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More time for family Olsons solve labor issue through robotics

By Stacey Smart

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BIRNAMWOOD, Wis. – Having more time to spend with family is Kurt Olson Jr.’s favorite thing about his farm’s robotic milking unit. He likes to go camping and attend family events, and milking with robots has given Olson the type of freedom that is often hard for farmers to attain.

“The flexibility and free time robots provide is a big benefit,” Olson said. “The beauty of robots is there’s no timetable. You set your own timetable. The flexibility is what I really like and knowing the cows can milk themselves. I can start chores whenever I want.”

The Olsons milk 630 cows and crop 1,450 acres near Birnamwood. Olson is the third generation to operate his family’s farm. He and his wife, Krysta, who farm with their four boys – twins Luke and Carter, 10, Evan, 6, and

Reid, 4 – bought the farm from his parents, Kurt and Cindy, in 2019. At the time, the Olsons were milking 500 cows in a double-8 parlor built in 1999. When the time came to upgrade facilities, the Olsons chose to integrate Lely robots into an existing freestall barn. They made a 334-by-178 addition to the barn and fired up their 10 Lely A5 robots March 2, 2020.

“Overall, I’m happy, and I’d do it all again in a heartbeat,” Olson said. “Life is so much simpler.”

Olson Dairy Farms was featured during the Professional Dairy Producers Dairy Robotics Tour July 15. During this event, dairy farmers and other industry professionals had the opportunity to see robots in action at three Shawano County farms.

Labor issues were the driving force behind Olson’s decision to go with robots.

“We used to have seven employees milking 24/7,” Olson said. “Now, I have

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The Olson family and employees – (front, from le ) Luke, Reid and Evan Olson; (back, from le ) Cindy, Kurt and Kurt Jr. Olson, Jeremy Schmidt and Tyler Giddings – milk 630 cows and crop farm 1,450 acres near Birnamwood, Wisconsin. Not pictured are Kurt Jr.’s wife, Krysta, and their son, Carter.

my right-hand man, Jeremy Schmidt, and a barn guy, Tyler Giddings, who focuses on animals, as well as a couple part-time people.”

The cow barn is not the only place the Olsons are slashing labor costs. Last

year, they put in a Alma Pro automatic calf feeder with three feeding stations that cut labor from six hours down to about an hour. Calves are also growing bigger as a result of the new feeding method.

“Robotics minimize labor,” Olson said. “They provide huge labor savings.”

Olson said he cut at least 40 hours of labor per day between the barn and calf

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Since switching to robots, milk production has climbed 10 pounds. In the parlor, cows averaged 85 pounds a day. Now, they are milking around 96 pounds with 4.1% fat and 3.3% protein on 2.7 robot visits per day.

“I didn’t think it was possible,” Olson said. “It didn’t happen right away.

This past March was our turnaround point. We also changed nutritionists, and our new guy brought a lot of robotics knowledge.”

Olson tried three feed

options in the robot – a traditional pellet, fine ground feed and corn gluten – before deciding on a pellet.

“We like the consistency of that pellet,” he said. “High producers receive 11-12 pounds, but we’re trying to cut back. I didn’t like the corn gluten as the fines and pellets would separate. I also didn’t like the fine ground feed.”

Olson and his team use bi-fold gates for fetching and sorting. Cows are fetched at 3 a.m. and 3 p.m.

“The gates work great,” Olson said.

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A cow enters one of the robots at Olson Dairy Farms near Birnamwood, Wisconsin. The herd is milking around 95 pounds per day on 2.7 robot visits.

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The Olsons use an Alma Pro automa c calf feeder with three feeding sta ons to feed calves at their farm near Birnamwood, Wisconsin.

The farm’s nine-row addition to its freestall barn features 360 stalls and an area for dry cows as well as a maternity pen measuring 84 feet by 48 feet. In addition, there are stalls for heifers, which enter the main dairy barn when four months pregnant. The barn includes

a fetch pen for fresh cows and lame cows, and fresh animals stay in the sort pen for 10 days. Olson said the barn is set up for one guy to handle everything.

“The maternity pen was really important to me,” he said. “We used to have a 12-by-12 pen that calved

everything, and I knew I wanted a lot bigger pen in the future.”

The change to robots also brought upon a change from alternative bedding to sand bedding. The Olsons tore out mattresses in the

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older part of the barn and now bed Olson does not get stressed by twice a week with 5 inches of sand. robot calls.

“The biggest thing we noticed “Robot calls don’t bother me a with robots is that the cows’ bit,” he said. “If a robot isn’t able to demeanor changed. They are very milk cows for some reason, I’ll get a notice. Sometimes it just needs to restarted – it’s as simple as that.

“If I could do it again, be When you have robots, you need a dealer and good service. Those I would put myself good are the most important things. We make sure we do all of the scheduled through all those maintenance.” sleepless nights. The After getting production where he wants it, Olson is now ready to robots have given me tackle somatic cell count. Currently around 120,000 to 150,000, Olson is a huge peace striving to bring that number down.

Olson has advice for dairy of mind.” farmers considering robots.

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Fresh endeavor yields good milk, great cheese Jensens grow sheep creamery from ground up

By Danielle Nauman danielle.n@dairystar.com

WESTBY, Wis. – About 20 years ago, with a flock of 50 sheep, Dean and Brenda Jensen embarked on an adventure neither could have predicted.

“Dean heard about people milking sheep,” Brenda Jensen said. “I thought he was crazy. He dragged me to one of the meetings, and I became a crazy one too. I found it interesting, the passion for the sheep milk and the proponents of the milk: being highly nutritious with polyunsaturated fat and the small size of the animals.”

In the beginning, the Jensens worked off the farm,

and today, Dean continues to manage a mental health therapy clinic.

Since that modest start, the Jensens have built Hidden Springs Creamery from the ground up, growing their flock and farm near Westby. The farm is home to 700 sheep with a milking flock of about 350 and is complete with an on-farm creamery for processing the milk and coolers for storing and aging the cheese.

“When we first started, we were part of the Wisconsin Sheep Dairy Cooperative and marketed our milk through them to New York to be made into yogurt,” Jensen said.

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The sheep at Hidden Springs spend a lot of me grazing. They are largely grassfed, receiving only small amounts of corn in the milking parlor.

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Dean and Brenda Jensen operate Hidden Springs Creamery on their 700-sheep dairy near Westby, Wisconsin. The Jensens started milking sheep 20 years ago and have spent the past 10 years developing their specialty cheese.

the other members of the cooperative, the Jensens’ milk was then shipped once every couple of months by truck to the plant in New York.

After five years of selling frozen milk through the cooperative, the Jensens began to explore a valueadded product.

“We went to some cheese classes that were hands-on; I loved it,” Jensen said. “I loved the smell of the sheep milk heating up; I loved the feel of my hands in the curds and whey. I have a MBA and always dealt with numbers, but I really fell in love with that process.”

