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Volume 19, No. 19
November 25, 2017
One More Sip encourages milk consumption Burnsville school develops program to eliminate cafeteria waste By Jennifer Coyne
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BURNSVILLE, Minn. – As a school custodian, Mark Glende has seen copious amounts of food and beverage wasted in the cafeteria of Sioux Trail Elementary over his 20year career at the school in Burnsville, Minn. Last year, Glende approached the student council with a program that would encourage milk consumption and eliminate waste during breakfast
and lunch times at one of the nine elementary schools in the BurnsvilleEagan-Savage School District. “As staff, we’re always coming up with crazy ideas to instill good habits in our students,” Glende said. “We’ve developed programs where students learn how to separate their food waste into garbage, organics and recycling. Before that, we encouraged energy efcient choices, like turning off lights when you leave the room. Now, we’re working with students to drink more milk.” In Glende’s career, he has seen a lot of liquid, including milk, thrown out during breakfast and lunch. Fed Turn to MILK | Page 5
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Sioux Trail Elementary’s food service manager Gale Mackey and senior custodian Mark Glende encourage students to nish their milk during breakfast and lunch through One More Sip at the school in Burnsville, Minn. Glende developed the program with the student council.
Calf care all under one roof
O & S Dairy improves management with new facility By Jennifer Coyne jenn@dairystar.com
RICE, Minn. – As Missy Schreindl looks across the pens of young calves, a smile reaches both corners of her face as she explains the structure of the housing facility for youngstock. Her husband, Troy’s, pride is just as evident. “We should’ve done this earlier,” Troy said. The Schreindls and their children, Tanner and Emily, work in a partnership with Missy’s parents, Bruce and Linda Olson, where they milk 250 cows at O & S Dairy near Rice, Minn. Last January, the families nished construction on a facility that houses the calves. Inside a 52- by 180-foot, forced-ventilated barn are eight group pens that house
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Troy and Missy Schreindl house their calves – from newborn to 8 months of age – in a newly constructed facility on their farm near Rice, Minn. The Schreindls and Missy’s parents, Bruce and Linda Olson, operate O & S Dairy, where they milk 250 cows.
heifers – from newborn to 8 months of age. Feeder steers are also housed in the same pens. A center wall separates
the weaned calves from the growing ones. Newborn calves enter the facility on the south side and are placed in individual calf
hutches until 5 days of age. “We bring the newborns in from our maternity pen and keep them separate from the other calves so there’s no
contact and reduce the risk of becoming sick,” Missy said. “At 5 days, we try and start them on the feeder. When they move to the group pen all depends when they are able to get a good, strong suck.” In front of the row of hutches, and 80 feet of the barn’s total length, are four pens centered around two automatic calf feeders. The rst feeder’s nipples are washed after each visit to eliminate bacteria transfer in the susceptible immune systems. The feeders contain milk consisting of 70 percent pasteurized waste milk and 30 percent powder supplement. A 300-gallon bulk tank holds the milk and then is transferred to the two automatic feeders through a pipeline system driven by a variable frequency drive. The calves in these pens also get free-choice grain. “We keep calves in the rst group pen until they’re about 15 days old, then we Turn to O & S DAIRY | Page 6
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In less than a month, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s Livestock Investment Grant applications are due. Dairy Star caught up with former recipients to see how they were able to use the grant funds to support a project on their dairy farms. Read about other dairy farmer’s experience with the state program on pages 35 and 37 in ďƒžrst section, and be sure to apply for funding before Dec. 15. Tim Huhe, of Cresco, Iowa, is nearing the end By Mark Klaphake of combining corn, but the job is far from complete. Huhe hopes to harvest 400 more bales of corn Editor stover for his 300-cow dairy herd. However, with the wet conditions in the ďƒželd and early onset of winter weather, Huhe and other farmers are left with few options for dry bedding, as well as an alternative source of feed. Turn to pages 12-13 in ďƒžrst section to read what the lack of supply of corn stover means for the markets. After a ďƒžve-year hiatus from the dairy industry, Chuck Hill returned and used automation to further his family’s dairy near Lake Wilson, Minn. In 2014, Hill installed two robotic milking systems and now, would not milk cows any other way. Read about Hill’s dairying experience and how automation is attracting the next generation on pages 3-5 in second section. Andy and Chris Emmert have been dairy farming since they were teenagers, milking two herds on the same farm site. Recently, the Emmerts and their families were awarded the Pope County Farm Family of the Year for their commitment to agriculture in west central Minnesota. How the Emmerts have developed their dairies and use their unique setup to their advantage can be found on pages 10-11 in ďƒžrst section. In the season of being grateful, Dairy Star caught up with dairy farmers who have reasons to be thankful this year in the “Our side of the fenceâ€? feature on pages 15-16 in ďƒžrst section. Take a minute to read what these individuals are most thankful for and how they enjoy celebrating Thanksgiving with their families.
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“I have come almost full circle with the new innovations of the dairy industry and the opportunity to work with academia with the interest of the dairy producers in mind.�
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It’s all inside...
FIRST SECTION
First Section: Pages 10 - 11 Kittson Roseau
Marshall
Minnesota Livestock Investment Grant deadline on horizon
Beltrami
Sherburne
Hamlin
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Kingsbury
Douglas Charles Mix
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Brookings
Lake
Moody
McCook Minnehaha
Hennepin McLeod
Renville
Yellow Medicine
Wright
Carver Scott
Sibley Lyon
Redwood
Nicollet Brown
Murray
Rock
Nobles
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Meeker
Zumbrota
Kids Corner: The Holts Third Section: Pages 12 - 13
Dakota
Rice
Rochester
Goodhue Wabasha
Cottonwood Watonwan Blue Earth Waseca Steele Dodge Olmsted Jackson
Martin
Faribault
Freeborn
Mower
Winona
Fillimore
Farmers participate in fall dairy tour Third Section:
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Deuel
Lincoln
Clark
THIRD SECTION
Kandiyohi
Chippewa
Lac Qui Parle
Codington
Anoka
Swift
Grant
Isanti
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Roberts
Day
Benton
Stearns
Pope
First Section: Pages 1, 5
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Mid-American Hay Auction Results Pages 24 - 25 Crop and weather reports Pages 30 - 31 Dairy Recipes
Big Sto Stone
Stevens
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Douglas
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Marshall Second Section: Pages 8-9
Grant
Burnsville
One More Sip encourages milk consumption
Pine
Todd
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Striegel sets guidelines to maximize professional, personal relationships
Carlton
Crow Wing
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Sioux Falls
Aitkin
Washinton
Wilkin
Otter Tail
Second Section: Pages 19 - 21
Cass
Kanabec
Becker
Clay
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Springeld
Larsons milk 75 goats at Sundown Creek Dairy
Hubbard
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Itasca
Wadena
Second Section: Pages 28 - 29
First Section: Pages 1, 6 - 7
Koochiching
Clearwater
Polk Norman
First Section: Pages 18, 20
O & S Dairy improves calf management with new facility
St. Louis
Red Lake
Scheibe pivotal in recruitment, growth of SD industry
Rice
Lake of the Woods
Pennington
Brookings
Richmond
Linn Dairy uses ovsynch, record keeping to improve reproduction program
First Section: Pages 35, 37
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Second Section: Pages 3 - 4
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Page 4 UWRF dairy judging team places second overall at NAILE Page 6 Dealing with digital dermatitis Page 11 Star Youth: Hunter Guy Page 10 Some Udder Stuff Pages 14, 16 Dairy Calendar Pages 17 - 22 Classieds
Menahga
Emmerts named Pope County Farm Family of the Year
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Page 6 Organic Valley launches community solar partnership to be 100 percent renewably powered by 2019 Page 7 USDA awards Organic Trade Association nearly $850,000 for 2018 market promotion Pages 10 - 11 The “Mielke” Market Weekly Page 12 Dairy markets Page 13 Area hay auction results Pages 14 - 15 Dairying Around the World Pages 16, 18 A Day in the Life of the Prudlicks
Hancock
Hill family makes room for the next generation with robotic dairy
Pipestone
SECOND SECTION
Lake Wilson
Tra ve
Pages 8-9 Ag Insider Pages 12 - 13 Farmers scramble to nd corn stalk bales Page 22 New resources available to help you share your dairy farm story Page 26 FSA News & Notes Page 27 The Transition Pen Page 28 Do I have a future in dairying? Page 29 Good bulls, alfalfa seed Page 30 Dear County Agent Guy Page 31 On the Mark Page 32 Just Thinking Out Loud Page 33 Dairy Good Life Page 34 Something to Ruminate On Page 36 Women in Jeans: Sandy Paskewitz
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Bon Yankton Homme
Lincoln Clay
Union
Lyon Sioux
Osceola Dickinson Emmet O’Brien
Clay
Palo Alto
Kossuth
FROM OUR SIDE OF THE FENCE: What are you thankful for? Pages 15-16
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BUILDING A BETTER HERD... One Calf At A Time!
Programs and support for every stage...
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Students at Sioux Trail Elementary in Burnsville, Minn., create posters in support of the One More Sip program. Each poster provides reasons for why children should consume milk.
up with tossing out a pail-full of liquids every day, Glende proposed a program that could discourage students from wasting. “Seeing all that milk wasted every day was really a pet peeve of mine,” Glende said. “America needs dairy farmers and our students need to know what it takes to put food on their plate. Without farmers, we’d be in a world of hurt.” Last fall, Glende, the student council – comprised of students in rst through fth grade – and a select group of students, coined the Moo Crew, developed the One More Sip program. “It’s very simple,” said Glende of the program. “Before students leave the lunch tables, I ask them to please take one more sip.” When the program launched last October, each grade level had a goal of wasting less than 10 percent of the milk purchased that day. After breakfast and lunch, Glende would count the number of cartons purchased and then consumed. From there, he would monitor the liquid thrown away and convert that amount to a value the students could comprehend. “I started charting the milk wasted with a meter. Our mascot, Shadow the Panther, kept track of our progress, while Mrs. Sippy the Cow pointed to our goal,” Glende said. With each day, the students see their progress. “Some days we beat our goal and other days, we fall at on our face,” Glende said. Glende admits the formula to determine how much milk is wasted is not a perfect formula as all liquids – including juices and waters – are collected into the same pail. To encourage students to support the program, Glende has worked with the Moo Crew and student council to create incentives for students to take one more sip of milk before leaving the lunchroom. “For student programs to be successful, they have to hold the attention of the little minds and be sustainable, otherwise it’s too easy for them to lose interest,” Glende said. “We have to be careful what we do and how we do it.” The school participates in Finish Your Milk Fridays and Two Sips
Tuesdays, as well as other interactive activities to encourage milk consumption and reward the students for their efforts. Daily announcements over the intercom allows Glende to show the benets of drinking milk, such as making the comparison to how much broccoli the students would have to consume to receive the same nutrients. Likewise, the Moo Crew leads monthly toasts in the cafeteria, ending each speech with, “Here’s to the cows.” “We’re constantly changing it up to keep the students engaged,” Glende said. “We’ve been able to maintain the program because we ask the students to reach up to our level and that’s what they want to do.” Before the program began, the 325 students who attend Sioux Trail Elementary were wasting 4.5 gallons of liquids every day – the equivalent of 950 gallons in a school year. In May, each grade level was consuming 80 percent or more of their milk during breakfast and lunch, Glende noted. “The youngest students have the hardest time getting to 90 percent, but they’ve also made the biggest leap in drinking more milk,” Glende said. Today, the entire student body is only throwing out 2 gallons of liquids every day. In years to come, Glende hopes to further One More Sip into a program that encourages a clean plate at the end of breakfast and lunch, not just an empty milk carton. “Our cooks work hard to prepare the food, and the right amount of food, each child needs to get them through the day,” Glende said. “I want One More Sip to turn into One More Bite and encourage students to eat all that is on their tray and also realize what other foods come from milk, like their cheese sticks and ice cream.” Above all, Glende hopes One More Sip leads to subconscious decisions these students will make as they become older. “We have to make this program a part of their everyday lives now, and then when they’re 30 years old, they’ll still have this life lesson they learned here at school,” Glende said. “And I’ll gladly take all of the blame.”
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At the south end of the calf barn, the Schreindls and Olsons have a milk room that includes a bulk tank for pasteurized waste milk and one of two automaƟc calf feeders. A pipeline from the pasteurizer carries milk to the second feeder, located elsewhere in the barn.
