heifers, but nothing drastic.

KRISTA KUZMA/DAIRY STAR

A.I. technician Andrew Hornberg prepares to breed a cow at the Fricksons’ farm.

What do you do to settle hard breeders? How many times do you try to breed a cow before you sell her? After awhile, I will use GnRH. I will breed a cow up to six times, as long as she is pulling her weight in milking. Once I see her consistently dropping in milk and gaining weight, I will decide whether to breed her again or sell her. It just depends on each cow, how fast she drops in milk and her history.

KRISTA KUZMA/DAIRY STAR

BreƩ Frickson takes Ɵme each morning to watch cows for heat while they are eaƟng in the cow yard. What is your target size/weight/age for breeding heifers? We breed heifers at 1 year 3 months. We tried to do it by weight or an earlier age (like 11 months and 1 year) but they just don’t seem mature enough. It seems like they are all ready by 1 year and 3 months. Is there anything you have done or changed that brought about a signicant improvement in your reproductive program? Andrew Hornberg has been breeding our cows for the past two years, and we have a good nutritionist. Nutrition has a lot to do with reproduction, especially the dry cow program. We also put lime down in the cow lots and the sandbedded freestall barn. It helps the cows have sure footing. They’re not scared to move and we

can see heats better. Tell us about your farm. We have been here since we moved here in 1994. This was Brett’s dad’s place, which was used as a trading site for cattle. Brett’s dad, Freddy, has been an auctioneer for 62 years at the salesbarn in Lanesboro, Minn. The family started keeping a herd of cows to milk in 1985. At the time, they created a at barn parlor, which is what they still use today. There are 22 stalls with 12 units. We each take six units and a side, and get milking done. We have ve adult children, Chad, Mark, Adam, Jennifer and April, who help on the farm when they are able. A family friend, Ryan Daley, also helps with crops when we need it. We also have seven grandchildren.

KRISTA KUZMA/DAIRY STAR

The Fricksons put lime down in the cow yard to ensure cows have good fooƟng, which allows them to show beƩer heats.

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GOODHUE, Minn. – Coach Tony Schefer joked with his 4-H dairy judging team that he wanted to do better than the last time a team from Goodhue County participated in the contest at World Dairy Expo. “That year [in 2012] we got second,” said Schefer, a dairy farmer from Goodhue, Minn. “Realistically, our goal [for this year] was to get third or fourth.” But the four members of the team showed they weren’t joking. The Goodhue County team representing Minnesota claimed rst place out of 28 teams on Oct. 3 at the National 4-H Dairy Judging Contest at World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis. The team, which also placed second overall in reasons, consisted of Clint Irrthum, 19, son of John and Linda, from Wanamingo; Emily Benrud, 16, daughter of Roger and Michelle, from Goodhue; Ben Thompson, 16, son of Charlie and Brenda from Zumbrota; and Tess Hokanson, 16, daughter of Brian and Diane from Cannon Falls. Schefer and his wife, Maizie, coached the team along with help from Mikayla Piller and Rice County coaches, Emily Pieper and Mary Liebenstein. Also placing in the top 10 was Wisconsin in second and Iowa, placing ninth. Emily Benrud placed the highest on the Minnesota team, earning fourth place overall and rst place in reasons. “I was so happy and thankful for all the people who helped me get to that point,” Benrud said. “I didn’t expect that going into the contest.” Benrud attributes part of her success to her coaches. “I couldn’t have done it without them. I’ve learned so much from them,” she said. Practice also helped. “The more you practice the better you become,” she said. Throughout all her practicing, Benrud learned to talk smoothly and be condent in her placings. She would also listen to judges at cattle shows to pick up new terms.

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Irrthum also placed in the top 10 for reasons, taking ninth, and stood 11th overall in the contest “I was excited. It didn’t sink in until the next day,” Irrthum said about how well he and his team had done. While judging on the colored shavings, Irrthum said he didn’t let nerves get to him. “I just did what our coach said – judge it like you judge a smaller contest,” he said. But it was a bittersweet day as this was one of Irrthum’s last events as a 4-H member. “It was a good way to end it,” Irrthum said about his 4-H career. Thompson has only just begun his time in the 4-H dairy judging eld. The high school junior lives on a pig farm and was encouraged to try dairy judging after working on a friend’s dairy. “I was really nervous. I didn’t think I could give that many sets [of reasons] because I didn’t have that much experience,” Thompson said. But he made it through the 10 placing classes and ve sets of reasons each judger had to give. In the contest, he placed 14th overall and 19th in reasons. “I felt a lot of pressure because it was a big event,” he said. Turn to JUDGING | Page 23

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The Minnesota 4-H dairy judging team from Goodhue County – (from leŌ) coaches Tony and Maizie Schefer, Emily Benrud, Ben Thompson, Tess Hokanson and Clint Irrthum – was named rst place team overall of the NaƟonal 4-H Dairy CaƩle Judging Contest on Oct. 3 at World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis. Along with his individual achievements, he was excited for his team’s rst and second place nish. “My heart dropped and I looked at one of our coaches. She had tears in her eyes – happy tears. And I gave a big hug to Clint [Irrthum]. It was fun,” he said of the team’s winning moment. Hokanson doesn’t live on a dairy either, but leases heifers from a nearby dairy farm family. She also attributes the team’s success to the coaches. “They’re so great,” she said. “They line up the farms and give us good practices.” She also thinks team dynamics helped with the win. “We’re all pretty close and have become good

friends,” Hokanson said. Thompson agreed. “Our team chemistry was very good,” he said. “We talked through the classes together at practices. And we had quite a bit of fun giving reasons. We weren’t always the most serious at times.” Schefer liked to see that the team worked really well together. “This team was balanced from top to bottom. They were consistent and thought a lot alike,” Schefer said. “At practice they bounced ideas off each other.” Because they placed rst in the national contest, the Minnesota team members have the opportunity to travel to the international contest in Scotland next summer.