The Jensens began working with area cheese plants to have cheese made from their milk while still selling some to the cooperative. Jensen used her vacation time to work with local cheesemakers and take classes to complete her cheesemakers license.

“We made the decision to build the creamery rather quickly,” Jensen said. “I made my first batch of cheese, 100 pounds. I sold that relatively easily and thought, ‘Yes, I absolutely can do this.’ So, we built a creamery.”

Resources like the Dairy Business Innovation Center

helped the Jensens learn to develop, brand and market their product. They now make five styles of cheese, including a soft cheese they make in six flavors.

Names for the cheeses use inspiration from the area and the Jensens’ heritage: a blue cheese named Bohemian Blue; a cave-aged mountainstyle cheese named for Ocooch Mountain, part of the local topography; and the Driftless line of soft cheeses.

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The sheep at Hidden Springs Creamery are milked in a double-12 parlor near Westby, Wisconsin.

to create consumer awareness for not only their cheese but for sheep milk and cheese in general. The cheese is now marketed wholesale through distributors, including several that have a national distribution network.

During their 10 years of cheesemaking, the Jensens have garnered numerous awards through both the American Cheese Society and the World Cheese Championships.

Jensen is hands-on with the cheesemaking and the sheep as well.

“I am passionate about making the cheese, but I am especially passionate about our milk ...”

BRENDA JENSEN, DAIRY FARMER

The Hidden Springs flock consists of two breeds: East Friesians, a German breed known for high production; and Lacaunes, a French breed known for high components.

Jensen likens them to Holsteins and Jerseys, respectively.

The Jensens milk year-round, with primary lambing seasons taking place in the spring and fall. Because sheep are typically seasonal breeders, the Jensens use ovsynch with CIDRs to help manipulate the reproductive cycles for the fall lambing group.

“Once we get sheep set up for a season, we keep them lambing in that season,” Jensen said. “Typically,

the lambs will fall into the season they were born in.”

The Jensens aim to have their ewes lamb the first time at about 1 year of age. Along with using rams for natural service, they import frozen semen from Europe, and some ewes are inseminated laparoscopically.

“It is difficult to do, but we try to import semen from Europe to improve our genetics,” Jensen said.

Average production in the Jensens’ flock is about 5 pounds of milk per sheep per day.

“We have some ewes that milk as much as 10 to 11 pounds per day, but they have to produce at least a couple of pounds per day to earn their keep,” Jensen said.

While Jensen enjoys wearing all hats on the farm and in the creamery, she quickly learned she could not be a one-person operation.

“In the beginning, I thought I would milk and care for the sheep, then go into the creamery and make the cheese and then take it the farmers market,” Jensen said. “I learned that was not the case.”

Like many dairy farms, finding good help can be a struggle. Jensen is pleased to have found a team with the right mix of personalities to make Hidden Springs Creamery a success both in the barn and in the creamery.

“I am passionate about making the cheese, but I am especially passionate about our milk: taking good care of our animals, getting good milk and having a great product to sell and talk about to the public,” Jensen said. “That is a very rewarding system.”

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Weyauwega Star Dairy makes world’s longest string cheese

Record-breaking product measures 3,832 feet, weighs 500 pounds

By Stacey Smart

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WEYAUWEGA, Wis. – For the third time in 26 years, Weyauwega Star Dairy found its way into the record books for making the world’s longest piece of string cheese. On June 24, the colossal cheese stretched four city blocks before doubling back again in the town of Weyauwega. Volunteers came out to hold onto a piece of record-breaking history that measured 3,832 feet long or about three-quarters of a mile.

The 500-pound string was said to equal approximately 30,000 individual sticks.

“We’re proud of what we did and the support our community gave us,” said Gerard Knaus, Master Cheesemaker at Weyauwega Star Dairy. “It was just awesome to see all these people show up to help us. We have a great community up here, and the support we get from our city is incredible. This was a group effort.”

Started by the Knaus family in 1975, Weyauwega Star Dairy was recognized by Guinness World Records for the longest piece of string cheese in 1995

when Knaus’ father, Jim, made a piece about 1,500 feet long.

In 2006, the Knaus family beat its own record after producing a 2,000 foot string cheese.

When Knaus’ friend and city chamber employee, Amanda Haufschuldt, asked Knaus if he would be willing to outdo the previous record, he said sure.

“I never even hesitated,” Knaus said. “June is dairy month.

So I said, ‘Why not?’”

The cheese took about 90 minutes to uncoil from a trailer pulled by a tractor driven

by Knaus. About 2,000 people helped Knaus and his crew unravel the string cheese so it could be measured. Standing about 7 feet apart on a closed Main Street, each person held on to a section of the cheese that seemed to have no end. The reward for participation was taking home a portion of string cheese which was cut with scissors after the record was set.

“Everybody got at least 2 pounds of cheese,” Knaus said.

Knaus was not worried about his lengthy string cheese masterpiece falling apart.

“The thing with string cheese is it’s hard to break,” Knaus said. “It’s like taffy. It just keeps

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Members of the Weyauwega community gather to help measure a record-breaking piece of string cheese made by Weyauwega Star Dairy that totaled 3,832 feet June 24 near Weyauwega, Wisconsin. This is the third me the dairy broke the world’s record for the longest piece of string cheese.

“Having my dad there with stretching. You can’t break it in “The cheese was never half.” touched by a human hand,” us was priceless,” Knaus said.

Weyauwega Star Dairy Knaus said. “We had two peo- “He helped put it together. When makes a mozzarella and provo- ple from quality control there to I told him we were doing this, he lone style string cheese which make sure it was wrapped right.” said, ‘I have to be there to help gives it a better flavor, accordThe world’s longest string ing to Knaus. The cheese was cheese took about eight hours to wrapped in plastic for sanitary make at the hands of eight peoTurn to WEYAUWEGA reasons, which also helped hold ple, including Knaus’ 85-year-old | Page 9 it together. father.

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With locations in Weyauwega, Rosendale, Fond du lac, Sheboygan and Sun Prairie, Weyauwega Star Dairy makes, distributes and converts a variety of awardwinning cheese products and also makes butter. Knaus’ brothers, Mike, Steve and Dan, have roles in the operation as well – an operation that runs four generations deep. Mike works at the Weyauwega location with Knaus and also had a hand in making and distributing the longest string cheese this summer.

“We have every market covered at Weyauwega Star Dairy,” Knaus said. “We have a full shred line, cut and wrap operations, cold pack and cheese spread to serve any and all needs. We also slice our own cheese and do converting for others.”

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“It was a really fun day,” Knaus said.

“We had a great time.”

There is already talk about the Knaus family surpassing their latest record.

“We were put up to the challenge to make a string cheese stretching from Highway 10 all the way to Main Street,” Knaus said. “We’ll probably end up doing it in a couple years. We’re up for the task again, but we’re going to rest awhile first. I’m sure the next string cheese we make will be well over a mile long.”

