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Volume 21, No. 17

Panelists share insights on Wisconsin’s ag economy

Discussion held at UW-Platteville By Danielle Nauman danielle.n@dairystar.com

Editor’s note: This is part one of a two-part series on the presentation, “Navigating the New Economy Series.” PLATTEVILLE, Wis. – Those interested in learning about the difcult economic times facing dairy farmers in Wisconsin and what the future may bring congregated at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville’s Markee Pioneer Student Center Oct. 17 to listen to a panel discussion held as part of WisBusiness.com’s Navigating the New Economy Series and moderated by Wisconsin farm news personality Pam Jahnke. Members of the discussion panel included Brad Pfaff, Wisconsin Agriculture Secretary designee; Travis Tranel, Wisconsin’s 49th District Assem-

blyman and dairy farmer; Dr. Paul Mitchell, agricultural economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the director of Renk Agribusiness Institute; Dr. Charles Irish, emeritus Volkman-Bascom professor of law and former director of the East Asian Legal Studies Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Anna Landmark, owner of Landmark Creamery. “Wisconsin agriculture is very closely related not just to China and southeast Asia but to the world marketplace as a whole,” Jahnke said. Jahnke began the discussion by asking Irish to share his thoughts about the potential trade agreements with China. “Don’t bet on exports of

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Representa�ve Travis Tranel (from le�), Wisconsin Secretary of Agriculture designee Brad Pfaﬀ, Anna Landmark of Landmark Creamery and Dr. Charles Irish from the East Asian Legal Studies Center and Dr. Paul Mitchell, agricultural economics professor, par�cipate in a panel Oct. 17 at the University of Wisconsin-Pla�eville. The panel discussed issues going on in agriculture, and par�cularly in the dairy industry, involving trade, markets and stress on the farm. $50 billion,” Irish said. “The Chinese haven’t conrmed. They haven’t mentioned a number. $50 billion would be higher than ever. The exports peaked at $29 billion about six years ago,

and the last 12 months have been running under $10 billion.” Irish pointed to the looming additional 15% tariffs on $156 billion of Chinese imports that

President Trump has set to begin Dec. 15 if the Chinese do not come to an agreement with the United States. Turn to ECONOMY | PAGE 5

Cozy Nook Farm’s fall market supplements dairy income Oberhauses sell pumpkins, gourds, squash alongside milk, Christmas trees By Stacey Smart

stacey.s@dairystar.com

WAUKESHA, Wis. – Every autumn, for more than 50 years, Cozy Nook Farm, of Waukesha, Wis., has welcomed the public to its doorstep. Fall is the busiest time of year for the farm’s owners, Tom and Joan Oberhaus, who sell pumpkins, gourds and squash along with corn shocks, miniature straw bales and other décor as part of their fall market. The couple also hosts eld trips for more than 1,000 school children. Cozy Nook Farm is a pumpkin lover’s paradise, lled with pumpkins of nearly every color, size and shape grown on 20 acres. “We raise 60 to 65 different varieties of pumpkins in all different colors, shapes, textures and hardness,” said

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Joan and Tom Oberhaus sell pumpkins, gourds and squash along with corn shocks, miniature straw bales and other décor as part of their annual fall market on their farm Cozy Nook Farm in Waukesha, Wis.

Tom, who milks 75 registered Brown Swiss and Guernsey cows, and farms 250 acres. “We also produce 10 to 12 varieties of squash and many varieties of gourds in all shapes, sizes and colors.” Opening day was Sept. 28, and the fall festivities will carry through until the end of October. Pumpkins color the front yard orange and overow into a nearby shed, giving visitors a vast assortment to choose from. Guests can also go on a hayride, pet a calf, climb around in the straw mow and take a peek at the cows. Cozy Nook Farm was established by the Wendt family in the 1840s. Joan’s grandfather, W.L. Wendt, relocated the farm to its current location in 1958 after being forced to sell his land to the state for the building of Interstate 94. Tom, an Ohio native and graduate of Ohio State University, majored in genetics and worked in the A.I. industry for seven years before joining Joan at her family’s farm in 1985. Pumpkins have been gracing the elds of Cozy Nook Farm since 1962 Turn to COZY NOOK | Page 6

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A glance at what’s inside

Since our last issue, there have been several opportune days to be out in the eld harvesting. For this issue’s “From our side of the fence” we talked to former dairy farmers who are helping out current dairy farmers with their fall harvest. Read on pages 15-16 in rst section about their duties, why they do it, and what kind of equipment would have been helpful to them while they were still dairy farming. Our organic feature for this issue comes from the Miller family who milks 375 cows on their dairy near Columbus, Wis. During a tour Oct. 2, the Millers shared the story of their farm that has been in their family since 1852. They also shared their switch to certied organic in 1997 and what they have done on their dairy to uphold that certication since then. Read more about the family on pages 6-7 in second section. 2019 will go down as a memorable year in terms of weather and farming. In Dairy Star’s coverage area, the year began wet and has not let up as farmers are itching to nish their harvests. Daryl Barfnecht, of Watertown, Minn., and Mark Zinke, of Brownsville, Wis., shared the challenges their respected areas have had to work through with the wetness. Turn to page 10 in rst section to read about this year’s unusual weather and if it could be the new normal. Like many other families, the Callstroms spent Oct. 18 in the eld. The family is featured in our “Day in the life” story on pages 16, 18-19 in second section. Soybeans were the focus for the day for the Callstrom family, who milks 40 cows on a diversied farm in Goodhue County near White Rock, Minn. Because of MEA break, some of the kids were able to help in certain chores throughout the day. Overall, the day’s warmer temperature and drying winds made it a good day for the Callstroms to get more fall harvesting done. In a recent Progressive Dairy Producers’ webinar, agricultural economist Dr. David Kohl gave his predictions for the next decade of dairy farming and the factors that may inuence the market. Among the global and national trends in food production, technology and consumers will remain as the prominent inuencers of the dairy industry for 2020 and beyond, Kohl said. Read more about Kohl’s predictions on page 11 in rst section.

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It’s all inside... Columnists

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RepresentaƟve Travis Tranel explains what he has experienced both as a dairy farmer and as a member of the state legislature during a panel discussion Oct. 17 in PlaƩeville, Wis. Jahnke asked Mitchell to talk about how the trade news about China has affected agricultural markets. “Most farmers don’t directly export their products,” he said. “They watch the local markets, and what they are seeing is the prices going up and down. There is a lot of uncertainty this year because of the weather. Last week, the USDA announced their projected U.S. corn yield went up by 0.2 bushels, 168.2 to 168.4. The price dropped 14 cents that day. Then the next day it went right back up because the blizzard that hit North Dakota. The markets are just gyrating around.” Jahnke brought up the relationships that are often capitalized on during difcult times, particularly those with trade partners, an area which she said Pfaff brought a great deal of experience to the table. “I’ve got some good and bad news,” Pfaff said. “The good news is in the rst six months of 2019, we exported over $1.6 billion of high-quality agriculture products from Wisconsin to over 125 nations around the world. Sadly, it is down 7% compared to last year.” Pfaff said the top ve agriculture export opportunities for Wisconsin are Canada, China, Mexico, Japan and South Korea. “We have a value chain and a supply chain put in place to make sure that we can continue to try and move products from Wisconsin, ideally nished products that have gone through the supply chain, and move those to consumers from around the world,” Pfaff said. “We do continue to build on these relationships.” Jahnke asked Tranel to share his experiences working in the state legislature and what it is like being a farmer serving in the state house trying to share the story of agriculture. “There are 99 members in the assembly and 33 in the senate; Wisconsin agriculture has an over-$100 billion impact and dairy is over 15% of our state’s economy,” Tranel said. “But there are less than a handful of us that honestly know anything about agriculture. When our state started, the legislature was comprised pretty much of farmers and a few attorneys. Now it’s a lot of attorneys and me and a couple of others.” Tranel said despite agriculture being in a downturn for the past ve years many of his colleagues recently started realizing the agricultural economy is struggling. “They see a $50,000 pick-up truck or a $500,000 combine,” Tranel said. “They think things are ne in ag. That is

the bridge we have to gap. It’s becoming more and more challenging.” Jahnke directed the conversation to the shift in what agriculture looks like and what she called creative farmers; someone took a look at an underserved market to nd a way to get into agriculture, much like Anna Landmark did when she created Landmark Creamery six years ago. “I had a tremendous benet because of an organization called the Dairy Business Innovation Center,” Landmark said. “It gave me access to all the consultants I could possibly need to launch a cheesemaking business. They had all of these people with years of industry experience. It was very sad when that program went away. I got in at the very end of it, and I probably could have been growing a little bit faster if I had had more of that support as I was going forward.” Landmark continues to use facilities at Cedar Grove Cheese to produce cheese from her herd of sheep. “We had hoped that by year six we would be in our own cheese plant,” Landmark said. “Equity is always hard to scrounge up, and there is not a lot of grant programs for food businesses of my size to take advantage of. Banks are obviously reluctant to make loans right now. Growth has been challenging.” Jahnke said most involved in agriculture want to continue to be involved in agriculture, and asked Mitchell to talk about the damage done to the agricultural sector and what a recovery might look like. “All of the capital is gone,” Mitchell said. “Farmers have been dipping into equity. You see all the numbers; that we are leading the nation in farm bankruptcies as a state. They are just the symptom. There are a lot of others getting out before it gets that bad.” Mitchell compared the current agricultural economy to what was experienced in the 1980s. “The word crisis is out there now,” Mitchell said. “I’m not ready to call this a crisis yet, but it’s not good. The ‘80s were a crisis. It was hard on the families. There is a lot of stress on these households.” Mitchell said it is going to take a while for things to improve. “Let’s say something happens and the prices really shoot up here,” Mitchell said. “But the capital has been sucked away, and it’s going to take a while to build those resources back up again. There is no easy answer like wait six months and it will be better. I think it will take us a few more years after the markets recover, assuming that they do.”