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are relocated to an outdoor pen. In a year, the Schreindls and Olsons nish 140 steers. “The steers used to struggle with respiratory issues, but now, they’re doing awesome,” Troy said. “Hopefully, we’ll see the same results with the heifers when they start calving back in.” During the winter of 2015-2016, the families began discussing options for new calf facilities. Their former setup was individual hutches for calves on milk and group pens in an old barn for post-weaned calves. “The nursery end of the new barn was really the main reason for this whole building,” Missy said. “I was tired of caring for 56 hutches in the elements. It was just too much labor and it wasn’t going to be suitable for much longer.” Troy agreed. “We were actually thinking about updating our milking facility and then converting the current milking barn to where the calves would be, but then milk prices went down and we still had to do something for the calves,” he said. After discussing several ideas, the Schreindls and Olsons came up with Turn to O & S DAIRY | Page 7
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The barn includes eight group pens for both preweaned and growing calves. A wall and side door separates the calves on milk from the weaned calves.
this setup – everything under one roof, including the milk room. “This plan was developed on the tailgate of our truck,” Troy said. Missy agreed. “We were looking for something a little easier,” she said. “I don’t know if it’s actually any easier, but it’s a different kind of labor. The key is to keep up with cleanliness in the group pens.” By November last year, construction began and weaned calves were moved in Jan. 27. Less than a month later, all of the calves were moved into the new facility. In any given month, the Schreindls and Olsons calve in 20 animals. “When we built this, we thought there was going to be so much extra room,” said Troy, laughing. “It’s crazy how fast it lls up. You can’t build anything big enough.” With the new facility, the families have also adjusted their management protocols. Rather than vaccinating, dehorning and castrating all in the same pen post weaning, the calves now undergo the same procedures over the course of time. “When we did it all at once, they became really stressed and would get sick,” Missy said. Now, calves are dehorned while in pen two, the bull calves are banded in pen three, and all calves
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are vaccinated in pen four. Emily helps her mom complete these practices. “Nobody is stressed from those processes. The only issue we have is a small respiratory problem in the rst pen; but those calves are like kindergartners, always curious to touch things,” Missy said. Troy agreed. “Everyone else transitions really well,” he said. “From the milk to the feed, they don’t miss a beat.” With nearly one year under their belt, the Schreindls and Olsons are pleased with how the new facility has beneted their operation – from improving calf health to maximizing labor efciencies – and only having to work through a few minor hiccups. “In the dead of winter, we learned the milk has to be continuously owing through the line otherwise it freezes. And we also plan on adding a water trough to the rst group pen,” Missy said. The Schreindls and Olsons have larger goals in mind for O & S Dairy, and completing this modern calf facility has them moving in the right direction.
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According to Virginia Tech Ag Economist Dr. Limited changes, enough money? David Kohl, agriculture is currently in what he refers Limited changes are expected in the 2018 Farm to as the fall cycle. In this cycle, commodity prices Bill. There seems to be support for tweaks to dairy are in an elongated reset, and producers are testing and cotton programs, changes to ARC-County their resiliency. “From about 2018 to and money for a FMD vaccine bank. Ag Insider 2021 is going to be the winter cycle. National Farmers Union President Roger Johnson does not expect Congress to What I’m starting to observe is a certain group of farmers making adjustments have enough money for the programs and making a little money,” said Kohl. funded now, which do not include these “The other group, the bridge, is looking new proposals. “Add them all up and at renancing options, and another 30 that’s $5 to $7 billion of new money. In percent of producers are at the end of most cases, promises have been made to the pier burning through land equity, those asking for the money. How are you etc.” Approximately 20 percent won’t going to do that without more money?” see the spring cycle. Kohl said farmers The proposed tax reform will add $1.5 showing some resiliency have to devise trillion to the decit over the next 10 a game plan. “Some farmers overpaid years. Johnson said promises about new for marginal land and marginal types of farm bill spending will be inuenced By Don Wick assets. Dropping some of those assets and by that decit spending. “All of the Columnist restructuring the operation may work, but promises made about adding baseline they have to plan, execute and monitor. spending, you can kiss them goodbye. Only 30 to 40 percent can do it.” I can guarantee you, everyone will be screaming on the Hill, ‘Wait a minute, the budget just blew up. We Farmers advised to concentrate on what they can have to gure how to cut spending.’ That will be the control rally cry.” Johnson remains optimistic the 2018 Farm Volatility in milk prices is nothing new. From the Bill will be completed early. Without much legislative 2014 peak of around $25 per hundredweight, milk success on issues, like healthcare or taxes, the NFU prices are now in the $17 to $18 range. Manitowoc, leader said lawmakers will need a win before midterm Wis., banker Dave Coggins said labor costs are the elections. big variable when managing a low-price environment. “Today’s dairy farms are trying to get reliable Perdue still condent employees and then deploy them in ways which are Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue remains most effective and happy.” Coggins said the key to condent an agreement will be reached between the tough times is managing things farmers can control. United States, Canada and Mexico on NAFTA 2.0. “Milk prices are important, but farmers can’t do “The administration knows how important NAFTA is much about them. Some of it’s an attitude of how can to agriculture,” he said. “We’ll continue to negotiate. they engage employees to manage the bottom line, I think there’s room for anxiety when we see some nding more efcient ways, maximizing facilities, proclamations come out. At the end of the day, I think etc.” Coggins was part of the National Agricultural we’ll get an agreement. It may go to the brink, but I Bankers Conference in Milwaukee. believe we will get a new and better agreement over
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New genomic testing agreement announced Zoetis and the American Guernsey Association have announced a genomic testing agreement to improve breed performance. The AGA will work exclusively with Zoetis to enhance genetic selection decisions. Zoetis associate marketing director Cheryl Marti said, “this partnership will help accelerate genetic progress in the Guernsey breed.”
Saputo to add U.S. and Australian brands Canada’s largest cheese manufacturer is buying two cheese companies. Saputo Inc. has agreed to acquire Betin Inc. of Belmont, Wis. Betin is a specialty cheese maker that sells the Montchevre brand of goat cheese. This deal follows the purchase of Australian-based Murray Goulburn Cooperative Company. Murray Goulburn markets uid milk, cheese, milk powder and butter. Both deals are expected to be nalized by the end of the year.
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HANCOCK, Minn. – Andy and Chris Emmert have never thought of themselves as the type of people who would be recognized for their work as dairy farmers. However, the brothers graciously accepted the 2017 Pope County Farm Family of the Year award this past summer for representing agriculture in a positive light. “It’s really an honor to receive this award and it’s neat to be recognized,� Andy said. Andy and his wife, Rachel, and their two children – Megan and Ethan – milk 75 cows at the home farm near Hancock, Minn. Chris and his wife, Deanna, and their young girls – Alison and Bailee – also milk 75 cows on the same farm site. Although the families operate their herds separately, the Emmerts cooperatively manage the dairy’s 675 acres of both owned and rented land.
“We’re able to share equipment and labor, and working alongside each other also gives us a chance to see what works and what doesn’t work for the herds,� Chris said. The brothers took over their family’s dairy herds as teenagers and have since developed the farm to meet their individual goals. “It’s been 22 years now. We were homeschooled, so it was easier for us to be on the farm and manage the herds than any other kids our age,� said Chris who was 14 at the time he started dairying. In 1995, Chris and Andy began dairy farming in an 80-stall tiestall barn, each milking a herd of 40 cows. While the barn allowed the herds to be housed under the same roof, the Emmerts used two separate pipelines and bulk tanks, as well as their own set of milking units to manage their respective herds. “My dad purchased a second herd in 1993. At the time, it was cheaper to purchase another pipeline Turn to EMMERTS | Page 11
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Chris Emmert examines his herd’s feed. While the herds are housed and managed separately, both receive the same raƟon. and small bulk tank then make a major expansion,” Chris said. Throughout the years, the brothers made small updates to the barn – often making decisions that would benet both herds. “I remember when I started using one touch milking units and Andy thought I was nuts,” Chris said, laughing. “Six months later, he had them.” Nearly 10 years ago, the roles were reversed when Andy began looking at automated milking systems. Andy and Rachel partook in a farm tour across Wisconsin, where two of the six farms used robots. “He came back all excited, and I wasn’t. I didn’t want the robots to take our jobs away,” Chris said. “Then, we visited a farm in southern Minnesota and I understood Andy’s vision for the dairy.” Now, the dairy herds are milked
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with two robotic milking systems and housed in a compost-bedded hoop barn. With the milking technology, the families can track the progress of each cow and divide the milk check accordingly. Despite the robot room physically separating Chris and Andy’s cows, the feeding, bedding and manure management remains the same across both herds. Additionally, the dry cows and heifers are fed the same rations but housed and managed independently, while the young calves are cared for in an entirely different way. “Our baby calves are on a different milk replacer then theirs,” Deanna said. Andy feeds all of the animals as Chris cleans the barns and beds the herds. Rachel and Deanna manage the breeding decisions and nances,
respectively, in addition to other daily chores. The families make other management decisions that inuence the herds’ productivity and longevity, individually. “We make management decisions as couples, not necessarily all together,” Chris said. “Even our hoof trimmer is amazed at how different the herds are. They’re completely different cows, but eating the same feed and drinking the same water.” Andy and Rachel’s herd is registered, where they are able to focus on improving the genetic components, while Chris and Deanna’s herd remains grade Holsteins. “We have sold bulls to A.I. companies and breed for heifer calves other registered breeders would want,” Andy said. “We’ve just found what works best for us, individually, and no matter how we’re able to reach our goals, we’re always looking to improve.” Chris agreed. “Even down to how long a work day is for each of us differs,” he said. Although Andy and Chris’s goals for their respective herds may vary, they work collectively as partners to achieve them and realize their unique setup works well for the families. “It certainly helps [working together] if either of us is having a problem with the robots and we can feed off of each other’s ideas. Or, we only have to purchase half the equipment,” Andy said. Deanna agreed. “We pick up after each other,” she said. “Rather than only one set of eyes keeping track of what’s happening on the farm, we have four sets.” The additional help that comes with both families operating a herd at the farm site allows the Emmerts to participate in other community functions. Deanna and Chris are members of the Glacial Ridge Cattlemen’s Association, and Chris works at the local sales barn during the winter. At the same time, Andy serves on the Langhei Township board. Together, the families host farm tours to other dairy farmers, as well as school tours and open houses for the public. As the brothers and their families consider all they have accomplished together, yet continue improving individually, the Emmerts are pleased with the working relationship they have developed and hope to see it further prosper in the years to come.
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Forage on short supply for bedding, feed CRESCO, Iowa – In the coming week, Tim Huhe is hopeful sunshine and dryer weather conditions will make it conducive to nish his corn stalk harvest. Without a completed harvest, Huhe will be left nearly 400 bales short of fresh corn stalk for his 300cow dairy near Cresco, Iowa. But Huhe is not the only farmer battling Mother Nature’s temperament. Farmers across the Midwest are working against the clock to harvest corn stalk or placing bids at local auctions for the highly sought-after commodity. “Everyone’s in the same boat,” Huhe said. “If farmers can make some, they are, but not many are completely done.” Over the last several decades, corn stalk use has transitioned from primarily feed purposes in beef operations to an alternative bedding source for all sectors of livestock production.