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Year to date cheese output hits 6.8 billion pounds The Agriculture Department announced the July Federal order Class III benchmark milk price at $16.49 per hundredweight, down 72 cents from June and $8.05 below the inflated price a year ago when Uncle Sam’s Food Box program was buying lots of cheese. Last year’s July Class III price was the second highest ever, at $24.54, 6 cents shy of the record set in September 2014. The seven month Class III average stands at $16.90, down from $17.30 at this time a year ago and compares to $15.58 in 2019.

Late Friday morning Class III futures portended August at $16.02; September, $16.55; October, $17.05; November, $17.75; and December at $17.76.

The July Class IV price is $16.00 per cwt., down 35 cents from June but $2.24 above a year ago. Its seven month average is at $15.01, up from $13.78 a year ago, and compares to $16.11 in 2019.

You’ll recall that USDA’s preliminary data pegged June milk production at 18.96 billion pounds, up 2.9% from June 2020. The latest Dairy Products report shows where that milk ended up, though StoneX Dairy reminds us that the year over year changes are mostly driven by the anomalies of last year’s COVID pandemic.

Starting with cheese; June output totaled 1.12 billion pounds, down 2.9% from May and just 0.2% above June 2020. Year to date (YTD) total cheese output hit 6.8 billion pounds, up 3.3% from the same period in 2020.

Italian style cheese totaled 473.1 million pounds, down 1.7% from May and 2.6% below a year ago.

YTD Italian was at 2.9 billion pounds, up 1.0%.

American type cheese, at 453.9 million pounds, was down 5.1% from May but 5.1% above a year ago.

YTD American was at 2.8 billion pounds, up 6.1%.

Mozzarella output totaled 370.2 million pounds, down 4.9% from a year ago, with YTD mozzarella at 2.2 billion pounds, up 0.4% from 2020.

Cheddar totaled 327.9 million pounds, down 18.1 million pounds or 5.2% from May, but 24.9 million or 8.2% above a year ago. YTD Cheddar hit 1.99 billion pounds, up 5.6% from 2020.

U.S. churns produced 160.7 million pounds of butter, down 24.2 million pounds or 13.1% from May, but up 11.6 million pounds or 7.8% from a year ago.

YTD butter output reached 1.12 billion pounds, down 2.1% from 2020.

Yogurt totaled 386.1 million pounds, down 3.2% from a year ago, with YTD at 2.4 billion pounds, up 3.9%.

Dry whey totaled 80.6 million pounds, up 2.9 million pounds or 3.7% from May, but 1.1 million or 1.3% below a year ago. YTD dry whey was at 472 million pounds, down 3.2%.

Dry whey stocks climbed to 80.6 million pounds, up 2.9 million or 3.7% from May, but were 1.1 million pounds or 1.3% below a year ago.

Nonfat dry milk output fell to 184.6 million pounds, down 20.8 million pounds or 10.1% from May but up 30.6 million or 19.9% from a year ago.

Production YTD was at 1.1 billion pounds, up 11.4% from 2020.

Stocks crept up to 349.5 million pounds, up 1.3 million or 0.4% from May, as shipping challenges at U.S. ports continue, and were 68.4 million pounds or 24.3% above those a year ago.

Skim milk powder production totaled 32.6 million pounds, down 3.1 million pounds or 8.7% from May and 27.9 million pounds or 46.1% below a year ago. YTD skim milk powder, at 222.6 million pounds, was down 26.9% from 2020.

June regular hard ice cream output totaled 66.5 million pounds, down 8.6% from a year ago, with YTD output at 378.3 million pounds, up just 0.9% from 2020.

Speaking in the Aug. 9 Dairy Radio Now broadcast, StoneX broker Dave Kurzawski said Dairy Product reports don’t tend to move markets, though he admitted June cheese output was 12 million pounds less than they expected while nonfat dry milk stocks were 20 million pounds heavier than they forecast.

He said the report was basically neutral for cheese and bearish on butter and powder but added; “As we walk into August, we’re getting into a different time of year demand wise. If you look at the GDT numbers, which have been weak for eight events in a row, if you look at the dollar value, $3,000 a metric ton is somewhat of a benchmark. If you’re below that, you’re in kind of a bear market,” he said, “and if you’re above that you’re in kind of a bull market,” adding that he views the summer as a “correction in prices both domestically and globally.”

He also said that USDA’s solicitations this week for fresh milk and string cheese for fourth quarter food assistance and school lunch programs exceeded his expectations and should provide some degree of support for the market.

The USDA will spend $20 million to purchase fluid milk and announced Thursday that it would buy another 3.6 million pounds of cheese through Section 32 in Cheddar chunks and shreds, plus Swiss blocks and slices. StoneX says “This is to say nothing of the

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Tuesday’s Global Dairy Trade saw its weighted average fall for the eighth consecutive session, down 1.0%, following a 2.9% drop July 20 and 3.6% on July 6.

Traders brought 53.1 million pounds of product to market, up from 49.4 million. The average winning price was $3,784 U.S., down from $3,839.

Buttermilk powder was down 8.0%. Whole milk powder was down 3.8%, following a 3.8% decline, and lactose was down 3.1%, after an 8.9% drop.

Butter led the gains, up 3.8%, after it inched 0.8% lower last time. Anhydrous milkfat was up 1.3%, after it slipped 0.3%. Skim milk powder was up 1.5%, after dropping 5.2%, and Cheddar inched 0.7% higher after it gained 1.3% last time.

StoneX says the GDT 80% butterfat butter price equates to $2.0308 per pound U.S., up 7.5 cents, and compares to CME butter which closed Friday at $1.6475. GDT Cheddar, at $1.8437, was up 1.9 cents, and compares to Friday’s CME block Cheddar at $1.6350. GDT skim milk powder averaged $1.37 per pound, up from $1.3476. Whole milk powder averaged $1.6322 per pound, down from $1.6920. CME Grade A nonfat dry milk closed Friday at $1.2550 per pound.

Meanwhile, June U.S. dairy exports remained strong. Nonfat dry milk was up 7.4% from June 2020, with most going to Mexico, according to HighGround Dairy, and to Indonesia. Shipments to China were the highest since August 2014.

HGD says the first half of 2021 translated into record exports to China, Egypt and South America, helping offset losses to Japan and Southeast Asia.

China’s demand has been particularly strong for whey and other proteins and powders.

Cheese exports were down 12.9% but HGD says the losses are skewed by the pandemic-driven volumes observed last year.

CME prices started August scattered. The Cheddar blocks parked at $1.6350 per pound on July 27 and stayed there for 8 successive sessions. Traders apparently took this week off, with no activity. The blocks are priced 7 cents below a year ago when they plunged 54.75 cents, largest week to week block price fall ever.

The barrels fell to $1.3075 per pound on Wednesday, lowest since May 11, 2020, but closed Friday at $1.31, down 8 cents on the week and 20.75 cents below a year ago when they plunged to $1.5175 per pound, a record 71.75 cent crash.

The spread expanded to 32.75 cents on Tuesday, huge but not close to the record $1.0125 difference on Sept. 21, 2020 when blocks were trading at $2.6475 and barrels at $1.6350. Only 19 cars of barrel were sold on the week.

