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Fire claims parlors Sextons deal with aftermath of blaze that burned their milking facility “The skidloader was plugged in and all the wiring is up there,” Scott said.

Scott, who lives on the MILLVILLE, Minn. – Since the morning of Feb. 3, farm, woke up between 1 and the Sextons have been met 1:30 a.m. on Feb. 3 and nowith the sight of an empty ticed the power was out.

“I looked out and could freestall barn and a charred see a glow. I could tell there milking facility. was a re. I called [Dwaine] A re, during the earand my wife called 911,” ly morning hours that day, Scott said. “When I got up burned the two parlors and [to the parlor] I couldn’t do milkhouse on the Sextons’ dairy near Millville, Minn. anything with our little re While brothers Dwaine and extinguisher. There were still Don Sexton own the farm, ames, but not big ones. Most they are transitioning in of the re was done already.”

Instead, Scott focused Dwaine’s son, Scott, who on getting his herd to a safer owns the cows.

The 40- by 40-foot area spot, moving them outside or that burned included a dou- to the far end of the barn. Alble-4 parlor, built in 1974, though about three-fourths of and a double-5 parlor, built the rafters of the freestall barn in 1990. Scott and Dwaine attached to the parlors have would milk the cows twice a re damage, none of the cows day together – each in their were hurt.

After the Elgin and Zumown parlor. bro Falls Fire Departments The cause of the re is arrived to put out the re, not yet determined, although it is thought to be electrical, more than 20 people showed up to help the Sextons. They Scott said.

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Sco� (le�) and Dwaine Sexton suffered a re on their dairy on Feb. 3 that destroyed the two parlors they used to milk their herd of 120 cows near Millville, Minn.

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The cows were moved to a neighboring dairy farm about two miles away.

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I called Brent Stelling and we went over to his farm and looked at pens. We came up with an idea of where we could put our cows. We moved about 60 of their heifers to another one of their farms so there was room

for our cows. They have 50 freestalls and we created a bedded pack for them,” Scott said.

Since the Stellings milk three times a day, the Sextons have had to t in milking their herd in between that time; however, the Sextons are just thankful to have a place to milk their cows.

“They’re wonderful neighbors,” Dwaine said about the Stellings.

The cleanup process has not started yet, but once it does, the Sextons are hoping to build again.

“But it will take a little time to gure out the funding from the banks, what kind of set up to do and insurance,” Scott said.

Dwaine tries to see the positive in the situation.

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A growing trend: alfalfa, grass mixes Samac presents benets, challenges of practice

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ROYALTON, Minn. – As producers plan for spring planting, Deborah Samac spoke of interseeding grass and alfalfa at the annual Tour de Forage meeting Feb. 1 in Royalton, Minn.

“There has been a growing interest in this practice,” said Samac, during her presentation, “Lessons Learned in Managing Alfalfa-Grass Mixtures.”

Samac works for the United States Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service (USDAARS) as part of the plant science research unit at the University of MinDeborah Samac nesota.

As a whole, USDA-ARS the practice of mixing alfalfa and grass in a pasture has several benets that outweigh a monoculture eld, particularly when preparing for winter survival.

“Grass captures the snow and heats below,” Samac said. “Grass is also a more persistent forage after a difcult winter.”

There are also economic incentives to note – fewer alfalfa seeds, less fertilizer and less water needed for growth of the stand.

“Mixtures are particularly impor-

tant in the Midwest as they aid in drying time, making for a wider harvest window with greater quality forage,” Samac said. “Grass can also help extend stand life one or two more years.”

However, before a producer has the opportunity to reap the benets of a mixed eld, choosing the right grass, prepping and properly managing the eld is vital.

Of the vast forage grasses to choose from to incorporate into an alfalfa stand, Samac encouraged producers to review the purpose of the stand and the advantages and disadvantages of each grass.

Orchardgrass, tall fescue, smooth bromegrass, timothy and perennial ryegrass were grass species Samac suggested for use during her seminar.

Meadow fescue is also gaining popularity.

Of these different species, some are able to support uniform qualities found in alfalfa.

“Choose cultivars that meet your needs,” Samac said. “How is the crop going to be used? Depending on the cutting schedule and quality needed, that’s a huge variation.”

The right grass species for a particular eld might boil down to soil health and fertility. Before prepping the eld for planting, observe the soil’s drainage ability, measure the pH and know how much potassium fertilizer should be added for effective fertility.

“Select a grass companion that takes into account the eld site, drainage, fertility and cultivars for winter survival,” Samac said.

Weed management should also be completed before establishing the

stand.

“Before beginning, have a soil test done, correct the lime and allow the pH to balance,” Samac said. “That’s all important to do before planting.”

Samac also stressed the importance of seedbed preparation – not allowing the soil to become too deep or airy.

“If the seedbed isn’t ready, you’re asking for trouble in the establishment,” Samac said.

After picking a cultivar and prepping the soil, producers may begin planting, careful not to exceed a seeding rate of 3:1, alfalfa to grass seed.

This may look like 60 to 75 seeds per square foot, or 12 to 15 pounds of alfalfa to 3 to 4 pounds of grass.

“You have to obtain an adequate mix of 30 percent grass, 70 percent alfalfa, and that’s hard to establish,” Samac said.

Establishment is difcult because alfalfa-grass mixtures present challenges with their different root systems and nutrition needs.

Grass roots are brous and shallow in the soil; alfalfa is tap-rooted deep in the soil.

“Grasses are sensitive to drought and absorb potassium, which can starve the alfalfa,” Samac said. “But, alfalfa will tap deep in the soil for water and xate nitrogen.”

Samac and her team are researching a new breed of alfalfa that would compliment grass species and their nutrient needs.

Once the eld is established, it has to be maintained – not allowing one forage to outgrow the other. This can be accomplished by managing the above ground points for optimum regrowth

after cutting.

Grass regrows from tiller buds, while alfalfa regrows from crown and stem buds. Because of this, alfalfa is typically cut higher to avoid the lowground buds but then there is risk that the grass regrowth buds are eliminated.

“It’s no different than a monoculture, where you could be cutting off regrowth buds,” Samac said.

For a safe cutting on both forages, Samac urged producers to cut 4 inches above the soil.

“Follow the 4-by-4 rule: Four cuts per year at 4 inches to maintain the mixture well into the fall,” Samac said.

With careful management and awareness of the potential troubles, producers will begin to see the benets of managing an alfalfa-grass mixture.

The eld can be used for grazing and also hay with its greater digestibility and quality.

“All in all, there are benets to a mixture – a signicant impact on hay production and less pesticide use.”

Some research has indicated a lesser need for pesticides with a grass-alfalfa mix in deterring weevils and leafhoppers.

With leafhoppers, they cannot feed on grass and quickly move on from the eld. Weevils were not as easily identied in the eld study and can cause signicantly less damage.

While there are challenges of managing an alfalfa-grass mixture, the benets are vast. To best avoid the setbacks and reap the benets of this practice, producers should be mindful of the eld selection and preparation, planting rate, cultivar choices and 4-by-4 cutting rule.

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Don’t feed dirt Research nds ash content can be lessened in DM

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ROYALTON, Minn. – Across the United States, nearly 36.5 million acres of forages were harvested last year, according to the United States Department of Agriculture-National Agricultural Statistics Service (USDA-NASS). That same survey estimated those acres produced 76.5 million tons.

“That’s two-thirds the size of Minnesota, which means it’s not all that much for feeding livestock,” Abby Neu said. “We need to increase and optimize harvest efciency with yields, equipment and you.”

Neu presented her research ndings during a presentation, “Hay Rake Impact on Ash,” at the 2017 Tour de Forage meeting Feb. 1 in Royalton, Minn.

The study took place in 2014, with the intent of determining which types of rakes might increase ash content.

Naturally, alfalfa contains about 8 percent ash of total dry matter (DM), which is dened as the total mineral content in forages. For grasses, natural ash content should be at 6 percent.

“Endogenous is the term that relates to natural ash,” Neu said. “That’s the good stuff found in the leaves.”

However, ash gathered from soil and silica is dened as exogenous, contaminating the forage.

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Travis and Steven (center) Kahl speak about their rotary rake during the Tour de Forage meeƟng on Feb. 1 in Royalton, Minn. The Kahls dairy near Pierz, Minn.

harvest process, Neu wondered if there was more that could be done.

“We know not to harvest lodged forages, we know we should cut higher for greater quality, even though that’s decreased yield,” Neu said.

“And we know at knives on disc mowers are more effective, and wide swaths work better on dense stubble.”

With three research areas in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, Neu recorded ash content of four types of rakes – wheel, sidebar, rotary and merger.

The Wisconsin and Pennsylvania studies were conducted on loamy soil, while Minnesota was near Otsego, Minn., in sandy soil.

In May, each rake took two swaths into one windrow of rst-cut alfalfa.

Neu evaluated the “Ultimately, we found that elds before cutting began, and then again wheel rakes cause more ash once the rakes had gone It was noted that and mergers have less ash.” through. the merger rake caused the most leaf loss and ABBY NEU shattering of the forage.

“Although, this equipment is heavily preferred On average, alfalfa contains 4 for dairies making hay or silage,” Neu percent exogenous ash of total DM, said.

Neu said.

During her presentation, Neu “This is important because ash presented results from Minnesota helps determine a forage’s nutrient and Wisconsin, being that Wisconsin value as part of Total Digestible Nu- and Pennsylvania were similar in soil trients (TDN),” Neu said. “Every 1 type. percent of ash is 1 percent less value Before cutting, the Minnesota in TDN. Ash replaces valuable nutri- stand had 11.2 percent ash of total ents and calories for production ani- DM, which rose to 12.8 percent after mals.” cutting. After the alfalfa was raked, In a study conducted by the Uni- ash content for each type of rake varversity of Wisconsin, 1,000 samples ied: merger, 11.1 percent; sidebar, of alfalfa were evaluated for ash over 13.6 percent; rotary, 13.5 percent; and the course of ve years. The minimum wheel, 15.3 percent. Then, after balash content was 5.7 percent, while the ing, those values decreased to 11.4 maximum was 18 percent. percent, 13.0 percent, 13.2 percent At 18 percent, ash made up 2.5 and 14.6 percent, respectively. pounds of soil in 25 pounds of forage.

“Statistically, the sidebar, rotary “For every 10 pounds of feed, and wheel rakes were all the same,” there’s one pound of dirt,” Neu said. Neu said. “Although, numerically, “As a livestock producer, I don’t want the sidebar and rotary rakes were the to be paying for dirt in my feed.” same.”

Seeing these values and underIn Wisconsin, the stand began at standing the steps producers are al- 9.4 percent ash of total DM and mainready taking to eliminate ash in the tained that value after rst cutting.

With each rake, the ash content varied: merger, 9.0 percent; sidebar, 9.7 percent; rotary, 9.1 percent; and wheel, 10.3 percent. Similar to Minnesota’s results, ash content decreased after baling: 9.2 percent, 9.3 percent, 9.0 percent and 9.5 percent, respectively.

Neu credited the lesser values in Wisconsin to the soil type.

Crude protein and relative forage quality were also recorded.

In both Minnesota and Wiscon-

sin, the crude protein varied less than 1 percent between rake types.

“Take those values with a grain of salt,” Neu said.

However, in respect to quality, that value varied between location and rakes. In Minnesota, quality was recorded as 131 on a DM basis in the stand. Post raking, that value grew to 165 for merger, 151 for sidebar, 155 for rotary and 160 for wheel rakes.

It increased, again, post baling: 168, 170, 167 and 167, respectively.

Similar results were noted in Wisconsin. The stand began at 125, but after raking the merger demonstrated 133, sidebar 136, rotary 143 and wheel 125. After baling, those values varied: 128, 127, 135 and 130, respectively.

“Ultimately, we found that wheel rakes cause more ash and mergers have less ash,” Neu said. “Both of these effect crude protein and relative forage quality values.”

Steven and Travis Kahl, dairy producers in Pierz, Minn., briey spoke to attendees on their experience with a rotary rake after Neu presented her ndings.

“Try and get volume, whichever rake you use, but don’t lessen quality to save on protein,” Steven Kahl said.

Neu agreed, reiterating the importance of eld and equipment management to maximize quality and diminish exogenous ash.

“Measure how many quality acres you can get in an hour. How fast and close to the ground are you?” Neu said. “All these rakes work, but what ts your operation?”

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‘15 Gehl R220, dual T-bar ctrls, D, 2500 lift cap., C&H, 2 spd, 1475 hrs .............$29,700 ‘14 Gehl R220, T-bar, H ctrls, D, 2200 lift cap., C&H, 2 spd., 1230 hrs. ...................$30,400 ‘15 Gehl RT250, JS ctrls, D, 2500 lift cap., C/H/A, 2 spd., full warranty 2 yrs or 2000 hrs., 75 hrs ........................$54,500 ‘15 Gehl RT210, dual H ctrls, D, 17” tracks, 3000 lift cap., C/H/A, 2 spd., heater, hyd. float-self leveling, 1200 hrs.............$41,500 ‘13 Gehl RT175, ISO/ dual hand, D, 2500 lift cap., C&H, 2 spd., 475 hrs ..............$34,500 ‘15 Gehl R190, dual T-bar self leveling ctrls., D, 2100 lift cap., C&H, 2 spd., sound reduction pkg., 2300 hrs. .....$24,900 ‘14 Gehl R190, dual T-bar ctrls, D, 1900 lift cap., C&H, 2 spd., 1865 hrs. ...........$26,900 ‘13 Gehl R190, T-bar ctrls, D, C&H, 2 spd., 2110 lift cap, 700 hrs. .........$30,900 ‘14 Gehl R190, hand ctrls, D, 2100 lift cap, C&H, radio, 2 spd, 2159 hrs ....$26,250 ‘14 Gehl R190, pilot ctrls, D, C&H, 2 spd, 2103 hrs...............................$28,500 ‘14 Gehl R190, H ctrls, D, C/H/A, 2 spd, 3020 hrs...............................$23,950 ‘13 Gehl R190, t-bar, D, 2150 lift cap., SS, block heater, 2100 hrs ..............$24,950 ‘13 Gehl R190, JS, D, 2150 lift cap., 2 spd., C&H, 1300 hrs ....................$33,900 ‘11 Gehl V270, JS ctrls, D, C/H/A, 2 spd., 2700 lift cap., 1094 hrs. ......$29,900 ‘07 Gehl 7810, pilot ctrls., D, 3800 lift cap., C/H/A, 490 hrs., 2 spd.....................$34,900 ‘04 Gehl 7810, t-bar ctrls, D, C&H, 2 spd., 3800 lift cap., 3597 hrs ...................$21,900 ‘11 Gehl 5640E, T-bar H-ctrls, D, 2200 lift cap., SS, 2600 hrs ............$20,500 ‘06 Gehl 5640, dual lever/F ctrls, D, 2500 lift cap., C&H, 2 spd., 3798 hrs. .....$16,500 ‘04 Gehl 5640, T-bar ctrls, D, 2200 lift cap., SS, 3905 hrs ...................................$16,500 ‘11 Gehl 5640, T-bar ctrls, D, 2200 lift cap., C&H, 2 spd., 1370 hrs ....................$27,300 Gehl 5625SX, H ctrls, D, 1700 lift cap., C&H, 3832 hrs ................................$12,500 ‘12 Gehl 5240 P2, T-bar ctrls, D, 1900 lift cap, C&H, 2 spd., 850 hrs. ..............$27,500 ‘12 Gehl 5240 P2, T-bar ctrls, SS, 1900 lift cap., wt. kit, 2526 hrs ................$20,900 ‘10 Gehl 5240E, H ctrls, D, 1900 lift cap., 2650 hrs., C&H, 2 spd. ...................$18,900 ‘13 Gehl 5240E P2, T-bar ctrls., D, 2100 lift cap., counter wts., SS, 2050 hrs .....$25,900 ‘99 Gehl 4835SXT, H crtls., D, C&H,

USED SKIDSTEERS 1700 lift cap., 2900 hrs ...................... $12,300 ‘14 Gehl 4640E, D, 1650 lift cap., C&H, SS, 4190 hrs..........................$19,800 ‘13 Gehl 4640E, P2, T-bar ctrls, 1750 lift cap, SS, 2700 hrs ...........................$21,900 ‘14 Gehl 4240E, T-bar ctrls, D, 1350 lift cap., C&H, SS, 1989 hrs ...$18,900 ‘87 Gehl 3310, T-bar ctrls, 750 lift cap., manure & dirt bkt., 2980 hrs.............$5,700 ‘95 Gehl 3410, H ctrls, D, 900 lift cap., 2680 hrs ...........................................$7,800 ‘14 Mustang 2600R, H&F ctrls., D, C&H, 2 spd., 2600 lift cap., 850 hrs ..............$35,500 ‘13 Mustang 2200R, H crls, C&H, 2 spd.

