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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