Midwest cheesemakers tell Dairy Market News week to week sales remain strong as product moves quickly into food service and grocery channels. Milk remains available at discounts but not as low as previous week. Bottling demand increases are chipping away at fluid supplies as schools ramp up. Cheese output remains busy and Midwest inventories are not overly concerning, says DMN. Western retail and food service cheese markets remain steady and international demand remains strong but port congestion continues to cause delays.

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Butter plants report cream is still attainable with multiples remaining in the low 1.20s and readily available from Western states. Retail sales have picked up a bit following a mid-summer lull but butter market tones are anything but stable.

Western cream production is trailing off. More abundant cream supplies, particularly in the Southwest, are supporting busier butter output. Churns are less active in other areas where cream is short or cream cheese production is taking more of the supply. Retail sales are strengthening and food service is steady.

Grade A nonfat dry milk closed Friday at $1.2550 per pound, down 1.25 cents on the week but 30 cents above a year ago, with 10 sales reported on the week.

Dry whey fell to 47.50 cents per pound Thursday, lowest since Jan. 4, but rallied to a Friday close at 54 cents per pound, up 3.75 cents on the week, highest since July 2, and 22 cents above a year ago. 7 sales were reported for the week.

A lower all milk price and higher corn price continued the slide in the U.S. milk feed ratio. The USDA’s latest Ag Prices report showed the June ratio at 1.60, down from 1.69 in May, and compares to 2.38 in June 2020.

The U.S. all milk price averaged $18.40 per cwt., down 80 cents from May but 20 cents above the June 2020 average.

The national average corn price climbed to $6.00 per bushel, up 9 cents from May, after jumping 60 cents from April, and $2.84 per bushel above May 2020.

Soybeans averaged $14.50 per bushel, down 30 cents from May and the first decrease since August 2020, after jumping 90 cents last month, but are still $6.16 per bushel above June 2020.

Alfalfa hay averaged $199 per ton, up $5 from May and $20 above a year ago.

Looking at the cow side of the ledger; the June cull price for beef and dairy combined averaged $73.90 per cwt., up $3.10 from May, $2.90 above June 2020, and $2.30 above the 2011 base average of $71.60 per cwt.

Milk cow replacements averaged $1,310 per head in July, unchanged from April and unchanged from July 2020. Cows averaged $1350 per head in California, down $50 from April and unchanged from a year ago. Wisconsin’s average, at $1,480 per head, was down $10 from April but $130 per head above July 2020.

The Aug. 3 Daily Dairy Report points out that dairies are also dealing with rising transportation and labor costs. The DDR cited U.S. No. 2 retail diesel for the week of Aug 2 at $3.37 per gallon, 94 cents higher than a year ago.

The June margin under the Dairy Margin Coverage program dropped 65 cents from May to $6.24 per cwt, which will generate a June payment of $3.26 for $9.50 per cwt. coverage, according to National Milk.

The feed cost calculation for June was lower by 16 cents per cwt. of milk from May, mostly on lower soybean meal prices, while the all-milk price took a larger than expected drop.

NMPF says the futures-based price outlook indicates that the DMC margin will not rise much above

$7.00 per cwt. through the summer and remain below $9.50 through the end of 2021. USDA reported that estimated DMC payments for the 2021 program exceed $543 million as of July 26.

The latest Crop Progress report showed 91% of the corn crop was silking, as of the week ending Aug.1, up from 79% the previous week, dead even with a year ago, and 5% ahead of the five year average. 38% is in the dough stage, up from 18% the previous week, 1% ahead of a year ago, and 5% ahead of the five year average. 62% of the crop was rated good to excellent, down 2% from the previous week however, and 10% below a year ago.

Looking at soybeans; 86% were blooming, up from 76% the previous week, 2% ahead of a year ago, and 4% ahead of the five year average. 58% were setting pods, 1% ahead of a year ago and 6% ahead of the five year average. 60% were rated good to excellent, up 2% from the previous week, 13% below a year ago.

Checking Capitol Hill, dairy processors praised

the approval of a funding bill passed this week by the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations. Michael Dykes, President and CEO of the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA), called the bill “a win for the health and wellness of all Americans.”

IDFA says “The Committee voted to triple the amount of funding going to support the SNAP Healthy Fluid Milk Incentives Projects as part of the fiscal year 2022 appropriations bill for the USDA, FDA, and related agencies. This program incentivizes SNAP beneficiaries to purchase fluid milk, making it easier for families to get more of the nutrition benefits of milk similar to other programs that encourage purchase of fruits and vegetables. This show of support by the Senate and last week’s vote by the House demonstrates growing awareness in Congress about the important role dairy plays in family health and nutrition especially among our most economically and nutritionally vulnerable families.” It also preserves school’s ability to offer 1% flavored milk to students, says IDFA.

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Barrel cheddar cheese is approaching $1.30/lb. With the exception of a brief period of time in 2020 through the Covid disaster, barrels have not traded this low in August since the disastrous market of 2009. Block cheddar is performing better with spot session values in the $1.60’s.

Spot butter prices have declined 25 cents since midMay to $1.60. During that same period nonfat dry milk prices have declined from $1.35 to $1.25. The combined effect of this price pressure equates to Class IV value loss of $1.91/cwt.

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“I started cutting flowers out of my perennial beds from around the house for myself and to take to neighbors and friends,” she said. “I could just see how happy flowers make people.”

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translated into a 40-by-40 garden with 15 varieties and a flower trial with Syngenta.

“It’s a nice way to trial different flowers and see how they perform in our climate and our soil pH, and see what works best,” she said.

Figuring out how to grow the flowers has been a learning curve, which is what Tweten likes of any new venture.

“I call people and talk to people and wander to the neighbors who grow flowers,” she said about how she learns. “I take in as much education as I possibly can. I’m somebody who has no qualms about calling someone up and asking people to tell me more.”

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the produce gardens are three times the size of my cut flower garden.”

She also set up a drip irrigation system in the soil before planting anything.

“My other three gardens are a lot of work so this cut flower garden has to be low maintenance,” she said.

Just like crops on the farm, the weather can be a challenge for growing food and flowers.

“One swell swoop of the weather – the wind, a hail storm, bugs, lack of rain – it can lay this whole cut flower bed down, and all the time and money invested into putting things in could be done and gone,” Tweten said.

So far this year, Tweten has been fortunate with the weather.

In addition to flowers, Tweten sells other items off the farm for Hearty Sol and also helps on the dairy when needed. She sells produce, which includes hydroponic lettuce, sheep hides, buckskin leather jewelry, Nordic wood art, loofa sponges grown and dried on the farm, wool drier balls from their sheep, homemade sauerkraut, other canned goods, and handmade Christmas wreaths and garland.

Although now a business with a plethora of products, Hearty Sol first started as a blog.

“I wanted to share with viewers our farm story, DIY projects and recipes from scratch we use on the farm,” Tweten said.