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when Joan’s parents, Jim and Kathy Wendt, began selling pumpkins to earn extra money they could set aside for their children’s college education. Their rst crop lled one trailer, and, in the end, the pumpkin business put all four kids through college. Kathy started offering tours for school children at that time as well. Kathy can still be found helping her daughter and son-in-law pick pumpkins. Growing approximately 1,000 jacko-lanterns per acre, the farm sells tens of thousands of pumpkins each year. In addition to the traditional pumpkin in all shades of orange, the Oberhauses also grow specialty pumpkins like Austrian and French heirlooms, such as the gray-blue Jarrahdale. A favorite of bakers, the Jarrahdale is recognized as one of the best-tasting by pumpkin connoisseurs and makes a delicious pumpkin pie. The tan New England Cheese, bright-red Cinderella and white Cotton Candy pumpkins are also part of the mix. Indian corn in both large and mini varieties is another staple in the fall market. They also supply the corn to local pumpkin markets, which Tom said is a tradition. Cozy Nook Farm also offers educational farm tours and is booked every

fall for eld trips that include a onehour farm tour, giving Oberhauses the opportunity to teach kids where milk comes from and other important facts about dairy farming. Tom and Joan also offer family tours in the summer. “Agriculture has a great story to tell, and we have to tell it,” Tom said. “Our tours allow us to do that.” The farm is open to the public seven days a week during the fall from 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., and Tom said they are packed full on the weekends. The farm’s website and word of mouth are the primary drivers of trafc to the farm, most of which Tom said comes from the Waukesha area. Cows at Cozy Nook Farm never take a backseat to the fall hustle and bustle, as Tom is quick to say he and his wife are dairy farmers rst and foremost. Twenty years ago, they converted the original dairy barn and put in a stepup, walkthrough double-4 at parlor and added calf stalls for newborns. “We breed and manage for production, focusing on pounds of fat and protein,” Tom said. “We like the high components that brown cows produce, and in the winter months, we average over 6.5 pounds of fat and protein per cow Turn to COZY NOOK | Page 7

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ConƟnued from COZY NOOK | Page 6 while running over 8% solids.” Genomics are also important to the Oberhauses, who have put many bulls in A.I. and export embryos to Europe. Tom said their dream is to go to Switzerland to see the offspring of their cattle. “We also do a little showing, mostly through our work with 4-H kids who we let show for us,” Tom said. “We always take a string to the state fair, but the main reason we go is to promote our pumpkins. We’re actually more into genomics than showing.” A Brown Swiss named Cozy Nook Pronto Twylight is remembered as one of the farm’s most special cows. Twylight was the 2012 Wisconsin Cow of the Year and has had two sons and 15 grandsons in A.I. Her daughter, Cozy Nook Payssli Treacherous, has

three sons in A.I., one of these being Cozy Nook Carl Trek. Trek is the breed’s No. 3 bull for Progressive Performance Ranking. “We’re excited to have bred something with an impact on the breed,” Tom said of Trek. In addition to Tom and Joan, Cozy Nook Farm is run by the Oberhauses’ son, Charlie, who drives truck full time but also helps with eld work, and Dan Gerrits, a neighbor to the family, who is a growing partner in the dairy. In the winter, people continue to ock to Cozy Nook Farm to buy Balsam and Frasier Fir Christmas trees. The farm began selling a couple hundred trees in 1986 and now move 1,800 per year. They buy trees from northern Wisconsin to offer alongside handmade

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(from leŌ) Joan’s mother, Kathy Wendt; Joan’s cousin, Linda Kraemer; and Joan Oberhaus prepare Indian corn for the fall market. wreaths, garland and door swags. “Our specialties are cows, pumpkins and trees – in that order,” Tom said. “We take pride in that our real job is growing food for America. We sell enough pumpkins and trees to let us do what we want on the farm. It sustains us. We’re not lling the bank with money, but we can pay our bills. We’re one of only 11 dairy farms in Waukesha County and live in an area where it makes no sense to build a big dairy. So, this works for us. We do what we love to do and feel very fortunate we’re able to share it with the public.”

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Cozy Nook Farm displays pumpkins and squash for sale during its annual fall market which runs unƟl the end of October.

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Dairy supply/demand forecast released

The USDA October World Agricultural Supply Kind disappointed in Japan trade deal The United States-Japan trade agreement and Demand Estimates projects 2019 milk production at 218.2 billion pounds, up 200 million pounds from offers positive news for certain segments of U.S. the September estimate. Higher cow numbers and agriculture, but not all commodities will be able to greater productivity per cow are credited for the take full advantage of the deal. “The disadvantage for our dairy farmers is going forward bump. For 2020, USDA increased the Ag Insider for many years in all likelihood,” said milk production total to 221.6 billion Wisconsin Congressman Ron Kind. pounds. The all-milk price forecast for “I was disappointed because it wasn’t 2019 is $18.40 per hundredweight and achieving a level playing eld for our for 2020, it is $18.85 per hundredweight. dairy products.” Kind said the Trump Administration moved too quickly on Intergenerational changes announced the Japanese trade deal. “For whatever for DMC reason, they decided to sacrice dairy USDA has announced a temporary for the sake of reaching some type of change in the Dairy Margin Coverage agreement that they could hold up for program to provide more exibility for the American people and I just think it is the next generation to join the operation. really a missed opportunity.” This new language allows the dairy farm to increase its DMC production history By Don Wick Kudlow: USMCA could be ratied by to account for dairy cattle purchased Columnist Thanksgiving within 120 days of a family member White House Economic Advisor joining the business. If a spouse, child or grandchild came into the dairy operation since Larry Kudlow told reporters he thinks there can 2014 and additional cows were added to the herd, the be bipartisan backing on the U.S. Mexico Canada DMC production history can be updated to reect the Agreement in the United States by Thanksgiving. increase in production. Dairy farm businesses have “Political differences exist. I get that, but they can still until mid-December to update the production history come together on something,” Kudlow said. “There’s for intergenerational transfers at the county Farm almost a consensus view that USMCA is a good thing for America now and in the future. I remain optimistic. Service Agency ofce. I’ve spoken to leaders in the House and Senate that President Trump Signs United States-Japan Trade say maybe we can get something by Thanksgiving.” Agreement During the ceremony, President Donald Trump New Zealand dairy exports decline According to a report from USDA, New Zealand’s described the deal as a game changer for farmers and ranchers. “As a result, over 126 million Japanese dairy industry is facing serious challenges due to debt consumers will have greater access to high quality and environmental regulations. USDA expects whole American products,” Trump said. U.S. Trade milk powder exports from New Zealand to top out at Ambassador Robert Lighthizer spoke at the signing 1.48 million metric tons this year, dropping to 1.42 ceremony, saying the new terms amount to $55 million tons in 2020. New Zealand is the world’s billion worth of trade. “With this, we’ll have more largest dairy exporter. than 95 percent of the Gross Domestic Product that would have been in the Trans Pacic Partnership.” Co-op 100 list released The National Cooperative Bank is out with its In the months ahead, negotiations will continue on remaining areas of the trade deal. The rst stage of list of the top 100 cooperatives in America. CHS the agreement is expected to be nalized by January remains at the top of the list with revenues of nearly $33 billion. Land O’Lakes is ranked second at $15 2020.

billion. The list includes Dairy Farmers of America at number three; California Dairies, Inc. is ranked 13th and Darigold is 17th. Select Milk Producers, Inc. is at 22, Foremost Farms is 25; Associated Milk Producers, Inc. is at 27 and Organic Valley (CROPP) is 50. Other notable dairy co-ops on the list include Bongards’ Creameries at 85; First District Association is 97 and NFO is ranked at 99th.

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USDA, the average county indemnity payment for prevented planting claims in the Upper Midwest varied from $300 to more than $55 million. The areas most affected were eastern South Dakota and North Dakota, as well as western Minnesota and eastern Wisconsin. In South Dakota, nearly half the state led claims with the USDA’s Risk Management Agency. Those indemnities were over $10 million per county. “Those numbers tell the story,” Edwards said. “There are few pockets of dryness but a lot of excess moisture.” Over the course of the season, the USDA has reported Minnesota, South Dakota and Wisconsin as part of the nation’s top 10 wettest land. Record setting rainfalls have been noted in Rochester, Minn., following an early October rainstorm. The city set an annual precipitation record of 48.74 inches Mark Zinke – more than 170% of normal preDairy farmer cipitation – breaking the previous record of 43.94 inches set in 1990. The Wisconsin farmer estimated his total rainfall was about 40 inches so far this year. “Honestly, I lost count,” Zinke said. “Recently, we were hammered with 6 inches. There was no place for it to go. It just ran off.” This year’s weather pattern is not surprising, although certainly more extreme than usual, said Edwards. Long run trends are indicating more precipitation and higher temperatures, although the warmth is more commonly noted in the winter months. However, it has yet to be proven if a year like 2019 will become the new normal. Edwards encourages farmers to be prepared for future unusual weather by ensuring good soil health principals and management practices, such as applying cover crops and doing minimum or no till. “If we can preserve the soil in any way and prevent erosion, all of that helps farmers better manage through these climate extremes, whether that’s excess moisture or drought,” Edwards said. In the meantime, farmers are scrambling to nish harvest despite the conditions. Zinke is about halfway done with his corn silage. “I’m praying the rain turns off or I can nd a dump cart,” Zinke said. “We’ve been using semi trucks with oat tires and hauling half loads.” Barfnecht agreed. “Our silage is done, but we need to nish grain corn and then hopefully get to soybeans,” Barfnecht said. “Nothing is drying down, and it can’t mature with the cold weather we’ve had.” Then, if there is time before the ground freezes, manure has to be hauled and eldwork has to be nished. And, farmers should anticipate more ooding next spring as the current moisture levels in the soil will not likely dissipate before winter, said Edwards. “It’s been tough,” she said. “Not to dwell on it, but we are not done with what 2019 has gifted us.”