“It’s a signicant task on the farm to harvest corn stalks, and it’s become common as the stocks are used as a bedding and feeding resource,” said Dan Martens, University of Minnesota Extension. “Agriculture is like any other production system. We look at what we have and how can we make the best economic value out of it without wasting much. “Corn stalks are not as good as small grain straw because they don’t hold water as well; they tend to become wet and sloppy sooner than small grain straw. But on the ip side, we have a lot of stalks and some farmers to make use of them, maybe also because we’re not growing as much small grain as we used to,” Martens said. However, with a wet harvest season, the ability to produce quality forage from corn stalk has been difcult. “We’re facing the same challenges as we’ve seen with
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A stack of corn stalk bales sits at a dairy farm near Sauk Centre, Minn. This year, due to the wet eld condi�ons and crop, the ability to harvest corn stover is difficult and causing many farmers to look to auc�ons for their bedding and feed sources. corn silage, small grains, and corn and soybeans,” Martens said. Fields are saturated with moisture, and stalks might be
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ConƟnued from CORN STALKS | Page 12 and those bales still have too much moisture, then we have to worry about spoilage.” With November approaching its end, Huhe is concerned with how much stalk he will be able to capture off the elds. As of Nov. 17, Huhe harvested 200 bales of corn stalk. Typically, he has 600 bales completed by the rst of November. “The biggest problem we’ve had is that we didn’t have an early frost and the stalks were too green to bale. Then, it hasn’t been dry enough. We’re not getting extensive rains, but it’s been foggy with a mist,” Huhe said. “The toughest part is in three days I could have 600 bales done. This year, in three days, I’ve barely made less than half that.” This year’s conditions are causing a ripple effect throughout the industry – from dairy farmers to custom harvesters and auctioneers. Jesse Tysdal runs nearly 2,500 acres of tillable land near Fergus Falls, Minn. Every year, he makes corn stalk bales for local dairy farmers. This year, farmers are reaching out to him from some 60 miles away. “It started with wheat harvest when the bales were so wet they’re disintegrating,” Tysdal said. “It’s unfortunate because all of the bales are really lacking quality, but [farmers] are taking any bales they can get.” If the weather holds up, Tysdal plans to put up 1,500 bales with 300 already completed. However, in a typical year, Tysdal can make about three bales an acre; this year, he is barely able to make one. “With the early winter arriving in October, everyone is screaming to see what can be baled,” Tysdal said. “Weather permitting, we’re going to bale everything we can.” The demand is evident at hay auctions across the Midwest. Randy Kath, with Steffes Group, Inc., noted 16 loads of wheat straw and two loads of corn stalk were purchased at their Litcheld, Minn., auction Nov. 14. “Unequivocally, we could have easily sold 50 loads of any type of bedding. The phone calls we receive are overwhelming,” Kath said.
In the nine years Kath has been a part of the business, this year has shown the greatest demand for bedding considering the time of year. “Generally, we see this in the spring when it’s wet and soggy,” Kath said. “I don’t remember demand being so great, and that’s reecting in the price of stalk, as well as alternative bedding sources.” All types of straw are more expensive per load and low-quality hay has also seen an uptick in price of at least 25 percent, said Kath. Martens agreed. “How much money do farmers have available to spend on bedding, especially with the current milk price and its outlook?” he said. “In all facets of agriculture, there has to be conservative spending – if you spend $1, you better get more than $1 in benets out of it.” Demand is not the only factor driving price, but also the supply point. “Farmers can’t buy what they can’t nd,” Kath said. Kath’s company sources a majority of their hay from the Red River Valley, although bedding is coming from as far away as Grand Forks, N.D. and Canada. Huhe, too, has looked to Canada as a resource for additional bedding. “That’s an option I’ve explored and have made phone calls for straw, but I’m not the only one,” Huhe said. “Luckily, I do have 150 bales in storage from last year for reasons just like this. It’s the rst time I’ve ever had to consider my carryover.” If farmers have alternative bedding sources already available, they may be harvesting corn stalk as a feed source because corn silage or other crops were not harvested earlier. “Guys are still looking for chances to harvest as long as the snow holds off,” Martens said. Farmers should work with their nutritionist if they plan to feed corn stalk as part of a dry cow or growing heifer ration, Martens said. With the weather expected to hold up a little while longer, farmers will continue harvesting corn stalk – but at the mercy of Mother Nature.
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What are you most thankful for this year? Steve Sapp Bruce, S.D. Brookings County 65 Cows
Linda and Dan Siem Rochester, Minn. Olmsted County 195 cows What are three things you are thankful for either farm-wise or family-wise? We are thankful for our good health, our family and friends, and our great employees. We feel so supported in the people who raise us up. We would not have what we have without them. How do you acknowledge people who you’re thankful for in your life? November is a month of gratitude for us. We like to write thank you notes and give gifts to various people who help us – our mailman, UPS man and employees, among other people – around this time. It has become a tradition for our family. Because of this we have gotten to know people a lot more. We also like to pay it forward or do random acts of kindness. We also like to say thanks in person or give a gift for special occasions. November is a big month for birthdays in our family, so we have a birthday bowling extravaganza to celebrate. Tell us one person who has inuenced your life who you’re thankful for. Dan: My parents, Richard and Sharon Siem. They gave me the opportunity to start farming. I have been farming since 1988, after I graduated from the University of Minnesota-Waseca. Our family has owned this land for over 100 years and has been milking cows since 1913. Linda: My grandmother. She emigrated from Ireland and was a wonderful woman. I spent my summers with her and her house always smelled like apples. She had all these little sayings. One of them is, “Know you’re blessed and leave the rest. Don’t get so complicated.” She always loved autumn and said fall is God’s way to bring people home, both for harvest and for Thanksgiving. It is also why I love fall, too. It is a time when God paints the world with beautiful colors. How do you typically celebrate Thanksgiving? We have a family dinner. The holidays are a time when we expect to stop and come together as a family. There is nothing better than the smell of Thanksgiving and all the food. Plus, we usually have football on TV. What is a favorite family Thanksgiving tradition? Dan: I like the whole family getting together for dinner. Linda: We have started a tradition of asking everyone around the table what they are thankful for. It is fun to hear what everyone says. We also always say grace together and that is important to me. I like that feeling. Tell us a favorite Thanksgiving memory. Dan: My daughter, Danielle, was born three days after Thanksgiving so that is a pretty special Thanksgiving memory. Linda: My son was also born around Thanksgiving, and we have a lot of birthdays during November, so it is fun that we celebrate Thanksgiving, but also make it into a birthday extravaganza. Plus, our anniversary and Dan’s parents’ anniversary is during November, so it is a big time of celebration. What is your favorite Thanksgiving Day food? We both really love apple pie. Tell us about your farm. Dan: We bought the farm from my parents nearly two years ago. My parents still actively participate in some day-to-day chores. My brother, Randy, also owns half the cows. We have six employees and milk twice a day. We farm 500 acres of crops, which are used for feed for the animals.
What are three things you’re thankful for either farm-wise or family-wise? I am thankful for my wife and our children and for the sovereign God who provides all of our needs. Secondly, I am thankful that we can raise our children on a farm where we can instill Godly values in them. Finally, I am thankful for all of the modern conveniences that make farming easier. How do you acknowledge people who you’re thankful for in your life? I thank them and tell them that I appreciate them. I have to admit that I don’t do this nearly as much as I should. Tell us one person who has inuenced your life who you’re thankful for. I am thankful for my dad, Oscar, who passed away in February. He helped me get started in farming and taught me the importance of hard work and standing up for what you believe. I often think of the tidbits of wisdom that he would share with us. I wish that I had said thanks to him more than I did. How do you typically celebrate Thanksgiving? We simply spend time together as a family. We sandwich our big Thanksgiving meal in between morning chores and evening chores. What is a favorite family Thanksgiving tradition? Spending time together as a family is my favorite Thanksgiving tradition.
Mike and Mary Kay Herkenhoff Freeport, Minn. Stevens County 100 cows What are three things you’re thankful for either farmwise or family-wise? We are thankful for our six children who have brought us so much joy and happiness. We are also thankful for our beautiful four grandsons. We have been thankful also this year for a safe and bountiful harvest. How do you acknowledge people who you’re thankful for in your life? I acknowledge people in my life who I’m thankful for by being there for them when they need me. Tell us one person who has inuenced your life who you’re thankful for. My mom, Laura Hoppe. She has always been there for me in more ways than I can count. She is always there with a listening ear and has been my companion for many functions that I have dragged her to. She’s the kind of person who helps out in any way she can. How do you typically celebrate Thanksgiving? We celebrate Thanksgiving together as a family. We may not necessarily do it on Thanksgiving Day but we do it when everyone can make it. We will be celebrating the Friday after Thanksgiving. What is a favorite family Thanksgiving tradition? We don’t have a Thanksgiving tradition. We just love getting together, playing cards or some kind of board game.
Tell us a favorite Thanksgiving memory. About the second year that Lori and I were married, we got a blizzard on Thanksgiving Day. I was supposed to spend the day with the family at my mother-in-law’s home in town, but the milk truck was coming that day and it took me a long time to clear a path so that the truck could get into our yard. It was quite late by the time I got to my mother-in-law’s house, but she had kept the food warm for me. I will never forget that.
What is your favorite Thanksgiving Day food? We usually have the traditional turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy. Our whole family loves the dressing (especially Mike) with lots of gravy.
What is your favorite Thanksgiving Day food? The traditional Thanksgiving meal that includes turkey and all the trimmings. There has to be lots of mashed potatoes and gravy.
Tell us about your farm. We live east of St. Rose, Minn. We own and operate a 100-cow dairy and run about 500 acres. Our sons come home in the fall to help harvest the crop.
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ConƟnued from FENCE | Page 15 Linda Miller Albany, Minn. Stearns County 30 cows
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What are three things you’re thankful for either farm-wise or family-wise? I am thankful for kids that help us when they can. Corey is here all the time helping and we really appreciate that. We had a pretty good crop this year. We had more hay than ever and we are taking out the corn today (Nov. 18), and it looks really good. I am also thankful everyone in the family is healthy. My husband, Cletus, had his knees replaced last year and is getting better. How do you acknowledge people who you’re thankful for in your life? When they come around I feed them. I also like making homemade cards, so I’ll send them a card. Tell us one person who has inuenced your life who you’re thankful for. My mom, Agnes Chihos. She gave me the determination to keep going. She had 11 kids and a big farm at that time, plus a big garden. On Sunday, she made doll clothes and quilts and donated them to the church bazaar. How do you typically celebrate Thanksgiving? We all get together, usually at our house, but this year we are going to my daughter, Tamara’s, house and having a meal. What is a favorite family Thanksgiving tradition? I just like getting together with our children and four grandkids. Tell us a favorite Thanksgiving memory. We like to play board games, cards or bean bags. What is your favorite Thanksgiving Day food? The dressing. We have a special recipe that Cletus’ mom made that includes carrots, hamburger, broth and stufng mix. Tell us about your farm. Cletus has been here his whole life and I have been here since 1983, when we got married. We have been at it since then. We milk 30 cows in a tiestall barn and nish out our bull calves. We farm 200 acres and raise alfalfa, corn and oats.
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What are three things What are three things you’re thankful for eiyou’re thankful for either farm-wise or famther farm-wise or familyily-wise? I am thankful wise? My health. This past for the life lessons that July 16 I was out in the the farm has given our pasture checking on three seven children to allow cows that had calved. I them to be successful, was trying to separate the and for the friendship, calves with the cows and support and love of fambring them in the barn to ily and friends. I am thankful for the inuence of God be milked. The next thing I knew after she knocked me in our lives. out, I was lying under one and looking up at her under belly, she was jumping up and down trying to stomp me, How do you acknowledge people who you’re then she turned around and started bucking me on the thankful for in your life? I’d wish I could say do- side of my body, then for some reason she had enough ing nice things and spending time with them, but life and left me alone, and my nephew brought me home. doesn’t work that way. I guess spending quality time My wife and a nephew brought me to the hospital. All I together when we do get those opportunities. could keep thinking was “I’m alive, I’m alive thank you Lord.” I had to have 12 staples put in my head, my ribs, Tell us one person who has inuenced your life hand and arm were bruised, and I had a concussion, but who you’re thankful for. Our children – Stephanie, there was nothing broken. The next Saturday, we had our Nicole, Kelsey, Justin, Brandon, Jessica and Briana daughter’s wedding and I was able to walk her down the – are my greatest inuence in life. They inspire me aisle. I was thankful to God to be able to celebrate it with with their spirit, provide me with happiness with family and friends. Sometimes you take life for granted. their laughter, smiles, things they do, and stories they I am also thankful for my wife Patricia, our ve children share, and give me hope during the challenging times. and seven grandchildren. They get more important every day. I am thankful for a good crop year. We had 160- to How do you typically celebrate Thanksgiving? 200-bushel corn; it was a bountiful year. Nothing too special; milking and chores, turkey with all the xings, watching football and, of course, a How do you acknowledge people who you’re thankful quick nap. With our family growing older, we try and for in your life? I try to show kindness and thoughtfulimprovise our dinner times so they can spend time ness to the people I work with. I try to verbalize to people with all of their families. that I appreciate what they do. I also pray for my family. What is a favorite family Thanksgiving tradition? Tell us one person who has inuenced your life who Cooking together. you’re thankful for. My dad, Hugo, was a rock. His demeanor was so calm; I never saw him get angry. He was Tell us a favorite Thanksgiving memory. When the an amazing man. kids were young, we always tried to do our Christmas card photo in the barn, and if I was brave we would How do you typically celebrate Thanksgiving? We include a calf and or cow. It was always entertain- have our children come over for a Thanksgiving meal. ing and frustrating to get all seven little ones to look It might not be on Thanksgiving because of everybody’s the same way and smile. I now appreciate the pictures schedule, but we will get together and have a meal and that show the crazy expressions as that was the true visit. family photo. What is a favorite family Thanksgiving tradition? 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Linn Dairy uses ovsynch, record keeping to improve reproduction program Linn Dairy Pat, Nancy, Justin and Tanner Linn Richmond, Minn. Stearns County 132 cows What was your average pregnancy rate last year? Our herd’s pregnancy rate was 26 percent last year. What is your voluntary waiting period for cows? For heifers? For cows, the
voluntary waiting period is 53 days. For heifers, it is 13 months. What is your rst service conception rate? The rst conception rate is 40 percent for cows and 67 percent for heifers. What is your reproduction program? Do you use a synchronization program? Turn to LINNS | Page 20
ANDREA BORGERDING/DAIRY STAR
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The Linns – (front, from leŌ) Nancy and Pat; (back, from leŌ) sons JusƟn and Tanner – milk 132 cows on their farm in Stearns County near Richmond, Minn. Their herd’s pregnancy rate last year averaged 26 percent with a 40 percent rst service concepƟon rate.