Minimizing stress during a cow’s transition period by managing the environment surrounding her is always top-of-mind. Beyond the external environment, it’s just as critical to understand how to support a fresh cow internally, through proper transition cow nutrition. “Understanding the specic nutritional needs of fresh cows gives us the opportunity to fully unlock potential milk production,” says Jeff Tikofsky, dairy nutritionist. When formulating fresh cow rations, here are four insights into how you should be examining the diet differently: 1. Instead of crude protein, focus on the numbers that help manage the protein fractions in the ration. Understand the rate and extent of protein digestibility of what is available as this helps to predict how much metabolizable protein will be supplied to the fresh cow, and therefore available for milk and milk protein production. 2. Rumen function research has increased the understanding of neutral detergent ber digestibility (NDFd) and indigestible NDF or uNDF. Forage samples should no longer be evaluated on just how much acid detergent ber (ADF) and NDF they contain. Make sure you know the NDF digestibility at different time points and uNDF in order to more precisely evaluate the ber’s value in the transition cow’s diet and understand the potential energy contribution of that feedstuff. 3. Starch as a percent of dry matter has been an important number in forage analysis for years. Instead of only looking at starch content, understand how degradable that starch is and how quickly it will ferment in the rumen. This is especially important for fresh cows because of their low dry matter intake. They need a certain amount of starch and ber to manage glucose demand and stay healthy, so it is important to include more quickly degradable starches. 4. Cows need to have the right balance of the different types of fatty acids in their diet to manage energy balance and milk fat production. Research has shown that Omega 3 fatty acids fed to fresh cows can increase milk production. “By having a better understanding of the nutrition they need, we can get fresh cows off to a good start and optimize cow health and performance,” says Tikofsky. For more information, contact Jeff Tikofsky at jntikofsky@landolakes.com or visit: www.purinamills.com/dairyfeed.

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Bringing home the top trophy NICC places rst in Post-Secondary judging contest at WDE By Krista Kuzma

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The judging team from Northeast Iowa Community College knew they had potential to do well at the International PostSecondary Dairy Cattle Judging Contest on Oct. 3 at World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis.; however, they did not expect to bring home the top trophy. “We were all shocked, surprised and ecstatic,” said Aaron Houdek about the moment his team was announced as winning the contest. “We put in a lot of time and it paid off.” Houdek, who is the son of Kris and Wayne of Caledonia, Minn., was joined by teammates, Carley Vinkemeier, daughter of Jeff and Tina of Norwood, Minn.; Ellis Frank, son of Tammy and Bob of New Richmond, Wis.; and Chelsey Jensen, daughter of Trent and LeAnn of Amery, Wis. Megan Kregel and Dave Lawstuen coached the team. Along with its rst place nish, the team also came in second in reasons, and won the practical contest. “It was a proud moment for all of us,” Vinkemeier said. “We were all so excited and smiling.” Individually, all four teammates placed in the top 10 – Houdek taking second, Vinkemeier following in third, Frank earning sixth and Jensen placing 10th. For individual reasons, Houdek placed fourth with Vinkemeier taking fth. “I was nervous. I had never judged at World Dairy Expo before,” Vinkemeier said. “But it was really exciting being on the colored shavings. It was really different being down there with the animals.” Challenging classes made for a good

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Houdek agreed. “We really built good team chemistry,” he said. “We’re always pushing each other at practice.” The team practiced every weekend from August until the contest at World Dairy Expo. Kregel said during that time, they visited 16 farms and judged at least two to three classes at every dairy. “We thank those producers for opening their doors,” Kregel said. Along with practical dairy farming knowledge, judging helps build communication skills and condence. “There’s so much more to dairy judging than examining and placing a class,” Kregel said. To encourage the team members to dedicate time to dairy judging, the Northeast Iowa Dairy Foundation created a $1,000 scholarship for each of the students if they attended a certain number of practices, and participated in both of the national contests in Viroqua, Wis., and at World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis. “They are giving up free time,” Kregel said about the students being on the team. “It’s a bit of a commitment, so we wanted to reward them.” But the team was rewarded with more than just money with their Expo win. “I just felt such a huge amount of joy,” Kregel said about the moment she found out the team had won. “I couldn’t be more proud of them. They applied themselves, and put in the time and effort. They deserved the win.” Because of their rst-place win, the team has the opportunity to travel abroad for an international contest in Scotland. The trip also includes tours of other dairy farms around Europe. “I’ve never been to a dairy farm outside of the U.S. so it will be interesting to see how the dairy industry is run over there,” Vinkemeier said. “It will be a fun experience.”