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As a new decade approaches, technology, a rapid rate of consumer change and consumer dynamics driven by social media will inuence the dairy industry over the next 10 years. Those were Dr. David Kohl’s predications during his webinar, “Get a Grip on Ag Economics,” Oct. 17. The presentation was a part of the Progressive Dairy Producers’ World Class Webinar series. “We’re going to see more change in the next decade than we’ve seen in the past 70 years,” Kohl said. On grand scale, Kohl predicts the next decade being represented as a time of high technology and high touch. As technology in the form of engineering, biotechnology and data becomes essential on dairy farms, so will people who have the skill set to work with such information. Not only will farmers be transitioning capital and business culture to newer generations but also human assets. “This whole technology thing takes control of our lives,” Kohl said. “[Because of that,] interpersonal skills and the ability to work interdependently will be very important.” Then, as formerly dependent countries become self-sustaining, the U.S. dairy industry has to reevaluate the consumer base and how to market to today’s dairy eaters. The key to reaching those with purchasing power is by relaying trust as 75% of purchases are made based on experience, said Kohl. “We really screwed up by allowing [dairy] substitutes to come in,” Kohl said. “Now, we have to line up with the future consumer and show them transparency, customization and personalization.” With the consumer in mind, the

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dairy industry should look towards the exitarians – those who are considering going vegan. “Some of those will come back if given a good reason,” Kohl said. For dairy farmers to compete in this changing market, Kohl encourages producers to look for small ways to make progress. In 2020, interests are projected to be low, milk prices should be higher and feed costs should also be less than in recent years.

“We’re relegated to a period of base hits rather than home runs,” Kohl said. “We have seen base hit prots are not all bad. Proactive managers are satised with base hits, while reactive managers have to have a lot of equity to wait for those home runs; 2014 was the worst.” In Kohl’s experience, the most productive work cultures to create a series of wins in the industry come from those that have a passion for dairying but are also Dr. David Kohl scally responsible. “As businesses get bigger, they tend to be managed by the spreadsheet and that tears the passion out of the business,” Kohl said. “Numbers count, but also the heart counts. And leaders of the future will have to think about that.” In the same breath, Kohl cautioned the industry from becoming too large. “It’s driven by the grocery industry. They take advantage of the dairy industry and producers pay the price. It’s disgusting,” he said. “The next issue in the next election is the concentration on bigness, and the dairy industry must be careful about this. It could be a game changer.” When Kohl reviews the farms that are doing well and those that are not, it does not necessarily come down to size of the operation, but rather the management culture. During Kohl’s presentation, he referenced FINBIN data, which found some young farmers are faring better than those who are 10-40 years into dairying. “Sometimes, young farmers are doing better than vintage, more experienced farmers,” he said. “They pick up on controlling costs and the right costs to increase revenue. They are very good at having diversication of income and are modest on family living.” One way farmers can evaluate their business is to consider the equation: P=O+C+L+M2. In Kohl’s formula, P interchangeably represents prots and people; O is overhead; C, costs; L, liquidity; and M2 for marketing and management. “Prots and people go together,” Kohl said. “I often see businesses that have a leadership culture and attract good people; they see prots. They often go hand in hand.” If dairy farmers want to progress over the next decade amidst the factors inuencing the industry as described by Kohl, they will need to know their cost of production, marketing and risk management strategies, and have a good handle on the farm’s capital and human assets. “Whether you’re milking 50 cows or 50,000 cows, or selling genetics, these are the things you’re going to have to be thinking about,” he said. These strategies will help the dairy community work interdependently as the industry enters into the next decade.

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LEWISTON, Minn. – Ben Daley is excited for the future of his family’s dairy. “There are a lot of new cuttingedge tools out there, not just robots, but milk analyzing tools that we don’t have on our dairy,” Daley said. “They’re really neat and would be very helpful.” Implementing new technology is one reason the Daley family is planning an expansion for their 1,426-cow dairy near Lewiston, Minn. Bringing in the next generation as new owners is another reason they are looking to up their cow numbers. Currently, the dairy has seven owners. These include fourth-generation brothers, Mike and Steve Daley. The ve fth-generation owners are Mike’s children, Mark, Brian, Neil and Ben Daley, and Shelly DePestel. The expansion would help the farm sustain another generation, bringing in Shelly’s sons, Dustin, Dylan and Dominick DePestel, along with Neil’s son, Gabe. Mark’s wife, Sonja, also works on the farm. “I appreciate farming with family,” DePestel said. “When things are going well we are able to share that joy with family, but when things are difcult we know we all have each others’ back.” The Daleys feel this expansion will

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sion. After beginning the process in 2014, they have worked with engineers and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to design a plan that would work with their land and farm site. “The engineering and design took quite awhile,” Daley said. After being granted the state permit from MPCA in January 2018, they have since had their permit revoked. “Basically, the MPCA needs to

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Retired dairymen: How do you help with fall harvest?

John Selin Viroqua, Wis. Vernon County Who do you help with fall harvest and why? I help several friends and old neighbors with whatever they need in the ďƒželds. It helps pass the time, and they have been good friends and neighbors. I like helping when they are short-handed and crushed for time. Tell us about a typical day while harvesting. Usually I help them after my day job, so it is not a full day. Typically I help for four to ďƒžve hours a day. It includes chopping corn, hauling corn or helping haul manure. I also help with haying in the summer. What do you enjoy most about helping with fall harvest? I enjoy the time of the year, being outside and able to enjoy the colors. The air is clean and brisk, not hot and humid. Tell us about your former dairy farming career. I spent my life milking cows. I had a herd of registered Jerseys. We raised most of our own crops on the farm. What was the toughest part about fall harvesting during your time as a farmer? When relying on custom-hire and not having large acres of crops to harvest, you get pushed down the waiting list. Everyone wants to do the big jobs ďƒžrst. What is one piece of harvest equipment available now that you would have liked to have when you farmed? I would have liked to have had a bale wrapper or have someone in the area with a bale wrapper to wrap hay in the summer. It would have been less labor and during tough weather times, like this year, it would have meant a lot better quality feed. Tell us about the most memorable fall harvest you have been a part of. The most memorable was the most successful ones, where the work got done early, the yield was good, we were able to make winter bedding early and no one got hurt doing it. What do you do when you are not helping with fall harvest? I just try and ďƒžnd things I can do to help other people. I always look forward to the fall, visiting World Dairy Expo and the All-American Jersey Show in November in Louisville, Ky.

Gilbert Rauls DeForest, Wis. Dane County Who do you help with fall harvest and why? I help my daughter and son-in-law, Sue and Randy Langer, along with their children who farm with them, Darren, Justin and Jenna. I do this because I enjoy it, and I have been doing it all my life. Tell us about a typical day while harvesting. A typical day includes getting into the grain or silage truck in the morning and starting to haul corn or silage for the day. Sometimes I will also go for parts, take the fuel wagon out to the ďƒželd or give people rides to equipment. What do you enjoy most about helping with fall harvest? I like being outside, seeing the harvest each year and how it compares to the previous year. Tell us about your former dairy farming career. My family milked 80 cows in a stanchion barn. We had to switch groups to get them all milked. Sue and Randy bought into the herd and took over the farm fully in the late 1980s. I continued to help on the dairy when needed and raised corn and soybeans to sell as grain for the next few years before Sue and Randy also took over that part of the farm, too. What was the toughest part about fall harvesting during your time as a farmer? The weather seems to be the biggest challenge year after year. What is one piece of harvest equipment available now that you would have liked to have when you farmed? I would have liked to have had grain and silage trucks. They would have saved us so much time. We used tractors with gravity boxes. Also, the newer combines now are bigger and do a better job of harvesting. It would have been nice to have had those in my years. Tell us about the most memorable fall harvest you have been a part of. My most memorable harvest was last year, 2018. We had a lot of rain and it was muddy. We had to put tracks on the combine, which made a huge difference. We were able to get all the crops harvested without leaving any out in the ďƒželd. What do you do when you are not helping with fall harvest? From midNovember to the ďƒžrst part of April I live down in Green Valley, Ariz.