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ConƟnued from LINNS | Page 18 The cows are on an ovsynch program. We watch the heifers for natural heats. How do you observe for heat? We feed the heifers every day, so we also watch them for heats when we are feeding. How do you conrm pregnant or open cows? Our veterinarian comes every two weeks to do pregnancy checks. Cows are checked with ultrasound at 28 days and then reconrmed pregnant after 60 days. What is your breeding philosophy? How do you select bulls? What traits do
you focus on? Does fertility play a role in bull selection? When choosing bulls, we look at milk production, plus components and daughter pregnancy rate. How are cows and heifers bred? Do you have a different philosophy for breeding both? All animals are bred with A.I. Both cows and heifers are bred 12 hours after a standing heat. What do you do to settle hard breeders? To get a cow or heifer to settle, we will breed her two to three times in 36 hours.
How many times do you try to breed a cow before you sell her? We will try breeding a cow ve to six times depending on how good of a cow she is.
by switching one group of cows during milkings. They run 440 tillable acres where they raise corn, alfalfa, soybeans and barley.
Is there anything you have done or changed that brought about a signicant improvement in your reproductive program? To improve our reproduction program, we started giving two prostaglandin shots 48 and 56 hours before the GnRH. Three years ago, we also started using Dairy Comp, which has improved our record keeping. Tell us about your farm. Linn Dairy consists of Pat and
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JD 625F, ‘07, #142365 .................................................$24,000 JD 625F, ‘12, #142196 .................................................$26,950 JD 630F, ‘04, #141475 .................................................$15,500 JD 630F, ‘04, #142386 .................................................$17,900 JD 630F, ‘07, #142384 .................................................$21,900 JD 630F, ‘11, #113753 .................................................$25,900 JD 630F, ‘16, #142814 .................................................$33,900 JD 630FD, ‘16, #142700 ..............................................$75,000 JD 635F, ‘07, #135115 .................................................$18,500 JD 635F, ‘10, #142787 .................................................$21,900 JD 635F, ‘10, #140551 .................................................$22,900 JD 635F, ‘09, #131606 .................................................$24,500 JD 635F, ‘08, #132156 .................................................$25,000 JD 635F, ‘10, #142127 .................................................$25,500 JD 635F, ‘11, #134729 .................................................$29,800 JD 635F, ‘12, #118150 .................................................$33,900 JD 635FD, ‘12, #141854 ..............................................$55,000 JD 640FD, ‘15, #142243 ..............................................$75,900 JD 640FD, ‘17, #142205 ..............................................$89,500
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JD 893, ‘98, #138934 ...................................................$16,500 JD 893, ‘99, #140414 ...................................................$18,500 JD 893, ‘06, #142418 ...................................................$20,500 JD 893, ‘05, #134909 ...................................................$22,900 Drago 1230, ‘08, #139217..........................................$29,500 JD 606C, ‘13, #132413 ................................................$53,900 JD 606C, ‘13, #132993 ................................................$53,900 JD 608C, ‘09, #142383 ................................................$42,500 JD 608C, ‘10, #142453 ................................................$44,900 JD 612C, ‘09, #126839 ................................................$52,900 JD 612C, ‘10, #135623 ................................................$57,500 JD 612C, ‘14, #134078 ................................................$85,000 JD 612C, ‘16, #134111 ..............................................$109,000 Fantini 6RN, ‘12, #141882..........................................$25,900 Geringhoff RD830B, ‘04, #132061 ...........................$18,900
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JD 320, ‘07, 1131 hrs., #142533 ...............................$22,500 JD 325, ‘08, 3136 hrs., #138043 ...............................$19,900 JD 318D, ‘13, 890 hrs., #135024 ...............................$29,500 JD 318E, ‘15, 2811 hrs., #140525 .............................$25,900 JD 318E, ‘15, 2297 hrs., #135979 .............................$26,500 JD 318E, ‘15, 211 hrs., #123185................................$31,900 JD 318E, ‘15, 335 hrs., #142491................................$34,000 JD 320D, ‘13, 1023 hrs., #133492.............................$28,900 JD 320E, ‘15, 1734 hrs., #134169 .............................$30,900 JD 320E, ‘14, 1101 hrs., #135139 .............................$34,900
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1,750lbs
56HP
215
Wheeled
2,150lbs
260
Wheeled
Cab w/Heat & AC
Two Speed
Reversing Fan
Smooth Ride
Heated Air Seat
Powered Quickhitch
Auxillary Hydraulics
Hydraulic Float
Lease per Month*
Usage Cost per Hour*
Standard Flow
$479/mo
$5.80/hr
74HP
Standard Flow
$489/mo
$5.90/hr
2,600lbs
74HP
Standard Flow
$499/mo
$6.00/hr
3TS-8W Wheeled 3,208lbs
74HP
Dual Flow
$799/mo
$9.60/hr
190T
Tracked
1,900lbs
62HP
Standard Flow
$569/mo
$6.90/hr
260T
Tracked
2,600lbs
74HP
Standard Flow
$599/mo
$7.20/hr
3TS-8T
Tracked
3,695lbs
74HP
Dual Flow
$899/mo
$10.80/hr
*Lease based on 72 month F.M.V. Lease with 1,000 hours a year usage - See YES for more details
ZF Limited Slip Differentials
Lifetime Center Pivot Warranty 3 Year/3000 Hour Warranty
ZF Powershift 4F/3R Transmission
Radial Tires
Model Number
Tier 4F Diesel
HL940
158HP
29,320lbs
3.0
9’1.6”
$1,199/mo
$14.40/hr
HL940XT 158HP
29,980lbs
3.0
10’6.4”
$1,229/mo
$14.80/hr
HL955
Operating Weight
Tier 4 Final Cummins Diesel NO DPF*
Fuel Warmer
Capacity in Yards
Dump Clearance
Weigh Scale
Reversing Fan
Ride Control
Heated Air Seat
Rear View Camera
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High Lift Arms
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33,960lbs
3.7
9’3.8”
$1,449/mo
$17.40/hr
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34,392lbs
3.7
10’7.4”
$1,499/mo
$18.00/hr
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43,210lbs
4.3
11’0.5”
$1,799/mo
$21.60/hr
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Sell Price
YES Unit #
Model
Year
Horsepower
Lift Capacity
Unit Drive
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515-40
2014
50HP Tier III
3,300lbs
13 Feet 2 Inches
JCB Telescopic Handler
$42,500
U003421
155
2014
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1,550lbs
Wheeled
No Bucket
$25,000
U003472
525-60
2014
74HP Tier 4F
5,500lbs
20 Feet
JCB Telescopic Handler
$64,500
U003459
175
2014
56HP Tier 4F
1,750lbs
Wheeled
No Bucket
$27,500
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525-60
2015
74HP Tier 4F
5,500lbs
20 Feet
JCB Telescopic Handler
$61,500
N014915
190T
2014
62HP Tier 4F
1,900lbs
Tracked
66” Bucket
$41,500
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527-55
2011
83HP Tier III
6,000lbs
18 Feet
JCB Telescopic Handler
$43,500
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260
2013
74HP Tier 4F
2,600lbs
Wheeled
No Bucket
$29,500
N014435
527-58
2014
109HP Tier 4i
5,000lbs
19 Feet
JCB Telescopic Handler
$63,500
N014917
260T
2014
74HP Tier 4F
2,600lbs
Tracked
78” Bucket
$46,500
U003420
TM220
2015
74HP Tier 4F
4,400lbs
15 Feet
JCB Telescopic Wheel Loader
$68,500
N011115
300
2013
74HP Tier 4F
3,000lbs
Wheeled
78” Bucket
$36,500
N016912
TM320
2015
125HP Tier 4i
6,390lbs
17 Feet 1 Inches
JCB Telescopic Wheel Loader
$102,000
N012688
300T
2014
74HP Tier 4F
3,000lbs
Tracked
84” Bucket
$49,900
N018514
HL940
2016
158HP Tier 4F
3 YD
9 Feet 1.6 Inches
Demo Hyundai Wheel Loader
$119,000
U003640
330
2012
92HP Tier III
3,300lbs
Wheeled
No Bucket
$36,500
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Hy View Feeds 507-493-5564 Mabel, MN
Valley View Ag Russ Funke Dyersville, IA (563) 590-6939
Schueler Farms
Greenwald Elevator
Sherman Schueler 330-987-3159 Willmar, MN John Dockendorf (320) 894-4808 Greenwald, MN (320) 290-1240 Cleeson Mill Travis Schlosser Altura, MN Miltona, MN (507) 458-5907 218-639-1727
Luxemburg Feed Service
Luxemburg, MN (320) 252-1513
Jack Stamschror Kellogg, MN (507) 259-0269
Timberline Dairy Service Joe Graber Kalona, IA (319) 656-3527
Dale Ommodt, CCA Crop & Livestock Nutrition Atwater, MN (320) 212-3190
Winscher Seeds Mike Winscher 320-282-6748 Shawn Winscher Royalton, MN (320) 420-4516
Lee Kurtenbach
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Peak Forage Products LLC
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Jason Mickelson Frazee, MN 218-849-3137
Mervin Beachy St. Ansgar, IA (641) 381-0054
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Chad Tesch Canton S.D. (605) 759-5622 Dan (Boone) Uphoff, Sioux Falls S.D. (605) 321-1862
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DAIRY ST R
The Great Christmas
G I V E A W A Y
2017
Grand Prize Drawing Will Be Held Thursday, December 14, 2017
THE WINNERS WILL BE POSTED ON WWW.DAIRYSTAR.COM, MILK BREAK NEWSLETTER AND ON FACEBOOK.
Adults register for a Trip for two to Nashville for 3 nights
ADULT GRAND PRIZE
(air and hotel).
(one prize winner from each circulation area)
A WINNER FROM EACH ZONE!
We’ll also add $400 for each winner for a relief milker
17 & UNDER GRAND PRIZE
Grand Prize Heifer Calf: NEWALTA LIGHT MY FIRE 9945 Born: September 16, 2017
Dam: Newalta Absolute Genaven Sire: 250HO12879 Mapel Wood Light My Fire Granddam: Grand Melarry Epic Generosa-ET Grand Priz e comes Fro Calf Newalta D m the Vande airy, rW family of al Pipestone , MN.
2ND PLACE CHILDREN’S PRIZE ZE
Toy Pedal Tractor A WINNER FROM EACH ZONE!
A Alisha Ekkel and John Vander Wal (holding Alisha’s son, J John Ekkel) and the Light My Fire heifer calf that will be g given away in the Great Christmas Giveaway drawing.
Register free at any of the participating businesses for your chance to win!