D, 2200 lift cap., 250 hrs. ....................$32,500 ‘13 Mustang 2100RT, switchable ctrls, D, 17” tracks, C/H, 2 spd, 1897 hrs ...........Call ‘06 Mustang 2076, H/F ctrls, D, 2200 lift cap., C&H, SS, 2100 hrs ...$22,900 ‘08 Mustang 2076, D, 2400 lift cap., C/H/A, SS, 912 hrs., dual JS ctrls ..............$29,900 ‘98 Mustang 2070, T-bar/Ft. ctrls, D, 2100 lift cap., C&H, SS, 3060 hrs ...$15,900 ‘09 Mustang 2066, H/F ctrls, D, 2000 lift cap., C&H, 2 spd., 970 hrs ..............$25,900 ‘06 Mustang 2066, ISO pilot ctrls/H ctrls, D, 2000 lift cap., C&H, 2 spd., 1864 hrs ...$18,500 ‘09 Mustang 2066, H/F ctrls, D, 2000 lift cap, C&H, 2 spd., 970 hrs ...............$25,900 ‘11 Mustang 2056, dual L&F ctrls, D, 2100 lift cap, C&H, 2 spd., 988 hrs ..........$24,900 ‘14 Mustang 2054, H/F ctrls, D, 1650 lift cap., C&H, 3450 hrs..........$17,900 ‘08 Mustang 2054, D, SS, H, 1750 lift cap, 6200 hrs. ...................$10,300 ‘99 Mustang 2050, T-bar ctrls, 1650 lift cap., D, 4623 hrs., C&H, SS................$11,900 ‘11 Mustang 2044, t-bar ctrls, D, 1550 lift cap., C/H, 1515 hrs ....................$18,700 ‘07 Mustang 2044, H/F ctrls, D, 1450 lift cap, 357 hrs ......................$17,900 Mustang 2042, ‘00, H/F ctrls, 10x16.5 tires ...................................$13,300 ‘08 Mustang 2041, Gehl ctrls, D, 1350 lift cap, C&H, 2550 hrs.........................$15,750 ‘13 Mustang 2041, H/F ctrls, 1350 lift cap, D, C&H, 4413 hrs............................$16,500 ‘13 Mustang 2041, H/F ctrls, 1350 lift cap, D, 4025 hrs .....................................$13,900 ‘15 Mustang 1900R, H&F ctrls, D, 2100 lift cap, C&H, 2 spd., 54 hrs .................$34,900 ‘15 Mustang 1350R, H/F ctrls, D, C&H, 1450 lift cap., C&H, 1070 hrs..........$27,900 ‘11 JD 326D, H/F ctrls, D, 2550 lift cap,

USED SKIDSTEERS C/H, SS, 5800 hrs ...........................$21,500 ‘13 JD 326D, ISO/hand, D, 2600 lift cap., C/H/A, 2 spd., 162 hrs.....................$35,800 ‘14 JD 320E, H/F ctrls, D, 2190 lift cap, C/H/A, 2 spd., 1420 hrs...................$25,900 ‘13 JD 318E, L/F ctrls, D, 2100 lift cap., C/H/A, 2 spd., 2615 hrs...................$25,500 ‘80 Bobcat 743, H/F ctrls, D, 1300 lift cap, 7221 hrs ...........................................$5,995 Case 1835B, G, bucket, pallet fork, bale spear, 2407 hrs..........................$7,900 ‘07 Case 435, H-ctrls., D, 2300 lift cap., C/H, SS, 2750 hrs ...........................$18,850 ‘85 NH L785, H/FT ctrls., D, 2050 lift cap., C, SS, 6935 hrs. ................................$8,900 ‘12 Caterpillar 216B, JS ctrls, 1400 lift cap.,

TRACTORS

‘72 International 666, 2 whl., 69 hp G, 7823 hrs ...........................................$7,900 ‘58 International 460, 540 pto, 60 hp gas engine, quick hitch, full hyd. ldr., 3,468 hrs ......................$4,495 ‘45 International H, 26 hp, 540 pto....$1,995 ‘68 JD 4020, synchro, 100 hp, D, 2WD, 1000/540 pto, 8900 hrs ..................$17,500

TELEHANDLERS

‘05 Gehl RS6-42, JD dsl., 6600 lift cap., 4WD, 2884 hrs................................$35,000 ‘04 Gehl RS5, 99 HP, D, 6000 lift cap., 2700 hrs. ........................................$28,500 ‘04 Gehl DL8L44, JS ctrls, D, 8000 lift cap., 2 spd., 5787 hrs.....................................Call ‘01 Gehl DL6H40, JS ctrls., D, 8000 lift cap., C&H, 4448 hrs..........$24,900 ‘14 Manitou MLT625, JS ctrls, 75 hp D, 4WD, 5500 lift cap, 19’3” reach, C/H/A, 2 spd., 1800 hrs................................. $59,500 ‘14 Mustang 350Z, ISO/Option ctrls, D, tracks 11.8”x5’10”, operating weight 8200 lbs., dig depth 10’8”, C&H, 2 spd., 485 hrs ..$36,500 ‘04 Mustang 742, 115 HP, JD engine, 1559 hrs ...............................................$33,500

USED TMRS/MIXERS

‘13 Penta 8020HD, 1-3/4, 1000 pto $45,500 ‘10 Penta 3020 SD, 540 pto, 320 cu. ft., 4’ RH front/side conveyor, 9” rubber ext., scale ....................... $19,900 ‘04 Penta 5600, 600 cu. ft., EZ 2000V scale, corner door .......................... $16,000

USED TMRS/MIXERS

‘07 Penta 6720HD, 725 cu. ft., 8” rubber ext., front right corner door, Digi-Star scale, Tornado augers .................... $26,500 ‘05 Penta 4110, 400 cu. ft. .............. $14,500 ‘08 Penta 5620HD, 600 cu. ft., 8” rubber ext., right corner door .................... $23,500 ‘08 NDE 2802, EXV 2500 scale, step down floor, rear discharge & front conveyor discharge ........................ $15,000 Knight 3300, 540 PTO, 900X20 tires, new relined ...................................... $7,950 Knight Mfg. 2250, 200 cu. ft. ............ $6,500 ‘11 Kuhn Knight VTC 1100, LH slide tray, rear commodity door, 2 remote scales, mounted to 2012 Peterbuilt 367 w/40,619 miles, 66,000 GVW, 10 spd., transmission, front mount hyd. drive, 1100 cu. ft.................................... $134,000 ‘99 Supreme 500, LH dog leg conv . $13,000 ‘07 Patz V500, 1-3/8 1000 pto, 500 cu ft., left side flat front discharge ............. $9,500

MANURE HANDLING

‘13 Kuhn Knight 8150, 1-3/8, 1000 pto, 668 cu. ft., 5000 gal ................................ $47,500 ‘03 Kuhn Knight 8140, 800 bu./4000 gal. ............................ $15,000 ‘12 Kuhn Knight 8141, 4100 gal, hyd. lid . $42,900 ‘03 Kuhn Knight 8140, 4000 gal., 700 bu., hyd. lid, hinged on left ...... $25,000 Knight Mfg. 8040, 4000 gal./700 bu., hyd. lid, hinged on left, priced as is ..... $15,000 ‘99 Knight Mfg. 8024, 500 bu............. $12,900 Kuhn-Knight 8132, 3200 gal ............... $8,000 ‘05 Kuhn Knight 8118, 1800 gal., 400 bu., auger flighting good cond. ................$14,900 Kuhn Knight 8118, 1800 gal. .............$12,000 Kuhn Knight 8118, 1800 gal., 400 bu. .. $10,900 NH 185, 287 bu. ...................................$4,200 H&S 430, 430 bu. ............................... $8,400 ‘09 H&S 175, 175 bu., single beater ..................................... $5,100 H&S HP550VB, ’14, 1 3/8 1000 PTO, vertical beater ................................. $26,500 Houle 7300 ....................................... $39,500

HAY & FORAGE

Gehl 980, 16’ w/12 ton tandem gear, H&S 6-12 running gear .................... $6,950 Gehl 980 bu., 16’ box, 12 ton tandem, vari-speed drive ................................ $5,500 Gehl 970, 16’ box, tandem running gear.................................................. $4,300

HAY & FORAGE

NH HT154, 12 whl. rake..................... $9,800 NH 144 std. conveyor, no ext., ground driven .................................. $3,900 ‘10 Teagle 8080WB, processes 5’x6’ bales, self loading .......................... $19,500 CIH 600, 60” blower .......................... $5,300 CIH 600, 60” blower .......................... $4,400 International 56 blower, 56” ............. $1,200 Badger BN2054, 54” forage blower ...... $895 ‘84 Badger 950, 16’, tandem, 12T MN running gear ........................ $4,150 ‘09 JD 468SS, 4’x6’ bales, net wrap and twine, Mega Wide plus P.U., silage special, 14,000 bales ..................... $22,500 JD 640 PT rake, 9’, 5-bar, rubber teeth ..................................... $1,800 ‘12 Kuhn GA300GM, 7’3” raking width, 10’6” with windrow, 3 pt. rotary rake ...... $5,300 ‘15 Kuhn GF222T, 2 rotor, pull-type, 8’6” working width ........................... $3,150 ‘15 Sitrex RP5, 440 lbs., 138” width, 5-55” wheels ............................................ $1,595 ‘15 Kuhn GMD600GIIHD, 7’10” ......... $8,600 H&S Super 7+4, 16’ box .................... $6,300 ‘11 H&S BF1460, 14 whl ...................... $13,000 ‘98 H&S XL59, 16’ box, 12T tandem gear ...................................$6,400 ‘90 Meyer 500TSS, 16’ box, 12 ton tandem, bunk ext., pintle chain .............................. $6,250 ‘89 Meyer 600, 18’ box, MN 13 ton gear, 20” unload ext.......................................... $3,750 ‘07 Meyer 4518, 18’ box, 16T Meyers X1604 running gear, variable spd., cross conv. ext. ...................................... $14,750 Gehl 800 chopper w/hay head ........... $2,995 Anderson TRB2000, ’12, 20 bale cap., elec/ hyd ctrls, self-loading & unloading . $29,950 Buhler BM2400, ’13, Transports 12-4’ or 8-6’ wide Bales............................... $21,000 Flat Rack/Hay Rack, 7-2/2’x11-1/2’, 6 bolt rims .......................................... $695 Tonutti RCS8 8 whl. rake ................... $2,400

MISCELLANEOUS

Bobcat concrete hammer. ................$4,200 Berlon BSC, lifts full rd. bales ..............$450 ‘14 Everst 5700 84”, 3 blades, 7 gu. deck, 1-1/2” to 4-1/2” cutting height ........$1,985 Agrimetal 525, 25 bu., Honda 160CC motor .......................$2,500 ‘08 Bush Hog RDTH84, 540 pto, 84” finish mower, 3 pt. hitch, 4 carry wheels ..$2,150 Badger running gear, 10 ton cap......$1,000

Dairy Star • Second Section • Saturday, February 11, 2017 • Page 7

Consistency, dedication improve herd

Knisley maintains 66,000 SCC

By Jennifer Coyne jenn@dairystar.com

LAKE HENRY, Minn. – Ryan Knisley knows his cows – from the young heifers freshening to the 3-year-olds pushing 95 pounds of milk.

“I went four and a half years without missing a milking,” Knisley said.

“Last summer, I got married and let someone else take the evening shift. I did check the cows before the reception, though.”

That dedication led Knisley to being one of the best herds in the state for milk quality, according to the Minnesota Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA).

Knisley is in his sixth year of dairying – milking 56 cows near Lake Henry, Minn., with his wife, Melissa, and son, Riley, 5.

In 2016, the dairyman’s average somatic cell count (SCC) was 66,000 – the eighth best in Minnesota. In the past 12 months, the lowest value Knisley reached was 38,000.

“My goal is to have a good, healthy herd,” Knisley said. “Quality milk is one of many things that play a role in getting there.”

Knisley rst began milking cows at his current farm site in 2008 while working for a dairyman. Three years later, Knisley purchased the herd and started renting the property.

It was at that time that Knisley adopted management practices which aid in milk quality; and with each year, Knisley’s herd improves.

“I do all the milkings, which I think lets me know my cows better.

I keep good equipment and milk at the same time, morning and evening,” Knisley said.

The days begin at 3:50 a.m. for Knisley. After morning milking, he tends to the herd – feeding, bedding

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Ryan Knisley milks 56 cows near Lake Henry, Minn. In 2016, Knisley’s herd maintained an average somaƟc cell count of 66,000, the eighth best in Minnesota, according to the Minnesota Dairy Herd Improvement AssociaƟon.

and managing herd health – until evening chores.

“It’s a lot of dedication – I’m here a lot,” Knisley said.

Cattle are housed in a 54-stall tiestall barn, bedded with chopped straw and dressed with lime to absorb any moisture. During milking, Knisley wipes each teat with a warm towel and inspects the milk for abnormalities.

“I can tell when something isn’t right, and I’ll keep an eye on her,” Knisley said. “I don’t throw milk away, but look at my DHIA records to know if I should treat someone or not.”

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high, Knisley would rather ship the cow than keep her in the herd.

“I just can’t keep her down the road if I have to tinker with her all the time,” Knisley said. “I just don’t have the patience.”

As the dairyman milks, he also adds more bedding and lime if the stalls are moistened. Once a cow is milked out, the teats are thoroughly covered in a post-dip solution.

Additionally, the milking inations are replaced every 60 days to ensure the milking equipment is properly functioning.

“Plain and simple, I’ve been fussy,” said Knisley about his management practices. “I might milk slower, but I’m paying closer atten-

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tion and being more consistent.”

Following those practices, Knisely maintained a low SCC for six consecutive years – evident by the annual milk quality awards he has received through his co-operative. But Knisley was unaware of how his herd compared to other DHIA herds in the state.

“I knew I was low, but I didn’t know I was that low,” Knisley said.

In addition to management practices, including proper dry-off vaccinations, Knisley also breeds for a healthy herd.

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tion, components, and feet and legs.

“I have a good young herd,” Knisley said. “They milk well and breed well. As long as they continue to do that, they’ll stay in my herd.”