“Then it turned into a YouTube channel.”

Tweten created the blog as a way to stay busy. For 12 years, Tweten worked in the event and hospitality business before quitting her job to care for her kids at home.

“Between our third and fourth kid, I realized I’m so used to working at such a high level,” Tweten said. “I couldn’t just sit here. I wanted to be able to do

something out of my home, and I wanted to do something that reflected our farm family’s story and that fact we’re rooted in the American dairy farm. I wanted to preserve that somehow.”

While Tweten still documents with occasional YouTube videos, she also shares updates and daily happenings more frequently on Instagram and Facebook.

For the last three years, Tweten has sold her flowers and produce at the Lewiston Farmers Market and Family Night out, which she helped organizers launch in 2019. She is now the market manager for the event, which features produce vendors, wood-fired pizza, craft beer and wine, and live music.

While the farmers market has been a great way to sell her blooms, Tweten has more flowers than she sells.

“I’m now to the point where I have so many flowers and so much produce that I don’t have enough walk-up traffic to get rid of it all,” she said. “I’ve been trying to think of different ways to sell it.”

Since April, Tweten, along with a few hired experts, has been rebuilding a two-stall horse trailer into a produce and flower selling stand. She first debuted the trailer at an on-farm flower cutting event July 30.

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“We have a lot of fall stuff – squash, pumpkins, garlic braids. That’s a whole bunch of produce to be had after Sept. 1.”

While the flowers are winding down at that time, Tweten’s heart is filled with all the smiles and joy that come from the soul food she provides for others while looking ahead to doing the same in next year’s flower season.

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Con nued from MEYER | Page 16 having an extra hired man.”

Then, the morning crew of workers arrived and began milking. The Meyers have six full-time employees.

At about 6 a.m., Morgan left for her job at a chiropractor office in Watertown. Morgan helps with calf chores after work and on her days off.

For much of their adult lives, Holly and Gary milked 100 cows in a stanchion barn on their home farm.

“This dairy facility came up for sale in 2013 when Brad was about to graduate from Lake Area Technical Institute,” Gary said. “Tim also wanted to join the operation. The timing was right, so we bought the place.”

JERRY NELSON/DAIRY STAR The Meyers send Holly Meyer hands off a sub sandwich to her son, Tim, on the headland of a field their newborn heifer Tim was mowing. Tim ate on the go so that he could finish mowing the field by calves to a calf raiser. sundown.

After the heifers are weaned, they are taken to Gary and Holly’s farm. Brad is in charge of the dairy herd. Everyone pitches Holly is in charge of calf care. in during harvest and planting, and Tim does the After finishing her morning calf chores, Holly feeding on weekends. attended the funeral of a friend who had been her “Brad and I spend about 90% of our time working choir director for many years. Meanwhile, Gary drove on the dairy, and Tim spends about 90% of his time to Madison, Minnesota, to mail forage samples. doing fieldwork,” Gary said.

“The samples will get to St. Cloud the next day if Holly returned home from the funeral shortly we mail them from Madison,” Gary said. “If we mail after noon. She took a sandwich to Tim so he could them from Revillo, it can take three to four days.” eat in the cab of his self-propelled mower conditioner At midmorning, Tim began to mow a 150-acre and keep going. field of third cutting alfalfa. The Meyers have about “I have to finish this field today,” Tim said. “Our neighbor is coming over tomorrow to chop and bag the alfalfa. He will merge five windrows into one, so they will be taking 75 feet of land. Our neighbor has a huge self-propelled chopper and will buzz through this field in a few hours.”

At midafternoon, Brad drove to a neighboring farm to check on his herd of 40 Red Angus cow-calf TIM MEYER, DAIRY FARMER pairs. The cattle are being kept on 90 acres of rented pasture.

500 acres of alfalfa.

“Our dairy facility is full, so we decided to add a “Our first cutting wasn’t too bad, but our second few beef cattle to make use of some of our forages,” cutting was really short,” Tim said. “It looks like Brad said. “I would like to grow our herd of Red the third cutting might have better tonnage than the Angus cows to 70 head.” second cutting. We received 4 inches of rain in early July, but alfalfa doesn’t seem to like hot weather.”

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Con nued from MEYER | Page 18 As the day wound down, Gary used their payloader to transport a round bale of alfalfa hay to a pen of their growing heifers.

“Even our worst hay doesn’t look too bad,” Gary said as he unwound the net wrap from the bale. “Our hay tonnage might be down, but it has good quality.”

The time for evening chores arrived, and Holly

carried buckets of feed to a pen of young heifers. Her two dogs, a corgi and a sheltie, tagged along and watched as she poured the grain mix into a feed bunk.

“We are so happy that Tim and Brad decided to join our operation,” Holly said. “It’s such a blessing to be able to work with your family every day.”

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Crop and Weather

REPORTS

Crop and weather conditions in Dairy Star country

Sacred Heart, MN

(Pine County)

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386 cows, 1,200 acres

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The storm came down 3.5” from Brookings, South Dakota, and is the Since April 1 worst storm I have 15.1” seen. We finished third crop hay July 29; we chopped it all. The fourth crop is coming back really well. We have plenty of hay this year.

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We are in really good shape, moisture-wise, and all of our crops are looking great. Our fourth crop of alfalfa RAINFALL is about 24 inches TOTALS tall just three weeks Last 3 Weeks after we took our last cutting. It looks like we might be able to sneak 3.8” in a fifth cutting during the second week of September. We have Since April 1 17.6” completed the aerial application of fungicide to all of our crops. The corn is really green, and it will be a month or more before we will be able to start chopping corn silage.

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300 cows, 1,100 acres It’s rained more 20 miles north or south of me than around here. A lot of our corn is 7-8 feet tall; some is taller. We did the barley RAINFALL and it was one-third to TOTALS half of a normal crop. We Last 3 Weeks got 20 bushels an acre on the poor ground and 40 on the good ground.

We merged it before we baled it. We did the same on the second crop hay. Since April 1 I am hoping for some 8.7” more rain otherwise we will be short on heifer hay and I need more haylage tonnage for the cows as well. So far this year we’ve small square baled 900 bales of hay and 1,000 bales of straw.

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We chopped our third cutting of alfalfa a week ago and the fourth cutting is greening up nicely. RAINFALL The third cutting yielded TOTALS the same as the second Last 3 Weeks cutting. All of our crops are looking good. We have applied fungicide to the corn and the soybeans. Some of our neighbors have reported rootworm Since April 1 12” damage but we rotate our crops, so we haven’t seen that in our fields. Corn chopping is at least three weeks away. We hope that we can bag our fourth cutting of alfalfa before we start on the corn.

3.4”

The rain greened some things up. You notice that the alfalfa and the lawns are greening a little. We finished third RAINFALL crop hay last week. We TOTALS big square baled it all. Last 3 Weeks We got a bale and half an acre on the better ground and a half bale 2” on the poorer ground.