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REGISTER AT THESE PARTICIPATING BUSINESSES: IOWA
ALLAMAKEE COUNTY • Bodensteiner Implement Waukon • 563-568-3463 • Equity Livestock Waukon • 563-568-4501 • Innovative Ag Services Waukon • 563-568-3455 • Waukon Veterinary Services Waukon • 563-568-2487
HOWARD COUNTY
• Bodensteiner Implement Cresco • 563-547-2152
O’BRIEN COUNTY
• Associated Milk Producers Inc. Sanborn • 712-729-3255
SIOUX COUNTY
• Rock Valley Hay Auction Co. Rock Valley • 712-476-5541 • Sioux Dairy Equipment, Inc. Rock Valley • 1-800-962-4346 • Valley Dairy Farm Automation Rock Valley • 712-476-2781
WINNESHIEK COUNTY
• Bodensteiner Implement Decorah • 563-382-2961 • Brynsaas Sales & Service Decorah • 563-382-4484 • Franzen Sales & Service Fort Atkinson • 563-534-2724 • Langs Dairy Equipment Decorah • 563-382-8722 • NICC Dairy Center Calmar • 866-474-4692, ext. 107
MINNESOTA BECKER COUNTY
• Adkins Equipment Inc. Detroit Lakes • 218-847-3131
BENTON COUNTY
• Arnold’s of St. Cloud Sauk Rapids • 320-251-2585 • First National Bank of MilacaGilman OfÀce • 320-387-2233 • Gilman Co-op Creamery Gilman • 320-387-2770
BROWN COUNTY
• Associated Milk Producers Inc. New Ulm • 507-233-4600 • New Ulm Regional Vet Clinic New Ulm • 507-233-2520
CARVER COUNTY
• Lano Equipment of Norwood Norwood/Young America 952-467-2181 • Bongards’ Bongards • 952-466-5521 • Storms Welding Cologne • 952-466-3343
• Ag Partners Farm Store Cannon Falls • 507-263-4651 Pine Island • 507-356-8313 Wanamingo 507-824-2231 • GB Feed and Supply Bellechester • 651-923-4425 • Midwest Livestock Systems Pine Island • 507-356-8349
KANABEC COUNTY
• East Central Dairy Supply Mora • 320-679-1029 • Fluegge’s Ag Mora • 320-679-2981
KANDIYOHI COUNTY
• D&D Ag Supply & Construction Pennock • 320-599-4466 • Farm-Rite Equipment Willmar • 320-235-3672
LYON COUNTY
• Midwest Ag Marshall • 507-532-2279
MCLEOD COUNTY
• Arnold’s of Glencoe Glencoe • 320-864-5531 St. Martin • 320-548-3285 • Mueller Sales & Service Dairy Equipment Glencoe • 888-205-0974
MEEKER COUNTY
• Farm-Rite Equipment Dassel • 1-888-679-4857 • Form-A-Feed Ag Services LitchÀeld • 320-693-7223 • Mies Equipment Watkins • 1-800-324-8269
MILLE LACS COUNTY
• Farmers Co-op Creamery/ ADM Alliance Nutrition Foreston • 320-294-5711 • First National Bank of Milaca Milaca • 320-983-1333 • Timmer Implement Pease • 320-369-4183
MORRISON COUNTY
• Litke’s Veterinary Service Pierz • 320-468-6666 • Modern Farm Equipment Pierz • 320-468-2161 • Pierz Co-op Pierz • 320-468-6655 • Sunrise Ag Cooperative Buckman • 320-468-6433 Lastrup • 320-468-2543 Little Rock • 320-584-5147 Pierz • 320-468-2168
OLMSTED COUNTY
• Associated Milk Producers Inc. Rochester • 507-282-7401
OTTER TAIL COUNTY
• Nelson Creamery Nelson • 320-762-0115 • Osakis Creamery Assn. 1-800-584-9236 • Pro Ag Farmers Co-op GarÀeld • 320-834-2271
• Bongards’ Perham • 218-346-4680 • J&L Nutrition Perham • 218-205-0174 • PCCA-Country Store Perham • 218-346-7075 • Perham Stockyards Perham • 218-346-3415 • Pro Ag Farmers Co-op in Henning 218-583-2947 • Pro Ag Farmers Co-op in Urbank 218-267-2401
GOODHUE COUNTY
PIPESTONE COUNTY
DAKOTA COUNTY
• Werner Implement Vermillion • 651-437-4435
DOUGLAS COUNTY
• Ag Partners Bellchester • 651-923-4453 Goodhue • 800-732-1439 Wanamingo-Agronomy Location 507-824-2215
• Gorter’s Clay & Dairy Equipment Pipestone • 507-825-3271 • Pipestone Livestock Auction Pipestone • 507-825-3306
STEARNS COUNTY
• A&C Farm Service Paynesville • 320-243-3736 • Ag Venture Feed & Seed, Inc. Watkins • 320-764-9910, 800-779-8910 • Albany Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram Albany • 320-845-2801 • Arnold’s of Kimball Kimball • 320-398-3800 • Arnold’s of St. Martin St. Martin • 320-548-3285 • Arnzen Construction/St. Rosa Lumber Freeport, In St. Rosa 320-836-2284 or 1-888-276-1751 • Associated Milk Producers Inc. Paynesville • 320-243-3794 • Centre Dairy Equipment & Supply Inc. Sauk Centre • 320-352-5763 or 1-800-342-2697 • Crop Production Services Sauk Centre • 320-352-6564 • Dairy Star Sauk Centre • 320-352-6303 • Dairyland Supply Sauk Centre 320-352-3987 or 1-800-338-6455 • DHIA Sauk Centre 320-352-2028 or 1-800-369-2697 • Ecker Feed Service, LLC New Munich • 320-837-5249 • Elrosa Grain & Feed Elrosa • 320-697-5515 • Farm-Rite Equipment St. Cloud • 320 240 2085 • Feed Co. Paynesville • 320-243-3938 • Freeport State Bank Freeport •1-800-252-9856 320-836-2126 Greenwald • 320-987-2265 New Munich • 320-837-5297 Melrose • 320-256-7208 • Farm Systems Melrose 1-800-636-5581 • 1-800-247-0012 • Lake Henry Implement Lake Henry • 320-243-7411 • Leedstone Melrose • 1-877-608-3877 • Melrose Implement Inc. Melrose • 320-256-4253 • Modern Farm Equipment Sauk Centre • 320-352-6543
STEELE COUNTY
• Ag Partners Owatonna • 507-413-8000 • Northland Farm Systems Owatonna • 800-385-3911
TODD COUNTY
• Olson’s Custom Farm Service Staples • 800-477-7059 • Pro-Ag Farmers Co-op in Clarissa Clarissa • 218-756-2112 • Pro-Ag Farmers Co-op in Eagle Bend Eagle Bend • 218-738-2552
WABASHA COUNTY
• Ag Partners Farm Store Lake City • 651-345-3328 Plainview • 507-534-2531 • Beck Implement Elgin • 507-876-2122 • Dairyland Equipment Service Plainview • 507-534-3161 • Wingert Sales & Service Plainview • 507-534-4386
WADENA COUNTY
• Aldrich Tractor Inc. Aldrich • 218-445-5430 • Olson’s Custom Farm Service Verndale • 218-445-5500 Sebeka • 218-837-5749
• Pro Dairy Systems Wadena • 218-632-5416
WINONA COUNTY
• Benson Farm Service Lewiston • 507-523-2188 • Elba Coop Elba • 507-796-6571 • S&S Dairy Systems St. Charles • 507-932-4288
WRIGHT COUNTY
• Hobert Sales Inc. Cokato • 320-286-6284, 1-800-820-6455 • The Country Store/ Munson Lakes Nutrition Howard Lake 320-543-3517, 800-663-9177
YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY
• Equity Elevator Wood Lake • 507-485-3153, 800-248-5427
SOUTH DAKOTA BROOKINGS COUNTY • W.W. Tire Brookings • 605-696-7400
CODINGTON COUNTY • Midwest Ag Supply Watertown • 605-882-2497
HUTCHINSON COUNTY
• Associated Milk Producers Inc. Freeman • 605-925-4234
MINNEHAHA COUNTY • Central Valley Dairy Supply Brandon • 605-467-0812 • Midwest Livestock Systems Sioux Falls • 800-705-1447
ROBERTS COUNTY • Valley Dairy Supply Corona • 605-432-5224
WISCONSIN PEPIN COUNTY
• Anibas Silo & Equipment Durand • 715-285-5317
PIERCE COUNTY
• Western Wisconsin Farm Store Ellsworth • 715-273-5066 • Ag Partners Grange Hall • 715-647-5002
ST. CROIX COUNTY
• Dairyland Farm Services Woodville • 866-467-4717
TREMPEALEAU COUNTY • Associated Milk Producers Inc. Blair • 608-989-2535 • Centerville Cooperative Trempealeau • 608-536-3311 • D&D Farm Supply Arcadia 608-323-7001 or 800-657-6955 • Hegg Mill Ettrick • 608-525-4545
LA CROSSE COUNTY • St. Joseph Equipment LaCrosse • 608-788-1775
VERNON COUNTY
• Premier Cooperative Cashton • 608-654-5416 • Koon Kreek Feeds Coon Valley • 608-452-3838
To view a complete list of participating businesses, log on to www.dairystar.com
*Enter as often as you like. One entry per store visit, please. Winners must be 18 years or older and a Grade A or B dairy farmer for heifer, or 17 years or younger and a son or daughter of a Grade A or B dairy farmer for heifer calf. Winners must also live in the Dairy Star circulation area to be eligible and are responsible for transport of animal.
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Low interest physical loss loans available
First of all, I hope you all had a chance to enjoy Thanksgiving and were able to take a moment, even in difcult farming years, to remember the blessings in our lives and for what we are thankful. We at FSA are always thankful to be able to work with our dedicated, hardworking farmers and to be able to assist in your business and livelihood. USDA’s Farm FSA News & Notes Service Agency Acting Administrator Steven J. Peterson announced that physical loss loans are now available in certain counties in Minnesota as a result of various disaster events. Farm operators who have suffered major physical losses caused by By Ryan Brunn a tornado, high winds and Stearns Co. Exec. Dir. hail may be eligible for emergency loans. An Administrator’s Physical Loss Notication has been issued for Stearns County, the primary damaged area, due to high winds and hail that occurred on Sept. 20, 2017. Additionally, nine Minnesota counties are contiguous to this designated disaster area, making producers in these counties potentially eligible for programs based on this designation. The contiguous counties include Benton, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Meeker, Morrison, Pope, Sherburne, Todd and Wright. FSA’s low interest emergency loans may be made available to any applicant with a qualifying loss in the counties named above. Approval is limited to applicants who suffered severe physical losses. Physical loss loans may be made to eligible farmers and ranchers to repair or replace damaged or destroyed physical property essential to the success of the agriculture operation, including livestock losses. Examples of property commonly affected include essential farm buildings, xtures to real estate, equipment, livestock, perennial crops, fruit and nut bearing trees, and harvested or stored crops and hay. Producers in eligible counties have eight months from the date of the declaration to apply for loans for physical losses. If you are interested in more information on loan eligibility and the application process, please contact your FSA ofce.
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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made the approval checklist of all three sisters and he has since spent more time with us, bringing our family closer together. Of course, my husband, Chris, deserves credit as well. While his job in town keeps him busy each day, he still checks in at our farm on his way home, bringing parts, xing equipment or simply to put a smile on my face. His support and understanding of my dairy farming career is vital for my success and to our relationship. As I make the 15 minute journey to our home each evening after chores, I am often deep in thought. First, I drive by two other dairy farms that usually still have lights on, and I remember I am lucky to be headed home for the evening. When I leave the farm, I have the luxury of checking the calving pen cameras from my cell phone and knowing my dad is on site to call and warn if I see they need assistance. Sometimes I call up one of my friends to chat about a problem I’m having with a cow or just to catch up. I’m fortunate to
The Transition Pen
By Laura Scholtz & John Rosenhammer Father/Daughter Farming Duo As the elds change from rows of corn and soybeans to freshly chiseled dirt, and the tractor lights in the elds get fewer and fewer, harvest season draws to a close. With the holidays approaching, I am eager for my big events of the year: Black Friday shopping and Christmas cookie baking. Growing up Mom always said we were on a budget, so when there’s a big sale like Black Friday, I take advantage of it. I look forward to baking dozens of different Christmas cookies and putting together trays for others to enjoy as well. But rst comes Thanksgiving, a time to reect on all I have to be thankful for this year. I’m thankful that while unloading a gravity wagon of corn my phone fell out of my jacket pocket and into the running grain auger, but it was caught on a shield and I was able to stop the PTO before it certainly would’ve been damaged beyond repair. I’m thankful that when I hit a deer a few weeks back, I was driving my work car rather than my beloved Equinox. I’m thankful the cows recently took a 10-day calving break, which allowed me to spend time in the eld
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nishing up tillage. While in the eld, I’m grateful for my mom, grandma and Compeer Financial’s excellent lunches to keep my stomach from growling. During the windy days and cold, late fall nights, I’m glad I had the privilege of being in a tractor with an enclosed cab and heat to keep me comfortable. Above all, I’m most grateful for the people I am surrounded by who support, encourage and motivate me. My dad and his innite energy motivates me to take on more projects each day. I am forever grateful for my parents who start chores themselves at least once a week, so I can sleep in an extra hour, which immensely improves my attitude. I’m grateful for my sister Mary’s ability and desire to farm alongside me, keeping me company in a man’s world. My sister, Becca, has a gift of calming me when I’m angry. Little brother Johnny and I can talk on the phone for hours about ideas and he has taught me many things. He even wants to teach me how to drive a semi. I’m excited my older brother, Joe, got a girlfriend who
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have made so many close friends at college with girls that are as passionate about dairy farming as I am. Whether I’m asking one of my friends in vet school for their opinion on different treatments or chatting about how stubborn our dads are, I’m so grateful for my friends who want to help me and understand what I’m feeling. I’m certain I could write a book on all of my mistakes, frustrations and things that didn’t go right this year, but making this list of gratitude is far better for my soul, and I hope inspires others to reect on how blessed they are as well. “Happiness is not dened by obtaining everything you want, but by appreciating everything you have,” thepinktractor.com. Laura Scholtz farms with her father, John Rosenhammer, and uncle, Greg, on Roseview Dairy near Sleepy Eye, Minn. They milk 200 Holsteins and run 580 acres of cropland.