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Fall has made its presence known with the changing color of leaves and cooler day and evening temperatures. Those changes signify busy times for agricultural producers. Soybean harvest is well underway with corn harvest not far behind. Visiting with producers, hopes are high for a good harvest yielding a nice crop. Once harvest is complete, the next step in the process is tillage and addressing drainage needs as identied over the growing season. Before heading out to the eld producers are encouraged to take note of the following reminders: FSA News & Notes • Fields with Highly Erodible Land (HEL) determined soils are required to apply tillage, crop residue and rotational requirements as specied in their conservation plan. • Notify FSA as a rst point of contact prior to conducting land clearing such as removing any trees to create new cropland. • Notify FSA when considering drainage type projects to ensure the proposed actions meet compliance criteria. These areas will need to be reviewed to ensure such work will not risk your eligibility for benets. By Ryan Brunn As well, agricultural producers are reminded to consult with FSA and NRCS before breaking out new Stearns Co. Exec. Dir. ground for production purposes as doing so without prior authorization may put a producer’s federal farm program benets in jeopardy. This is especially true for land that must meet HEL and Wetland Conservation (WC) provisions. Landowners and operators need to complete the form AD-1026 - Highly Erodible Land Conservation (HELC) and Wetland Conservation (WC) Certication to identify the proposed action and allow FSA to determine whether a referral to Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) for further review is necessary. 2015 ARC and PLC payments The nal payments for 2015 ARC-County and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) payments are being processed throughout the area. The farms that are enrolled in PLC did receive a $0.09 payment (per base acre x PLC yield) on corn. Oats had a $0.28 payment and wheat had a $0.61 payment for PLC as well. However, ARC-County payments were not earned in all counties for 2015. For example, due to Stearns County having a higher Actual Revenue compared to the Stearns County Benchmark Revenue there will be no ARC-CO payment on corn or soybeans for the 2015 year for Stearns County. The calculation for Stearns County corn looks like this: Benchmark Revenue = Yield (132 bu/acre based on Stearns data from 2010 – 2014) x Price ($5.29 based on National marketing data from 2010 – 2014) = $698.28 x 86 percent (program payment factor) = $600.52 (payment trigger for 2015 ACR-CO corn) Actual Revenue = Yield (172 bu/acre based on 2015 Stearns NASS yield) x Price ($3.61 based on 2015 National marketing year average) = $620.92 Since the Actual Revenue of $620.92 is larger than the 86 percent Benchmark Revenue of $600.52 no payments will be received. A calculation similar to this was completed for each county and each crop throughout the nation. Some counties did receive a payment while others did not. I hope this helps explain the calculations behind ARC-County payments. We hope everyone has a safe and bountiful harvest season. Farm Service Agency is an Equal Opportunity Lender. Complaints about discrimination should be sent to: Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 20250. Visit the Farm Service Agency Web site at: www.fsa.usda.gov/ for necessary application forms and updates on USDA programs.

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Our old, 400-gallon bulk tank was so ancient that Installation began as soon as our route driver when our former milk truck driver heard that we were picked up our milk after morning chores. The time putting in a new one, he said that our allowed to install a new bulk tank on old Zero tank should be put in a museDairy in the Suburbs a dairy farm is only from one milking um. to the next. The crew from the dealer Our tank was already used when worked hard to get everything set up my father-in-law installed it so long ago before evening chores. All Kurt had to that Kurt canâ€™t remember. Even so, it do was man the skid loader to lift the served us well â€“ reliably cooling Steinold tank out and the new one in. Evke milk all those years. It was small erything went smoothly and the benthough, and as our herd production ďƒ&#x;uceďƒžts of the new tank were immediately tuated, we were constantly switching obvious. Not only do we have a much back and forth between every day and roomier milk house and spiffy new aualternating day milk pickups. We knew tomatic tank washer, but whereas our we should ďƒžnd a tank with a larger caold compressor usually ran for at least pacity, as well as an effective cleaning two hours after evening chores to cool By Susan Steinke system that would grant us a more preour milk, our new Mueller tank and Columnist dictable and stable bacteria count. compressor had the milk cooled to unA year ago we picked out a shiny, der 40 degrees in about 15 minutes. The new-to-us used 700 gallon tank. Our increased efďƒžciency should be reďƒ&#x;ected milk house is tiny, so almost doubling the size of our bulk tank meant taking out a wall and reconstructing it around the tank, which would stick outside. This would be no small project. The project suffered holdups from wet conditions that delayed the earth work, trouble ďƒžnding someone to do the cement work, the arrival of harvest time, and then snow. Winter put the tank on the back burner. It stayed on the back burner throughout spring and mid-summer, the myriad of other farm duties taking precedence. Late summer, though, knowing that we would be adding a fair number of fresh heifers to our herd come fall, the new bulk tank started making its way to the forefront of our minds again. A wet end to the summer kept us out of the ďƒželds, so we had time to turn our attention back to the bulk tank venture. A call to the dealer conďƒžrmed that the tank we wanted was still there. A date was set for installation. The week prior, Kurt dug into our driveway, which slopes in a hill along the milk house. After

A wet end d to the h summer k kept us out of the fields, so we had time to turn our attention back to the bulk venture. exposing the wall that needed to be removed, he started building a retaining wall that would curve around the tank. He also made a nice cement shelf at the top of the wall for the new (to us) compressor. It was a nice cement shelf, anyway, until Tate decided to see if it was dry by poking it in numerous spots with a stick. It wasnâ€™t dry. Oh well. Two days prior to the installation, Kurt and my brother carefully removed the milk house wall, constructing a header to hold up the weight of the roof. He tacked a tarp over the opening to keep out leaves and water.