Despite strong genetics and meticulous herd management, sometimes the environment creates trials on the farm.

“I’ve been consistently low, but still stick my head

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For the past six years, Knisley has received an award for his milk quality.

to the wall when things aren’t working right,” Knisley said.

“When everything is working ne, I really like milking cows. But when things go wrong, it seems like 100 things go wrong. I get upset when cows are up and my SCC rises.”

Summer days are particularly difcult for Knisley to manage a low SCC with the excessive humidity and moisture in the stalls from cows making a mess of

their waterers.

To combat the challenges of those months, Knisley frequently scrapes the stalls and adds more bedding and lime.

Barn fans are also running more often to prevent moisture from accumulating.

“I think the most important thing any farmer can do is keep dry bedding underneath the cows. Provide plenty of bedding, and the lime helps to keep things dry and kill bacteria,” Knisley said.

Reecting on the past year, Knisley knows dairy farming is a stressful job, but one he takes pride in. In the years ahead, Knisley hopes to continue improving his herd by further developing his management practices.

“I’m happy,” Knisley said. “The cows are doing well, milking well and the SCC is doing alright. I’ll just keep things rolling and go with the ow.”

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Knisley beds his cows with chopped straw and lime to absorb moisture and keep the cows healthy.

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By Lee Mielke

Higher all-milk price nudges milk to feed price ratio higher

Federal order (FO) and California benchmark milk prices start 2017 in the wrong direction. The Agriculture Department announced the January FO Class III price at $16.77 per hundredweight (cwt.), down 63 cents from December but $3.05 above January 2016 and 78 cents above California’s comparable 4b price. It equates to $1.44 per gallon, down from $1.50 in December and compares to $1.18 a year ago.

Class III futures late Friday morning portended a February price of $16.83 per cwt.; March, $17.16; and April at $17.29, with a peak of $17.88 in August.

The January Class IV price is $16.19, up $1.22 from December and $2.88 above a year ago.

California’s Class 4b cheese milk price is $15.99 per cwt., down 60 cents from December but $2.91 above a year ago. It’s the lowest 4b since October 2016 but the highest January 4b since 2014. The 4a butter-powder milk price is $15.67 per cwt., up 88 cents from December, $2.41 above a year ago, and the highest 4a price since November 2015.

Preliminary USDA data put December 50-State milk production at 17.9 billion pounds, up 2.2 percent from December 2015. USDA’s latest Dairy Products report shows where that milk went.

December cheese output totaled 1.05 billion pounds, up 3 percent from November and only 1.3 percent above December 2015. That brought year to date (YTD) production, to 12.1 billion pounds, up 2 percent from a year ago.

California produced 216.8 million pounds of that cheese, up 3.5 percent from November but unchanged from a year ago. Wisconsin, at 271.3 million pounds, was up 1.8 percent from November and 0.7 percent below a year ago. Idaho was down 1.8 percent from a year ago while Minnesota was down 3.4 percent.

Italian cheese output was at 460.6 million pounds, up 5.5 percent from November but 1.1 percent below a year ago, with YTD at 5.3 billion pounds, up 3.5 percent. Mozzarella, at 360.3 million pounds, was down 1.2 percent from a year ago and YTD was at 4.1 billion pounds, up 2.8 percent.

Total American type cheese output hit 415.7 million pounds, up 5.1 percent from November, 3.9 percent above a year ago, with YTD output at 4.7 billion pounds, up 0.7 percent.

Cheddar output hit 303.1 million pounds, up 3.5 percent from a year ago; with YTD at 3.4 billion pounds, down 0.2 percent.

Churns produced 163.8 million pounds of butter, up 13.3 percent from November but 7 percent below a year ago. YTD output hit 1.9 billion pounds, up 2.2 percent.

California butter totaled 50.4 million pounds, up 19 percent from November but 2 percent below a year ago. New York was up 77.7 percent from November and 5.9 percent above a year ago. Pennsylvania was up 3 percent from a year ago.

Yogurt output amounted to 376.7 million pounds, up 2.5 percent from a year ago, with YTD hitting 4.7 billion pounds, down 1.2 percent.

Nonfat dry milk production totaled 156 million pounds, up 21.8 percent from November, up 3.2 percent below a year ago, with YTD output at 1.8 billion pounds, down 4 percent. The report also showed nonfat dry milk stocks at 228.4 million pounds, up 6 percent from November and 11.8 percent above a year ago. Skim milk powder totaled 51.6 million pounds, up 18.7 percent from a year ago, with YTD output at 558.3 million pounds, up 25.1 percent from 2015.

Dry whey output, at 79.6 million pounds, was down 13.3 percent from a year ago, with YTD hitting 957.3 million pounds, down 1.8 percent.

A higher All-Milk price again nudged the latest milk feed price ratio higher. The December ratio was 2.70, up from 2.56 in November and up from 2.29 in December 2015, according to the USDA’s Ag Prices report.

The index is based on the current milk price in relationship to feed prices for a ration of 51 percent corn, 8 percent soybeans and 41 percent alfalfa hay.

One pound of milk today purchases 2.7 pounds of dairy feed containing that blend.

The December U.S. average All-Milk price was $18.80 per cwt., up $1.20 from November and $1.50 above December 2015. California’s All Milk average of $17.54, was up 68 cents from November, $1.72 All things plumbing…All things hot water above a year ago, but is $2.16 below Wisconsin’s.

The Wisconsin average, at $19.70, was up $1.00 from November and $1.50 above a year ago. New Mexico received the lowest price, at $16.10, up 50 cents from November and just a dime above a year ago.

December corn averaged $3.33 per bushel, up a dime from November but 32 cents per bushel below Grozio Blevins Master Plumber Boiler Engineer December 2015. Soybeans averaged $9.64 per bushPM062576 2C06257 el, up 18 cents from November, and 88 cents above December 2015. Alfalfa hay averaged $129 per ton, 229 4th Ave SE down $1 from November and $20 a ton below a year 320.424.0834 Glenwood, MN 56334 ago boilerhq@gmail.com

The December cull price for beef and dairy combined averaged $61.10 per cwt., down 80 cents from November, after dropping $3.50 in November, and is $13.70 per cwt. below December 2015, and $10.50 below the 2011 base average.

Quarterly prices received for milk cows averaged $1,620.00 per head during the three months ending in January, down $70 per head from October 2016 and $210 below October 2015.

Cash cheese traders gave us a little whiplash to start February. Cheddar block jumped a dime on Thursday, climbing to $1.85 per pound, only to give back 11 cents Friday, and close at $1.74, still 5 cents higher on the week and 27 cents above a year ago. The barrels closed at $1.7075, up 26 cents on the week, 24 1/4-cents above a year ago, and reestablished a more normal 3 1/4-cents below the blocks. Three cars of block were sold on the week and 23 of barrel.

After weeks of varying spot milk availability, reports from Midwestern cheese producers pointed to readily available milk for the week, says Dairy Market News (DMN), but there was a decrease in the amount of milk being offered. Cheese demand is varied and the market undertone is uncertain as some contacts are taking a wait-and-see approach with regards to international trade.

Western cheese makers report good milk supplies and building cheese inventories. Contacts suggest domestic retail and food service demand is good but the market has “hit a lull between winter and spring holidays.”

Spot butter closed the rst Friday of February at $2.1575 per pound, down 6 1/4-cents on the week, 1 1/4-cents below a year ago, and the lowest spot price since December 15, 2016. Nine cars were sold on the week at the CME. DMN says cream is still abundant in the Central region. January was fairly quiet, says DMN, but butter demand is steadily increasing as springtime holiday orders are starting to come in.

Western butter output is steady. Churning is mostly focused on making bulk butter, but with an eye toward print butter for the spring holiday season. Some would like to ease back their butter manufacturing but it is proving difcult due to the ample supplies of cream that need to clear. Butter inventories are also rising.

Spot Grade A nonfat dry milk closed three-quarter cents lower on the week, at 94 cents per pound, 23 cents above a year ago, with three cars sold on the week.

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ConƟnued from MIELKE | Page 10 his promised wall along the Mexican border.

One of the trade agreements in his cross hairs is the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

The Daily Dairy Report’s Sarina Sharp wrote about it in the January 27 Milk Producers Council newsletter.

“NAFTA eliminated tariffs on dairy products moving between the U.S. and Mexico but renegotiating the massive trade pact will not improve the U.S. dairy industry’s trade prospects,” she warned, “And could do considerable damage.”

Mexico is one of the U.S. biggest customers for powder and FC Stone’s Brendan Curran wrote in his February 2 Early Morning Update that “There’s still a lot of powder out there both domestically and in EU intervention storage, and with the recent, inammatory rhetoric between Washington and the Mexican government it only adds uncertainty-something markets don’t like.”

In other trade news, a joint press release from the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF), U.S. Dairy Expo Council, and the International Dairy Foods Association reported that “The U.S. dairy industry this week continued to push back against Canada’s protectionist policies that are effectively blocking American dairy imports into the country in violation of international agreements.”

“A group of 17 dairy companies representing dairy farmers and processors from coast to coast asked governors in 25 states to urge Canadian policymakers to uphold existing trade commitments with the United States and halt the imminent implementation of a national strategy that would unfairly subsidize Canadian dairy products in its domestic and global markets.” “[U.S.-Canada] trade cannot be a one-way street with Canada expecting to enjoy the benets of exporting its products of interest to our market while denying a sector accounting for hundreds of thousands of jobs in rural America reliable access to the Canadian market,” the group said in its letter to the governors. “[An existing provincial] program has already cost U.S. companies tens of millions of dollars in exports, thereby harming the dairy farmers, dairy plant employees and rural communities that depend on the benets those foreign sales bring.”

“Beginning Feb. 1, Canada is poised to expand the product scope of that provincial program,” the press release states, “while instituting it nationally.

It also intends to disrupt skim milk powder markets around the world by using the new program to dump excess milk powder on global markets.”

“The 17 dairy companies sent the letter to governors in states with signicant numbers of dairy farms and dairy processing companies because of the damage Canada’s policies have had already or are poised to have on these farms and companies, as well as their employees and many communities. The letter urged state ofcials to consider all tools at their disposal to ensure Canada understands the seriousness of this issue.

The NMPF this week also endorsed new legislation introduced in the House of Representatives that would prompt the enforcement of dairy labeling terms, which are used to market imitation products containing no real dairy ingredients.

The bill would compel the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to take action against misbranded, plant-based beverages that are inappropriately using dairy terms, especially ‘milk.’”

The measure requires the FDA to issue guidance for nationwide enforcement of these denitions within 90 days and would require the FDA to report to Congress two years after the bill’s enactment to hold the agency to its obligations.” It mirrors the Dairy Pride Act introduced two weeks ago in the Senate.

“Real milk has been recognized for decades for its important nutritional benets,” said NMPF President and CEO Jim Mulhern. “These imposter products almost always use dairy imagery, similar packaging and names but they never match the nutritional benets found in milk. This House legislation sends

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Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) accepted 13 requests for export assistance this week from members to sell 989,876 pounds of cheese and 1.102 million pounds of butter to customers in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. The product has been contracted for delivery through April.

Impressive optimism despite the challenges facing dairy processors and producers described the tenor of the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) Dairy Forum held January 28-February 1 in Orlando, Florida, according to DairyBusiness Communication’s Joel Hastings.

“Notable were a number of offshore ofcials who believe the U.S. industry is well suited to become a truly global force in dairy, with productive and efcient dairy producers combined with an innovative and aggressive roster of processors providing a wide

range of high quality dairy products for growing global markets,” Hastings reported.

Speaking to the 1000-plus attendees, former USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, the newly named president and CEO of the U.S. Dairy Export Council, said, “I’m incredibly optimistic.” Vilsack said that the industry must “collaborate, cooperate and communicate” to take advantages of international opportunities. With an eye on today’s headlines and knowing that Mexico is the largest single customer for U.S. dairy exports, he cautioned, “We need to reassure those we work with in Mexico” (that U.S. industry will continue to be a good trading partner).

Among the several discussion panels of particular interest to producers and as well as their processor customers were sessions on what needs to be improved with the Margin Protection Program, dairy workforce trends including immigration reform and a consideration of dairy in the next Farm Bill, Hastings reported.

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That’s how Kris Houdek, Wake-Up Holsteins, Caledonia, MN, describes adding Vita Charge Dispersible Powder to the milk replacer in their robot feeder. On the advice of her veterinarian, Dr. Mike McCormick, LaCrescent Animal Care, Kris started adding the prebiotic supplement to the medicator on their feeder three years ago.

Houdeks have a 27,000# average and diversify their 400 cow registered Holstein herd by adding value to the herd with genomics. They are under contract with bull studs, which help plan their matings and then the studs select sire prospects through genomics on bull calves as young as three weeks.

Wake-Up Holsteins has exported embryos to Japan and Germany and sells females in regional sales. “I’m under lots of pressure to save these calves,” says Kris. “Every heifer carries an embryo from one of our flush cows, so they are worth $3,000 to $5,000.”

Kris didn’t have such good luck with the robot feeder initially.

“At first we put the calves on it right away but they were getting sick and I was losing calves. We changed our vaccination program, and kept each calf in an individual pen the first week to ten days. We also started the calves on Vita Charge.

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Market Reports Daily Dairy Report Summary

Feb. 8, Grain Markets Sanborn, MN Sanborn Farmer’s Elevator

3.54

10.12

Almena, WI United Ag Co-op

3.03

9.49

Atwater, MN Atwater Elevator

3.10

9.53

Elrosa, MN Elrosa Grain & Feed

3.10

9.54

Westby, WI Premier Co-op

3.21

9.94

Loyal, WI Northside Elevator

3.06

9.59

Pipestone, MN Cargill

3.15

9.53

Muscoda, WI Riverdale Ag Service

3.32

9.98

GarÀeld Pro-Ag Farmer’s Co-op

3.01

9.49

Monona, IA Innovative Ag

3.28

9.83

Watertown, SD Watertown Co-op Elevator

3.08

9.46

Cottage Grove, WI Landmark Services Co-op

3.26

9.84

Dennison, MN Central Farm Service

3.18

9.68

Durand, WI Countryside Co-op

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8- U.S. Dairy Imports Strengthened in December

The U.S. imported a record-breaking 63.5 million pounds of butter in 2016, 21.6% more than in 2015 after adjusting for Leap Year. U.S. butter imports dwarfed exports, which totaled just 34.5 million pounds last year. 2016 butter exports were 7.5% smaller than the year before and down 73.5% from 2014. In December, U.S. butter imports reached 7.08 million pounds, a nine-month high that was nearly twice as large as prior-year imports. U.S. butter prices slipped below that of European

Feb. 7 - Uptick for International Markets and U.S. Exports

The U.S. Census Bureau released December 2016 trade data... Generally, December dairy exports were positive, and

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when combined with other data, they were also somewhat supportive to markets.

December cheese and curd exports at 63.1 million pounds represented the highest monthly volume since May 2015.. Butter exports totaled 5.25 million pounds in December, up 23.8% from the December 2015. Canada was the top destination for U.S. butter, accounting for 70% of the sales volume. Mexico was a distant second at 13%. At Àrst glance, NDM exports appear dismal, but 2016 volumes were the highest for any December in the past decade.