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Betty Berning bberning@umn.edu 320-203-6104 Luciano Caixeta lcaixeta@umn.edu 612-625-3130 Hugh Chester-Jones chest001@umn.edu (507) 835-3622 Gerard Cramer gcramer@umn.edu 612-625-8184 Marcia Endres miendres@umn.edu (612) 624-5391 Sandra Godden godde002@umn.edu 612-625-8177 Les Hansen hanse009@umn.edu 612-624-2277 Brad Heins hein0106@umn.edu (320) 589-1711 Kevin Janni kjanni@umn.edu (612) 625-3108 Karen Johnson ande9495@umn.edu 320-484-4334 Brenda Miller nels4220@umn.edu (320) 732-4435 Kota Minegishi kota@umn.edu 612-624-7455 Randy Pepin pepin019@umn.edu (320) 333-1369 Erin Royster royster@umn.edu Jim Salfer salfe001@umn.edu (320) 203-6093 M. Scott Wells mswells@umn.edu 612-625-3747 Emily Wilmes krek0033@umn.edu (320) 255-6169
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Do I have a future in dairying? Many of our small to mid-size traditional dairy farmers are asking themselves if they have a future as a dairy farmer. Some farms are expanding, and they wonder if they will be able to compete without becoming a large farm with hired labor. This is a fair and good question to ask. Milk prices have been lower than expected in 2017, especially this fall. The current outlook for 2018 does not indicate there will be a recovery in prices. The latest USDA 2018 all milk price is forecast to be $16.90 to $17.80, which is similar to 2017. The government safety net program, MPP, has been frustrating and disappointing at best. Since most of our traditional farms raise their own feed, they do not benet from the lower feed prices. These factors are causing many dairy farmers to do some serious soul searching By Jim Salfer to evaluate their options for the future. U of M Extension It can be difcult and scary to face the realities of a rapidly changing industry. But, these trends have been happening for a long time. USDA census data show that as recently as 1992, only 5 percent of Minnesota herds were over 100 cows and less than 0.5 percent were over 200 cows. The 2012 census showed that 23 percent of herds were over 100 cows and nearly 10 percent of herds were over 200 cows. Today, the average herd size is estimated to be about 150 cows. We will continue to have successful traditional farms, but it will take creativity and a well thought out plan.
2015 and 2016. 2. Focus on the positives of farm life to maintain your passion. Weathering tough times is much more difcult if you do not love what you are doing. Farming is one of the few occupations where multiple generations of families can work together for the success of the business. Farmers have the satisfaction of owning and building their own business. Develop a strong support system to get help through periods of nancial stress. 3. Develop a strategy for success. Use your team of trusted advisors to brainstorm about how to adapt and change for success. Farms that wish to remain small will likely need to evaluate investment decisions and focus on investments with potentially high returns. Will the new investment improve labor efciency or increase income? This will require good nancial and production records. Focus your energy and effort on parts of the business you can control. 4. Leverage your strengths and skills. I marvel at the skills farmers possess. They can be a veterinarian, engineer, mechanic and carpenter in the same week. What skills can you leverage to improve protability? Can you partner with a couple of other smaller farms and start a custom business? Can you start a value added business such as selling locally raised beef? Can you exchange labor with a neighbor for harvesting or planting your crops? Can you custom raise heifers for another dairy? Some farms might be better off divesting or renting out land and focusing on the dairy enterprise. There are many potential options. They key is to evaluate your skills and interests and develop a strategy that will maximize whole farm prot. Even though these ideas will increases the likelihood of success, operating a small business with the risk and challenges of farming does not ensure success. If you cannot operate the type of farm that provides the lifestyle you want, the best solution may be to exit the business or change your enterprise mix. This can be a difcult decision, but farmers have many skills that can be transferred successfully to other occupations.
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Somatic Cell Score (SCS) is very important. The base set for PTA SCS is 3.0. Do not choose bulls that are over 3.0. You are not doing yourself any favors if you are. There are a ton of bulls that are closer to 2.5, and some are even below that number. Milk pounds and fat and protein pounds/percent are important production traits to choose wisely. Obviously, you do not want to choose negative milk bulls. As for fat and protein, it is easier to look at the percent values as it is quicker to pick out positive and negative numbers. As for alfalfa seed, it is an investment as you will be harvesting forage from those elds for three to ve years. Choose high quality seed from a reputable dealer, plant at recommended seeding rates, manage weeds and pests, pray for timely rains and no winterkill, and make hay while the sun shines. A lot easier said than done some years, but it all works out
in the end. Now, let us fast forward to about three years ago. This same wise dairy farmer asked if I would come to his farm to help pick out a dozen heifers to sell as facilities were overcrowded. We looked at his genetic records and found that all of his heifers were positive NM$. There was a bit of a break at a certain level so I said these 10 would probably be good ones to sell as they are your lowest genetic value heifers, and you can pick two from all the rest to make it 12. He agreed. I reminded him that day of what he had told me a few years prior about good bulls and alfalfa seed and his response was the same. “Buying good genetics is one of the best investments you can make on your farm. There are a lot of places you can cut costs but always buy the best A.I. bulls you can get and plant good alfalfa seed.”
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It’s hard to believe that Thanksgiving is already that harvest has been slow is like stating that Vikings here. fans tend to get a bit excited whenever they hear the Thanksgiving once marked the ofcial beginning words fourth and short. of the shop-yourself-silly Christmas season. Not Combines are running all night, their powerful anymore. Retailers are headlights boring holes into pushing to make Christmas the darkness as farmers burn helps l us and d provides id a come earlier and earlier; IIt h the midnight oil, or midnight I wouldn’t be surprised plethora of industrial products diesel fuel. to someday see an ad Corn dryers are proclaiming “Fourth of July that range from sheetrock to working overtime, their Christmas sale.” lonesome moans echoing Cheetos. We all have much to be across the rural nightscape. thankful for. This includes Such sounds seem to carry the fact that, because of Facebook and its ilk, society farther in the crystalline chill of these long November has acquired a high tolerance for such grammatical sins nights. as dangling prepositions and unnecessary apostrophe’s. We should be thankful for corn. It helps feed us It’s customary to nish fall harvest by Thanksgiving. and provides a plethora of industrial products that This autumn’s harvest has been grinding on and on, range from Sheetrock to Cheetos. Not bad for a lowly like a Chinese water torture of trickling grain. Saying Central American vagabond that migrated north in
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search of a better life. The Pilgrims nearly starved to death during their rst winter in the New World. Fortunately, a Native American named Squanto befriended them and taught them how to raise corn. This enabled the Dear County Agent Guy Pilgrims to survive and thrive. The nascent colony was soon turning a tidy prot, which the Pilgrims promptly squandered at the nearby Squanto Casino. Modern farm kids have it easy regarding corn harvest. They operate gargantuan By Jerry Nelson combines which have cabs that are as Columnist cushy as featherbeds. Roughing it means being forced to drive a machine that doesn’t have WiFi. Back when I was young, corn was commonly harvested on the ear. We were told that we had it easy since we got to pick corn with a machine instead of by hand. Corn harvest always seemed to grind on and on. This was because our picker took two rows at a time and went two miles an hour. Assume that we had to pick 100 acres, subtract a good amount of time for milking, chores and breakdowns and … well, you do the math. Hardly anyone picks ear corn anymore. As such, cribbing has become all but a lost art. I am not referring to the kind of container typically used to contain babies. The type of crib I have in mind is made of wire and lath. It formed the core of our poor man’s corn storage strategy. The beauty of cribbing ear corn was that the crib could be placed almost anywhere. If winter was fast approaching and you had to save time, you could crib your corn on the headland of the eld. This was similar to shouting, “Look, it’s Brett Favre!” and moving the ball as the opposing team gawked at the stands. I was often tasked with hauling and unloading our ear corn, which meant I was also in charge of cribbing operations. We usually constructed a two-ring crib. The rst ring was easy. A person simply found a spot and began piling ear corn with the elevator. Once a small mound had formed, you spooled out a roll of cribbing and set it up in a circle around the pile. Things got tricky when the rst ring was nearly full. A second roll was unwound and set up around the rst one. This was then hoisted up and nested just inside the top of the rst ring. One guy could do this, but only if he was both athletic and skilled at cussing. Sometimes a third ring would be added. Assistance would denitely be needed for this unless you were Sampson. Which I denitely wasn’t; my parents wouldn’t ever let me grow my hair that long. It was deeply satisfying to see that third story of cribbing lled with ear corn. From a distance, the structure looked like a humungous three-tiered wedding cake. Except it was made of corn and didn’t have a plastic bride and groom on top. Like a towering wedding cake, the cribbed corn represented hope for the future and a mountain of calories. And that’s the kind of stuff we can all be thankful for. Jerry is a recovering dairy farmer from Volga, S.D. He and his wife, Julie, have two grown sons and live on the farm where Jerry’s great-grandfather homesteaded over 110 years ago. Jerry currently works full time for the Dairy Star as a staff writer/ad salesman. Feel free to E-mail him at: jerry.n@dairystar.com.