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One of the highlights of attending the World Dairy Expo in tent of digestion, intake of forage and, thus, energy consumed. Madison, Wis., each year is looking over the forages that are enWe measure the digestibility of forage at different time tered into the Forage Super Bowl. I look at every entry of hay, points. The 30-hour time point (NDFD30) is used most often haylage, baleage and corn silage. I love to smell some of the hay by nutritionists because it is an average time spent by forages entries, which are as sweet as the day they in the rumen. A higher number for digestibility is better, indicatwere baled. I look at the milk per ton values ing the forage is more digestible. The more digestible the forage, and wonder how they were able to harvest the faster it disappears from the rumen and the cow can then eat such incredibly high quality forage. I look more. Remember, we use NDF as an indicator of intake. But we at the differences between the BMR Table 1. Forage Fiber and Starch Concentration for Different Forages. corn silages as DM NDF ADF Lignin Starch NDFD30 TDN compared to the ID regular varieties. I compare grass Silage 1, BMR 38.0 32.4 19.9 2.38 42.3 59.9 77.3 By Jim Paulson versus alfalfa, dry U of M Extension hay versus hay- Silage 2, 39.9 41.3 26.2 3.45 33.4 49.9 71.9 lage and see what varieties were used for each. And, I conventional get a copy of all the forage analyses 85 60 30 4.5 55 60 to study further. To me, forage is very Grass hay interesting. 85 40 30 7.5 46 65 Forage, on a dry matter basis, is Alfalfa hay composed of protein, fat, non-ber carbohydrates (NFC), ber (also carbohydrates) and ash. Neutral detergent now also use NDFD30 to help us understand rate and extent of ber, or NDF, is part of the carbohydrates of forage and a signi- digestion, which will inuence intake. cant factor in the amount of energy that forages can provide to a Ash is also indigestible since it is composed of minerals in ruminant. But, NDF is different in different forages. It is different the forage. Alfalfa is usually higher in ash because it is higher in in the amount in the forage and it is different in composition. In calcium and potassium as compared to corn or grass. But, soil addition, we know that even in the same kind of forage, whether from raking or mowing can also contaminate forage and increase it is alfalfa, grass or corn, it will differ with stage of maturity, the ash. Since ash is part of NDF, it leads us to measure more NDF year and season it is grown, as well as variety within a species. than is actually there. This can lead to an elevated energy level. We measure NDF by using either NIR methods (light spec- This is why many labs are reporting NDF less the ash content. trum readings) or using what we call wet chemistry. In wet chem- This is listed as NDFom for NDF organic matter basis. istry, a small ground sample is boiled in neutral detergent soTable 1 shows forage ber concentrations of four common lution to extract soluble material and leave the structural ber. forages: two corn silages and two dry hay samples. Notice the Think of a forage plant as a tall building such as a tall hotel or difference in NDF concentration across the forage sources. Even ofce building full of rooms. The rooms are full of soluble plant within corn silage, they differ signicantly. There are differences material. The neutral detergent solution opens all of the doors between grass and alfalfa because they are completely different and lets everything in the rooms out. What is left is the structural forages. The differences between the corn silages can be due to part, which we call neutral detergent ber. Like a building made one being a BMR hybrid, different populations and other factors. of bricks, mortar, steel and other materials, NDF is made up of Why are these differences important? Part of the answer is building materials like cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin and min- shown in the last column: TDN or total digestible nutrients. TDN erals. Acid detergent ber is measured by boiling a forage sample gives us an estimate of the energy potential of forages. It is an in an acidic solution. Hemicellulose is the difference of NDF mi- estimate based on the digestibility of the forage and other nutrinus ADF and is very digestible in the rumen. ADF measures cel- ents like the starch content. But, all of the numbers are important lulose, lignin and ash. Cellulose can be digested with time if it is because they help us understand how forage will t into a diet. not too bound with lignin. Lignin is an indigestible compound in High quality forage is the base for an affordable diet for our dairy NDF and, as it increases, it also interferes with microbial access animals. As human population competes for grain in the future, to cellulose further limiting digestibility. This limits rate and ex- forage needs to be a bigger part of the diet.

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Cover crops on dairy farms There are many benet claims for cover crops. It can become confusing because of the variety of plants and the various systems used. A farmer should ask, “What am I attempting to accomplish with a cover crop on this eld this year? Do I want to reduce soil or wind erosion, increase organic matter, improve By Randy Pepin soil structure, seU of M Extension quester nitrogen, x nitrogen, suppress weeds, reduce surface crusting, or break hardpan? Is there one magical plant that will accomplish all of these features? What are my forage needs? Additional pasture, fall forage harvest, spring forage harvest, or maintain my corn silage/alfalfa rotation?” We are unable to discuss all of these options in a short article, so let us concentrate on options following harvest of early to mid-fall crops, such as corn silage or soybeans. Many people have been impressed by the massive roots forage radishes will grow in a few weeks. If you have a eld with a hardpan to break up, radishes could be an option. However, radishes should be planted by mid-August to allow enough time to develop those roots; too early for corn silage or soybeans. Forage radishes could follow a small grains crop in a typical year. If

you have a deep rooted crop like alfalfa in your rotation, is hardpan your biggest problem? If the eld will be planted to corn or small grains next year, planting a crop that xes nitrogen could reduce nitrogen fertilizer use, i.e. a legume, which has nitrogen xing potential. Would there be enough time for a legume to grow and x much nitrogen in the fall following corn silage harvest? Probably not. How about after small grain? Maybe some. If the cover crop is terminated early spring, the xated nitrogen may also be minimal. The nitrogen economic return from planting a legume between two corn silage crops combined with early season corn planting is doubtful. One would expect a better economic nitrogen return if the legume could have an expanded time to grow. This may not t the typical corn silage/ alfalfa rotation on many dairy farms. Most dairy farmers are already utilizing the best nitrogen xer available, alfalfa, and it usually covers the ground for three years or more. In most cases, corn following a two-year plus good stand of alfalfa should have little need for additional nitrogen. What can we grow after harvesting corn silage that offers some benet when we want to plant next year’s crop in late April/early May? We are mostly limited to small grains, which are cool season crops that can grow in a Minnesota fall. Annual small grains, such as oats, barley, spring wheat, and spring triticale, will have adequate growth in