Whey Protein Isolates (WPI) production continues to expand at the expense of dry whey and whey protein concentrates (WPC). Lower annual production of dry whey, WPC 25-49.9%, and WPC 50-89.9% has contributed to lower yearending stock levels. Decreased production and lower stocks have buoyed dry whey and WPC 25–49.9% prices. In early February, the mostly Dairy Market News dry whey and WPC 25–49.9% prices climbed 25¢ and 40¢, respectively, above last year. Every penny increase in the dry whey price raises the Class III milk price by 6¢. In other words, the February 2017 Class III milk price is expected to be a $1.50 higher than last year, due just to the higher dry whey market. CME spot block and barrel cheese prices moved in opposite directions for the second trading day.

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Feb. 6 - Stronger Dry Whey Prices Boost Class III Prices

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16.85

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Mar

16.94

17.15

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Apr

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17.28

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May

17.15

17.34

17.34

17.60

June

17.44

17.54

17.59

17.81

July

17.75

17.69

17.71

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Aug

17.94

17.83

17.84

17.85

Sep

17.93

17.83

17.85

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Oct

17.77

17.72

17.70

17.78

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17.00 @ 0.03

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Mar

17.00 @ 0.24

16.75 @ 0.19

Apr

17.25 @ 0.37

17.00 @ 0.46

May

17.25 @ 0.52

17.00 @ 0.50

June

17.50 @ 0.62

17.25 @ 0.55

July

17.75 @ 0.73

17.75 @ 0.73

Aug

18.00 @ 0.75

17.75 @ 0.70

Sept

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Nov

Oct

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Nov

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product in early September and returned to a premium in late November. Accordingly, U.S. butter imports waned in September through November before bouncing back in December. U.S. butter remains expensive in comparison to product from Europe or Oceania, suggesting that historically large imports and modest exports are likely to continue. U.S. cheese imports reached 47.4 million pounds in December, a 13-month high and 2.8% more than the prior year.

The U.S. imported 405.3 million pounds of cheese in 2016. That is down 6.7% from 2015, but is otherwise the highest annual volume since 2007. About 80% of U.S. cheese imports came from Europe last year. Italy was the top source, accounting for nearly one Àfth of the total. France and New Zealand ranked second and third. The U.S. remained a net cheese exporter in 2016. Although 2016 cheese exports were 9.4% shy of year-ago volumes and down 22.1% from 2014, they were 56% greater than imports. The net trade balance of 227.5 million pounds is equal to almost seven days’ production.

While we trust the information, gathered from reliable sources, is reasonably accurate, we cannot guarantee its accuracy or completeness.

CME Spot Cheddar Cheese & Butter Market Summary

Feb. 8

Butter Blocks Barrels

Settle 2.1775 1.6200 1.6850

Change +1.75 -1.00 +1.50

Trades 4 3 0

Butter Futures (Cash Settle) Month Feb Mar May

Settle 220.525 220.500 221.275

Change NC +0.250 -0.750

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Paynesville Melrose Melrose Swanville Melrose Melrose Pine River Rice Foley Melrose Ottertail Rice Paynesville Foley Freeport Melrose Melrose Rice Sauk Centre Pine River Melrose Melrose Milaca Melrose Melrose Paynesville Sauk Centre Foley Sauk Centre Albany Melrose Milaca Paynesville Lester Prairie Melrose Sauk Centre

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1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

OSAKIS Sauk Centre MELROSE Albany Albany Burtrum Freeport Freeport Little Falls Melrose Holdingford Swanville Corcoran Freeport Little Falls Paynesville

110 96 115 119 118 103 130 117 107 95 103 105 98 110 110 105

10 6 1 6 2 3 1 3 7 2 2 2 3 1 2 1

1,625.00 1,600.00 1,600.00 1,575.00 1,550.00 1,550.00 1,550.00 1,550.00 1,525.00 1,525.00 1,525.00 1,525.00 1,500.00 1,475.00 1,475.00 1,475.00 1,475.00 1,475.00 1,475.00 1,460.00 1,450.00 1,450.00 1,450.00 1,425.00 1,425.00 1,425.00 1,425.00 1,400.00 1,400.00 1,375.00 1,375.00 1,375.00 1,360.00 1,350.00 1,300.00 1,300.00

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160.00 150.00 145.00 140.00 140.00 140.00 140.00 140.00 140.00 135.00 125.00 125.00 120.00 120.00 115.00 115.00

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102 104 93 95 100 115 100 99 115 90 88 80

3 4 2 1 2 1 2 4 1 1 2 2

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Eden Valley Elk River Foley Paynesville St Cloud Randall Randall Albany Corcoran Foley St Cloud St Cloud Cold Spring Sauk Centre Pierz Cokato Annandale

1,480 1,388 1,398 1,495 1,283 1,577 1,565 1,383 1,440 1,395 1,205 1,365 1,455 1,343 1,400 1,405 1,433

2 120.00 6 119.25 6 119.25 3 118.50 2 118.50 11 118.00 8 118.00 4 117.50 2 117.50 1 116.50 1 116.50 1 116.00 1 115.00 8 114.25 2 114.00 3 113.25 2 113.00

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DAIRYING ACROSS AMERICA

Getting better with time

Wood family receives national recognition for milk quality

By Cassie Olson

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SHOREHAM, Vt. – Attention to detail, high quality feed and a comfortable family atmosphere. Loren Wood said these were three of the contributing factors that led to his family’s recognition as a Gold National Dairy Quality Award in January. Wood, his wife, Gail, and their four sons – Lee, Leslie, Lance and Loren Jr. – milk 410 cows and farm 1,950 total acres on their farm, Woodnotch Farms Inc., near Shoreham, Vt. As a young boy growing up in New Hampshire with 23 cows, Wood aspired to farm with his father.

A dream and hardworking mindset brought he and his parents to their Shoreham, Vt., farm in 1972. They began with 280 acres and 40 cows while Wood had just begun his schooling at Vermont Technical College.

“I always wanted to farm with Dad. My siblings had gone to school for music and assumed I might do the same. But, many farmers start out by wanting to be out there farming with their dad and I was no different,” Wood said.

Wood’s sons are doing the same.

All four have found their place on the

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Loren and Gail Wood milk 410 cows and raise 1,950 acres on their farm in Shoreham, Vt. Along with their sons (not pictured) Lee, Leslie, Lance and Loren Jr., the Woods recently received a Gold NaƟonal Dairy Quality Award for producing high quality milk.

farm, with the oldest, Lee, serving as the farm’s herdsman. Wood said the attention to detail exercised by all four sons has helped the family reach its outstanding milk quality.

“When it was my dad and I, I was the herdsman; you quickly learn there is a lot to the job,” Wood said. “We all know to pay close attention to the

details and to keep everything incredibly clean.”

That eye for detail has kept the herd’s somatic cell count consistently under 100,000. While currently milking 410 cows, the herd’s SCC is 68,000.

The cows are milked in a doubleeight parlor, but Wood said they are

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said. “We are renting a barn that is bedded on sand and are seeing rsthand how nice it is. It is denitely something on our front burner.”

In addition to the dairy, the sons own a custom harvesting business, Team Wood, LLC. The business began in 2008 after a custom harvester Leslie had worked for decided to retire. Leslie approached his brothers about buying the equipment and starting a business. That year, the brothers were able to harvest 9,000 total acres.

During the 2016 harvest, the number was nearly 17,000 acres.

Wood helps his sons by driving truck during the summer. He said his sons treat each of their customers with the highest respect, for which he is proud.

“It is a big responsibility to harvest that many acres and it is one they take very seriously,” Wood said. “As farmers ourselves, we know how it should be done. The philosophy is if we are harvesting good feed for ourselves, we are going to do that for others, as well.”

The high quality feed his sons harvest adds to the quality of the herd’s milk. The Woods milk three times a day and have a rolling herd average of 31,000 pounds with 4.1 percent butterfat and 3.2 percent protein.

The crops, however, do not simply grow on their own. Wood said, as a farmer, the biggest challenges he encounters is the quality of the soil and a limited growing season.

“We are very close to Lake Champlain on really heavy clay land. We recently started no-till corn and no-till hay seedlings which I think shows a lot of promise,” Wood said. “We also have a shorter growing season. We can get really good cuttings on hay, and some years we do see a fourth crop. Usually our growing season goes from mid-May to mid-September.”

Despite cropping challenges, Wood said the milk market is advan-

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Woodnotch Farms, Inc. is located near Lake Champlain. Loren said his farm is located on very heavy clay soil with a short growing season, which makes raising crops a challenge.

tageous.

“We have really good milk markets in this area. In New England, the class one milk price is quite high in comparison to other areas of the country,” Wood said. “We have been members of Agri-Mark, the parent company of Cabot Cooperative. The Cabot cheese plant is 20 minutes from us. We enjoy having decent milk markets and the brand name that makes us the money.”

The most enjoyable aspect of farming for Wood, however, is his family. Wood serves as the farm’s general manager and his wife, Gail, helps with all of the book work. In addition to Lee as herdsman and Leslie managing the custom harvesting business, Lance and Loren Jr. split their time between the two businesses. Additionally, Wood’s sister, Sonya, helps on the dairy several days a week. The

dairy hires three additional employees.

“Having the family here means more than I can ever express,” Wood said. “It’s a seven day a week commitment here, with not many days off; I am more than lucky to have them all here.”

As a recipient of one of the 2017 Gold National Dairy Quality Awards, Wood said the award is a reminder of just how far their farm has come.

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Wood is looking forward to the farm’s developing expansion and seeing what his family will do with the herd in the future. For now, he is thankful to be working alongside his sons, just as he felt while getting his start alongside his father years ago.

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(Above) The GrassWorks Grazing conference was held Feb. 2-4 at the Chula Vista Resort in Wisconsin Dells, Wis. Members of GrassWorks Inc. assembled for their annual meeƟng that was held on Friday aŌernoon.

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Measure, monitor, manage

University of Missouri dairy specialist gives tips to grazing proďƒžtability

By Cassie Olson

cassie.o@dairystar.com

WISCONSIN DELLS, Wis. – When producers make the decision to rotationally graze their dairy herd, low operating costs are an enticing beneďƒžt.

University of Missouri dairy specialist Stacey Hamilton has focused the majority of his research in pasture-based dairy herds. During the Grassworks Grazing Conference held Feb. 3 in Wisconsin Dells, Wis., Hamilton shared concepts to improve proďƒžtability on grazing operations.

Hamilton said it is important to get in the mindset that quality is better than quantity when it comes to milk production. “It’s not about milk; it’s about profitable milk and how we are going to get it,� Hamilton said.

The key to achieving this is measuring, monitoring and managing the cow’s dry matter intake of high quality forages. Hamilton made the analogy that pasture grazing is much like running a personal bank account. “If you are like me, you have income going into an account and expenses ďƒ&#x;owing out. If things are working out, hopefully you have a savings account; they ďƒ&#x;ow between one another,â€? Hamilton said.

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University of Missouri dairy specialist, Stacey Hamilton, spoke to those attending the Grassworks Grazing Conference held Feb. 3 at Chula Vista Resort in Wisconsin Dells, Wis. Hamilton gave Ć&#x;ps for measuring, monitoring and managing grazing dairy herds to maximize proďƒžtability. an income. Post-grazing is the minimum balance on the account and the feed demand is the expense. Harvested forages are stored in a bunker for supplemental feeding, just like money in a savings account.

If producers are managing their ďƒžnances this way, the same can be applied to their pastures. To help optimize the dry matter intake of a rotationally grazed herd, Hamilton suggested using a grazing wedge to make decisions. “The grazing wedge is a graphic evaluation of a set point in time,â€? Hamilton said. “It is a bar graph that shows

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you your paddocks by number and the pounds of dry matter available per acre.�

Growth rate is a calculation of forage growth on a daily basis between time points across all growing paddocks. The optimal growth rate is 67 to 80 pounds of new growth per acre per day. Post-grazing forage remaining should be approximately 1,100 pounds per acre to prevent a deďƒžcit. Growth from 0 to 1,100 pounds is slow, so falling below this baseline is discouraged.

Growth rates are not always equal amongst paddocks, which is where having a grazing wedge allows a farmer to make appropriate management decisions. When growing conditions are above average, the graph may show a positive sloping curve, which allows the farmer to prepare for extra hay harvest. Similarly, when there is drought or lack of proper growing conditions, the graph can show a depressed slope.

When a shortage is shown in the graph two to three weeks ahead of time, the farmer can supplement hay or corn silage while the paddock is given additional time to reach a proper yield. “Growth rate is going to help you determine what area to give more to cows and allows you to know what your average coverage will be in the future,� Hamilton said.

Average coverage is the amount a farmer can pasture or supplementally feed their herd if the grass were no longer to grow. Monitoring and measuring the average growth accurately and frequently are keys to success. “Try to measure every seven days to understand what is going on,� Ham-

ilton said. “Average coverage is a spot in time; it tells you what is happening on your farm today, and how to prepare for the week ahead.�

There are several options for measuring the average coverage in paddocks. A rising plate meter is a device pressed into the grass multiple times throughout a paddock to measure grass height and fullness, and give an estimate of growth. A C-Dax pasture meter is a tow-behind device for ATVs, and similar vehicles, that takes up to 200 measurements per second to give a reading on a paddock.

A sonic bike reader is a technology that Hamilton is working with and recommends. It is a device attached to the front of an ATV and uses sound beams to determine average coverage. It is an expensive option, but is the most mobile as it allows the farmer to connect the data over bluetooth on their phone for digital records.

Finally, with proper training, grazers can learn to visually analyze pastures to determine average coverage, as well.

Average coverage is represented in the grazing wedge. There are many different pasture monitoring technologies available to produce a grazing wedge.

The University of Missouri currently offers a free grazing wedge tool on their website: grazingwedge.missouri.edu. “We keep records to predict, estimate and budget. It allows us to analyze and determine whether we are going to be proactive or reactive,� Hamilton said. “It helps us make sure that everybody pulls their own weight – whether it’s the cow, the paddock or the farmer.�

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County American Dairy Association groups may also conduct business in conjunction with the meetings. Several locations will also include Minnesota Milk Producers Association Dairy Management Workshops. Dairy farmers may attend the meeting closest to them, regardless of the district in which they live. No RSVPs are required.

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Out to pasture Panel compares differences among grazing operations

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WISCONSIN DELLS, Wis. – The management styles between farms are never quite the same. Whether it’s what and when to feed, protocols in the parlor, or what bedding the cows will lay on, there are many options that make each dairy unique. There are just as many options when it comes to grazing. Dairy farmers, Andy Jaworski, of Green Bay, Wis., Andy Bures, of Deerbrook, Wis., Rob Moore, of Nichols, NY and Joe Borgerding, of Belgrade, Minn., shared their approaches to grazing during a farmer panel discussion at the Grassworks Grazing Conference in Wis. Dells, Wis., Feb. 3.

Andy Jaworski, Green Bay, Wis. Andy Jaworski got his start in dairy farming six years ago under a sharemilking agreement. He began operating a farm on behalf of a farm owner for a share of farm income and expenses, while building his assets.

Three years ago, Jaworski returned to his parent’s dairy farm where he milks 60 organic cows with a robot on 200 acres.

Milking a pasture-grazed herd with a robot has its unique qualities.

The robot is a free-ow system. Cows

have open access to a return lane to go back and forth from the robot throughout the day.

“We have long, narrow paddocks, so the cows have less distance to walk to the robot. In the lanes, we take out the topsoil, put in screens and pack a tight layer of gravel to help prevent erosion,” Jaworski said.

The pasture is separated into 100by 300-foot to 400-foot paddocks.

Keeping the paddocks thin has helped with spreading fertilizer, manure and making hay. Jaworski said he is happy he designed it that way.