Curt Bekius Milaca, Minn. Mille Lacs County Who do you help with fall harvest? I still have my own crops to harvest along with helping my two oldest sons, Shawn and Ken, with their crops. I also help my dad when I can. He still crop farms and does custom harvesting of corn, soybean and small grains. Tell us about a typical day while harvesting. My day starts with mixing and feeding 300-400 head of Holstein replacement heifers that I raise for area dairy farmers plus caring for the 75 cow/calf pairs I own. I also mix feed for Kenâ€™s dairy herd. Then, we start chopping, usually until dark. What do you enjoy most about helping with fall harvest? After the long hours and stress you deal with in the spring and summer (no rain/too much rain), enjoying the rewards of a bountiful harvest. Tell us about your former dairy farming career. My wife and I got married Feb. 23, 1991, and started milking cows March 14. We had purchased a small herd earlier in February and then moved them to the farm we also had purchased earlier. We milked for 20 years. We had an auction in March 2011 and sold our dairy herd. We then expanded our beef herd and a couple of years later started custom raising dairy replacement heifers. What was the toughest part about fall harvesting during your time as a farmer? Weather and breakdowns. What is one piece of harvest equipment available now that you would have liked to have when you farmed? Rear unload chopper boxes. They unload much faster when doing drive over piles and ďƒžlling bunker silos. Tell us about the most memorable fall harvest you have been a part of. This yearâ€™s harvest will probably win that prize. With all the rain weâ€™ve had, weâ€™ve needed two tractors to pull the chopper most of the fall, and we arenâ€™t ďƒžnished yet. And to make it more memorable, Shawn broke his leg Oct. 21. What do you do when you are not helping with fall harvest? My regular chores and whatever needs to be done. Making sure cattle are taken care of and there is always manure to be hauled.

Ron Leis Kendall, Wis. Monroe County Who do you help with fall harvest? I help Brian Friske to be neighborly. We are all in this together. We have to help one another. Tell us about a typical day while harvesting. This year has been challenging. The weather has delayed us so much. When we can go, it is usually all day and into most of the night. What do you enjoy most about helping with fall harvest? Seeing how all the crops are doing. It is reward for your hard work. Tell us about your former dairy farming career. I always tried to do and be better than the average guy. You take care of your cows. They take care of you. Back when I milked, I farmed over 400 acres. Now I have a little more time, so I farm almost 800 acres. What was the toughest part about fall harvesting during your time as a farmer? Trying to get crops in and still ďƒžnd time to milk the cows right on schedule and make it all work together. What is one piece of harvest equipment available now that you would have liked to have when you farmed? A processor on the chopper. It would have made the feed more efďƒžcient to the cow. And, a no-till drill. It cuts down on erosion and saves a lot of time. Tell us about the most memorable fall harvest you have been a part of. The best yields I ever had in my farming career was in 2017. What do you do when you are not helping with fall harvest? Ride my 4-wheeler on my trails, fencing and just be with nature. Turn to OUR SIDE | Page 16

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ConƟnued from OUR SIDE | Page 15 Dave Haagenson Baltic, S.D. Minnehaha County Who do you help with fall harvest? I help Lynn Boadwine. I have been in the dairy business my whole life. I got out of dairy farming a few years ago, but I like to stay involved. Tell us about a typical day while harvesting. It can vary a lot depending on what we are doing. I usually start at about 7 a.m. and work until 7 p.m. We will go all night if we are especially busy or really need to get something done. I mostly drive trucks or run the manure applicator tractor. What do you enjoy most about helping with fall harvest? I enjoy being part of the rat race of getting everything done in the fall. There is something new to do and a different set of challenges every day. Tell us about your former dairy farming career. My parents, Gene and Janis, started a Grade A dairy operation in the mid 1950s. They began in a 30-cow stanchion barn and built a 72-cow tiestall barn in 1980. In 1991, we added a 70-cow freestall barn. We built a 400-cow freestall and parlor facility in 1994. I exited the business in 2012 and leased out our dairy facilities. Lynn Boadwine purchased our dairy facilities in 2017 and expanded them to 1,100 head. What was the toughest part about fall harvesting during your time as a farmer? There was never enough time to get everything done. We milked in the morning, and in the afternoon we had to try to get the harvesting done in between. It seemed like the combine would always break down way out in the farthest corner of our farm. What is one piece of harvest equipment available now that you would have liked to have when you farmed? The self-propelled silage chopper that takes 12 rows is really nice. Back in the day, we had a 2-row pull-type chopper and had to drag wagons behind it. The wagons unloaded slow, and we always had to worry about breaking their apron chains. We lled our upright silos, a process that took up a good deal of time. These days everything is hauled by trucks and dumped into a concrete bunker. Tell us about the most memorable fall harvest you have been a part of. This fall is by far the most memorable. We are constantly pulling trucks out of the elds and getting tractors stuck. I can’t think of any year that was like this. What do you do when you are not helping with fall harvest? I like to do shop projects and build things. Last winter, I built a garden shed for my wife. My wife and I like to travel and visit my sisters in Tucson, Ariz., and New York City. We also spend as much time as we can with our three daughters and our granddaughter.

Howard Nelson Hinckley, Minn. Pine County Who do you help with fall harvest? I help my son Nathan with the harvesting. He has taken over the farm from me and is the third generation. I help because I am needed and am physically able to do so. I continue to have interest in the farm and want to be supportive of my son’s operation. I also enjoy the harvest time, except for the intensity of it. What do you enjoy most about helping with the fall harvest? Being out in the elds and seeing the beauty of God’s creation around me, as well as the satisfaction of the culmination of another crop year in which time, energy and nances have been invested. Tell us about your former dairy farming career. In the fall of 1970, after I completed my military assignment, my wife, Diane, and I, along with our infant son, took over the farm my dad had homesteaded in the 1930s. The dairy herd was well established. My dad already had his herd enrolled in the DHIA testing program, and I continued on with that. In 1973, I built a tiestall dairy barn with the labor saving equipment of a milking pipeline and a barn cleaner. Eventually, a manure pump was added. The barn was built with a capacity for 52 cows. Our family grew to ve children. In addition to dairy, the early years of farming include a hog operation, which was replaced by a herd of beef cattle. What was the toughest part of fall harvesting during your years as a dairy farmer? The intensity of it. I was milking two times a day, and most of our calving took place in the fall so that demanded a lot of time and attention. I was disciplined to keep my milking schedule regular and could not handle late night milkings. Finding time mid-day to get in a few hours of harvesting was intense. There was always the weather to deal with, knowing the deadline was imminent. The demands of fall harvesting also impacted life beyond the farm such as children’s activities and community life. What is one piece of equipment available now that you would have liked to have when you farmed? I remember cutting hay with a sickle mower and then having to use a conditioner on it. It was a slow and tedious process. The haybine was a big improvement, but the discbine has been a major improvement because it can work more efciently on a variety of crop conditions. What is your most memorable fall harvest? The Halloween blizzard of 1991. Most of my corn was harvested, only 1-2 acres left to be picked. The

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Stan Diers Waverly, Minn. Wright County Who do you help with fall harvest? I help at the farm spring, summer and fall. My daughter and son-in-law own the farm. I like to help out because I am a farmer still at heart. Tell us about a typical day while harvesting. In the fall, the biggest harvest is corn silage. I haul wagons and sometimes pack bunkers. Tell us about your former dairy farming career. My wife and I operated a registered Holstein herd with help from the kids. What was the toughest part about fall harvesting during your time as a farmer? The toughest part about fall harvesting is rain and mud, just like this year. What is one piece of harvest equipment available now that you would have liked to have when you farmed? The piece of equipment the farm has now is a self-propelled corn chopper. It cut chopping time down by four days, and we are chopping more corn than we did. Tell us about the most memorable fall harvest you have been a part of. The most memorable fall harvests are those when we had all the work done before freeze up. What do you do when you are not helping with fall harvest? My wife and I spend two months in Florida. We are involved in church activities and attend as many grandchildren events as we can. We also like to travel and visit friends we have met through our travels. morning chores were done, and the forecast was for 6-8 inches of snow. I headed out to nish picking, and the snow started to come, forcing me to quit before very long. In the morning, I walked out to the barn in drifts up to my hips. I did not have a 4-wheel drive tractor. I had not yet weaned the calves from my beef herd, and the dairy and beef cattle were together for a short time. My wife told our three youngest sons – 12, 10 and 9 – that there was no school that day because of the snow storm. All three pairs of feet hit the oor immediately. As for the fall harvest, the rest of the corn had to wait until the spring of 1992. When you are not helping with the fall harvest, what are you doing? I take care of my huge garden and lawn. But most importantly, I get to spend more time with my children and grandchildren, and be of help to others around me. I am also active in my church.

Henry Thomforde Goodhue, Minn. Goodhue County Who do you help with fall harvest? I help the Buck and Huneke families. I do it because I have time, and I enjoy it. I sell hay to the Hunekes and raise young bull calves from the Bucks. Tell us about a typical day while harvesting. A full day of harvesting usually starts at 6:30 a.m. and goes until about 10 p.m. I mostly haul corn silage in a tractor with a wagon, but once in a while I help pack if I need to. I also help move equipment when they are emptying pits and lagoons. What do you enjoy most about helping with fall harvest? I like listening to the guys talk on the two-way radio. They like to crack jokes. I bust out laughing. It is serious work, but we still have fun doing it. Tell us about your former dairy farming career. My wife, Kathy, and I milked about 40 cows. We started in 1978 and sold the herd in 2012. We have 240 acres of corn, soybeans and alfalfa we still run. And, we raise between 75-100 steers from young calves on milk up until nishing. I liked the variety of the dairy and the eldwork. Milking morning and night was my calm, quiet time to relax. What was the toughest part about fall harvesting during your time as a farmer? Dealing with the wet ground and having to pull equipment through them or go around it. On years like this, those wet spots really show up. What is one piece of harvest equipment available now that you would have liked to have when you farmed? No question it would be the self-propelled chopper. They blow my mind. They can get 8 acres done in 1.5 hours. I could use a pull chopper and get 8 acres done in about seven hours. I would have been able to harvest so much faster. Tell us about the most memorable fall harvest you have been a part of. This year has been memorable with as wet as it has been. I have not gotten stuck in any tractors or equipment, but there has been lots of mud on the road and huge ruts in the eld. We have also had to run a lot of half loads to make it out of the elds. What do you do when you are not helping with fall harvest? We keep busy with helping other dairy farmers, our own crops and the steers. But, we also enjoy going to our 10 grandkids’ events. About twice a year, we also like to visit our youngest daughter who lives in Dallas, Texas.

