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It’s all inside...

Dairy’s Star Youth: Megan Hollermann

Ruther delivers his own daughter

Page 6 Third Section

Bemboom balances coaching wrestling, milking cows

Pages 1, 9

Schroeder manages family’s dairy farm

Pages 2- 3 Third Section

Pages 17, 21 Second Section

Women in Jeans: Jennifer McNamara

Beef business diversies Pine Knoll Farms

Pages 36-37

Pages 10 - 11

Lauer proposes to ancé with calf

Robotic milkers working well for organic producers

Pages 3, 9 Second Section

Pages 18, 22 - 23

Pages 14 - 15 Second Section

Page 35

Tschidas nd right t for upgrading

Producers share insight on signicant production increase

Kansas family mulling investment in robotic milkers

Page 4 Third Section

Perham Burtrum

NICC debuts new robotic milking barn

Grey Eagle Sauk Rapids St. Martin

Iowa family begins a new life as dairy farmers

Pages 4 - 7 Second Section

Emerald

Pages 12 - 13

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Contents FIRST SECTION Page 16 From Our Side of the Fence Page 25 Schauf receives Aggie Award at Eau Claire Farm Show Page 26 Boylen Over Page 28 Are cover crops in your forage supply?

Page 29 New manure application license requirements for 2014 Page 31 Herd Surng

SECOND SECTION Page 10 The “Mielke” Market Weekly Page 11 Dairy Markets Page 12 Iowa hay auction results Pages 14 - 15 Kansas family mulling investment in robotic milkers Page 18 Trend of higher mailbox prices continued in November Page 22 Dairy in the Suburbs

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Page 23 Making Cents of Dairy Pages 24 - 25 DHIA 2013 High 200 herd Honor Roll Page 27 Mid-American hay Auction Results Pages 33-34 Youth winners from Great Christmas Heifer Giveaway Page 38 Dairy Recipes Page 39 People in the Dairy Community THIRD SECTION Pages 9, 12 Many factors affect cost of raising dairy replacements Page 10 Grazing reduces purchased feed for goats Page 13 Shuttered AMPI building in Minn. may have buyer Pages 15 - 16 Dairy Calendar Pages 18 - 19 One-On-One with Joe Klein Pages 20 - 21, 23 Some Udder Stuff Pages 24 - 31 Classieds

Kids Corner: The Hansens

La Crosse

Pages 38 - 39

Calmar Highland Hudson

Wisconsin milk co-op has grown to 46th largest in U.S.

Columnists Ag Insider Pages 6-7

The Next Generation Page 33

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Veterinary Wisdom Page 34

Getting Kerry’d Away Page 27

Just Thinking Out Loud Page 32

Ramblings from the Ridge Page 30

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A new way of dairying Robotic milking with the MIone makes milking a consistent and predictable process.

You’ll no longer worry about milkers not showing up for a shift, or “procedural drift” in the way your cows are prepped and milked.

THE MIONE PROVIDES: Consistent milking procedures — Every cow is milked the same way, every time, with no variation due to training issues or human error.

Routine monitoring — You’ll have a constant handle on the performance and health of every cow in your herd, via the system’s daily monitoring of milk weights, milk conductivity, individual-cow components, and feed intake.

Freedom and flexibility — You can focus on your most important priorities, both on and off the farm.

Relief from physical labor — Automated processes and more efficient procedures for performing regular cow-management tasks will leave you more time to monitor herd performance. You can focus on management and cow care outside the milking parlor, without the physical exhaustion that accompanies constant milking sessions.

Less labor management — You’ll no longer need to hire, train, and manage a crew of employees to milk your cows, and will be relieved of associated regulatory and accounting tasks. You can shift your focus back to managing the entities that likely attracted you to dairying in the first place — your cows.

Room to grow The MIone from GEA Farm Technologies is the only automated milking system that allows for herd expansion without purchasing additional robots.

One MIone robot can be adapted to work with up to five milking boxes.

Competitive systems are one box:one robot configurations. Expanding to multiple boxes just requires one vacuum pump, one computer system, one wash system, and one application arm. The MIone offers the highest milking capacity for the investment cost.

The possibility for future expansion is an important consideration as you design your initial milking center and housing areas.

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IDENTIFY changes in milk conductivity linked to changes in somatic cell counts (SCC).

MONITOR suspect individuals and cows freshening between DHIA tests.

MAS-D-TEC® measures conductivity Easy as 1-2-3!

1. Strip small amount (1 or 2 squirts) of pre- or - FAST post-milk from 1 quarter into the funnel at top of to identify affected Mas-D-Tec®unit. Wipe teats before stripping the sample. quarters.