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the fall, provide ample fall ground cover, and will usually winter kill eliminating the need to terminate them in the spring. However, since early spring rains can lead to erosion and nitrogen leaching, having an active growing cover crop in the spring can minimize these effects. Other options following corn silage or soybeans are the winter cereal grains - winter rye, winter wheat, and winter triticale. The one most likely to survive Minnesota winters is winter rye. Winter wheat is the most sensitive to winter kill and winter triticale is somewhere in between. If spring termination is the plan allowing for late April/early May corn planting, then winter cereal rye would be the logical choice. If the desire is to harvest spring forage in late May prior to planting next year’s crop, one could consider winter triticale since its digestibility is slightly higher than winter rye; but many people harvest winter rye as a spring forage. Timely cutting during the boot stage,

when the head is still enclosed by the sheath of the uppermost leaf, is critical with any small grain species. Delaying harvest until after boot stage increases yield, but feed quality drops off rapidly. What is the yield and quality tradeoff between full season corn planted the rst of May versus harvesting a winter cereal as a spring forage combined with a shorter season corn variety? Also, consider that small grain harvested as a forage will consume some nitrogen. Two benets of having a winter cereal grain growing in both fall and early spring is increasing the soil organic matter and the grain’s ability to sequester, or take up, nitrogen. Sequestering the nitrogen will minimize nitrogen leaching. Will this nitrogen be available to the corn plant during the growing season since the plant material must be decomposed rst? Maybe, depending on amount of residue, seasonal rainfall, and temperature. Over the long term, higher levels of organic matter should reduce supplemental nitrogen needs.

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go ahead and tell me my business. His advice was always augmented with an earthy, homespun tale concerning a protable exploit he had pulled off during his four score years. I found these parables enlightening and entertaining at rst, but When my wife and I rst started dairying, we they lost their charm after hearing them dozens of rented a farm from an old times. I couldn’t decide if guy named Frank. Frank Frank’s memory was ld ’ d decide id if Old FFrank’s k’ Old was well into his eighties I couldn’t slipping or if he merely enand rumor had it that he was memory was slipping or if he joyed spinning yarns. a millionaire. I suppose there was merely enjoyed spinning yarns. some good Old Frank had a unique advice hidden way of communicating. For in his stories. Especially if I instance, if he were to say, ever were to buy land dur“I know a guy who should check his zipper,” it prob- ing a Great Depression or wanted to sell fat hogs to ably meant my y was open. Or he might say “I don’t the Defense Department during a World War. But no mean to tell you your business but...” and then would matter the content of his anecdote, he invariably endThe following is an excerpt from Jerry’s new book, “Dear County Agent Guy.” Jerry will be signing books from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Oct. 29 at Redhead Creamery, located near Brooten, Minn.

ed it with, “And I never made so darn much money in my entire life.” I found that many of Old Frank’s tales shared common themes, including: work hard; buy low, sell high; hang onto every nickel; and above all, a little luck never hurt anybody. I believe that Old Dear County Agent Guy Frank was the luckiest man I ever met. When he was about 85, Old Frank decided to buy a newer, larger house. True to form, he eschewed the assistance of professional movers, choosing instead to press into service asBy Jerry Nelson sorted acquaintances Columnist and neighbor kids. When he was moved into his new digs, Old Frank came to me and confessed that he had a problem. It seems that there was only one small item left to move that he and the neighborhood kids couldn’t tackle: a massive Wells-Fargo safe which inhabited his basement. I suggested that perhaps it was time to call professional movers and he said that he already had. “A hunnert dollars,” he said. “They want a hunnert dollars. And it’s only two blocks. They wouldn’t use a dime’s worth of gas and they have the nerve to charge an old man that much!” I said I didn’t see anything for it. Old Frank smiled slyly and said, “I know a guy who owns a pickup...” The next day, I found myself jockeying my pickup into position up against the landing of Old Frank’s house. He had scrounged up some planks to lay on the stairs and had borrowed a come-along winch that looked old enough to have hoisted Hannibal’s elephants up the slopes of the Alps. We put the planks on the stairs and threw a sturdy chain around the old safe. I attached the winch to my pickup, hooked the cable to the safe and started winching. Old Frank insisted on staying below the safe to supervise and to steer. The rusty cable groaned and twanged as the safe inched its way upward. I expected something to give at any moment and anticipated the difculty I would have in explaining why there was this very old and very at man lying dead in his basement. But Old Frank’s luck held and the safe was soon resting in the pickup. My truck’s rear end hung so low, its bumper almost cut furrows in the driveway. On my way out of the yard, I misjudged and nudged the neighbor lady’s concrete bird bath with my bumper. The bird bath instantly broke in two. Frank scowled and I empathized, “Gee, that’s too bad. I bet a new bird bath’s gonna cost you about a hundred bucks.” No sooner had I said that than the neighbor lady stuck her head out the door and said “It broke? Good. Will you haul that piece of junk away for me? I’d appreciate it.” Old Frank’s luck didn’t end there. A few days later, he opened the safe to discover it contained a stack of old war bonds he’d forgotten. The interest they had accrued nearly paid for his new house. Old Frank continued to come out to our farm almost daily. And every time he stopped for a visit, he would regale us with the same set of shopworn yarns, although his raising fat hogs story acquired a new twist. “And I put all the money into war bonds,” he said, “And I never made so darn much money in my entire life.” My wife and I would simply smile and nod. After all, we had recently acquired — for free — a slightly used, glommed-together-with-concrete-adhesive birdbath. And a colorful anecdote about how we came to own it. Jerry is a recovering dairy farmer from Volga, S.D. He and his wife, Julie, have two grown sons and live on the farm where Jerry’s great-grandfather homesteaded over 110 years ago. Jerry currently works full time for the Dairy Star as a staff writer/ad salesman. Feel free to E-mail him at: jerry.n@ dairystar.com.