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What is your rst service conception rate? All rst service cows are bred to a double ovsynch protocol and their conception rate is 56%. What is your reproduction program? Do you use a synchronization program? All cows are enrolled in the double ovsynch through DC305 on Mondays. Enrolling on a Monday allows for all synch shots to be given on weekdays and all the double ovsynch timed A.I. breedings to fall on Thursday. During the last week of the program we administer an extra shot of lutalyse two days prior to

breeding. One week prior to herd check any cow eligible for a 30-day pregnancy check the following week receives a GnRH shot. Open cows at herd check that have a CL continue the resynch program. Open cows that do not have a CL are enrolled in the CIDR synch. Open heifers are given a lutalyse shot on Mondays in conjunction with an Estrotect patch. Five days a week cows are bred by Select Sires technicians Mark Bates or Kourtney Meister; the remaining two days they are bred by our neighbor, Joel Fasching, who is a retired A.I. technician. How do you observe for heat? A combination of Boumatic’s RealTime Activity

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Herdsperson Israel Reyes paints the tailhead of a cow Oct. 21 at the Krienkes’ dairy farm near Lester Prairie, Minn. The dairy paints tails every Monday and rotates colors each week to help detect heats. monitoring and tail spraying are our methods of heat detection. Cows and heifers that are in the 19 to 25 day range since last breeding are tail sprayed each Monday using rotating colors each week. After a cow or heifer has been bred twice in a row, we stop watching for visual heat and let her go to herd check. Additionally, RealTime generates a list each day with cows and heifers that show an abnormal amount of activity and we cross-reference that with visual heat signs and the tail spray. Using a walk list we

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What do you do to settle hard breeders? In order to settle a hard breeder, the rst option we try is a CIDR synch. If that is unsuccessful after two tries and her production performance warrants staying in the herd, we will use a Jersey sire. How many times do you try to breed a cow before you sell her? Every situation is unique, but as a general guideline we will breed cows up to 250 DIM. However, if we have a very high producing cow she is offered an extended period of time; usually until she starts to decrease in production. Is there anything you have done or changed that brought about a signicant improvement in your reproductive program? Over the last couple years we have made multiple changes to improve our pregnancy rate, but the most impactful was switching to the double ov-synch protocol. Previously, we had implemented a presynch into ovsynch program with cherry picking. Prior to the current protocol, our pregnancy rate was 22%. More incremental increases were achieved by bumping up the VWP to 70 days and using an A.I. warming gun to move all thawed semen up to our freestall barn year round. Tell us about your farm. Kraig and I are the coowners of our fth-generation dairy where we milk 465 Holsteins three times per day and achieve a RHA of 33,600 pounds. The cows are housed in sand freestalls in their naturally ventilated head-to-head four-row barn. With a lot of help from our sixth-generation dairy farmers, Elizabeth, Blake and Brodie, we also raise all our own youngstock, forages and most of our corn feed needs. We enjoy working side by side with our family and promoting dairy in our local community every opportunity we get. This past summer, we also enjoyed sharing our dairy story with fairgoers at the Minnesota State Fair while Elizabeth had her head carved in butter as a nalist for Princess Kay.

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A hobby for the birds

Beukema enjoys competitive aspect of pigeon racing

zy,” Liz said. “We didn’t know anything about pigeons.” The Beukemas acquired a few pigeons and joined a racing club. For the next two years, Liz’s involvement was limited to transportation. As the pair began learning more about Garrett’s hobby, the bug of competitiveness soon bit Liz as well, and she entered into an agreement with her son to begin her own racing team. “In every nest, the pigeons lay two eggs,” Liz said. “We decided that Garrett would get rst pick of the nest, and I would take the second bird. I was driving anyway; I gured I should have some skin in the game.” Today, Liz and Garrett have about 200 birds in their loft between their racing teams and their breeding stock. “It’s just like with any other animal,” Liz said. “We take the best and breed it with the best to try and get better. We breed performance to performance; there is really no better indicator.” Developing a team of racing pigeons takes time and dedication much like any enterprise involving the exhibition of animals. “They eat better than we do and have a specialized diet,”

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NEW RICHMOND, Wis. – Liz Beukema enjoys cows, but she really likes pretty birds that y fast. Liz enjoys the sport of racing pigeons, a hobby that grew from her son’s birthday request for a white owl. The request was answered by his grandpa who sent him a white pigeon instead. “Garrett was 9, and the idea was he could start a business of releasing white pigeons at weddings,” Liz said. “It didn’t quite work out like that.” Liz is originally from Rhode Island where she grew up showing Ayrshires. Today, Liz and her husband, Paul, and children Garrett, Haley and Lillian live on a farm near New Richmond, Wis. Liz runs a plant nursery, and they raise Guernsey and Ayrshire show heifers along with the racing pigeons. Their milking cows are housed at nearby farms. The Beukemas became connected with a successful pigeon breeder that had a loft of nearly 2,500 pigeons in northwestern Wisconsin. “It was amazing and cra-

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Liz said. “When they come home from a race, they get a really high-protein, recovery meal. The next day they get a depurative that is a mixture of garlic, honey, barley and safower, and it helps clean their blood after the race. Then they have three days of high protein to help rebuild muscles and keep the feathers healthy. They get baths with different bath salts, and they love anise oil.” Pigeon racing involves two racing seasons each year: old bird season, which are yearlings and older; and young bird season for all birds born during that year. The Beukemas participate in 14 old birds’ races each year and y their birds up to 600 miles per race. They put their young birds in about eight races, racing up to 350 miles. Birds born after Jan. 1 are eligible to compete in the young bird races. The week after Christmas, the racing club sends electronic identication bands for the upcoming year. The bands must be placed on the birds at about 7 days of age. At the same time, a microchip is applied to the opposite leg. The microchip works with an electronic clock on the window of their loft with a GPS point that is registered with the club to determine nish times for the races. “We take the birds to a meeting spot where they will get checked in for the race and put into crates and put on the

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clock. The point of release and the location of the GPS point of the loft are used to calculate the speed the bird ew at in yards per minute. “On a 100-mile race, I y 116 miles, but there are people that y 140 miles,” Liz said. “So if my bird clocks in at 9 [hours], and they have a bird clock in at 9:45, they can still beat me based on speed calculated.” Training the pigeons involves loft ying. The birds are allowed to y as they choose, and then they are called back to the loft where their feed is waiting. “When they come home from a race, they don’t go straight to the window to the GPS reader,” Liz said. “They’ll sit on the roof and start preen-

ing their feathers. We need them to come when they are called so we can get them across the GPS scanner. We’ve lost anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 minutes because the birds don’t come down off the roof. Every single second counts. We were just in a race recently that was won by 9 seconds. First prize was $5,000 and second prize was $2,000. That 9 seconds cost someone $3,000. We took fth place. It was the best we’d ever done.” The Beukemas use the meats of sunower seeds to reward their birds. “They are brilliant animals,” Liz said. “They are ranked the fth smartest animal there is. The Coast Guard used them for search and rescue, and there are birds that have DANIELLE NAUMAN/DAIRY STAR

Liz Beukema lets her team of racing pigeons out to range or y around on her home near New Richmond, Wis. It is crucial the birds get wing Ɵme for their racing success.

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This red hen is Liz Beukema’s current favorite on her team. Beukema and her son, GarreƩ, have been racing pigeons for many years.

won medals of valor. They are so intelligent, and that is what allows them to learn to break away from the crowd.” When the birds are racing, Liz calculates when the birds should start arriving home. They wait for the birds to arrive so they can begin calling them in. The driver of the transport sends a group text message with the time of release, and wind and weather conditions at the point of release. Other people’s birds have come home with the Beukemas’ pigeons. Because of the electronic identication, Liz can help those birds return to

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USDA continues signup for Market Facilitation Program