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Those are three numbers I’ve never dialed; until earlier this month. I had just nished a short Dairy Star interview and took a photo near Pierz, Minn., and was on the way to do something similar about 30 miles north on a cool Friday morning – the day before deer hunting opener in Minnesota. As I was heading eastbound down a tar road I could see ahead that there was a truck on its tires, but in the ditch with a little steam coming out. As a got closer, I could see there were cloths, pop cans and debris spread quite a distance from the truck. I remember thinking to myself, I hope whoever was On the Mark in the accident was OK. Well, little did I know, as I slowed down with curiosity I noticed a man lying in the hayeld face up with his arms back. I drove in the approach and ran over to the better than 6-foot man with a beard and asked, “Are you OK?” “Hey, are you OK?” I got no response and dialed 911. Immediately, a dispatcher answered and I quickly notied her that I came across a rollover and there was an unconscious man with breathing troubles lying in the eld. She asked if the guy was OK, and I said it sounds like he is snoring. I quickly put the phone near his head to give her a sampling. Should I rest his head up or cover him By Mark Klaphake with a blanket were the next things I asked. I gave her my Editor exact location and she quickly reached out to emergency personnel. He laid about 50 feet from the truck, and I kept her on the line and went over to check if there were any passengers. Fortunately, it was empty, but then I noticed a pair of jeans laying in the ditch further up. Were those jeans being wore or just laid out perfectly after the rollover I asked myself. Again, luck was on my side as it was just a pair of jeans. As I did this, I was still speaking with the 911 dispatcher, who requested my full name, birth date and cell phone number. She then said help is on the way, and I should stay with the victim. Because people much more capable to handling this kind of situation were on the way, I backed my truck out of the eld and parked it in the driveway across the road so whenever emergency personnel did arrive I wasn’t in the way. A short time later, even though it seemed like eternity, I waved in the deputy who showed up rst and watched as he went to work. He opened up the vest of the fella and went through some procedures. Right after that, some rst responders showed up and assisted. I was pretty excited at this point, and vowed just to stay the heck out of the way. I spoke with the deputy briey and asked if there was anything I could do, and he said, “Did you see what happened?” I said, “No, what you see now is exactly like the vision when I showed up a little earlier.” He said I could leave. I then moved on to my next interview and nished within 30 minutes and drove back by the site I had come upon. By then, the fella was in a helicopter heading to St. Cloud, Minn., and the deputies were analyzing the scene. I spoke with the deputy that was on the scene rst, and he said he was airlifted to St. Cloud and was in tough shape. Within a week after the accident, I received a call from the Morrison County Sheriff’s Ofce, and they notied me that the victim had some brain injuries and was in a coma until Tuesday when he was moved up to serious condition. They gure he rolled his truck several times and was lying alone for close to 30 minutes. He then said the family wanted to reach out to me and express their gratitude for calling in the accident and I responded that wasn’t necessary. I just dialed 911. The deputy and the rst responders saved his life. The deputy went on to say that one thing that helped them out in this case was that I knew the exact location of where he was. I told him it helped that I had never been on that road before so I was paying close attention to where I was and that the rollover was at the end of the driveway so I could give him a precise re number. He went on to say it’s very important for anybody traveling on roads, familiar or unfamiliar, that they remember the last road they turned on, just in case they come across anything similar. The rest of the day my mind kept circling the events. The questions of: was the man going to be OK, what caused the accident, and how long was he on his back kept running through my mind. I also had an even greater appreciation for the deputies and the rst responders who really came to this fella’s aid after I called 911.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. These words resonated throughout my whole body as I realized how closely I had adverted a disaster without even knowing there was a problem. Thank goodness there are still honest people in the world who do what is right because it is who they are. In a news cycle lled with the worst of human acts, there are still moments where the darkness is pierced by the light of a single act of goodness. Here is my story. I needed to run into town the other day to return some parts, do some banking and pick up groceries before my coupons expired. I also needed to deliver a breeding bull to some farmers in the same general direction. So I combined my two trips into one. Of course driving in St. Cloud, Minn., with a stock trailer and truck limits your options of stops and how far into town you really want to drive. The key is nding large parking lots or a couple of open parking spaces in a row. Now, I had to gure out how to make all of my
stops in the most economical manner. It would make the most sense to go to town rst and then work my way back to the farm to deliver the bull. That plan changed quickly. Before I headed to St. Cloud, my rst stop was in our hometown of Rice, Minn., to pick up a spark plug for the irrigation engine. Once I realized Arnie was out deer hunting and the guy running the shop didn’t know how to nd the spark plugs, I headed back out to the truck. There was a lady standing by my trailer peering in to see where all the noise was coming from. She had to stop and see what she thought was a pretty cow because she heard it mooing. That’s when I realized my trip plans were being rerouted. I didn’t need to take the bull to town with me. When I got to the farm, the guys were just nishing up their rst shift of milking before they switched out the barn for the next group. Even though I wasn’t dressed to be in the barn, it was still nice to see their girls and imagine how our bull was going to work in their system. The last bull I delivered to them was all
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grown up and still doing his job. We sell our bulls at about 1 year old, just the right size for heifers. We never get to see them all grown up. He didn’t look like the same young thing I dropped off a couple of years earlier. I like making delivery runs. I’m always Just Thinking Out Loud looking for new ways to solve old problems. It amazes me to see how other people make their operations work for them. I learn so much and pick up different ideas that might work back home. Once the guys could stop milking, they directed me to where they wanted their new By Natalie Schmitt bull. I backed the trailer Columnist up into a shed lled with young heifers. I was intrigued by the way their gate system worked. They could move animals between pens with just one person because of the way their gates were hinged. It was like my corner cupboard door that is hinged in the middle so it can straighten out the bend to make more room. With little effort, they could sort off some cattle in a pen to make room for the new bull. Once the bull was dropped off and the trailer pulled out of the shed, it was time to head to town. I put the check in my pocket. It didn’t have a name on it yet. I needed to copy it off and put it in my books before I could deposit it. My next two stops involved returning parts and trying to nd the right spark plug. I was having a hard time nding this specic plug. In and out of stores I ran in a hurry to get to my next stop. I didn’t want to venture too far into town with the trailer, but I had to make some deposits at the bank. Now, a stock trailer is just a bit too long to make it through the drive-thru and I had been standing in the barn, so my shoes weren’t too clean. I gured the only way this stop was going to work was to park along the street in a couple a parking spots and walk up to the drive-thru. The gals at the window didn’t seem to be surprised by my appearance at the window. They said it happens quite a bit when the lobby is closed. The car behind me may not have been so calm about the appearance. Now if I was back home in Stronghurst, Ill., I would have just taken my boots off at the door and slid across the polished tile oor to the closest teller, but I don’t think the big city customers would have appreciated my country efforts. My errand run was about done. I had to stop and grab groceries and then one last effort at the car part store for the spark plug. Their parking lot wasn’t quite big enough, but I made it work. It turned out to be an interesting stop. They could cross reference my spark plug to nd one that would work. I grabbed my farm checkbook to pay for the part. It was only a couple of dollars but they still needed my driver’s license to cash the check. That’s when it hit me. I didn’t have my little pocket purse with my license and credit cards. I had been driving without a license on me. I scrounged throughout my purse to nd enough change to pay the bill. Then, I climbed into the truck to take the back way to the feed store for a ton a lime. Mark gured since I had the trailer, Steve could just put a pallet of lime in the back. It would save us a trip later in the week. I made it home safely without being stopped by any cops. What a relief. But the real surprise came later that night after milking. Gerard called me to see if I still had the check he gave me that morning. I thought I did. I hadn’t cleaned out my pockets yet. Apparently I would have searched for quite a while. When I was at a farm supply store, the signed check fell out of my pocket in the parking lot. I didn’t even have a clue it was missing. A young lady found the check and turned it in at the customer service desk. She could have walked away with it and no one would have ever known. The store recognized the name on the account and called them to let them know the check was stored in their safe. She left no name to claim any reward. She just did what was right because it was the right thing to do. All I can say is thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Natalie, Mark and his brother, Al, Schmitt farm together near Rice, Minn. They milk 100 registered Holsteins under the RALMA prex. Their four children are great help around the farm and are pushing Natalie out of several jobs. Therefore she is thankful to have something else to do. For questions or comments please e-mail Natalie at mnschmitt@jetup.net.
Auction thoughts
Many of the tractors and other implements on my childhood farm were marked with a three-digit number written in yellow. My dad and his good friend, Bob, a dairy farmer himself, preferred bidding on equipment at auctions to strolling through dealership lots. I have fond memories of tagging along at Dairy Good Life auctions, listening to the cadence of the auctioneer’s voice calling out bids and watching bidders ash their bidding cards after the auctioneer’s triumphant, “Sold! For three thousand to bidder number 709.” Back then, dairy farming was more or less leaving northeastern Minnesota, so dairy farm retirement and dispersal auctions were held frequently. It rarely mattered how well the auction-bought tractor ran or the implement worked. Dad and Bob, with help from Grandpa, could x darn near any piece of farm equipment. It seems like time spent xing was as much an avocation as it was a necessity By Sadie Frericks for Dad and Bob and Grandpa. There was always laughter and camaraderie – and an occasional cuss Columnist word – when the guys were xing. Us girls helped as tool runners. As in, “Run and get me the nine-sixteenths wrench from the shed.” Later, we, too, learned to x. Today, when a certain smell reminds me of my childhood, it’s not the smell of cow manure; it’s the smell of diesel fuel mixed with oil and grease. After Glen and I were married and bought our rst house, we went to estate auctions in town just for the entertainment. It was fun to see what treasures folks had collected – and equally interesting to see who was bidding on what. At one auction, though, it became clear that the sale was being held because several siblings had not been able to agree about how to divide their deceased parents’ belongings. We watched two sisters bid against each other to tears over a Palomino horse lamp. For a long time after that, we often wondered aloud what the sstory behind that lamp was – aand whether those sisters ever And A d while hil endings di are often f spoke to each other again. These days, Glen paired with new beginnings usually attends auctions alone [...] there’s still a chilling or with the kids. He goes alone when looking for anvils for his finality to it all. aanvil collection. He takes the kkids along to a huge equipment consignment auction in a nearby town. And he brings Daphne along to the hay auction to bid on hay and straw. I always grin nostalgically when I think about Daphne tagging along behind Glen at the hay auction, much the same as another little blonde girl did with her dad 30-some years ago. A couple weeks ago, Glen and I went to our rst auction together in a long time. Dairy farm retirement auctions haven’t changed much over the years. Auctioneers still call with the same rhythmic monotone chant. Bidders still stare at their shoes, not daring to inch or make eye contact, then nodding almost imperceptibly when they’re certain of their bid. Equipment still goes to its new farm marked with a yellow, three-digit number. My perspective of these auctions sure has changed, though. As a little girl, I wasn’t aware that auction day meant the end of an era for many of these farms – the end of all they’d known for some of these farm families. I understand that now. And while endings are often paired with new beginnings, welcome changes in many cases, there’s still a chilling nality to it all. To watch a farm full of dairy cattle and equipment vacated in mere hours. To watch a life’s worth of hard work disperse one bid at a time. Sadie and her husband, Glen, milk 75 cows near Melrose, Minn. They have three children – Dan, 10, Monika, 7, and Daphne, 4. Sadie also writes a blog at www.dairygoodlife.com. She can be reached at sadiefrericks@gmail.com.
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The factors at play in low colostrum yields
Providing adequate amounts of quality colostrum to dairy calves within the rst hours after birth improves calf health, growth and lifetime performance. In the fall, many herds are challenged with low colostrum production from fresh cows. This issue appears to be herd-dependent and cow-dependent, and is likely affected by several factors. Environmental factors Seasonality plays a role in low or insufcient colostrum production. Cows calving in the fall are exposed to long day photoperiods during later gestation; ideally, a dry cow would experience eight hours Something to Ruminate On of daylight and 16 hours of darkness. In addition, these same cows are often exposed to heat stress during their dry period. Changes in hormonal pathways associated with colostrum synthesis occur as early as 40 to 50 days pre-calving. A m b i e n t temperatures are also By Barry Visser cooler in the fall. Just Nutritionist as heat stress can be detrimental in the summer months, cold stress can present challenges to dry cows. Cold stress can reduce dry matter intake (DMI), reduce mammary blood ow and impair immune reactivity. Water intake can also be a greater challenge in cold weather. Lack of water availability (quality or quantity) will also contribute to lower DMI. Management factors Cow comfort plays a signicant role in adequate colostrum production and overall success of the transition period. Stalls need to be adequately sized with a comfortable lying surface. Group housing needs to be clean and dry with adequate square footage per cow. Always offer plenty of bunk space and provide heat abatement in the summer months. The length of the dry period affects colostrum quantity. A dry period that’s less than 30 days reduces colostrum yield. This appears to be a bigger concern with animals coming into their rst or second lactations. Timing of colostrum harvest will impact quality and quantity of colostrum. Make sure staff know the importance of timely colostrum harvest and sufcient milk out. Excessive udder edema or the presence of mastitis can further complicate the success of rst milk out. Nutritional factors Cows calving in the fall are fed corn silage that was fermented for a year and then potentially are switched to silage that has been fermented for less time. This impacts rumen microbial protein yield and rumen turnover, and can interrupt DMI. Dry cow feeds are often lower in energy, but this should not mean lower quality. Remove any feeds from the dry cow rations that have a hint of mold. Certain mycotoxins may interfere with hormonal control of lactogenesis, and negatively impacting DMI and immune status. Nutritional strategies to improve DMI will have a positive impact on colostrum yields. This may require a slight increase in energy in colder weather conditions depending on housing and cow comfort. However, increasing energy appears to have little to do with colostrum yield if nutrient requirements are already met. Ensure that dry cow rations have adequate concentrations of nutrients that impact immune function, such as selenium, vitamins A, D and E, manganese and magnesium. In some cases, colostrum quantity has improved with the addition of a bypass protein source to increase rumen undegradable protein and improve microbial protein production. While low colostrum yields are more prevalent in the fall, you may be able to control this challenge by focusing on the environmental, management and nutritional factors at play. Looking forward, consider how you might be able to accumulate surplus colostrum in the high production months to ensure a reserve supply of high-quality colostrum when you need it. Barry Visser is a nutritionist for Vita Plus.