“I like to keep the distance from the barn at a quarter mile or less; the closer you keep them, the more likely they are to do one-on-one interaction going back and forth to the robot,” Jaworski said. “The farther they are away, the more likely the are to come in as a whole group and not individually or subgrouped.”

Jaworski added that milking with a robot makes seasonal breeding less effective. He prefers to milk bi-seasonal to get full use out of the investment.

“The herd I bought was strictly spring seasonal. Going from 60 to 65 cows down to 30 was not the best use of the robot’s potential,” Jaworski said. “We are now going for a bi-seasonal approach, trying to cut out the months of December through February, with calving beginning in midMarch.”

Andy Bures, Deerbrook, Wis. Andy Bures is the third generation to graze cattle on his 45-cow dairy

CASSIE OLSON/DAIRY STAR

Andy Bures milks 45 cows on his dairy near Deerbrook, Wis. Bures freshens his cows in late summer and fall, winter grazing his bred heifers and feeding supplemental forages to his milking herd.

operation near Deerbrook, Wis. After 20 years of military service, Bures returned to the dairy and purchased the farm from his father in 1999. Bures freshens the majority of his cows in the late summer and fall, which makes grazing on his 150-acre farm unique.

“Bred heifers graze in the winter; we put out 80 round bales that are sectioned off with temporary wire. We also graze corn silage for the dry cows and bred heifers in the winter; we peel back the plastic on silage bags and move the fence line every day, so they are able to graze underneath,” Bures said.

Freshening later in the year allows Bures to focus on producing high quality forages to feed the milking herd over winter. Over the summer, the milking herd is grazed full time with little to no feed supplementation.

Bures has four, 10-acre plots that serve as permanent pasture, two that are tore up for different seedlings each year and two more plots that are used for corn silage, oats, peas and seedlings of clover or alfalfa. Over time, he has redone his fencing to accommodate his rotational grazing strategies.

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“Generally, I move the herd every 24 hours, but have been experimenting with moving the herd two to three times a day,” Bures said. “My interior fences are single-wire electric, and the exterior fences are either two-wire electric or three-wire barbed wire. In the spring, I put cows across paddocks based upon how much I expect they will eat that day, so a good temporary fencing system is a necessity.”

Rob Moore, Nichols, NY With 65 cows grazed on 240 acres of pasture, Rob Moore approaches grazing in an original way on his farm near Nichols, NY. As a certied organic, 100 percent grassfed herd, Moore prides himself on being almost entirely infrastructure-free.

“We milk in a swing-10 milking parlor housed in a solar barn,” Moore said. “Everything I do coincides with nature; when you are in sync with nature, your problems seemingly disappear.”

Moore seasonally breeds, with calving taking place mid to late April. Calves are born and raised on pasture; 15 to 20 calves born in the threeweek calving period are kept on farm and the rest are sold.

Calves remain on pasture with either their own mothers or a nurse cow.

Moore has been grainfree for 20 years and certied

grassfed for one. The only supplement cows receive, in addition to grass, is molasses while being milked in the parlor. Moore said his central focus is the biological activity throughout the entire farm.

“We like to graze in long, narrow strips. The grass is generally 8 to 18 inches in length, but not fully headed out. I like to see mob grazing, not picking and choosing, with a good trample and manure residue when we switch paddocks,” Moore said.

Moore is an intensive grazer, moving his herd ve to seven times a day. As a result, he said the cows and environment they thrive in is much healthier.

“I was grazing everything down, but the cows trample and eat the top third of the plant, which helps the soil biology and growth. The cows are healthier, too. I barely know a vet in the area anymore,” Moore said.

Joe Borgerding, Belgrade, Minn.

Farming for Joe Borgerding has always been a puzzle.

The Master Grazier milks 170 cows on his farm near Belgrade, Minn., and said he has learned that sometimes it is best to go about things your own way.

“We had tried so many things, that we came to the conclusion we had to farm our

CASSIE OLSON/DAIRY STAR

Andy Jaworski, Andy Bures, Rob Moore and Joe Borgerding shared their grazing experiences on a panel at the Grassworks Grazing conference on Friday, Feb. 3. All four had different approaches and challenges with grazing in their areas.

own way,” Borgerding said.

“No one understands my farm the way I do, so I decided to revamp it.”

Borgerding got his start as a conventional farmer straight out of high school. Eighteen years into his dairying career, he built a freestall barn.

“We had this beautiful building with lots of fresh air and it was so clean,” Borgerding said. “But we attracted a lot of stray voltage. You could say I got into grazing because I had to, not necessarily because I wanted to.”

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After consulting with his agronomist, Borgerding found out his soil had high pH and magnesium. He be-

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Freezing colostrum also an option

About a month ago, I put out an article about colostrum management. I wrote about “good� colostrum.

Good colostrum comes from a heifer or cow that is healthy, has been vaccinated, and has been in the pre-fresh pen for two to three weeks.

The cow should be

By Emily Wilmes milked within four hours of giving U of M Extension birth, and the udder should be prepared as if it were going into the bulk tank, meaning use of stimulation, teat dip, and cleaning. I mentioned that if the colostrum isn’t fed right away, it should be stored in the refrigerator.

Colostrum that is in the fridge for longer than ďƒžve days should be thrown out.

While that information isn’t wrong, it doesn’t tell the whole story. I received a phone call from one of the dairy producers I work with asking about freezing colostrum—“is that OK to do?�—he asked. The answer is yes. It was my mistake to not mention that colostrum can also be frozen for long-term storage as a backup supply for cows that may not produce enough colostrum for their calves.

If you plan to freeze colostrum, it is commonly recommended to do so within 24 hours in order to preserve the colostrum at its highest quality.

There are colostrum freezer bags you can purchase but a regular plastic freezer bag will work just ďƒžne. I recommend you double bag the colostrum. Be

sure the bag is clearly labeled with the amount of colostrum it contains, which cow it came from, and the date. Colostrum can also be stored in bottles, and should be labeled the same way. Various sources state that colostrum should be frozen in 1 or 2 quart quantities. When putting bagged colostrum in the freezer, lay it ďƒ&#x;at in order to reduce thawing time when you are ready to use it. Colostrum can be stored in a freezer for up to a year, but it is likely it will be used before that amount of time has passed. Again, making sure colostrum is dated will ensure it is used in a timely manner.

When you are ready to use your frozen colostrum, make sure it is thoroughly thawed. Thawing can be done by placing bags or bottles in warm (not hot) water.

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Colostrum can also be thawed in a microwave, but should be done with caution to avoiding destroying the immunoglobulins. If microwaving, use low power and short time increments. Dr. Jim Quigley suggests, “pour off the thawed liquid periodically to minimize heating.�

Freezing colostrum is a great way to preserve a precious on-farm resource.

Having some stored colostrum handy is useful for orphan calves or if a cow doesn’t produce enough colostrum on her own. My biggest tips are make sure the colostrum is stored appropriately and properly labeled. Colostrum management is vital to your calves, the future of your farm.

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moisture protein 11.21 9.51 16.81 11.83 15.42 8.1 11.36 10.55 18.57 18.08 17.48 16.82 24.5 10.52 12.11 11.07 13.88 10.41 13.71 8.19 12.64 10.2 22.03 11.42 14.4 7.49 13.83 13.55 20.03 16.27 13.24 21.05 15.18 19.69 14.06 21.68 13.86 18.89 16.94 11.42 15.64 23.97 14.98 20.59 14.89 19.07 18.63 20.79 34.71 21.92 17.24 24.84 14.25 20.72 14.66 14.25 13.5 22.06 16.79 21.55 17.25 10.95 13.85 11.9 7.31 9.99 16.33 23.86 14.83 22.73 17.16 23.01 16.99 18.02 14.73 21.63 16.7 20.69 17.03 21.31 14.12 16.04 12.95 21.98 14.83 23.75 15.94 19.9 14.23 25.22 10.11 11.62 GRASS 13.93 16.12 13.23 7.95 15.11 19.07 14.51 22.41 12.22 21.81 15.89 25.17 15.27 22.81 17.03 24.75 13.24 20.62 18.75 24.44 15.59 23.56 13.81 21.6 13.27 21.1 13.88 23.89 14.7 22.59 11.44 7.38 13.96 10.41 13.76 18.29 15.09 22.48 14.22 20.88 15.3 20.8 13.84 19.1 11.42 15.63 14.03 20.47 9.52 18.5 14 19.72 12.3 21.58 14.23 19.71 11.99 20.56 11.88 21.67 9.72 19.62 15.43 25.91 13.04 19.86 13.37 22.64 12.38 21.21 15.24 18.57 14.46 10.85 13.74 16.81 16.62 21.83 15.2 16.66 11.34 7.52 12.53 20.14 9.86 19.74 10.51 19.03 14.73 18.7 15.96 23.81 17.1 21.88 12.85 23.01 14.99 21.4 13.48 24.84 13.98 25.61 13.78 21.91 15.72 21.7 12.65 18.39 12.58 21.5 14.07 23.75 16.38 19.36 16.47 23.42 13.16 19.26

RFV 85.72 102.84 87.14 82.67 71.91 71.32 91.81 78.06 74.71 78.63 70.88 77.41 81.53 80.53 113.56 158.71 114.34 138.1 117.52 88.26 136.26 137.95 107.63 122.84 101.33 155.58 129.16 84.4 115.96 159 93.74 77.3 83.83 114.48 121.11 145.91 121.66 117.53 100.6 127.26 113 137.22 118.59 101.4 132.17 96.97

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1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

105.19 87.97 80.11 106.99 139.97 169.4 122.24 136.75 146.85 137.92 126.71 173.45 144.73 121.33 115.37 85.93 95.56 123.72 150.9 136.52 138.03 104.99 111.22 146.24 132.83 140.98 140.51 131.11 153.21 155.07 148.82 182.07 138.67 126.87 148.35 182.15 92.31 119.16 154.9 114.7 91.01 99.17 173.35 115.64 129.73 156.3 126.2 148.76 174.87 207.36 171.68 163.68 136.19 133.85 133.14 141.29 129.4 150.47 126.52

1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

Ld. size 12.83 16.51 15.88 21.37 9.05 6.02 19.9 22.75 21.91 22.32 23.15 22.93 20.45 9.99 19.74 23.52 18.12 8.88 24.84 23 21.32 24.72 21.99 23.86 23.76 21.28 22.01 22.47 16.54 32.01 24.36 9.32 8.8 25.8 20.93 24.98 21.48 16.78 19.68 21.27 28.77 21.41 20.06 6.2 26.08 9.16 9.57 26.98 10.05 28.69 28.47 26.22 20.89 29.08 29.47 25.54 29.77 29.21 18.53 24.37 23.43 22.14 18.9 19.67 10.21 25.15 25.25 24.97 23.77 23 26.7 27.11 26.61 22.81 27.04 25.51 24.56 26.79 23.64 22.95 25.61 23.51 28.19 21.5 24.43 28.06 26.18 24.65 22.86 25.34 9.97 6.43 26.98 26.45 26.44 11.3 29.29 26.58 21.49 25.79 23.52 27.14 25.83 22.53 26.28 19.11

price $75.00 $70.00 $50.00 $40.00 $30.00 $30.00 $40.00 $45.00 $55.00 $50.00 $60.00 $50.00 $65.00 $40.00 $30.00 $55.00 $40.00 $65.00 $45.00 $50.00 $60.00 $45.00 $40.00 $40.00 $20.00 $55.00 $50.00 $70.00 $55.00 $60.00 $70.00 $50.00 $55.00 $50.00 $70.00 $60.00 $60.00 $55.00 $50.00 $55.00 $75.00 $55.00 $50.00 $50.00 $60.00 $80.00 $25.00 $40.00 $50.00 $50.00 $60.00 $90.00 $110.00 $50.00 $60.00 $85.00 $60.00 $55.00 $110.00 $115.00 $65.00 $55.00 $40.00 $62.50 $55.00 $80.00 $55.00 $50.00 $55.00 $65.00 $95.00 $60.00 $75.00 $75.00 $55.00 $60.00 $75.00 $65.00 $125.00 $70.00 $50.00 $55.00 $115.00 $65.00 $55.00 $55.00 $50.00 $60.00 $40.00 $110.00 $35.00 $45.00 $90.00 $55.00 $72.50 $155.00 $150.00 $110.00 $90.00 $110.00 $110.00 $60.00 $85.00 $65.00 $70.00 $50.00

Lot no.

256 279 281 283 289 290 298 314 315 316 319 321 325 337 973 980 983 990 1008 1009 206 207 208 213 215 226 233 241 249 252 263 269 276 284 299 300 302 330 332 334 340 343 204 205 212 242 301 327 981 257 265 295 266 311 291 977 1006 218 231 238 245 246 258 259 260 261 267 275 280 286 304 305 317 318 342 347 348 349 1010 1013 288 297 250 253 307 308 1011 1012 310

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Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Small Squares Small Squares Large Squares Large Squares Large Squares Large Rounds Large Rounds Large Rounds Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Medium Squares Small Rounds Large Squares Large Squares Large Rounds Large Rounds Large Rounds Large Rounds Large Rounds Large Rounds Large Squares Large Squares Large Rounds

moisture protein

15.34 10.45 8.37 17.99 16.9 15.19 15.62 12.34 12.37 12.21 12.89 13.62 13 14.62 16.76 17.13 13.07 13.98 14.86 15.4 15.42 8.89 14.04 14.15 12.94 16.12 16.43 15.39 12.42 10.34 13.32 14.26 14.56 15.08 16.73 16.92 14.05 14.43 11.82 13.15 14.71 14.8 15.37 14.8 12.96 16.22 16.34 13.09 12.85

RFV

21.37 131.07 21.94 193.08 22.52 162.17 20.21 126.51 22.64 136.04 23.06 139.83 20.35 118.66 19.38 123.69 20 125.9 19.25 121.95 22.74 186.37 20.3 140.92 17.81 105.71 22.02 163.7 23.69 183.58 23.41 154.47 19.8 89.61 20.8 121.59 22.96 141.08 21.45 140.84 25.72 172.02 21.13 137.1 25.58 142.68 24.52 138.72 20.89 119.31 18.9 127.5 24.6 160.08 26.2 183.74 23.14 142.8 24.61 218.2 22.56 130.38 19.5 136.48 17.49 129.65 20.27 127.78 22.23 155.12 22.89 155.12 20.47 132.85 21.32 145.17 18.54 108.27 20.98 176.45 21.3 157.06 19.87 118.48 22.27 161.31 23.61 192.04 21.04 165.71 19.46 145.3 22.58 157.73 13.15 73.96 16.76 84.56 STRAW STRAW STRAW STRAW STRAW STRAW STRAW STRAW STRAW STRAW STRAW STRAW STRAW STRAW STRAW STRAW STRAW STRAW STRAW STRAW STRAW STRAW STRAW STRAW STRAW STRAW STRAW STRAW STRAW CORN STALKS CORN STALKS CORN STALKS CORN STALKS CORN STALKS CORN STALKS CORN STALKS CORN STALKS ROTARY STRAW ROTARY STRAW WHEAT STRAW

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2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 2&3 1 3

Ld. size

22.98 11.36 23.88 24.76 19.39 20.77 23.83 26.38 27.37 26.21 9.91 24.62 10.13 9.95 24.94 22.57 20.42 22.72 23.21 26.2 22.83 25.29 26.58 12.21 26.23 22.46 23.11 24.73 22.6 24.62 9.72 21.51 23.99 28.64 30.11 30.17 24.37 26.42 25.9 24.63 6.97 16.86 27.12 15.52 25.82 24.52 29.55 16.97 23.67 47 16.45 27 18.11 34 30 72 72 78 76 78 74 72 39 63 76 72 54 63 20 24.86 30 78 44 44 54 54 76 49 25.12 24.95 30 30 20 31 34 34 25.51 25.72 34

Hay sales starts at 12:30 p.m. and are the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the months of September thru May.