Saving Penelope

Just the other weekend before traveling to World Dairy Expo, I spent a semirelaxing weekend with my family at home in Owatonna. Although we had a baby shower in the morning, my dad, made sure to make me feel like I was home in the best way possible – coming to the barn and helping with chores. Dad’s back was giving him ts after a long day of chores and chopping corn, so my main job that night was to help chop straw and bed the cows. Of course, I went to the barn to help dear old Dad. After nishing the task, feeding calves was the only task left. But since Dad had to milk a fresh cow to feed the lone bull calf, he told me to wait until he milked the cow. While I waited, I went to the house to switch laundry. In the dark evening – it getting darker earlier and earlier now – on my way back to the barn, I heard a moo coming from the direction of our younger group of heifers. But something about that moo didn’t seem right. It sounded much, much younger than the group of heifers. I went into the barn to talk to Dad about what I heard. By Missy Mussman He told me that little Penelope, his name for almost evStaff Writer ery heifer calf we have right now that’s not named yet, might have gotten out of her pen and made her way outside. “She’s done this before,” Dad said. “When you nd her, just pick her up and carry her back in.” So, I grabbed the headlight and went outside to see if Dad was right. Low and behold, I saw a very tiny calf lying in a pile of leaves without a care in the world between the garage and the heifer shed. I knew that was our little Penelope. Even though she was not where she should be, I couldn’t help but smile and laugh to myself at how cute she was in this situation. It brought me back to one of the main reasons I loved growing up on a dairy farm – taking care of the calves. As a child, I would follow my grandma Nancy out to the hutches with bottles of milk, buckets of water, grain and hay to take care of the little ones. It was my favorite thing to do. Calves were not near as big as the cows. They were more my size. But, I think the biggest reason I loved taking care of them was because they are always so cute. As I got older, I realized that cute doesn’t always mean easy. There were times those young calves I loved feeding so much didn’t always want to drink their bottles of milk. I can’t count how many times I became frustrated while doing calf chores, or dreaded feeding the one calf I knew wouldn’t drink. On top of that, cleaning calf pens and hutches, until the last 10 years, meant pitching everything by hand instead of taking the skid loader to clean them. But, what was always the most challenging is when the calves decided to get out. There was one time we didn’t know if we would get one group all back in. It was during fall harvest about six years ago and the younger group of calves in the shed was spooked by an empty corn wagon Dad was taking back out to the eld. The calves jumped the cattle paneled fence and took off through the front yard, across the road and into the neighbor’s plowed eld. After nearly an hour of ve of my family members chasing them back to the farm and nearly losing them in a corneld a mile away, they ended up back safely in their pen just before dark. Of course, going to sleep that night was a tful one, worrying they would escape and run off again. Thankfully, the calves were still safely where they were supposed to be the next morning. Despite the fact that calves are not always easy to deal with, they are still my favorite animals on the farm to take care of. So, even though Penelope didn’t make my night easy, I bent over, picked her up, carried her into the barn and put her back in the pen. Although this time I suggested to Dad that maybe we should put something across the head gates so the calves can still eat, but cute little Penelope wouldn’t be able to escape again.