We finished rye straw Since April 1 late last week. We get 5.65” it from the neighbors and small square most of it. We did 4,000 to 5,000 bales. We finished irrigating the corn Aug. 6.

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Crop and Weather

REPORTS Crop and weather conditions in Dairy Star country

Manawa, WI

Waterloo, IA

(Waupaca County)

(Blackhawk County)

CRAIG FIETZER

DICK BLOUGH

350 cows, 1,300 acres The rain gets to the Waterloo area and then it goes either North or South. The town has just 46% of its normal precipitation and we are just a quarter mile out. We RAINFALL finished baling all our third TOTALS crop hay Aug. 6. One of our Last 3 Weeks seed corn fields is done pollinating and we mashed down the male rows. The other seed corn field was rejected so we cut it down with a bat wing and drilled in BMR sorghum sedan before Since April 1 we rolled it. We could row 9.5” the field one week after we planted. In our BMR sorghum and corn field, the corn is chin high and the sorghum was chest high. We did third cutting hay and had nine-tenths ton of dry matter per acre. The corn and soybeans need rain for us to get a decent yield.

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BRUCE GUMZ

STEVE CASE

Our third crop is done. It was bountiful; it was just as thick as our second crop, which was almost as thick as our first crop. We will have plenty of feed. We tried to bale some dry but RAINFALL as soon as we cut it, we had TOTALS rain that wasn’t forecasted, Last 3 Weeks and ended up just chopping it. The corn looks awesome.

The ears are filling out tremendously. I checked some the other day and it was about 18 rows, 34 long and the kernels are Since April 1 filling out really well. The 13.9” soybeans are showing some white mold. They could really use a little dry stretch to get that cleared up.

We are still trying to get wheat and oats off but all the rain and the wildfire smoke is making combining difficult.

Ridgeway, WI

Kendall, WI

Wolsey, SD

3”

(Iowa County)

EVAN JONES

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3.5”

(Monroe County) 55 cows, 365 acres

The rain has been just enough to keep things going. Things look way better than they should for the lack of rain we have had. Our third crop on the RAINFALL ridge was really poor. The TOTALS hay ground in the bottoms Last 3 Weeks must have been getting enough dew, because that was alright. We’ll probably start fourth crop the week before Labor Day, and I am hoping to be able to get a fifth crop, too. The corn Since April 1 is short. The late-planted 5.4” corn tasseled in the last couple of days and the ears look like they are filling out nicely, but the height is not there. The beans look really pretty good, there has been a lot of growth to them.

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We have had about 4.5 inches in the last three weeks; 3 inches have been since Aug. 7. My third crop hay is all on the ground.

The forecast was supposed RAINFALL to be dry for eight days, so I TOTALS cut for two days straight and Last 3 Weeks it is all still there. It looked really good, and I was looking forward to chopping it because it would be some nice feed. I have the Yield Max that second cutting is coming back on. That looks Since April 1 really nice. I line wrapped 17.7” about 105 bales. I hope it turns out good and cows like it because it will take the place of that hay in the silo. The corn looks good. It’s all silked and filling in nice so far.

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The 2 inches of rain we got Aug. 9 is going to make some really nice fourth crop hay. We finished third crop the end of July but did not get a lot of tonnage. Our RAINFALL 9-foot by 200-foot bag only TOTALS got half full from 75 acres. Last 3 Weeks We’re short about a whole bag of third crop haylage, which is even less than second crop. The corn that was short before is shooting up a little taller now from the rain and hot weather. It Since April 1 10.4” is about 8 feet tall. I found out I’m not going to get my corn sprayed for fungicide because the airplanes can’t keep up with the demand.

The soybeans in my area look really good, but the pods look like they are going to be small because of the dry weather we had.

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7.1”

(Rock County)

Dorchester, WI

420 cows, 663 acres Wheat took a long time to get off due to the wet weather.

We started combining July 26 and finished up on July 29 and RAINFALL had it all baled by July 31.

TOTALS We got about six bales to Last 3 Weeks the acre for wheat straw. It was an outstanding crop.

Our alfalfa did really well this year, and we hope to be doing fourth crop hay the week of Aug. 16. It’s knee-high right now. The Since April 1 corn is looking awesome. I 14.54” think it will be the best crop we’ve had in a couple years. Our crop scout is looking for rootworm beetles in the corn. They’re showing up in a couple fields. Beans are starting to come around and not looking so lethargic.

Jackson, WI

We took off winter wheat July 26. It ran about 70 bushels to the acre at 10% moisture. We baled up the straw and then no tilled sorghum sudangrass into that ground. I combined RAINFALL my oats Aug. 6 which ran 80 TOTALS bushels to the acre at 10% Last 3 Weeks moisture. Then the heavens opened up and it kept raining.

We got 5 inches of rain Aug. 7. But the crops look good and seem to be absorbing the rain well. We were trying to make hay in between Since April 1 baling and chopping straw, 14.8” but everything came to a halt because it was too muddy. We’re holding off on third crop hay until the weather settles down. The corn is very dark green but not as tall as other years. Soybeans are waist high and look tremendous.

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Our BMR corn has nice roasting ears. I would guess that we are three to four weeks away from chopping corn silage.

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Mid-American Hay Auction results for August 5, 2021 Lot no.

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DAIRY CALENDAR The Great River Graziers and Kickapoo Grazing Initiative are releasing the 2021 Pasture Walk Schedule. We’re partnering with Grassworks, Inc and many of our walks will feature operations that are involved with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service EQIP program. This year’s walks feature some of our long-time graziers updating us on new projects as well as several new operations that are just beginning to graze dairy or beef cattle. Pasture walks are free to the public and begin at 10:30 a.m. Visit http://www. kickapoograzinginitiative.com/events.html for more information.

– Sept. 7, Chad Sime’s farm at 16451 Freeman Rd Gays Mills, Wisconsin – Sept. 11, Jade and Ethan Proksch’s farm at S3830 Newton Rd Genoa, Wisconsin – Oct. 5, Don Boland’s farm at 18732 Hwy 27 Gays Mills, Wisconsin Annual East Otter Tail County Breakfast on the Farm is coming Aug. 14. Community Pancake and Egg Breakfast on a working dairy farm with educational booths, machinery from the past and present, animals and tours. The event is to bring together consumers with the families that produce their food. This is a chance to ask questions about how your food is grown or to just simply visit over a cup of coffee.

The breakfast will take place on Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021 from 7 a.m. to noon at the Twin Spruce Farm (North) located at 48285 County Hwy 51, Perham, MN This is a free-will offering breakfast and first come first served.

The Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Dairy Team is hosting a field day focused on dairy technology on the farm. The Aug. 16 field day will feature two farm visits where attendees can see heifer facilities utilizing activity monitoring system and the use of a sand separating system.

The first farm visit will be from 10:30 a.m. to noon at Foresight Farms, with heifer facility located at 1592 Sattre Ridge Rd, Decorah, Iowa. The dairy recently constructed a heifer facility and utilize an activity monitoring system on cows and heifers. Owner Dave Wise will be on hand to answer questions about the facilities and equipment.