February 16, 2017 March 2, 2017

price

$55.00 $125.00 $130.00 $60.00 $55.00 $65.00 $55.00 $60.00 $60.00 $55.00 $125.00 $70.00 $45.00 $70.00 $85.00 $70.00 $50.00 $50.00 $65.00 $55.00 $95.00 $90.00 $70.00 $60.00 $60.00 $65.00 $80.00 $125.00 $50.00 $145.00 $70.00 $55.00 $90.00 $65.00 $85.00 $90.00 $130.00 $70.00 $65.00 $100.00 $100.00 $50.00 $125.00 $160.00 $75.00 $55.00 $85.00 $45.00 $40.00 $20.00 $25.00 $15.00 $70.00 $35.00 $37.00 $27.50 $29.00 $33.00 $25.00 $29.00 $30.00 $28.00 $32.50 $29.00 $20.00 $29.00 $30.00 $27.50 $30.00 $90.00 $27.50 $35.00 $12.50 $15.00 $25.00 $30.00 $15.00 $15.00 $25.00 $25.00 $30.00 $25.00 $32.50 $30.00 $27.50 $20.00 $82.50 $82.50 $34.00

For more information, contact Kevin Winter 320-352-3803, (c) 320-760-1593 or Al Wessel at 320-547-2206, (c) 320-760-2979

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2016 SCC for herds under 150K

Lower SCC means more milk production and improved reproduction. For 2016, DHIA herds with an SCC between 200,000 and 299,000 outproduced those between 400,000 and 499,000 by 2,181 pounds of milk /per cow. At $18 milk that is $393 per cow of additional milk per year. On a 100 cow herd that is $39,300 for the year. Good information used by smart and dedicated managers means progress and proďƒžt Herd Owner GREGORY DAIRY LLC HESSE DAIRY FARM HIGH POINT DAIRY RKB DAIRY KIMM’S DAIRY HAPPKE HOLSTEIN FARM HILKE-ERIC KNISLEY, RYAN SCHAFER, KEVIN+CAROL MIKE & LORI BOESL SELKE FARMS SCHREIBER BROS KLEHR, MARK POHLMANN, JERRY & BEV STOMMES, REUBEN& JANICE MILLER, BILL & ALAN BOETTCHER DAIRY SEXTON, STACI GEHL ACRES FARM CRISPY CREAM DAIRY LINDAHL FARMS HOLLERMANN DAIRY SCHOENBAUER DAIRY TELLERS, MIKE AND DONNA JOHNSON DARREN+LYNN MAREN JEREMY HOLST BLENKER, JEFF FRICKSON, BRETT & BONNIE HONEBRINK, LYLE AND WANDA HOEFS’ DAIRY KRUSE, DEVOINE SMITH, DAVID STOCKER, RICK MARSHALL KORN RAUSCH, DEAN RIVER VALLEY DAIRY LLC VON WAHLDE DAIRY INC. BROOKSIDE DAIRY GLEN & BECKY CHRISTEN THOENY FARMS SCHEFERS BROTHERS NATHE, JERON KUECHLE DAIRY SHIR-MAN HOLSTEIN FARM PATRICK, FRANK & IONE HALLBERG, DAN BRAEM, LARRY AND DIANNA BIRCH POINT FARMS PESHON MILLER, LYNN + RACHEL HOFFMAN NORTH-CREEK HIESERICH FARM JOHNSON DAIRY MERDAN DAIRY GIBBS, NATHAN & BRIDGET JOHNSON, RONALD+SUSAN SHEA DAIRY BENGTSON FAMILY FARM DICKE, TREVOR TWIN SPRUCE VOGT DAIRY LLC MARSCHALL, RICK SCHUMACHER, MAYNARD & JEREMY CRAZY DAISY DAIRY SAUBER, JOHN RADEMACHER, MARVIN SMELTER DAIRY CASEY O’REILLY DAIRY MOGER FARMS BEYER, JEREMY LEISEN FARMS INC. HIDDEN HILL DAIRY LLC MOLDENHAUER, ED WEISENBECK, DON AND SALLY NU-DIMENSION HOLSTEINS BETCHER, ANTHONY & TIFFANY PELKA, DOUG BREEZY HILL DAIRY LINDO FARMS

SCC YR <100 100-199 200-299 300-399 400-499 500-599 >600

Town BELGRADE CHASKA MELROSE FARIBAULT PELICAN RAPIDS PIERZ ALTURA PAYNESVILLE LAKE CITY BOYCEVILLE DAKOTA RUSHFORD BELLE PLAINE GREY EAGLE RICHMOND THEILMAN MAYER ZUMBRO FALLS CAMERON HOKAH LINDSTROM BURTRUM NEW PRAGUE CHASKA WINONA LAKE CITY ALBANY DAKOTA MAYER NEW PRAGUE CALEDONIA DENT JORDAN ATWATER RICHMOND SHELL LAKE MELROSE CLITHERALL SAUK CENTRE OGILVIE PAYNESVILLE MELROSE WATKINS FOUNTAIN RICE KANDIYOHI SACRED HEART MINNESKA DODGE CENTER CHATFIELD BELGRADE HERON LAKE AVON ROLLINGSTONE LINDSTROM VIOLA BUFFALO GOODHUE ROSE CREEK SAUK CENTRE SHAKOPEE PLAINVIEW KENYON LAKEVILLE BELGRADE FOLEY RED WING ROLLINGSTONE UTICA PLAINVIEW ST CHARLES LACRESCENT DURAND OWATONNA GOODHUE ALBANY DALLAS CENTER CITY

RHA Milk 25,000 23,971 22,189 21,382 20,001 18,817 17,871

# Cows 90 101 112 127 87 105 100 58 30 261 240 85 59 72 69 242 158 58 133 80 118 443 177 52 225 111 39 82 106 278 216 21 91 61 78 112 138 482 55 193 81 334 237 70 53 67 37 292 93 401 82 103 86 182 62 835 46 101 83 306 182 119 117 55 56 66 100 47 41 77 327 317 443 36 119 56 646 43

Avg. SCC 43 53 58 61 64 65 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 72 72 75 75 77 77 79 80 80 80 81 81 81 84 85 85 85 85 86 86 86 87 87 88 88 89 90 91 93 93 93 93 95 96 96 97 98 98 98 99 99 101 101 101 101 103 103 104 104 104 104 106 107 107 108 108 108 108 109 109 111 111 111 112

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Producer Name Town # Cows ACKERMAN FARMS SAUK RAPIDS 120 FOLTZ DAIRY FARM INC. CALLAWAY 85 HOSCHEIT FARMS CALEDONIA 358 BONOW FARMS LEWISTON 187 HEIM, BRUCE & JODI LEWISTON 377 BROSIG, MARK ALTURA 240 DICKE CENTURY FARM GOODHUE 196 OREN AND JULIE OLSEN NICOLLET 66 BURFEIND, PETER+DAVID GOODHUE 329 BEAVER OAK DAIRY ALTURA 97 BEAVER OAK REDS ALTURA 41 BILL & NORMA ROUSAR RICE LAKE 50 VILAND, STEVE PIPESTONE 49 STUMPF, ART AND JANE PIERZ 47 STELLING FARMS MILLVILLE 303 KELLER DAIRY LAKE CITY 127 ANDERSON, KENNETH SPRING GROVE 26 FARBER FARMS GREEN ISLE 165 WALTER BROS FARM PLUMMER 396 GATHJE, SCOTT RICHMOND 73 SMITH, JEREMIAH ALBANY 49 CRONK DAIRY HENNING 38 DAN KREKELBERG FARIBAULT 62 HALBAKKEN, TED & DEB ST CHARLES 134 ROADSIDE DAIRY PRESTON 145 KROCAK, BOB & LIZ MONTGOMERY 162 MITCHELL KRUGER DAIRY NEW RICHLAND 69 METOGGA LAKES DAIRY LLC NEW PRAGUE 413 ALDINGER ROGER WINONA 79 HOFFMAN, ART AND KAREN THEILMAN 129 DONNAY, JOHN & CONNIE GLENCOE 50 AUSTING, DALE FREEPORT 115 STOLTMAN, TIMOTHY A. LITTLE FALLS 59 HAZEL, BRIAN AND JUDY LANESBORO 305 KERNCREST HOLSTEINS ELLENDALE 80 GUNNINK, TOM & MARY LAKE BENTON 75 HARREN, GREGG & NANCY EAGLE BEND 59 DORITY VALLEY DAIRY HILLSDALE 109 BECHTOLD BROS ST JOSEPH 63 FLOM, DAVID DENNISON 27 EMERY DAIRY DENNISON 190 NAATZ, WILLIE & KAREN MANTORVILLE 219 SCHROEDER BROTHERS CALEDONIA 163 LOEFFELHOLZ, ISIDORE & JANET CALEDONIA 69 SEXTON, VINCENT & SHERI MILLVILLE 81 MARK RUEGEMER VILLARD 72 GRIEBELS BLACK AND WHITE NEW ULM 73 REIT-WAY INC. SAUK CENTRE 122 MARTIN, ERNEST BROOTEN 257 BACHMANN, JASON & NANCY FRAZEE 56 ALLEN DEUTZ DAIRY MARSHALL 59 GOLOMBESKI, JACOB + GREG MORRISTOWN 36 STROBEL, RON & PATTY HENDERSON 41 SKAJ, PETER & GALE ST JOSEPH 98 HEINTZ BADGER VALLEY FARM CALEDONIA 184 OLSON, JAMES & BETH LEWISTON 71 MILLER+SONS, RICHARD ZUMBROTA 158 RUTHER, AARON & TIFFANY PERHAM 140 LEMMER, ANTHONY ALTURA 36 ZUMBRO VIEW FARMS LLC ZUMBROTA 83 THURK, KENNETH&JACKIE VILLARD 14 ANDRING, MATT DOVER 124 MELLGREN, ADAM & SARAH ZUMBRO FALLS 78 BANSE, LESTER DONNA CALEDONIA 194 MERGEN, BRENT ALBANY 59 REILAND FARMS LEROY 413 WEIS BROS PLAINVIEW 93 DIERSEN, JOHN + KARYL CALEDONIA 152 FROELICH, JUSTIN & TRACIE PIERZ 74 HEUER, RICK & PETER LESTER PRAIRIE 86 CZECH ROADSIDE ACRES FOLEY 409 RADERMACHER DAIRY LLC BROOTEN 206 SCHAUER FARMS INC GLENCOE 68 TA LEONARD REG HOLSTEINS YOUNG AMERICA 49 LUX-URY HOLSTEINS INC. EDEN VALLEY 135 HEMMESCH DAIRY INC. MELROSE 125 VIRCHOW DAIRY GLENVILLE 37 BANSE, MICHAEL & KRIS EITZEN 98 BECHTOLD BRO.’S FARM #2 FREEPORT 72 RINDE FARMS LLC LONG PRAIRIE 228 CHUCKKLAPHAKE JARRETTBORG SAUK CENTRE 117 MILLER, JOHN & KRIS PLAINVEIW 282 KIDMAN DAIRY BALATON 142 SCHEFFLER FARMS ZUMBROTA 178 HERBER, SCOTT&MICHELLE UTICA 603 BOYENGA DAIRY ELLSWORTH 48 DEER BROOK FARM PETERSON 310 SANDHILL DAIRY PERHAM 337 WENNINGER, JOHN LAFAYETTE 39 LIESER, GARY BELGRADE 48 MERRYVILLE FARM WAVERLY 288 RYNDA, FRANCIS & THERESA MONTGOMERY 46

SCC 112 112 114 114 115 115 115 115 116 116 116 116 116 116 117 117 117 118 118 119 120 121 121 121 122 122 122 123 123 123 123 124 124 125 126 126 127 127 127 127 128 128 128 128 129 129 129 130 130 130 130 130 131 131 132 132 132 132 132 132 133 133 133 134 135 135 135 135 135 136 137 137 137 137 138 139 139 140 140 140 141 141 141 141 142 142 142 142 143 143 143 143

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MARKET REPORT FOR MONDAY, JAN. 30TH SALE SEBEKA MN SEBEKA MN DENT MN SEBEKA MN NEW YORK MILLS MN AUDUBON MN VERNDALE MN DENT MN AUDUBON MN HEWITT MN TRAIL MN OSAGE MN FRAZEE MN TRAIL MN VINING MN HAWLEY MN TRAIL MN DENT MN TRAIL MN FARWELL MN BROWERVILLE MN TRAIL MN TRAIL MN HAWLEY MN TRAIL MN BROWERVILLE MN TRAIL MN HAWLEY MN OSAGE MN PINE RIVER MN DEER CREEK MN TRAIL MN PINE RIVER MN TRAIL MN ELBOW LAKE MN VINING MN ELBOW LAKE MN FRAZEE MN

BULL CALVES 4 Hol Bull Calves 3 Hol Bull Calves 4 Hol Bull Calves 2 Hol Bull Calves 3 Hol Bull Calves 1 Hol Bull Calves 1 R/W Bull Calves 2 Mix Bull Calves 1 Hol Bull Calves 1 Hol Bull Calves BEEF HEIFERS 2 Red Beef Heifer 1 Blk Beef Heifer 1 Blk Beef Heifer 2 Blk Beef Heifer 1 BWF Beef Heifer 4 Blk Beef Heifer 1 Blk Beef Heifer 3 Blk Beef Heifer 9 Blk Beef Heifer 1 Char Beef Heifer BEEF STEERS 1 Red Beef Steer 3 Blk Beef Steer 6 Blk Beef Steer 4 Blk Beef Steer 8 Blk Beef Steer 3 Red Beef Steer 2 Blk Beef Steer 6 Blk Beef Steer 3 Red Beef Steer 2 Blk Beef Steer 3 Blk Beef Steer BULLS 4 Blk Bull 2 Blk Bull 2 Blk Bull 3 RWF Bull 1 Blk Bull 5 BWF Bull 3 Blk Bull