Signup is ongoing for the Market Facilitation Program, a United States Department of Agriculture program to assist farmers who continue to suffer from damages because of unjustied trade retaliation from foreign nations. Through MFP, USDA will provide up to $14.5 billion in direct payments to impacted producers, part of a FSA News & Notes broader trade relief package announced in late July. The sign-up period runs through Dec. 6. MFP payments will be made to producers of certain non-specialty and specialty crops as well as dairy and hog producers. MFP payments will be made to producers of alfalfa hay, barley, canola, corn, crambe, dried bean, By Ryan Brunn dry pea, extra-long staple Stearns Co. Exec. Dir. cotton, axseed, lentil, long grain and medium grain rice, millet, mustard seed, oat, peanut, rapeseed, rye, safower, sesame seed, small and large chickpea, sorghum, soybean, sunower seed, temperate japonica rice, triticale, upland cotton and wheat. MFP assistance for 2019 crops is based on a single county payment rate multiplied by a farm’s total plantings to the MFP-eligible crops in aggregate in 2019. Those per acre payments are not dependent on which of those crops are planted in 2019. A producer’s total payment-eligible plantings cannot exceed total 2018 plantings. Dairy producers who were in business as of June 1 will receive a per hundredweight payment on production history, and hog producers will receive a payment based on the number of live hogs owned on a day selected by the producer between April 1 and May 15. MFP payments will also be made to producers of almond, cranberry, cultivated ginseng, fresh grape, fresh sweet cherry, hazelnut, macadamia nut, pecan, pistachio and walnut. Each specialty crop will receive a payment based on 2019 acres of fruit or nut bearing plants, or in the case of ginseng, based on harvested acres in 2019. Payments will be made in up to three tranches with the second and third tranches evaluated as market conditions and trade opportunities dictate. If conditions warrant, the second and third tranches will be made in November and early January. MFP payments are limited to a combined $250,000 for non-specialty crops per person or legal entity. MFP payments are also limited to a combined $250,000 for dairy and hog producers and a combined $250,000 for specialty crop producers. However, no applicant can receive more than $500,000. Eligible applicants must also have an average adjusted gross income (AGI) for tax years 2015, 2016 and 2017 of less than $900,000; or 75% of the person’s or legal entity’s average AGI for those tax years must have been derived from farming and ranching. Applicants must also comply with the provisions of the Highly Erodible Land and Wetland Conservation regulations. More information can be found on http://www. farmers.gov/mfp, including payment information and a program application. 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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I began hosting dairy farm tours over 22 years ago. This was after my son and I went on a ďƒželd trip, and the guide brought the kids over to see a cow. My son, Curtis, was 5. He looked at me with a weird look. He knew it was not a cow but a steer. That moment of misinformation started a big change in my life. There were other things that were confusing to my son, a farm kid. What did the other children in that school group come away with that was not accurate? Could this have been more educational to make it more memorable so they learned By Tina Hinchley something? This was a Farmer & Columnist pumpkin patch that had a few animals, a petting zoo. What if I did this on our farm? What could I do better? After coming home from that ďƒželd trip, I thought about what I could do to provide an educational program with hands on learning. Milk a cow, hold chickens, maybe have a goat and a sheep to feed, and a pig or two. Pumpkins in the fall, baby animals in the spring. Lengthen the tour with a hayride to see the corn growing in the ďƒželds, and also use the hayride to bring the kids to the pumpkin patch and haul the pumpkins back to the school bus. My mind was buzzing. Having classes of kindergartners here in the spring and then again in the fall would give me a good reason to keep the weeds pulled and the farm tidy. I would need to be done with chores before the school groups arrived. And, I needed to incorporate the other activities â€“ feeding cows with the mixer, ďƒželd work, planting corn and cutting hay â€“ all into what the school groups would see when they visited a real working farm. My target audience was school groups. Everything took off pretty fast. Teachers told each other about the tour, and my calendar ďƒžlled. Parents and grandparents came on the tour as chaperones, and would call to inquire about a private tour when family and friends would come to visit. This was the start of family tours that came to visit on the weekends. With these tours, it was more than milking a cow. They got to see how a farm family lives. Farm kids play differently than other kids. Their work is often their play. Our boys had the sandbox divided up as different farms with their toy tractors, planting and moving sand. Our daughters hauled kittens in their baskets on their bikes, put eggs in their pockets and let the goat kids run around the yard with them. Farm kids got dirty. Farm kids could stay busy outside. With added tours on weekends, our kids learned how to answer questions about their animals and how to show other kids what they get to do every day. Our kids were running around doing their chores and working with their animals which later became their 4-H projects. Having families visit is emotionally rewarding because they think farm life is amazing. The visitors see how much love our kids have for our lifestyle. Often they envy the things we farmers take for granted. Not having to leave home to go to work. Simply being able to walk outside with our kids to do chores together. Riding for hours in the tractor with dad or grandpa is normal on a farm. We have also experienced another group of people that want to visit our farm â€“ seniors. We needed to add a few things to make sure they all enjoyed the farm tour. We added more benches around the farm. They are in the busy areas where they could enjoy watching the animals in the barnyard. We took off the hay bales on the hayride and put benches. This helped so the seniors could get up easier from a sitting position. Coach bus tours began calling us to see if we could accommodate active seniors. They wanted to schedule our farm as a stop in route to destinations. Assisted

living homes have promoted their activity programs. They are taking day trips to get their seniors out to keep them mobile and entertained. As our population ages, we have recognized that we will be hosting more and more senior tours. We are trying to have more handicap accessible areas, including bathrooms. We want to have our entry ways be easy enough to get a walker or wheel chair through. Keeping areas that wheel chairs can roll through without having to push through gravel or tall grass is important. We had a coach bus that had over 40 seniors from Winnipeg, Canada. They stopped on their way to Racine, Wis. This group was full of questions, and many of these active seniors had never been on a farm. It was surprising to me that a person 85 years old had never been on a farm. One senior told me the tour was so enlightening that she could have never imagined a farm being such a wonderful place to raise a family. As these groups get around the farm, I take mental

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Investment in polled genetics I am not a fan of keeping horns on dairy cattle. Previously, I worked with a dairy farm that chose to keep their herd intact. Granted, this did avoid the need to disbud or dehorn the calves and the resulting stress on the calves, but when that farm had issues with availability of feed, the cows were eager to weaponize their horns to better compete at the bunk. This resulted in cows with brutal injuries. On the other hand, disbudding and dehorning are not pleasant activities either. I fondly recall many dairy related activities on the home farm; dehorning was not one of them. Dehorning was a dreaded activity on the By Mike Schutz farm for people and calves alike. University of MN Around 1900, there was great and loud debate around the industry about the practice of dehorning, how it disgured the natural appearance of cattle and was barbaric. Fortunately, long term human and cow safety won the day. More recently, awareness of animal welfare has led to concerns about even the temporary pain of disbudding or dehorning. I am proud the dairy industry has started to tackle this issue with growing usage of anesthetics and analgesics for dehorning and disbudding. I am also eager to see what the future will bring with regard to selection for hornless dairy cows using polled genetics. The concept of polled genetics is not new, of course. Some breeds, especially beef breeds, have a very high prevalence of polled phenotypes. Given that the polled allele is dominant to horned, it is clearly possible to make rapid genetic progress through selection, if selecting directly for the polled gene. It is also very difcult to entirely eliminate the horned allele from the population, and matings of a carrier cow and carrier bull will still result in 25% of calves with horns. Nevertheless, with genomic testing, bulls can now easily be identied as homozygous for polled, and heterozygous or homozygous for horned. So selection of A.I. bulls with polled genetics is easy except for one problem. Polled genetics lags in total economic merit compared to the elite bulls readily available. As of March 2018, A.I. bulls in the top 50% of Holsteins had average Predicted Transmitting Ability for Net Merit (NM$) of 794, 717 and 620 for bulls with horned, heterozygous and homozygous polled genotypes, respectively. Average NM$ for Jersey bulls were 595, 540 and 390, respectively. At one time, it was speculated that there may be genes linked to the polled allele that inhibit other economic traits, but that largely has been disproven. As with the recessive red coat color gene, there are simply too few animals of the desired phenotypes to identify the truly elite

and rapidly advancing genetics of the Holstein or Jersey breed as a whole. Use of gene-editing technology is poised to create polled alleles in otherwise elite genetically horned bulls or cows which could accelerate the increase of the polled gene in the population. Time will tell whether consumers will accept that use of minor genetic modication. Recently, along with lead author Nathan Thompson and colleagues at Purdue University, Michigan State University and the United States Department of Agriculture, we tried to determine the premium that producers could pay for polled semen. We considered disbudding with caustic paste (with or without pain relief), hot iron dehorning (with or without anesthetics and pain relief) and selection for homozygous polled and heterozygous genomic tested bulls. For the disbudding and dehorning methods, we considered costs of materials, pain relief, labor and treatment costs for a small percentage of calves requiring it. For polled genetic costs, we considered additional semen cost and for heterozygous bulls, the costs above for the expected percentage of horned calves. We found average costs of disbudding or dehorning to range from a low of $11.90 per calf for hot iron dehorning with no pain relief to a high of $13.04 per calf for disbudding with caustic paste with an NSAID for pain relief. When considering the premium one can pay for semen with polled genetics, one must convert the per calf costs to value per dose of semen. Simply multiplying by herd conception rate gives an approximation. So, a herd using hot iron dehorning with pain relief ($13.20 per calf) with a conception rate of 40% could afford to pay a premium of $5.28 per dose of homozygous polled bulls or $2.64 per dose for heterozygous polled bulls. What is the bottom line? First, our work showed it will be difcult to make selection progress based only upon the costs of horn removal. For instance, if the semen value of a bull’s genotype was added to its value for NM$, this contribution would be swamped by all of the other traits included in the calculation and undervalue the true value of genetic selection for the polled gene. Note that index selection is also unlikely to work because of the low frequency of the polled allele, but that is a discussion for another time. Second, out of pocket costs of horn removal may pale in comparison to outside pressures in determining the real value of polled calves. In our work, we had no way to estimate costs of dissatisfaction with the dehorning task, consumer perceptions, market expectations or social license. But if tomorrow a large national co-op or the FARM program recommended elimination, reduction or more precautions in dehorning or disbudding, the relative economic advantage of polled over conventional genetics may increase sharply.