The second farm visit will be from 1:15 to 2:45 p.m. at Full Bohr Dairy located at 3251 275th St., Ridgeway, Iowa. Owner Nic Bohr recently constructed a mechanical sand separation into existing manure handling system. Nic is also in the process of constructing a 200 cow tunnel ventilated barn as part of herd expansion from 700 cows to 900 cows. Nic will be available to answer questions about the facility.

Lunch will be on your own between the two farm visits. There is no fee for the field day, but RSVP’s are appreciated. If you have questions or would like to RSVP, contact Brian Dougherty brian1@iastate.edu 563-239-7070.

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The current meeting times are as follows: – Melrose City Hall, Aug. 17, 10 a.m. to noon, 225 First St NE, Melrose, MN 56352 – Emslander’s Farm, Aug. 17, 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. 8133 170th Ave NE, Oak Park, MN 56357. Boxed lunch will no longer be served.

These will be separate events but will have very similar topics. Topics covered will include agronomic and feeding considerations for drought-stressed forages, and opportunities for cover crops and manure applications. Attending one will get you most of the information that will be presented at both.

Attend the Prescribed Grazing Field Day Aug. 18 from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event is hosted by the Stearns County Soil and Water Conservation District, and will take place at 37252 245th Ave. Albany, Minnesota (Follow long driveway to yard). Questions about the field day, contact the Stearns County SWCD office at 320-251-7800 ext. 3 or email info@StearnsCountySWCD.net. RSVP by Aug. 11 at www.StearnsCountySWCD. net/grazingfieldday.

Registration is now open for the free AgriSafe Network webinar, “Protecting Your Ag Employees from Infectious Disease Including New COVID-19 Delta Variant.” The webinar will take place Wednesday, Aug. 18, from noon to 1:30 p.m. CST. Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tRjyDNNXTsy9smkFcmzdig.

The Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Dairy Team monthly webinar series continues Wednesday, Aug. 18 from 12 noon to 1 p.m., with the focus on corn silage. The webinar will be led by Luiz Ferraretto who will discuss how to use corn silage to put more milk in the bulk tank and ultimately, more money in dairy producers’ pockets.

Producers, dairy consultants, and industry reps are encouraged to attend the free webinar live from noon to 1 p.m. on Aug. 18 at https://iastate.zoom.us/my/dairyteamfredprogram. Registration is not needed.

The webinar will also be archived for later viewing at https://www.extension.iastate. edu/dairyteam/webinars. For more information contact the Iowa Extension Dairy Field Specialist in your area: in Western Iowa, contact Fred M. Hall at 71-737-4230 or fredhall@ iastate.edu; in Northeast Iowa, contact Jennifer Bentley at 563-382-2949 or jbentley@iastate.edu; and in Eastern Iowa, contact Larry Tranel at 563-583-6496 or tranel@iastate. edu.

“Effect of GnRH Dose at Beginning of OvSynch for Breeding of Cows Inseminated After the Double OvSynch Program” headlines the Aug. 19 Dairy Cattle Reproduction Council webinar, which starts at 2 p.m. Central time (USA/Canada). Fabio Lima, University of California-Davis, and Ralph Bruno, Zoetis, will lead the free, one-hour webinar. This webinar will present data supporting the on-label use of a higher dose of gonadorelin hydrochloride (Factrel®) to improve pregnancies per AI. Key topics being presented include: Currently available tools can be used to help promote increased pregnancies in dairy cattle; following protocol standard operating procedures are crucial to reproductive success; only one GnRH therapy product on the market Turn to CALENDAR | Page 29

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OBERHOLTZER AUCTIONS

COMPLETE DISPERSAL: 70 Holstein cows. 70 Holstein heifers. Cows are housed and milked in tie stalls and let outside for feeding everyday. Herd has been Ai bred for many years with the top bulls in the industry. Cows are on official DHIA with bulk tank avg 85 lbs milk 82 scc 3.8F, 3.0P. Very nice set of heifers from baby calves to springers!! Heifers are bred to a Registered Holstein bull that will be offered on the auction as well. Cows and heifers are fully vaccinated. Reason for selling the are transitioning to crop farming and discontinuing the dairy herd.

Coming from Ter-Rae Farms, New Richmond WI. EARLY CONSIGNMENTS: 5 Registered Holstein cows. All will be fresh 45- 60 days and all milking over 100 pounds!!

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The boys were shooting Clay birds the other night. An awful lot of them didn’t break up. Maybe some steel ones mixed in?? Continued buyer’s market. No Supreme top cows today. Good Holstein milk cows $850-1,400. Jersey dispersal, many good cows $650-1,300. High quality Holstein springing heifers $1,100-1,400. Mid grade springers $800-1,075.

Open Holstein heifers $70-85. Single birth Holstein heifer calves $40-70.

Breeding bulls $700-1,200. Market Bulls 80-90NT Choice Holstein steers and Heifers $1.05-1.12. Beef cross $1.10-1.20NT. Holstein feeder steers 85-1.20NT. Holstien bull calves $85-135. Beef cross bull and heifer calves $160-250/head. Sold 100 market cows. Better cows $68.50-75. Main run Holsteins $50-66.50. Large run of hay & straw. 42 lots. Prices a little softer.

2nd crop 3x3x8 grass mix $55-75. 1st crop grass rounds $30-50. Rounds oat straw $25-30. Large squares wheat straw $35-40. Small squares wheat straw $3.00. Hope to see you next week. If you can’t make it, we do order buying. Thanks for your business!

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The Sustainable Farming Association and the Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship are hosting a pasture walk series in summer 2021. Each event will be hosted by SFA/DGA Central Minnesota Education Coordinator Angie Walter or DGA Coordinator Bonnie Haugen, and participating farmers. Graziers, dairy farmers, and interested others are invited to come connect and share experiences in the field.

Each pasture walk is free and includes lunch. Registration is required for each event. The walks: – Aug. 24 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Hosted by Angie Walter; Seven Pines Farm. Address: 18618 County Road 23 Verndale, Minnesota – Sept. 9 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Hosted by Angie Walter; Jack Schouweiler. Address: 15963 Will Drive NW Brandon, Minnesota For three crop years, Minnesota Office for Soil Health and SFA have been collecting, analyzing and sharing on-farm soil health data across Minnesota to help us better interpret and use soil health measurements. One field day is planned to share research, discuss soil health practices and network. These field days are funded by a NRCS Conservation Innovation Grant project led by the Minnesota Office for Soil Health.

– Sept. 1 | TBA | Stearns County | More details TBA The CIG field day series will wrap up with an October event hosted by Mower County SWCD. Details forthcoming.