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What happens when you combine fth graders, football, and dairy farmers? A whole lot of fun. That’s what happened during Minnesota’s Fuel Up to Play 60 event at a Vikings home game earlier this month. Fifth grade students from around Minnesota earned a trip to US Bank Stadium to watch a Vikings game through their schools’ Fuel Up to Play 60 programs. These students help lead their local programs as Dairy Good Life FUTP60 ambassadors. They qualied for the trip by implementing wellness activities that promote good nutrition and getting 60 minutes of physical activity each day. Fuel Up to Play 60 was started by a partnership between the National Football League and America’s dairy farmers (through the National Dairy Council). In Minnesota, Midwest Dairy Association coordinates the program and provides nutrition education to participating schools. To help students make the connection back to dairy farming, Midwest Dairy invited the dairy farmers serving on the Minnesota Dairy Growth Alliance By Sadie Frericks Steering Committee to participate in the FUTP60 Columnist event at the Vikings game. Princess Kay of the Milky Way, Haley Hinrichs, was also there to connect with students. We – meaning students, parents, school staff, and dairy farmers – spent an hour visiting together outside before the game. Dairy farmers got to tell students about their farms and students got to tell dairy farmers about their schools’ Fuel Up to Play 60 programs. Then we all ventured into the stadium. Part of the event was presenting the Fuel Up to Play 60 ag on the eld during the pre-game ceremony, so our rst stop in the stadium was the eld itself. It was really cool to watch the students’ excitement as they stepped onto the eld. I couldn’t help but feel proud that dairy farmers are helping to make this opportunity possible for these student leaders. After the Fuel Up to Play 60 recognition on the eld, we watched the theatric introduction of the teams. Then, the students got to line up with the Vikings players for the national anthem. Again, an incredibly exciting opportunity for these students – made possible, in part, by dairy farmers. Following our appearance on the eld, we found our seats to watch the game. Even though we were, as Glen put it, sitting with the air ducts, we had a great view of the eld. I didn’t really care that we were so high up, because I got to sit between Glen and Haley (aka Princess Kay). Whether she’s six or 96, every dairy girl dreams of getting to sit next to Princess Kay. I greatly enjoyed getting to know Haley better and she said it was great for her to meet more of the dairy farmers she represents. We all had a lot of fun watching the Vikings win, 24-10, over the New York Giants. The atmosphere inside the new stadium was electric. And really loud. I was grateful that Glen remembered to bring earplugs for both of us. Like the Vikings’ victory, Fuel Up to Play 60 is a win for students, schools, communities, dairy farmers, and the NFL. As the nation’s largest in-school health and wellness program, FUTP60 benets more than 38 million students in 73,000 schools across the country. Even better, the program is free for schools. Dairy farmers and the NFL are just two of several partners that help fund the program, which includes providing grants to schools that are committed to making healthy changes. For me, the event was an incredible opportunity to learn more about Fuel Up to Play 60 and to see several of my interests – good nutrition, physical activity, and leadership development – show up together in the same place. I have always been interested in human nutrition – and now I’m trying to encourage my own children to make good decisions about the foods they eat. I’m equally interested in keeping kids active and, especially, encouraging physical tness through play. (They’ll have the rest of their lives to exercise.) I also fully believe that leaders are made – not born – so we need programs that help students develop the condence and skills they need to lead their peers. It’s quite remarkable that Fuel Up to Play 60 brings all of these benets – and a whole lot of fun – to students across America. All because the National Dairy Council and the NFL sat down ve years ago and decided to work together. Incredible things happen when we form strong partnerships and pool our resources. Sadie and her husband, Glen, milk 75 cows near Melrose, Minn. They have three children – Dan, 9, Monika, 6, and Daphne, 3. Sadie also writes a blog at www.dairygoodlife.com. She can be reached at gsfrericks@meltel.net.

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A new approach to evaluating corn silage Page 34 • Dairy Star • Saturday, October 22, 2016

In 1876, Francis Morris made the rst corn silage in America (1908 Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 129). The Experiment Station Bulletin states he put whole corn plants in a pit and covered it with dirt. After an unknown period of fermentation, he dug up the silage and found it fairly well preserved and stated stock ate it well. Since that time in 1876, there seemingly has been a challenge in making and/or feeding corn silage every year. Comments such as the quality of silage is not as good as last year or cows are not milking on this year’s silage are commonly heard every fall. Corn silage should be one of the By Jim Linn easiest forages to harvest and feed, but it seems like Nutritionist there is either a quality or a harvest issue with corn silage every year, and this year was no exception. Storms and excess rainfall during the growing season and especially at harvest plagued many Midwest dairy producers. In assessing the quality and feeding value of corn silage, consider both the grain and stover content. Grain (starch) content of this year’s corn silage is generally very good, but delayed harvest has resulted in the corn grain becoming too mature and decreasing digestibility. I heard reports from several farms that the corn was at or near black layer before they could get into the eld to harvest. Digestibility of mature kernel starch is lower than when kernel milk line is 50 percent and as a result, there will likely be more starch in the manure this year. A short chop length and/or processing helps increase digestibility of the dry corn silage starch, but does not bring it back to the higher digestibility of corn silage harvested at a total plant dry matter (DM) of 32 to 35 percent. Similarly, digestibility of ber decreases as plant stover matures and dries with no effective way of substantially reversing lost digestibility. Over the years, there have been many methods

and nutrient analysis put forth as a means of evaluating corn silage quality. Most all have some relevance to the milk production value of corn silage in lactating cow diets, but none are perfect. Some rely on grain or starch content while others focus on the ber digestibility. At this year’s Minnesota Nutrition Conference, Dr. Larry Jones from American Farm Products proposed another method of evaluating corn silage and its potential use in dairy diets. What I liked about his approach to evaluating corn silage is it is logical, simple and easy to do along with using the ber digestibility measures now reported on forage test reports. I do not have extensive experience using his method, but the Corn Silage Feeding Guide does separate corn silages giving a good indication of their nutrient strength and weakness.

Corn silage composition Dr. Jones suggests the rst step in evaluating corn silage is to review the forage analysis report and determine the total carbohydrate (ber and nonber) content. In his evaluations, he found the total carbohydrate content, which is composed of ber, starch and sugars, to be rather consistent at 86 percent of the DM. For example, the average Midwest corn silage has 3.3 percent (± 0.72) ash, 7.8 percent (± 1.1) CP and 3.1 percent (± 0.34) fat on a DM basis. Adding up the ash, CP and fat (DM basis) equals 14.2 percent leaving 85.8 percent (100 – 14.2 percent) as total carbohydrate. In looking at several forage test reports, I have been quite surprised how close most corn silages are to the 86 percent (± about 1 percent) total carbohydrate. When they do vary more than 1 percent from the 86 percent, I check ash and CP values on the test report. Some corn silages are high in ash this year because of ooding and/or harvested from muddy elds. A high CP value indicates immature corn or a hybrid other than a traditional grain or silage hybrid may have been harvested for silage. The fat content of corn silage is relatively constant in most corn silage hybrids and not greatly affected by growing conditions. Values below 86 percent total carbohydrate generally indicate nonber carbohydrate (NFC) or grain portion of the silage has decreased and not NDF ber.