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Pair housing of dairy calves: advantages, pit-falls, best practices By Whitney Knauer University of MN

Dairy calf housing that allows socialization during the pre-weaning period has benets for the calf in terms of performance, animal welfare and consumer perception. Though the majority of calves in the United States and Canada are still housed individually, housing calves in group or pairs is becoming increasingly popular. This article describes advantages of pair housing, a group of two calves, over individual housing for calf performance and welfare, current best practices for implementation and what we still need to learn about this management practice. There are several reasons why making a change from individual housing to pair housing is a natural management transition to integrate social housing into a calf program. First, there is little need for high capital investment in new infrastructure (i.e., new barn, autofeeders) when pairing calves. Whether your calves are currently housed in hutches or in a barn, both systems can be adapted to facilitate pair housing for relatively little cost. In addition, there is little need for major changes in calf feeding management. Milk and starter delivery practices can remain relatively unchanged. Finally, the health and weaning challenges that can be present in large calf group feeding situations can be mitigated by reducing the group size to two. Many of the pre-weaning advantages of pair housing translate to an easier transition at weaning. Pair housed calves eat more starter through the pre-weaning period, especially around the time of weaning. This leads to a heavier calf that is aggressively eating starter which is essential for maintaining health and growth through the weaning phase. Pairing produces a more socially adapted calf that is better set up to withstand the social stresses of weaning. Individually housed calves spend a lot of time investigating, socializing and learning how to be a herd animal when they are grouped at weaning. Pair calves have already learned these social skills, meaning they are calmer and rest more in the days after moving to the weaned calf pen. Researchers in Canada have also showed that pair calves learn more easily than calves housed individually. We ask our dairy cows to learn many things throughout their lifetime; how to use a headlock, how to go through a chute, how to enter the milking parlor. Having behavioral exibility can potentially translate to a

better adapted heifer and milking cow. There are some challenges associated with successfully housing pre-weaned calves in a pair. For example, cross sucking can be observed in any socially housed pre-weaned calf. This can lead to heifers calving in with blind teats which is undesirable. Feeding from a bottle as well as an increased milk allowance (≥ 6 liters per day) can help decrease the occurrence of cross sucking by helping the calf fulll her natural need to suckle. Separation of pair calves at feeding time, in the form of a barrier or head-lock, can also work but can increase labor needs and cost. Calves at the University of Minnesota are bucket fed, so during a study last winter we separated calves at milk feeding time, which added approximately 1.25 minutes of labor per pair per feeding. This solution is not practical for most commercial dairies. The last concern producers may have is related to calf health – one sick calf may make the other calf in the pair sick. We still need more research into health and pair housing on commercial dairies before we can address this concern. Though several research groups are actively investigating solutions to common management pitfalls to pair housing, some best management practices have been dened. First, pair at birth or shortly thereafter and keep the age range to no more than 7 days between calves in a pair. This helps reduce size differences between calves, helping to reduce potential bullying of a large, older calf on a smaller, younger one. Second, feed from a bottle to help decrease the potential for cross sucking. Third, double the amount of space typically given for one calf (≥ 32 square feet per calf). For example, if one calf typically has one hutch and one outdoor run, two calves should receive two hutches and the equivalent of two outdoor runs. Of course, all of the other principles of calf rearing apply; timely colostrum administration, sufcient and dry bedding, adequate ventilation, timely disease detection and treatment. Socially housing calves has real advantages for the calf and for consumer perception of dairy management practices. Though there is still much to be learned about successful implementation on both a small and large scale, pair housing is a logical transition from individual housing of calves during the milk fed period. If you are interested in taking the leap, work with your veterinarian and Extension specialists to help facilitate success for your calf program.

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To all the men I’ve fed before Page 30 • Dairy Star • Saturday, October 26, 2019

As per usual, the beginnings of this song parody of an old Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias duet came to me after a long day of feeding men during corn silage harvest. Roughly 12 men for each of the three meals; give or take a few if we weren’t pumping manure. I can’t explain why it popped in my head. Perhaps it was because I was in the quiet steam of the shower and my brain was on autopilot. After a good run of feeding guys for four days of prime chopping weather they asked me if they should get pizza for lunch the next day. Before I could answer, Peter interjected that I truly do enjoy feeding them, and pizza would hurt my feelings. It is a challenge when you have cows that need your attention, and have to deliver tangled twins that set you back an hour on lunch delivery—but, I love it. Cora helps now, and the guys are so sweet to her, thank both of us for our work, and offer compliments. What more can anyone ask for?

To all the men I’ve fed before Who travelled in and out the door I’m glad they came along I dedicate this song To all the men I’ve fed before To all the men I once impressed And may I say I’ve tried my best For helping me to grow I owe a lot I know To all the men I’ve fed before

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To all the men who critiqued me Who offered thoughts and praise you see They’re written in my book Ramblings from the Ridge I often take a look At all the men I’ve fed before The crops on farms are always growing And every time I try new things The crops on farms continue growing Who knows what the next crop brings

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A harvest to remember or forget Page 32 • Dairy Star • Saturday, October 26, 2019

This has been a harvest season many would because we needed to take a fourth cutting on an like to forget but will probably always remember. old alfalfa stand. It is such a hassle to switch out It has been a year of challenges and sometimes chopper heads and reset knives between haylage even opportunities. There have been and silage. Once we could start decisions to make and directions to Just Thinking Out Loud chopping corn silage it took us three take. One thing is for sure, there will not weeks from start to nish. Jumping be another one like it. between elds to nd enough green In the 30 plus years we have been corn stalks on higher ground made farming, there is only one year I can for a long and drawn out job. Now vividly recall, 1988, the year of the we are combining high moisture corn drought and our rst year farming and soybeans at the same time. together. This is our benchmark year At least we did not get stuck with to compare against. I would rank the chopper and boxes. The only this current year as very interesting. thing we had to drag was a dead Maybe a top ve year with the gamut tractor blocking a eld road. I shut of weather conditions we have endured off the tractor waiting for Mark to from record amounts of torrential rain, meet me with a full load. When I By Natalie Schmitt hail, straight line winds and tornadoes. tried to start the tractor, there was Columnist The only thing missing was an August nothing. No power, no sound. Mark freeze. Thank goodness that did not had to tow me with the chopper to the happen. If we can survive our worst, we can survive yard through the muddy trenches on the eld road. this one, too. Luckily it was milking time, and we had to stop. I guess we could call this a strange year. It seems The tractor was xed quickly, and we were back in like seasons have been overlapping each other. This the elds the next day. spring, many were still planting corn while trying The only thing we have had to drag out of the to take the rst crop hay between weather systems. eld so far was the combine. Bill found a very soft This fall, we held off on starting to chop corn silage spot and down it went. None of our tractors would even begin to pull him out. Thank goodness for wonderful neighbors who loaned us their big fourwheel drive tractor. That combined with one of our tractors was slowly able to work the combine free and up to rmer ground. Since we were done chopping and they did not really need my help with combining, I thought I would pop down to Illinois to visit my family. I love The Dairy Star coming home in October. The smell of drying corn, is sent only to the crunch of fallen leaves and the taste of fresh DAIRY FARMERS! apple cider remind me I am home. As I scooted south on Interstate 35 into Iowa, I was suddenly If you would like to advertise in the DAIRY STAR, engulfed in what I thought was a heavy fog. I soon call 320-352-6303 for more information. realized there were three combines taking out a large eld of soybeans, and the fog was really just a

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milk is not good for making cheese. Cows are milked once a day in a twostall step-up walk-through parlor. There is no bulk tank. Instead, milk is gravityfed from the parlor direct into the creamery. Cows roam on 30 acres of pasture and can go in and out of the barn as they please. Their diets are simple – grass in the summer and hay in the winter topped off with corn. Higheld Farm is a place where each cow has a name, such as Sparky, Judy, Suzanne, Ivy, Twinkle and Anne Marie. The farm’s 15 head of cattle all have horns as Terry does not dehorn his animals. He also does not believe in electric fences. “If you’re agitating cows and they always have to worry about what they’re going to touch, I think it puts adrenaline in their system and the adrenaline ends up in the cheese,” Terry said. Denise, a city girl from Cleveland, Ohio, and Terry, who grew up south of there, came to the farm in 1986 with no previous dairy farming experience. “We bought a place that had not been an operating dairy farm for at least 40 years,” Terry said. “I xed it up and put in a milking parlor and bought my rst cow in 2012 – the same year we built the creamery.” Terry xed computers for a living before switching his focus to cows and cheese. Living in Los Angeles, Calif., for six years, Terry said he moved west to teach scuba diving, but only did that for six months before opening a computer repair facility. When Aubrey was 6 months old, the couple moved back to the Midwest. The computer engineer-turnedfarmer-and-cheesemaker did plenty of homework before diving into his new career. He visited many farms not only in Wisconsin but also in Scotland, England and Wales. Terry spent time in Scotland learning the art of cheesemaking. When he returned, he worked at Cedar Grove in Plain, Wis., and Uplands Cheese in Dodgeville, Wis., to fulll the 240 hours required to earn his cheesemakers license. He also had the opportunity to learn how to make a variety of cheeses at the University of Wisconsin-Madison alongside cheesemaker Gary Grossen. Higheld Farm Creamery makes 6,000 pounds of cheese yearly, yielding 15.1 pounds from 100 pounds of milk – 50% more than the 10-pound average. Most of the creamery’s cheese is sold at