Join National Mastitis Council for its next webinar – presented in Spanish – Sept. 16, starting at 2 p.m. Central time. Rodrigo Pedraza, NMC board member and technical services veterinarian for Zoetis, will address “Efficient Parlor Throughput with Milk Quality in Mind” (“Ordeno eficiente con Calidad de Leche en mente”). The one-hour webinar is free. To register for this free webinar, go to: https://bit.ly/NMCWebinar_RodrigoPedraza and follow the prompts. If you are an NMC member and cannot attend the live program, you may access the webinar after Sept. 30, at: nmconline.org.

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78 black and red Angus steers and hfrs 650-1000 lbs. Cattle are background, double vaccinated, light flesh, excellent quality! Colby; 29 Angus cross steers, 500-550 lbs, vac 2x, on grass & few pounds grain. Very nice! Greenwood; 8 Angus and Hereford strs & hfrs 600-700 lbs, vac 2x, on grass and minimal corn silage. Colby; 6 Fleckvieh cross strs, 450 lbs, vac, light flesh, on grass and few lbs silage. Withee; 26 Holstein strs 500 lbs, vac 2x, on full feed. Reputation cattle! Withee; 21 Holstein strs 350-400 lbs, vac 2x, green. Black River; 18 Holstein strs 350-400 lbs, vac 2x, on corn and pellets. Greenwood; 12 Holstein strs 500 lbs, vac 3x, on TMR. Reputation cattle!

Mosinee; 15 Angus and Angus cross cows, 10 pairs, 5 bred Angus. Wilton; 3 Angus breeding bulls 12-16 months old; 1 Hereford bull 14 months old. Nice bull! 20 months old proven Holstein bull, Embellish x Damien x Mogul. Dam made 22,700, 4.3F as a 2 year old!

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#645 MODERN DAIRY FREESTALL OPERATION IN WESTERN MARATHON COUNTY Operation is presently milking approximately 900 Holstein cows. CAFO permitted until fall of 2025 with the capacity of 2026 animal units setting on 121 acres. Approximately 2000 acres of cropland available for rent. Farm features Parlor building with offices, bathroom and break room, Double 16 Boumatic rapid exit parallel parlor, auto takeoffs, ID collars and computer system, 2- 7000 gallon bulk milk tanks and crowd gate system. Milking herd barns with 906 sand bedded stalls. Calf Building with automated calf feeders and controlled environment. Impressive heifer barn with 771 rubber matted stalls and automated alley scraper. 14.5 million gallon manure storage. Concrete Bunkers. Large modern farm shop. Holstein Dairy Herd available to farm buyer.

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Extra zucchini of loaf comes out clean. For an added variation, add 1 can (8.25 ounces) of crushed pineapple (well drained) with the zucchini.

I haven’t been in the mood for cooking lately.

Too hot. Too tired. So, when my cooking article was coming up, I called my youngest sister to see what she was cooking. She has been trying to find new ways to use up her zucchini. If you have one plant, you’ll have more than you can eat. She found a clever way to move her excess zucchini. She pawned them off on people as they were leaving her husband’s class reunion as a door prize. One of the classmates was excited because they had a great recipe for brownies with peanut butter frosting. Here are the recipes my sister Amy is whipping up in her kitchen to stay ahead of her zucchini plant.

I have to admit, I’m not a fan of zucchini. In fact, I don’t even plant it, but I enjoy visiting Amy when she grills up zucchini as a side dish with burgers or chops. A perfect summer meal.

Zucchini brownies 2 cups grated zucchini, firmly packed 1 cup brown sugar 1 1/3 cups unsweetened applesauce 2 eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla 2/3 cup flour 1 cup cocoa powder 2 teaspoons baking soda 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup chocolate chips and/or nuts Frosting 1/2 cup chocolate chips 1/2 cup butterscotch chips 1/2 cup peanut butter Melt chips in microwave and stir in peanut butter.

Frost brownies when cooled.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9-by-13 pan. Mix together the zucchini, sugar, applesauce, eggs and vanilla. Stir together the remaining ingredients and add to the wet ingredients, stirring until combined. Stir in the chocolate chips and/or nuts if desired. Bake for 55 minutes. Frost if desired.

Grilled or roasted zucchini Slice an 8- to 10-inch zucchini lengthwise in 1/4 inch strips. Drizzle olive oil on the zucchini and toss to coat. Sprinkle with garlic salt and parmesan cheese to taste. Place directly on grill or roast in a jelly roll pan in a 400-degree oven for 10-12 minutes, turning halfway through.

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Both research and practical on-farm application demonstrate the consistent results producers see when feeding ANION BOOSTER™ and GLUCOSE BOOSTER™ in the pre-fresh and the early fresh cows.

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COMPLETE HERD DISPERSAL #1 135 Holstein Dairy Cows. Housed in sand bedded freestalls, milked in parlor. Cows sell on test, avg. 75# 4.2BF 3.3P 175scc on 2x milking. Many cows milking 90-125# A very young herd w/75% in 1st & 2nd lactation. Herd includes (20) FANCY springing heifers, and a number of FANCY springing dry cows. Milking herd is on a year round calving intervals. Over 40 years AI using Select Sires, Alta and Genex. Regular hoof trimming and vaccination program. Coming from Fitterer Farms, LitchÀeld, MN Owner # 320-894-9188 COMPLETE HERD DISPERSAL #2 65 Holstein Dairy Cows, housed in sand bedded freestalls, milked in Áat barn parlor, avg. 77# 175 scc, TOP sires used through Select Sires. Regular herd health and vaccination program. Herd includes (6) bred and springing heifers (6) close springing dry cows. Balance bred for year round calving. Coming from Pat & Carol Buechner, Cross Plains, WI Owner # 608-212-1402 5 FANCY Registered Holstein 2 year olds. Sires include King Doc, Advent, Doppler RC & Mustafa Red. Coming from Tom Lyon, WestÀeld, WI 4 Registered Holstein Fresh Heifers. Milking 85-100# with updated test information coming! Heifers sell with papers. Coming from University of WI River Falls, River Fall, WI 2 Registered Holstein Dairy Cows. Fresh 35-60 days, recently classiÀed, GP80 McCutchen X Gold Chip GP83 Leander X Atlantic. Watch for more information. Coming from T-K Dreams Registered Holsteins, Ellsworth, WI BULLS 3 yearling Purebred MILKING SHORTHORN Bulls. Sires are Cody P, Mr. Emily Lotto, Comanche. More information on these bulls on our website.

Tuesday, August 24, 2021 at 11:00am

EXPECTING 300-400 HEAD! • FEEDER CATTLE TO FOLLOW!

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On Wednesday we sold over 350 head of dairy cattle with lots of fancy supreme dairy cows with parlor freestall cows selling at a premium. Market reports only represent the quality sold that particular week and quality is what we had. Lots of cows milking over 100 lbs. Lots of top end supreme fresh cows, $1,8002,400. Many other good cows $1,100-1,775. Most springing heifers $1,100-1, 700. The lesser quality and blemished cows and springing heifers $1,075 and down. Tuesday over 500 feeder cattle sold on on a much stronger market!! Thanks for all the business. It’s great working with you all!!! www.premierlivestockandauctions.com

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