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Minnesota Livestock Investment Grant deadline on horizon
Past recipients share benets of state program By Jennifer Coyne jenn@dairystar.com
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Every year since 2008, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) has funds available for livestock producers to reinvest in their operations through the Minnesota Livestock Investment Grant Program. Over the last 11 years, more than 550 recipients have invested roughly $193 million to improve their livestock operations and remain a part of the state’s livestock industry. “[The program] helps encourage long-term development in Minnesota’s $7 billion livestock sector,” said Minnesota Agriculture Commissioner Dave Frederickson in a press release. With every grant awarded,
recipients are reimbursed up to 10 percent of the rst $500,000 of an investment, which may include purchases, construction or improvements of livestock facilities and fencing, feeding and waste management equipment. In a given year, a recipient may receive up to $25,000, with a lifetime maximum of $50,000. Applications for the 2018-19 grants are being accepted until Dec. 15. For more information and to apply, visit the MDA website (http://www.mda.state.mn.us) and search through the different funding opportunities available. Dairy Star caught up with past recipients to learn how the grant program helped facilitate on-farm improvements, whether that was establishing a dairy herd, undergoing an expansion or updating housing facilities. Derek and Carrie Redden Chokio, Minn. Stevens County 30 cows by June 2018 Recipient Year: 2017 How many times have you received a Minnesota Livestock Investment Grant? This is the rst time we have received a Minnesota Livestock Investment Grant.
Why did you apply for the Minnesota Livestock Investment Grant? We applied for the grant to assist with costs associated with construction of a milking parlor and milking equipment for our organic dairy startup. How did the grant assist in completing an on-farm project? The grant helped to make the project more affordable. What percentage of the project was covered by the grant? The grant will cover 10 percent of the cost of our project, up to $25,000 this year. If you were to receive a grant again, what would you use it for? If we were to receive the grant again, we would likely use it for additional facilities and equipment for calve and feed storage. Why should other dairy farmers take advantage of the opportunity this grant can offer? We think other dairy farmers should take advantage of this grant for farm improvements that will provide for farm families to continue to live and do meaningful work in rural communities.
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Tell us about your farm. We are beginning farmers establishing an organic dairy, essentially from the ground up. The farm we are on has been in the family for many generations, but dairy is a new venture for us. We are transitioning heifers, along with the land, and will be certied organic in May of 2018. We plan to start milking with about 30 head in June of 2018.
Garrett Moorse Minneota, Minn. Lyon County 50 milking does Recipient Year: 2016 How many times have you received a Minnesota Livestock Investment Grant? Once.
Why did you apply for the Minnesota Livestock Investment Grant? I applied for the grant to help pay for upgrades for my dairy goat operation in order for me to expand my milking herd, and more importantly, be more efcient. How did the grant assist in completing an on-farm project? The grant assisted in completing my milking parlor renovations, which included new gates, a new 8-head milking stand, new vacuum pump, buckets and pulsators. With the renovations, I had to do quite a bit of electrical work in the barn and the grant helped cover that, too. The grant also allowed me to buy two new round bale feeders, which saves time and energy instead of small squares. With the grant in hand, I was also able to construct a shed off my milking and kid barn for doe kids. This new shed and pen has made a huge difference in my kid growing program, by giving me more space during the cold spring months. Another thing I was able to do was buy two Bohlmann waterers to put in the new shed and an existing goat shed. With the help from the grant, I was able to complete a lot of projects that really helped my herd grow and reach some of my goals. What percentage of the project was covered by the grant? 10 percent. If you were to receive a grant again, what would you use it for? I would use it to add on to my barn. This addition would be a milk room and bulk tank, and hot water in the barn. I would like to do this to be able to sell milk and it would also make milking and cleaning a lot easier. Currently, all of the milk is fed to my family’s hutch calves that I feed, and the goat kids are fed milk replacer. Why should other dairy farmers take advantage of the opportunity this grant can offer? Other dairy cow and goat producers should take advantage of this opportunity because it can really help get a project up and running. If you don’t think you can manage to do a project or some upgrades, apply for the grant and get 10 percent back; it’s basically free money. Looking back, I got my vacuum pump, buckets, pulsators and more for free. Tell us about your farm. We milk 100 registered Holsteins and Jerseys, have an additional 1,000 head of cattle on feed, along with the land. I work full time on our family farm, along with being the Minneota FFA co-advisor. My main responsibilities are taking care of a majority of the calves, helping with daily care of the cows, cleaning cattle yards, hauling manure and working the land. The goat herd is owned and managed by me, with the assistance of my family and children who lease goats from me for 4-H. My herd is made up of 50 milking does – registered Alpines, Lamanchas, Saanens and Toggenburgs. I try to keep around 15-20 kids back for replacements every year. I typically breed about 75 percent of the kids as yearlings and keep the remaining as dry yearlings to freshen as 2 year olds. I usually have up to 10 breeding bucks around, along with utilizing A.I. My herd is ADGA registered and is enrolled in the ADGA plus program. We do quite of bit of showing throughout the year, including nationals. I started with goats by getting two kids for my seventh birthday, and by the time I was 15 I was running 250 does, 75 percent meat goats. In the fall of 2016, I dispersed the meat goats to solely focus on the dairy goats. In 2013, I bred and exhibited a reserve national champion. I’m now 20 years old and have bred ve Excellent does and multiple permanent champions. My goat herd is best described as a 4-H project gone bad.
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Women In Jeans Sandy Paskewitz Browerville, Minn. Todd County 60 cows Family: Husband, Bruce, three children – Emily, Andrew and Sarah – and Andrew’s wife, Emily, and Sarah’s husband, Cody. Tell us about your farm. We have a 60-cow dairy and youngstock operation north of Browerville along the Long Prairie River. This is the Paskewitz home farm. What’s the busiest time of day for you? Evening chore time can get hectic. I play the piano for many groups locally so that schedule sometimes makes chore time pretty wild. When you get a spare moment what do you do? I love baking cookies and sharing them with family and many former students. Tell us about your most memorable experience working on the farm. When our girls were younger, we loved spending summers going to nd those new babes in the woods. We would hop in the pickup and go hunting for that mama cow that headed off to have her baby. What have you enjoyed most about dairy farming or your tie to the dairy industry? I love seeing each new calf and watching them grow and become a part of the milking herd. I have loved being a mom to my calves and mom to countless singers over the years. How do you stay connected with others in the industry? I love to read, and so some of that connection is in articles that relate to calf
raising. I help with 4-H and our county fair board and have friends in the ag industry. We share the ups and downs together. In your opinion, what’s the importance of women in today’s dairy industry and how have you seen that change over the years? Women have taken a much more active and vocal role in the industry. The dairy economy has been very difcult. The stress of it can be overwhelming. I want my role to be that of an encourager at home and with those I meet. If you could give a tour of your farm to a prominent woman in today’s society, who would it be? I love showing what we do here to my town friends. It is fun to let them get their shoes a little smelly and see real cows.
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How many times have you received a Minnesota Livestock Investment Grant? This is the ďƒžrst time I will be receiving the grant. Why did you apply for the Minnesota Livestock Investment Grant? I thought it would be a good opportunity if I were chosen. Making investments is getting more and more expensive, so any ďƒžnancial help makes the projects a little easier. I was already going around and getting all the estimates and doing most of the work, anyways. All it took was a little extra paperwork and a little extra time. It was a no-brainer with nothing to lose but a little bit of time and so much to gain. How did the grant assist in completing an on-farm project? I haven’t completed the project yet, but expect to in the next week or so. I am building a heifer shed. The grant will also be going toward another feedline for dry cows and heifers that will be completed next spring. What percentage of the project was covered by the grant? 10 percent. If you were to receive a grant again, what would you use it for? I haven’t planned that far ahead. With my project, we’re ďƒžnally addressing our overcrowding issue that we’ve had in recent years, so I think we shouldn’t have to make any more changes soon. Why should other dairy farmers take advantage of the opportunity this grant can offer? You’re already going through the trouble of getting estimates and paperwork to make ends meet. Why not ďƒžll out a few extra pages for the opportunity to get ďƒžnancial help? You can get thousands of dollars for a little extra time and effort. Dairy farming can be stressful enough without borrowing money, so any dollar amount helps. Tell us about your farm. I farm with my parents, Tony and Terry. My brother, Ryan, and sister, Laura, work full time on the farm, as well, with my brother, Anthony, working part time. We milk 160 Holstein cows in a Surge Autoďƒ&#x;ow parlor with a sawdust bedded pack barn. We raise all of our heifers as replacements. Between owned and rented ground, we raise 200 acres of corn that is all chopped, and roughly 200 acres of alfalfa that is baled for baleage. Andy and Sara Henning Adrian, Minn. Nobles County 110 cows Recipient Year: 2010, 2015 How many times have you received a Minnesota Livestock Investment Grant? We’ve received a grant twice.
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Why did you apply for the Minnesota Livestock Investment Grant? We were encouraged to apply to help defray some of the cost for our updates and then a small expansion. Expansions and updates will help our kids to become a part of our dairy farm if that is the vocation they choose. How did the grant assist in completing an on-farm project? The grant assisted by defraying some of the costs that were a part of our projects. The grant helps make expansions more manageable for a small farmer. Our ďƒžrst grant allowed us to update to a freestall when we were on a bedded pack. Then, the second grant allowed us to add additional stalls onto the freestall barn. What percentage of the project was covered by the grant? 7 percent of our project was covered by the grant. If you were to receive a grant again, what would you use it for? A new calf barn. This would give us more room for expanding and keeping our own calves, and help with calf health by adding a more modern facility. Why should other dairy farmers take advantage of the opportunity this grant can offer? Dairy farmers should apply for the grant because it shows others that the dairy industry is alive and that we are working to maintain and improve our farms, which should result in better quality products. Tell us about your farm. We own and operate a second-generation farm. The farm was started by Andy’s dad, Vern. Vern has passed on, but we have a family that we hope will make our farm a third-generation farm. Andy and Sara, along with their three kids – Austin, 14, Jacob, 12, and Whitney, 8 – are all a part of the farm. We milk 110 cows and crop farm 600 acres.
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Chris Buck Goodhue, Minn. Goodhue County 900 cows How did you get into farming? I got into it because of my parents. I have been a part of it my whole life. For 10 years, I taught elementary school and did a lot of coaching – football, basketball, baseball and golf. I farmed on the side while I was teaching. Five years ago, I decided to farm full-time and joined my family’s dairy. What are your thoughts and concerns about the dairy industry for the next year? The price has been what everyone has been talking about. Having quantity and quality of work force is also a concern. It seems there are less people who want to work on the farm and do the dirty jobs. What is the latest technology you implemented on your farm and the purpose for it? We are trying an activity monitoring system. We walk and chalk our herd and have a good pregnancy rate, but there is one pen of rst calf heifers that we don’t do quite as well with. We are hoping this system will help with that. What is a management practice you changed in the past year that has beneted you? Last spring, we switched from three times a day milking to twice a day. We went down in production just a little, but went up in components so we found the prot was the same. It was hard to nd quality people and milking twice during the day caused less headaches. We just went back to three times a day again for the winter, mostly for cow health. How do you retain a good working relationship with your employee or employees? Good communication is important. We listen to employees’ needs and concerns. We are open to our employees talking to us whenever they need. Tell us about a skill you possess that makes dairy farming easier for you. I am not afraid of hard work. I do whatever it takes to get a job done. What do you enjoy most about dairy farming? I like being my own boss, being able to work outside and the fact that every day is different. I enjoy
the variety. Some days I could be in the eld and the next moving cattle. No day is the same. What advice would you give other dairy farmers? Be exible and save money when the price is good so you have some when the price is bad. And be ready to ride a rollercoaster. What has been the best purchase you’ve ever made on your farm? My brother runs a custom manure business. This year, he bought bigger hosing equipment for pumping manure, upgrading to an 8-inch stand alone pump. We do not have to use tanks anymore. It has made a big difference.
have. We have one or two barns that need to be replaced. How do you or your family like to spend time when you are not doing chores? My two sons like to be outside so our family is usually doing something outside. We also like to watch movies or watch or play sports.
Tell us about your farm. My family includes my wife, Christi, my daughter, Alyssa, 20, and sons, Jack, 7, and Joey, 5. I farm together with my parents, Ann and Dave, along with my brothers, Brian and DJ. We have two farm sites. We milk 500 cows on one and 400 cows on another. We raise all our heifers for replacements and bulls as steers.
What has been your biggest accomplishment while dairy farming? We have been able to build our herd so we have excess cows to sell along with springing heifers. We have sold them to numerous states. It has helped the cash ow during the down prices. The excess number of cows has been the product of our crossbreeding, which we have been doing for 15 years. We use four breeds: Montbeliarde, Swedish Red, Brown Swiss and Holstein. What are your plans for your dairy in the next year and ve years? We are going to improve the facilities we
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