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Cows are milked once a day in this two-stall step-up walk-through parlor at the Woodses’ dairy near Walworth, Wis. Milk is gravity-fed from the parlor into the creamery for cheesemaking. its on-farm store, but they also sell 15 pounds of cheese weekly to a nearby restaurant and cheese curds to an apple farm and farmer’s market. Denise and Terry make the cheese buying experience a personal one, taking time to talk to customers about the cheeses Higheld makes and offering ideas for what to pair them with. They also help people decide what kind of cheese would be best for certain events and offer tips for the proper way to enjoy cheese. “We explain that cheese should be served at room temperature and never wrapped in plastic,” Denise said. “We wrap our cheese in paper from France, which allows the cheese to breathe. You can’t nd this paper in the U.S.” Customers are offered samples of all cheeses currently available which is usually 6-8 kinds. The creamery also sells Wisconsin products such as crackers and jams as well as coffee cups, T-shirts and ornaments. The store’s viewing window allows customers to witness the cheesemaking process rsthand, and guests of the store are also invited to see the cows. “It’s not just the cheese we’re selling,” Denise said. “It’s also the farm and how the cheese got here. People sometimes stop in just to watch the cows being milked.” The store is open from Memorial Day through the end of the year and welcomes about 50 customers per weekend. Located 4 miles south of Lake Geneva,

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HILLPOINT, Wis. â€“ Shillelagh Glen Farms is a highly diversiďƒžed organic dairy farm operated by brothers Pat and Brian McCluskey in Hillpoint, Wis. The McCluskeys hosted a pasture walk Sept. 25 focused on that diversiďƒžcation of income and rotational grazing. â€œWe do dairy, beef, maple syrup, our own specialty cheeses; we do a lot of different things,â€? Pat said. â€œWe do a lot of direct marketing. We are at several different farmers markets, and weâ€™re in several different stores. The direct marketing works great. Weâ€™ve been doing that for 10 or 11 years.â€? Pat said direct marketing and attending farmers markets requires an investment of time, but it is something he felt paid valuable dividends for the farm. â€œItâ€™s a good way to get your name out there,â€? Pat said. â€œWeâ€™ve yet to have someone come and knock on the door and ask if we have cheese or syrup for sale. Youâ€™ve got to get out there. Youâ€™re going to get told no a lot more than youâ€™re going to hear yes. Donâ€™t take it personally. My wife has gone back to one store three different times and ďƒžnally they said yes. You just have to keep at it.â€?

Pat said one-third of the milk produced on their farm is used to produce the nine varieties of specialty cheeses they market. The cheese is made for the McCluskeys at Cedar Grove Creamery in Plain, Wis. Cedar Grove purchases the remainder of the McCluskeysâ€™ milk. â€œUsually every Friday, they will come pick our milk up separately and make a vat of cheese,â€? Pat said. â€œItâ€™s just made with our milk; we just hire them to make the cheese that we want. Thatâ€™s what we take to market and send to the different stores.â€? The McCluskeys have been certiďƒžed organic since 1996, and both their dairy and beef herds are completely grass-fed. They have implemented rotational grazing for both herds of cattle. The McCluskeys tap the maple trees on their farm and make between 500 and 800 gallons of maple syrup each year. They distribute the syrup using the same direct-marketing plan as their other products. â€œWe have about 1,750 taps out,â€? Pat said. â€œWe run the sap down to the bottom of the hill and pump it back up to the top of the hill because we canâ€™t get in and out of the valleys around here.â€? The McCluskeys process between

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35,000 and 40,000 gallons of sap each spring, using reverse osmosis. They are able to make about 45 gallons of syrup an hour and burn about 13 gallons of fuel in that process. All the syrup is stored in barrels and bottled as they need it. The McCluskeys also bought a sawmill about 20 years ago. “We cut a lot of our own timber and sold it,” Pat said. “We didn’t know anything about sawing lumber. But, however little you know you can’t help but make money over what a logger will pay you. We had tremendous success doing that. An offshoot of that was we started doing custom sawing for people. We don’t do too much with that any more, but we will sell poplar logs for pallet lumber, too.” Looking for ways to increase their diversication has kept the McCluskey family busy, but it has become a successful way of life for them. “We have a lot of different plates in the air, is what my wife likes to say, and she asks me how many more I’d like to keep up there,” Pat said. “I don’t know the answer to that yet, but in a nutshell that is what we do.” The McCluskeys also began rotational grazing in 2018. “We put in 185 acres of fencing,” Pat said. “We can move our cows in a half hour. We have four different sets of cows we are moving so it takes approxi-

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Pat McCluskey explains the process used to produce maple syrup which they direct market as part the diversicaƟon on their dairy farm near Hillpoint, Wis. mately an hour and half to two hours, but we can move them and have them fed for the day. It has made our life a lot easier that way.” Before starting a rotational grazing plan, the McCluskeys had grazed their dairy herd using only a perimeter fence. “This stuff was way overgrazed,” Pat said. “There was a lot of thistles and everything. … We did some seeding

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How did you get into farming? I was born and raised on the farm. When I got my license, my dad told me if I milked cows in the morning I could take the car to school. I just kept doing it. I’ve always enjoyed working with the cows. I milk 30 cows in La Crosse County.

What advice would you give other dairy farmers? I would tell young people wanting to start out that they need to have a lot of heart and soul to come into this business. Patience is a must, and if you want to be a small, independent farmer you have to quit looking at what the big guys have and stay focused on what you can do.

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What has been the best purchase you have ever made on your farm? The best purchase we have ever made was building our freestall barn in 2006. The cows used to spend a lot of time tied up in the tiestall barn. I like the freestalls. They can eat, move around and lay down as they like. They stay a lot cleaner. The increase in cow comfort is a comfort to my own mind. What cost-saving steps have you implemented during the low milk price? I have cut the protein and other feed inputs that raise my cost of production. I set a base and stick with that, and top-dress the ones that might need it. You might think a cow could make more milk, but if you’re not sure, why spend the money trying to make her milk more? That, and forgoing planting corn this year have been the biggest cost-savings we’ve implemented. How do you retain a good working relationship with your employees? I have part-time help, and he helped us a lot when I was laid up. We are a small

HAY & FORAGE, STALK CHOPPERS New Holland BR7090 Round Baler, 2500 bales Hesston 745 round baler, twine, nice shape Hesston 4755 Baler 3x3 53,000 Bales, Manual Preservative NH 330 big baler, 2013, 3X3, Manual Applicator, 6,200 Bales Hesston 8200 SP windrower w/14’ auger head Gehl DC2360 9’ Disc Mower Conditioner JD 936 Moco 11’ Mower Conditioner, 2002 w/ñail conditioner New Holland 1431 mower conditioner, 13’, 1998 New Holland 256 bar rake Artsway 240C Stalk Chopper, 2015, 20’ Width, Low Acres Vermeer CPX9000 Bale Processor, 2017, with Twin Blowers

herd, but we try to be exible and work to accommodate what he might have going on. Tell us about a skill you possess that makes dairy farming easier for you. I do my own breeding and a lot of the health work, so I don’t have to rely on the vet as much or an A.I. technician. What do you enjoy most about dairy farming? I really enjoy the cows and have always enjoyed working with them.

What has been your biggest accomplishment while dairy farming? Being able to raise my family on the farm like I was raised. What are your plans for your dairy in the next year and ve years? It all depends on what comes down the roads with markets and prices and things like that. I’m taking one year at a time and not looking ahead as far as ve years. How do you or your family like to spend time when you are not doing chores? Right now my family enjoys Friday night high school football. My son plays and playoffs are coming up. We also enjoy going out for a good meal and going shing when we can.

The new DeLaval VMS V300 milking robot ™

ROW CROP, DRILLS & SPRAYERS

Hardi Navigator 4000, 2013, 90’ Boom, 120” Axle, ISO Hardi Navigator 4000, 2012, 90’ Boom,120” Axle, 5500 rate controler Hardi Navigator 3000, 60’ Boom, adjustable axle Great Plains 13’ solid stand grain drill Melroe 2120-286 14’ Grain Drill with Small Seeds & Fert. Box Top Air TA112 Sprayer 60’ Boom,ñush and rinse system, raven White 6900 11-Row Splitter Planter, Row Cleaners, Bean Meters

99.8% Attachment rate

GRAIN CARTS & WAGONS

Meyer 1500 Running Gear with 16.5-16.1 tires, nice shape Meyer 1500 Running Gear with 16.5-16.1 tires, nice shape Gehl 4-wheel gear, 11L-15 tires H&S LK-500 Forage Box, 14’ with P&H 4 wheel gear Parker Gravity Box, 400 bu. Pequea 918 Hay Rack With 10 Ton Pequea Running Gear. Nice

MANURE SPREADERS

H&S 5126 Topshot, 19LX16.1 tires, 2011 New Idea 3739 Manure Spreader, Hydraulic Drive., Consigned

Up to

7500 lbs milk per day

Up to

50% faster attachment time

GRAIN EQUIPMENT Good Selection Of Used Augers

Higher capacity

MISCELLANEOUS

Bush Hog RDTH84 3-Point Finish Mower 7’, 2012, good shape 1500 gallon round ñat bottom tank 1350 gallon round ñat bottom tank HLA 9’ Snow Pusher, Bucket Edge Mount, Steel Trip Edge Farm King 3-Point Blade, 7’ cat. 2., consigned Mensch M2100 Sawdust Shooter, 7’ w/cutting edge Buhler Fx8495 96” 540 PTO Snowblower w/manual deñector Virnig 96” hydraulic angle broom, new brushes. Berlon 3 prong bale spear Virnig 4 Prong Bale Spear, round tapered shaft, #101939

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