205 216 207 195 168 160 125 157 130 105

230.00 H 220.00 H 200.00 H 190.00 H 180.00 H 155.00 H 110.00 H 110.00 H 90.00 H 85.00 H

387 335 210 340 435 388 330 486 479 410

148.00 C 147.00 C 147.00 C 146.00 C 144.00 C 143.00 C 138.00 C 135.00 C 134.00 C 133.00 C

375 295 398 407 456 478 315 500 511 545 575

166.00 C 166.00 C 161.00 C 160.00 C 159.00 C 156.00 C 154.00 C 154.00 C 150.00 C 150.00 C 138.00 C

423 405 350 351 580 606 565

HOL STEERS WADENA MN 1 Mix Hol Steers FRAZEE MN 5 Hol Hol Steers PERHAM MN 34 Hol Hol Steers OTTERTAIL MN 2 Hol Hol Steers FRAZEE MN 3 HolX Hol Steers DENT MN 10 Hol Hol Steers DENT MN 5 Hol Hol Steers DENT MN 4 Mix Hol Steers NEW YORK MILLS MN 3 Hol Hol Steers TWIN VALLEY MN 1 Hol Hol Steers FERGUS FALLS MN 5 Hol Hol Steers OTTERTAIL MN 1 Hol Hol Steers WADENA MN 1 Mix Hol Steers SLAUGHTER COWS BERTHA MN 1 Red Slaughter Cows BERTHA MN 5 Red Slaughter Cows DETROIT LAKES MN 1 RWF Slaughter Cows STAPLES MN 1 Hol Slaughter Cows PERHAM MN 1 Blk Slaughter Cows BERTHA MN 1 Red Slaughter Cows HEWITT MN 1 BWF Slaughter Cows SEBEKA MN 1 Grey Slaughter Cows PERHAM MN 1 Blk Slaughter Cows ULEN MN 1 Blk Slaughter Cows LAKOTA ND 1 Hol Slaughter Cows MENAHGA MN 1 Slaughter Cows FOSSTON MN 1 Hol Slaughter Cows MENAHGA MN 1 Hol Slaughter Cows PELICAN RAPIDS MN 1 Hol Slaughter Cows STAPLES MN 1 Hol Slaughter Cows STAPLES MN 1 Hol Slaughter Cows SEBEKA MN 1 Hol Slaughter Cows FOSSTON MN 1 Hol Slaughter Cows SLAUGHTER BULLS PARK RAPIDS MN 1 Blk Slaughter Bull FRAZEE MN 1 Blk Slaughter Bull PELICAN RAPIDS MN 1 Blk Slaughter Bull PERHAM MN 1 Blk Slaughter Bull FRAZEE MN 1 Herf Slaughter Bull WADENA MN 1 Hol Slaughter Bull

160.00 C 146.00 C 134.00 C 131.00 C 125.00 C 121.50 C 121.00 C

315 434 441 447 336 316 316 510 593 605 763 685 765

88.00 C 88.00 C 87.00 C 85.00 C 81.00 C 80.50 C 80.50 C 79.00 C 76.00 C 74.00 C 70.50 C 70.00 C 70.00 C

940 1499 1410 1610 1570 1180 1290 1350 725 1025 1495 1295 1445 1445 1065 1575 1690 1745 1155

74.00 C 66.00 C 64.00 C 64.00 C 64.00 C 63.00 C 61.00 C 61.00 C 61.00 C 60.00 C 60.00 C 60.00 C 60.00 C 59.00 C 58.50 C 57.50 C 57.00 C 57.00 C 57.00 C

2485 2005 2220 1365 2100 1635

85.50 C 83.00 C 80.50 C 78.00 C 75.50 C 73.00 C

MARKET REPORT FOR MONDAY, FEB. 6TH SALE WAUBUN MN MENAHGA MN MENAHGA MN PARKERS PRAIRIE MN NEW YORK MILLS MENAHGA MN WADENA MN MENAHGA MN WADENA MN AUDUBON MN PARKERS PRAIRIE MN CLARISSA MN CLARISSA MN AUDUBON MN SEBEKA MN SEBEKA MN PERHAM MN HENNING MN WADENA MN NEW YORK MILLS MN SALOL MN DENT MN PERHAM MN PERHAM MN SEBEKA MN VINING MN SALOL MN SALOL MN SALOL MN SALOL MN RICHVILLE MN STAPLES MN VINING MN VINING MN SALOL MN SALOL MN BERTHA MN BERTHA MN SALOL MN

BULL CALVES 4 Mix Bull Calves 2 Hol Bull Calves 1 Hol Bull Calves 1 Hol Bull Calves 2 Hol Bull Calves 1 Hol Bull Calves 1 Swss Bull Calves 1 Hol Bull Calves 1 Hol Bull Calves 2 Hol Bull Calves 4 Hol Bull Calves 1 Hol Bull Calves 2 Hol Bull Calves 1 Hol Bull Calves 4 Hol Bull Calves 1 Hol Bull Calves 1 Hol Bull Calves 1 Hol Bull Calves 1 Hol Bull Calves 1 Blk Bull Calves BEEF HEIFERS 5 Blk Beef Heifer 1 Blk Beef Heifer 8 Char Beef Heifer 6 Char Beef Heifer 1 Blk Beef Heifer 1 Blk Beef Heifer 2 Blk Beef Heifer 2 Blk Beef Heifer 15 Blk Beef Heifer 11 Blk Beef Heifer 7 Blk Beef Heifer 6 Blk Beef Heifer 1 Blk Beef Heifer BEEF STEERS 3 Blk Beef Steer 1 Blk Beef Steer 16 Blk Beef Steer 5 Blk Beef Steer 1 Blk Beef Steer 25 Blk Beef Steer

268 242 241 205 197 165 165 170 155 142 121 105 102 120 105 100 115 105 95 98

300.00 H 250.00 H 250.00 H 210.00 H 205.00 H 180.00 H 170.00 H 165.00 H 160.00 H 130.00 H 110.00 H 100.00 H 95.00 H 90.00 H 85.00 H 80.00 H 75.00 H 70.00 H 70.00 H 70.00 H

424 370 446 363 435 410 538 538 538 613 534 621 550

148.00 C 145.00 C 141.00 C 141.00 C 139.00 C 138.00 C 135.00 C 135.00 C 135.00 C 127.00 C 127.00 C 125.00 C 121.00 C

410 516 516 524 455 665

161.00 C 158.25 C 158.25 C 154.00 C 151.00 C 148.00 C

SALOL MN DENT MN STAPLES MN SALOL MN SALOL MN SALOL MN DETROIT LAKES MN

4 Blk Beef Steer 665 2 Red Beef Steer 497 8 Blk Beef Steer 604 25 Blk Beef Steer 591 2 Blk Beef Steer 591 1 Blk Beef Steer 591 7 Blk Beef Steer 588 BULLS PERHAM MN 2 Mix Bull 330 SEBEKA MN 2 Blk Bull 415 HAWLEY MN 1 Blk Bull 490 PERHAM MN 2 Char Bull 472 SEBEKA MN 9 Blk Bull 578 HEWITT MN 2 Red Bull 502 SLAUGHTER COWS BATTLE LAKE MN 1 Blk Slaughter Cows 1645 BACKUS MN 1 Blk Slaughter Cows 1510 BATTLE LAKE MN 1 Blk Slaughter Cows 1640 HEWITT MN 1 Hol Slaughter Cows 1430 MENAHGA MN 1 Hol Slaughter Cows 1730 OTTERTAIL MN 1 Hol Slaughter Cows 1590 SEBEKA MN 1 Hol Slaughter Cows 1650 NEW YORK MILLS MN 1 Hol Slaughter Cows 1260 NEW YORK MILLS MN 1 Hol Slaughter Cows 1410 BARNESVILLE MN 1 Blk Slaughter Cows 1505 NEW YORK MILLS MN 1 Hol Slaughter Cows 1300 WADENA MN 1 Hol Slaughter Cows 925 NEW YORK MILLS MN 2 Hol Slaughter Cows 1617 VERNDALE MN 1 Red Slaughter Cows 1305 BLUE EARTH MN 1 BWF Slaughter Cows 1425 HEWITT MN 1 Hol Slaughter Cows 1325 OTTERTAIL MN 2 Hol Slaughter Cows 1645 OTTERTAIL MN 1 Hol Slaughter Cows 1645 BERTHA MN 1 Hol Slaughter Cows 1120 SLAUGHTER BULLS HEWITT MN 1 BWF Slaughter Bull 1955 RICHVILLE MN 1 Blk Slaughter Bull 2280 PERHAM MN 1 Blk Slaughter Bull 2000 FRAZEE MN 1 Hol Slaughter Bull 1740 NEW YORK MILLS 1 Hol Slaughter Bull 1855 PERHAM MN 1 Herf Slaughter Bull 1550 OTTERTAIL MN 1 Hol Slaughter Bull 1645

148.00 C 143.50 C 143.50 C 142.75 C 142.75 C 142.75 C 139.50 C

145.00 C 141.00 C 140.00 C 136.00 C 135.50 C 127.00 C 70.00 C 67.00 C 65.00 C 65.00 C 64.50 C 64.50 C 63.50 C 63.50 C 63.00 C 62.50 C 62.50 C 62.50 C 62.00 C 62.00 C 62.00 C 62.00 C 61.75 C 61.75 C 61.50 C 88.50 C 84.00 C 80.50 C 76.50 C 75.50 C 75.00 C 73.00 C

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October mailbox prices lower in all reporting areas

Mailbox Milk Prices for Selected Reporting Areas in Federal Milk Orders and California - October 2016 Upper Midwest Order $17.21 Northwest States $16.40

Wisconsin $16.93 Iowa $17.21

Wisconsin at $16.93, Minnesota at $16.95, Iowa at $17.21 ron.j@dairystar.com

MINNEAPOLIS – Mailbox milk prices took a downhill slide last October.

Prices fell in all 19 reporting areas, according to the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS).

October of 2016 brought prices that were off 85 cents in Wisconsin, down 68 cents in Minnesota and down 38 cents in Iowa, compared to a month earlier.

In America’s Dairyland, Wisconsin farmers received an average mailbox price of $16.93 per hundredweight. That was down from $17.78 in September, and off from $17.85 in October of 2015.

Gopher State dairy producers received an October mailbox average of $16.95. That Minnesota average compares to $17.63 in September, and to $17.63 a year earlier.

Hawkeye State farmers received an October average at $17.21. That Iowa price was down from $17.59 during September, and down from $17.35 a year prior.

Over all areas, the decrease from August to September averaged 70 cents, to $16.40. That was $1.20 under the 2015 October average.

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The Mailbox Price for all Federal order areas combined was $17.10

month earlier.

Washington and Oregon were at $16.40 for October’s milk. That represented a decline of 73 cents.

One more reporting area stayed above the $16 mark. Farmers in Indiana received an October mailbox average of $16.04, a slip of 76 cents from September.

Ohio farmers got $15.98 in October, down $1.28 from the month before. In western Texas, the October average came in at $15.72, down 97 cents.

The Corn Belt States – Kansas, Nebraska and part of Missouri – saw an October average of $15.55, down 81 cents.

California, not a part of the federal milk marketing order system, received $15.13, down from $15.63 a month earlier.

In the Land of Enchantment, New Mexico dairymen received $14.64, off 99 cents from September. Michigan dairy-

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men once again had the dubious distinction of receiving the lowest mailbox milk price. In the Wolverine State, the October price averaged $14.40, down 92 cents from September’s $15.32.

This past October, the U.S. average butterfat test was 3.82 percent, while the average protein test was 3.18 percent.

Other solids in milk averaged 5.73 percent.

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Corn Belt States $15.55 So. Missouri $18.34

California $15.13

Sunshine State saw the largest monthly decrease. Florida dairymen got an average of $18.62, down from $19.65 in September.

Southern Missouri posted the second-highest price: $18.34. That was down from September’s $18.66.

Farmers in the Southeast States – Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi – were paid an average of $17.84, down from $18.48 in September.

The Appalachian States – Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia – wound up with the fourth-highest October average. It ended at $17.78, down 22 cents.

The New England States – Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont – were just one nickel behind, at $17.73, compared to $18.13 a month earlier.

Illinois dairymen claimed the nexthighest October price: $16.88. That was down from $17.55 in September.

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Klein’s Cow Palace awarded Form-A-Feed Outstanding Dairyman of the Year Dean and Lois Klein and Eric and Chassidy Klein of Klein’s Cow Palace in Lake City, Minn. received the 2016 Form-A-Feed Outstanding Dairyman of the Year Award at the Form-A-Feed Professional Dairy Conference at Jackpot Junction in Morton, Minn. on January 19.

This is the 7th year Form-A-Feed has awarded an Outstanding Dairyman of the Year Award at their annual Dairy Conference. To qualify for this award, a Form-A-Feed representative must nominate a recipient for their commitment and involvement in the dairy industry, community and country.

The Klein family, currently milking 450 Holstein cows and growing, are welldeserving of this award. The Klein’s have a long history of participating in local organizations and their community. When their children were young, Lois and Dean were active as 4-H leaders and Dean served on the school board at the local parochial school their children attended. Lois served on the Executive Council for 4-H and the Wabasha County Extension Committee. They are members of Plainview Milk Product Cooperative, where Dean has sat on the board of directors. The Klein’s are also Minnesota Milk members and have received recognition for the 5 Stay Dairy Award from Minnesota Milk for environmental stewardship. In 2015, Klein’s Cow Palace hosted the very rst Family Night on the Farm.

The Klein family also open their farm regularly for dairy tours, including a program called Dairy Day Camp. Dairy Day camp is organized by the Minnesota Farmers Union and is an opportunity for 50 plus children to visit a real working farm and learn about agriculture.

Johnson named executive director of Wisconsin Holstein Association The Wisconsin Holstein Association would like to announce the addition of Darin Johnson as Executive Director. Johnson brings an extensive background in the dairy industry, having more than a decade of experience as a Regional Sales Representative for Holstein USA. Johnson will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the association including membership, employee relations, and all operational needs.

Previously, Johnson was an agricultural lender with River Bank of Bangor.

Prior to his lending experience, he was a regional representative for Holstein Association USA, serving the Colorado area Holstein breeders by promoting Holstein USA products and services, educating members and providing genetic consultation. Johnson worked directly with the members in his area to build long-term relationships, and represented Holstein USA at various industry functions. He also holds a degree in dairy science from UW-Madison.

Johnson grew up on Elm Mound Farms, a registered Holstein farm located in Bangor, Wis. Over the years, he was extremely involved in the Wisconsin Holstein Association where he served as a summer intern and was recognized as a Distinguished Junior Member. Darin was active in 4-H dairy judging and is a graduate of Holstein Foundation’s Young Dairy Leaders Institute.

Minnesota AgriGrowth Council elects Lunemann to chair of board of directors The Minnesota AgriGrowth Council is pleased to announce the election of Pat Lunemann, partner and general manager of Twin Eagle Dairy, as chair of its board of directors. Twin Eagle Dairy, located near Clarissa, Minn. operates an 800 cow dairy. Lunemann is past-president of the Minnesota Milk Producers Association.

He will provide leadership to AgriGrowth’s 25-member board, which sets strategic direction and policy to guide AgriGrowth’s work in support of Minnesota’s food and agriculture sector.

In addition to his service to AgriGrowth and the Minnesota Milk Producers Association, Lunemann was the youngest elected member to serve on the Land O’ Lakes Board of Directors, where he served for six years. In his nal year on the Land O’ Lakes board, he served as the dairy committee chair. Lunemann was a Humphrey Institute Policy Fellow and was in the MN/Iowa LEAD program (a predecessor to the present-day MARL program) for two years.

Wisconsin Corn Promotion Board re-elects three directors Wisconsin’s corn growers have re-elected three directors to the industry’s market order board. Re-elected in District 1 is Randall Woodruff, Chippewa Falls; District 2, Thomas Gills, River Falls; and District 7, Ken Rosenow, Oconomowoc.

The three directors will serve three-year terms starting February 1, 2017.

The districts represent the following counties: District 1: Douglas, Bayeld, Ashland, Iron, Vilas, Burnett, Washburn, Sawyer, Price, Oneida, Polk, Barron, Rusk, Lincoln, Chippewa, Taylor, Eau Claire, Clark, Marathon, Jackson, Wood, Portage, and Waupaca counties.

District 2: St. Croix, Dunn, Pierce, Pepin, Buffalo, and Trempealeau counties.

District 7: Green Lake, Dodge, Washington, Ozaukee, Waukesha, and Milwaukee counties.

The nine-member Wisconsin Corn Promotion Board is responsible for overseeing the collection and use of about $1.7 million in assessment fees paid by Wisconsin corn growers. The money is used to support the industry through research, market development and consumer education. The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection administers elections for the Wisconsin Corn Promotion Board and other commodity marketing boards in the state.