Rumen Fermentable Carbohydrate – Fill Index (RFC-Fill Index) Dr. Jones and his wife, Dr. Siciliano-Jones, who is the director of the FARME Institute, have proposed an index for a quick evaluation of corn silages based on digested ber and starch. The index is calculated from values found on the corn silage test report. Add the NDFD30 (percent of DM) to the Starch (percent of DM) and divide by NDFD30 (percent of DM). For example, a corn silage has 18.5 percent NDFD30 and 39.5 percent starch resulting in an index value of 3.1. Index values between three and ve are considered normal and good. Values below three indicate the corn silage is high ber and low in digestible ber resulting in less DM intake because of gut ll. Values above ve indicate high starch and rapidly digestible corn silage that may lead to problems of low rumen pH and/or low milk fat test. Most of the corn silages I have looked at have been between 2.5 and 3.5 on the RFC-Fill Index scale.

Corn silage feeding guide The third way of assessing corn silage quality is to look at how it contributes to the total forage content of the diet. Drs. Jones and Siciliano proposed the following amounts of undigestible ber (uNDF), digestible ber (NDFD) and NFC (starch and sugar) for lactating dairy cow diets; ve pounds of uNDF30, seven pounds of NDFD30 and 13 pounds of NFC. The amount of corn silage as the sole forage in the diet or the amount and type of forage needed to compliment corn silage in meeting the guidelines can be determined with the Corn Silage Feeding Guideline. For example, a corn silage test report shows 15 percent uNDF30 (percent of DM), 19 percent NDFD30, (percent of DM) and 54 percent NFC (percent of DM). The table below shows the calculations and deciencies in ber and nonber carbohydrate resulting when only 20 pounds/cow of corn silage DM is fed per day. See Table on next page. The negative values for undigestible ber (uNDF), digestible ber (NDFD) and NFC in the above example indicate additional forage and grain are needed in the diet. If high quality corn silage is available, increased Turn to CORN SILAGE | Page 35

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ConƟnued from CORN SILAGE | Page 34

Forage composition Nutrient item % of DM 15 uNDF30

Assume 20 lbs. of Nutrient corn silage DM is target Balance to be fed , lb lb of nutrient item 5 15 x 20 = 3.0 3.0 – 5 = -2.0

NDFD30

19 x 20 = 3.8

3.8 – 7 = -3.2

NFC

54 x 20 = 10.8

10.8 – 13 = - 2.2

amounts can possibly be fed to reduce the negative balances in all three nutrient categories. Another option would be to feed a high digestible forage such as high quality alfalfa to meet the NDFD and uNDF deciencies along with additional corn grain for NFC. The goal is to have a zero balance for all nutrient items. The target nutrient amounts are not absolute and probably vary slightly depending on DM intake and milk production of the cows. However, the concept of looking at how a forage meets the ber needs of cows and contributes to the NFC is logical and an easy way of quickly assessing forage quality. It is not intended to replace current ration formulation methods, but provide a

guide as to how much forage should be in the diet and identify forage ber and NFC limitations. Thanks for reading I have decided it is time to retire from writing the nutrition column in Dairy Star. It has been enjoyable and I want to thank Mark and all the others at Dairy Star for asking me to write this column many years ago and then allowing me to do so over the years. I also want to thank all of you who have read the columns over the many years. I hope I have provided you with some nutrition education and information along the way that has aided cow health, production and protability. Best wishes to all.

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Women In Jeans Kim Engelmeyer Melrose, Minn. Stearns County 100 cows

Family: My husband, Joe, and I have been married for 26 years. We have ve children; Derek, 24, Tyler, 21, Brett, 13, Connor, 10, and Emily, 8. Derek owns his own home. Tyler has a full time job off the farm. Tell us about your farm. We purchased the farm in 2011 from Sam and Jane Salzl. We milk 100 Holsteins twice a day in a parlor. We raise all of our replacements. We farm 260 acres of land which consists of barley, alfalfa, and corn. What’s the busiest time of day for you? Evenings are a little more hectic. Our youngest needs to be in bed early so she can have a productive day at school. She has Down syndrome, so some extra time and care needs to be done. Between the hired part time help and our boys, I am able to have some evenings off, or at least sneak out early. This allows me to make supper for Emily and get her to bed on time. Then I make another supper for the rest of the family. This leaves a little free time for homework, play time, and showers. When you get a spare moment what do you do? In the summer, I try to keep up with mowing the lawn which is a 4-5 hour task. When school starts, I try to make it to the boys’ sport events. As a family, we like to take time off and go to our cabin. Tell us about your most memorable experience working on the farm. Well, I am going to pick on my husband a little bit! It was a very brutal winter with more ice storms than snow storms. We were moving a fresh cow across the yard from the calving pen to the parlor. She really didn’t want to cooperate. We put sand down so she wouldn’t slip and fall, but of course, she wasn’t liking our path. As she would run back and forth, any which way but through the gate, Joe kept telling me to “be careful”, “don’t fall”, “it’s OK if she gets by you”, “just don’t hurt yourself”. Well, Joe was the one who ended up falling, so graceful as if he was sliding into home plate. Both hands straight out

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