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His slight Southern accent suggests otherwise.

In 2013, Swartz, who grew up in Savannah, Mo., not far from Kansas City, decided to sell his successful custom harvesting business and move up to Gilman, Wis., to start milking cows.

He currently milks 50 cows in a tie-stall barn.

“I was getting tired of traveling all the time,” said Swartz. “I wanted to do something where I was, basically, stuck at home.”

Swartz remembers his dad, David, having dairy cattle around up until he was 4 years old, milking the family’s herd in a at-barn parlor. He gures that, with his own farm, he’s a fourth or fth-generation dairyman.

“Where I grew up, it was known as the ‘dairy mile’ because there were 27 dairy farms within a mile,” he said.

“Now, there’s only one. All of the small family dairies went under in the 1980s.”

While milking cows seemed out of reach, it was nowhere far from sight or far from mind in his young heart. In the meantime, Swartz did what he knew best to satisfy the farming itch.

“My rst time in a combine was when I was 3,” he said. “We farmed 1,200 acres of row crops and ran about 50-head of beef cows.”

His father had always done some custom combining, but did not travel very far from home.

By the age of 15, Swartz was in the driver’s seat for himself after purchasing his rst combine, and by 17, he was on the road.

“My parents dropped me off with a trucker, and six hours later I was cutting wheat in Oklahoma,” he said.

Over the course of the next eight

years, he traveled up and down the Great Plains from Texas to Canada, from May through September, with his growing eet of combines and semis.

“My biggest customer was Coors.

I cut their barley in Colorado, which amounted to about 5 million cans of beer,” Swartz said.

During the offseason, Swartz acquired the equipment he needed to start farming on his own. By age 23, he decided to call it a day for his custom career.

In addition to being a hired hand on his close friend, Ronnie’s, farm, who was blind, he also started farming 3,500 acres in a partnership.

“2012 was a hard year. All my Tristan Swartz crops burned up Dairy producer in the drought that summer. One day after checking my crops, I stopped in to see Ronnie. He’d been hit by a tractor, and he died,” Swartz said.

Two days after Ronnie’s death, Swartz’s landlord gave him two options: his rent was going to double or Swartz had to leave.

“He voided the contract on me, so I left,” said Swartz.

Swartz began to think about jumping into dairy farming much harder, even though getting established as a start-up dairy farm in his region was next to impossible.

Everyone from his great-uncle, a retired dairy farmer, to Ronnie’s mother, Dorothy, to his own father, advised him to, in a sense, get out of Dodge.

“Dorothy said, ‘If you want to milk cows, go,’” Swartz said. “Hearing her say that, especially after Ronnie died, was kind of the catalyst.”

Swartz started looking at farms far from home. One in particular caught his eye near Gilman, Wis. “The dairy industry is dead down there, and everyone thought I was nuts,” Swartz said, referring to his former stomping grounds. “When I found this farm, I just hopped on I-35 and went north.”

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ConƟnued from SWARTZ | Page 32 2013, Swartz auctioned off most of his harvesting equipment and a massive collection of antique machinery, including nine self-propelled combines, in lieu of his upcoming move north.

“Not many people came, but a friend of mine is an electrician and bought a combine for $130,000,” Swartz said.

“After the auction, he handed me back the keys. He just wanted to help me out.”

After hauling 37 loads of machinery, Swartz was planting corn on his new farm in Gilman on May 30, and on July 6, the cows came home.

Not long after, his parents decided to call Wisconsin home, as well.

“We brought all our older Texas Longhorn cattle up here during the winter. Our friends thought we were like the movie, “Lonesome Dove,” where we were driving Longhorns up to Canada,” Swartz said, chuckling.

The Swartz family’s rst northern winter, in 2013-2014, was a season that even most Wisconsin farmers will not

forget anytime soon.

“My mom kept asking why we moved to an area where the air hurts her face, and my dad was threatening to move back home,” Swartz said.

“I’m 602.7 miles from my back door in Missouri, but this is home now.”

TRISTAN SWARTZ, DAIRY PRODUCER

Four years later, Swartz and his parents are still here. Dairying, for the most part, is going very well for the young Missourian.

“I’m 602.7 miles from my back door in Missouri, but this is home now,” Swartz said.

Swartz, who grew up with milking parlors, fell in love with tiestall milking. He milks mostly Holsteins with

a couple of Jerseys, and the cows are producing, on average, between 70 and 80 pounds of milk a day with a somatic cell count around 70,000.

“We’re 100 percent self-sufcient when it comes to making feed,” said Swartz. “We grind everything ourselves and even mix our own mineral.”

Swartz is also a rm believer in intensive rotational grazing, as weather allows. During the winter, the cows eat dry hay, haylage and ground ear corn.

“The cows are so much healthier on grass, and it’s been great for their feet, too,” he said. “The rst week of grazing was a nightmare, especially when a bear got in with the cows and made a mess, but I am a believer now.”

To boost grazing ability and efciency, he has begun to utilize some unique crossbreeding.

“I’ve started crossing Longhorns with Holsteins. They’re the original grazers,” Swartz said, referring to the adverse environments that Longhorns are often raised in. “They’re deep-bod-

ied and resilient cattle.”

Swartz deeply loves his cattle and, as a result, doesn’t do much culling.

“If they’ve been a good cow, they go to what I call the retirement pasture,” he said, smiling. “The cows all have names, and they’re a bunch of goofballs.”

Swartz credits his dad with helping him succeed in farming.

“He said that before I could be a farmer I had to do something else rst, and that was the best thing I ever did,” he said. “He taught me everything I know about farming, and being an efcient farmer. It’s not what you spend, but what you don’t spend.”

While the past year has been trying with milk prices, Swartz is enjoying his new found life as a dairy farmer way up north.

“It’s not always easy, but milking cows doesn’t feel like work,” he said.

“It should be illegal to have this much fun.”

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Items to note for 2016 income tax preparation: • The 179 expense election is $500,000. Generally, the 179 expense election allows producers to deduct up to $500,000 of machinery or equipment purchases for the year of the purchase.

There is a dollar-for-dollar phase-out for purchases of more than $2,010,000.

• The additional 50 percent rst-year bonus depreciation provision is in effect for 2016. It is equal to 50 percent of the adjusted basis after 179 expensing. It only applies to new property that has a recovery period of 20 years or less. This provision is scheduled to be phased out.

• The standard deduction is $12,600 for those who are married and ling jointly. The deduction is $6,300 for singles.

• The personal exemption amount is $4,050.

• Long-term capital gains and qualied dividend income is taxed at a 0 percent rate for individuals in the 10 or 15 percent tax brackets,15 percent for those in the 25 to 35 percent brackets, and 20 percent for those in the top income bracket.

• The annual individual retirement account contribution is $5,500 for 2016 or $6,500 for individuals 50 or older.

• The annual gift tax exclusion for 2016 remains at $14,000.

• The 2016 Social Security wage base is $118,500.

• The business mileage rate for 2016 is 54 cents per mile.

• Crop insurance proceeds, if received in 2016, may be deferred to 2017 if you qualify. You must use cash accounting and show that, under normal business practices, the sale of damaged crops would occur in a future tax year.

• A livestock deferral can be made by those who had a forced sale of livestock because of a weather-related disaster.

• Remember that qualifying farmers can elect to compute their current tax liability by averaging, during a three-year period, all or part of the current year’s elected farm income. This is done on Schedule J. North Dakota farmers who elect to use income averaging for federal purposes also may use Form ND-1FA, which is income averaging for North Dakota income tax calculations.

• Some producers may have generated a net operating loss (NOL) for 2016.

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Baldwin talks DAIRY PRIDE Act, immigration, Trump administration

By Katy Macek Chippewa Herald

JIM FALLS, Wis. – Sitting around a dining room table, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) met with eight dairy farmers from Jim Falls, Boyd, Rice Lake and others as far as Albany, Minn., the morning of Jan. 28 at Triple T Farms, co-owned by brothers Tom and Tony Bowe, in Chippewa Falls.

Baldwin came to discuss her DAIRY PRIDE Act, which she hopes will enforce current Food and Drug Administration’s regulation to properly label milk, yogurt and other dairy products. But, as these farmers know, there is a lot more that goes into dairy farming than labels.

The group of nine chatted for nearly an hour about

topics ranging from Sonny Perdue, President Donald Trump’s pick for agriculture secretary, NAFTA and other trade agreements and immigration to the need for workers.

A point of pride The Food and Drug Administration denes milk as the lacteal secretion ... obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows.”

Baldwin and the dairy farmers agreed, products such as soy milk or almond milk, as well as those that misrepresent other dairy products, are hurting the dairy industry.

“People don’t recognize a lot of effort was put into dening milk as a law so we can guarantee consumers when they are buying a product called milk, it

is of highest quality and nutritional standards,” Baldwin said. “Currently these other products aren’t meeting those standards.”

Baldwin’s DAIRY PRIDE Act would require the FDA to issue guidance for imitation dairy products that are improperly labeled within 90 days, and report to Congress to hold the agency accountable.

There is existing federal regulation, but Baldwin said the FDA has not enforced improper labeling regulations, leading to an increase in these products.

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“Milk consumption has been dropping for several years and that is denitely a part of it,” Schlanglen said.

“People believe they’re getting something really close or similar (to milk) and they aren’t, it’s not near the same nutrition. The label should be clear what it means.”

Of course, a successful dairy farm wouldn’t be anywhere without its workers, and another major concern they discussed was the workforce, where they come from and who they are.

“When talking about ag workfroce, dairy is different because it is 24/7, 365 days a year,” Baldwin said. “The best approach we can take is recognizing we have workforce needs that include people who aren’t necessarily born here.”

Tom Bowe’s answer to his response to immigration policies was simple: Quick visas.

“We’re competing with local manufacturers, labor market is tight all around and we don’t have a very glorious job,” Bowe said. “Quick visas to get these workers here, that’s the route we need to take.”

A new ag face Baldwin said she has only briey interacted with Trump’s ag secretary pick, Perdue, but she’s heard favorable reviews so far.

The former senator from Georgia may not be from a dairy state, but Baldwin will make sure he knows Wisconsin’s needs at her scheduled meeting with him.

“We are America’s dairyland and we’re proud of that,” Baldwin said. “I want him to understand there are policies that need to be focused on that will disproportionately affect our state if not done right, especially as we head toward a new farm bill.”

She also wants him to be aware of the ag industry as a whole. Economic development in rural areas is also important for dairy farmers, such as good broadband connections, which affect farmers from marketing their products.

“It’s not just policies that affect family farms, but also what affects rural communities and their well being,” she said.

The National Milk Producers and Midwest Dairy Coalition have endorsed Perdue and farmers like Schlanglen have condence in him.

On the borders In addition to closing off workers, closing borders could also affect production.

Sarah Schmidt, AMPI’s director of public affairs, said Trump’s conversations about building a wall on the Mexican border could very negatively impact the dairy industry. “(Mexico) is one of our major exporters of non-fat dry milk,” Schmidt said. “Any kind of tariff rate or tax situation that would decrease our ability to bring non-fat milk into Mexico could signicantly impact dairy farmers here in Wisconsin.”

On the northern end, Ontario, Canada’s recent trade announcement to use condensed milk when crossing the border, thus easing transportation costs, also alarmed Baldwin. The U.S. depends on exporting a high-quality product.

Baldwin hopes Perdue will get on that as soon as possible, before other provinces follow Ontario’s lead.

With topics turning toward the Trump Administration, Baldwin was also asked about her thoughts on the new president. She said he needs to be held accountable on his pledge to help the American people, but there are things she thinks will harm them, like the dismantling of health reforms.

She said Trump has gone against his pledge to “drain the swamp” by putting billionaires in powerful positions.

But overall she remains optimistic.

“We need cabinet secretaries who are working for the American people every day, not trying to enrich themselves or others in the administration,” Baldwin said. “The people of this state sent me to ght for the working people of my state, and my job hasn’t changed.”

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optional 4 Tbsp. seedless raspberry jam, melted

Frosting: 1 pkg. (8 oz.) 1/2 c. baking cold cream cocoa cheese 1 Tbsp.

1/3 c. butter, raspberry softened liqueur 4 c. powdered sugar Line three greased 9-inch round baking pans with waxed paper and grease the paper; set aside.

In a large bowl, combine the rst six ingredients. Combine buttermilk, oil and vanilla; add to the dry ingredients. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition; beat for two minutes. Gradually add coffee.

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Gradually add the cooled milk mixture; beat for four minutes or until light and uffy. Beat in liqueur, salt and food coloring.

Food columnist, Natalie Schmitt Level tops of cakes if necessary using dental oss to slice off any mounds. Place one layer on a serving plate; spread with about 2 Tbsp. jam. Place remaining layers on waxed paper; spread one of the remaining layers with the remaining jam. Let stand for 30 minutes. Spread 1/2 c. lling over cake on plate to within 1/4 inch of edges. Top with jam-covered cake layer then spread with remaining lling. Top with remaining layer.

In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until smooth.

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Spread over crackers. Chill until rm, about an hour. Cut into small squares.

Natalie, Mark and his brother, Al, Schmitt farm together near Rice, Minn. They milk 100 registered Holsteins under the RALMA prex.

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.

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FEED BUNKS

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From the kitchen of Kathleen Nigon, Greenwood, Wis.

Pictured with optional guard rail post mounted on the inside of the bunk or can also be placed outside.

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Crush Oreos. Set aside a small portion. Melt butter and mix with remaining Oreos. Put mixture in bottom of 9x13 pan. Put ice cream on top of Oreos. Pour syrup over ice cream and cover with whipped cream. Sprinkle the remaining Oreos over top. Put in freezer until it is time to serve.

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Combine water and butter together and bring to a boil in a pan. Turn boiling mixture to low and stir in flour. Take off heat and add eggs until smooth.

Spread mixture in a greased jelly roll pan and bake for 30 minutes at 400 degrees. Cool crust. Mix one large package of instant vanilla pudding according to package directions. Mix pudding with 8 oz. cream cheese.

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Dairy Star • Second Section • Saturday, February 11, 2017 • Page 39

From the kitchen of Elle Tibor in Minnesota City, Minn.

BULK STORAGE BINS

Graham Cracker Pie Crust 1 package graham crackers 2 Tbsp. sugar 1/2 c. butter, melted

Filling & Topping 1/2 c. + 2 Tbsp. sugar 2½ c. milk 2 eggs (separate yolks and whites) 3 Tbsp. cornstarch

Mix together and press into pie tin (for thicker crust double the recipe). Also set aside about 2 Tbsp. of the cracker crumbs for later use. Put in oven for 5-10 minutes or until it browns. Set aside. Mix 1/2 c. sugar and 2 c. milk into saucepan. Heat until it gets hot, stirring frequently. Meanwhile, mix together 2 egg yolks, 1/2 c. milk, and 3 Tbsp. cornstarch. Add this mixture to the mixture in saucepan. Stir continuously until thick and bubbly. Pour into pie shell. Beat 2 egg whites until stiff and add 2 Tbsp. of sugar. Pour on top of pie. Sprinkle with cracker crumbs and put in oven until it browns, about 10 minutes.

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Fry pork chops for 5 minutes on each side. Brown potatoes and put in bottom of greased 9x11 pan. Cut chops into bite size pieces and place on potatoes.

Layer onion over chops. (I brown my onion with the potatoes.) Spread soup over top. Place cheese on top of that. Bake 25 minutes at 350 degrees.

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SPECIAL DAIRY SALE

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