Operates on a 9-volt battery (included).

Why these producers rely on Mas-D-Tec

2. Wait a few seconds for LED display to light up.

A reading in White: no concern. A reading in Red: suspect mastitis. Repeat previous steps with the next quarter to be checked.

3. The whole process takes 5 seconds per quarter. The introduction of each new milk sample effortlessly purges previous sample.

“The Mas-D-Tec® is easy for our milkers to quickly “The Mas-D-Tec definitely helped us reduce our SCC and keep it between 150 and 180,000 by check any cow in the parlor during milking and identifying quarters with high conductivity before get an immediate conductivity reading,” says clinical signs,” he adds.

Ryan Shores, milking 400 cows at CR Dairy, Ulster, Pa. “It’s user-friendly. No training Chris and Laura Landis of Worth-The-Wait Farm, required. Just strip a little milk into the cup, and Durlach, Pa. rely on their Mas-D-Tec after buying it lights up with a reading right away. This could one to work on lowering a high SCC problem 4 years ago. “Our SCC is now consistently around not be simpler.”

130,000” they report.

Jeff and Adam King of York Springs, Pa. have At Chapels Creamery Farm near Easton, Md., also relied on their Mas-D-Tec since they bought Eric and Holly Foster make cheese. Farm manager their first one 12 years ago. They milk 90 cows at Courtney Biggs focuses on getting high quality Pleasant Acres and now have 2 Mas-D-Tec units milk production from the 60 Jerseys. They use the to be sure they never are without one. “We use it Mas-D-Tec to identify quarters with subclinical to test milk on any quarter we have suspicions of mastitis in cows showing up on the DHIA ‘hot list.’ subclinical mastitis,” says Adam.

“The Mas-D-Tec pinpoints problems so we can “We also use it to check our fresh cows before make decisions and take action,” says Biggs. putting their milk in the tank. This tool identifies “We use it to check fresh cows, particularly those issues so we can make decisions. that dried off at elevated SCC levels. We would not want to be without this tool.”

Available where Udder Comfort is sold Questions, toll free: 1.888.773.7153 Visit uddercomfort.com for demonstration videos — Visit masdtec.com for other information

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Safety equipment needed

Working in the milking parlor everyday can be I grabbed the spray bottle with the medicine and a bit of a hazard. Standing at a lower level than the got one small squirt on the wart. The heifer scooted cows allows for all kinds of nasties to be forward and started shaking her foot. splattered your way.

Getting Kerry’d Away Kind of like when I hopped around It’s not uncommon for my co-workwhen I smashed my nger between a ceer to holler, “Incoming.” That’s like a ment block and a loader bucket. (If only code red for get out of the way, a cow is cows could swear.) going to relieve herself in your area.

I leaned in and the heifer shook her Most of the time the splattering isn’t foot right into my face and hit me directall that grand. A healthy cow will leave ly on the nose and mouth. To be honest, a very well-laid-out pile. Now, the sick it was gross. Thank goodness she wasn’t cows leave a very chaotic pattern, probactually kicking. That would have hurt. ably because they have a very chaotic I was a bit freaked. I now have to deal pattern going on in their tummies. with the fear of having a hairy heel wart It’s not uncommon, as awful as it growing on my nose and mouth. Zach sounds, for manure to splatter onto a just laughed when I told him it made a

By Kerry Hoffman face, for example. It should also be notsquishing sound when the heifer’s foot Columnist ed that it doesn’t take long to learn to made contact with my face. face away from the splatter, until you no longer here it splattering. It’s part of the job and you get used to it.

Wednesday morning, the cows were a bit on edge.

Steve was at meetings, so we had a replacement milker for him by the name of Tarah. She must smell better than Steve, because the cows sure knew something was amiss in the milking parlor. When something is amiss in the parlor, there is a heck of a lot more splattering.

It just so happened that Tarah was up in the holding area bringing cows into the milking parlor when the word incoming should have been shouted. It landed in my eye. It was like looking through a dust storm, only ickier.

Now, there was no burning sensation, and it didn’t feel like anything from within the poo was scratching my eyeball, so I gured no harm done. It just made everything look like…well, you know. I continued and nished the milking chores without a hitch.

Because I didn’t sleep worth a hoot Tuesday night, the rst thing I did after this dangerous milking was shower up and climb back into bed for a quick nap.

I peered d iinto the h mirror i and d was horrified. My contaminated eye was redder than red can be.

(Quick turned into an hour and it still wasn’t even 11 a.m.) I woke up feeling even more tired, made a pot of coffee and ventured into the biffy.

I peered into the mirror and was horried. My contaminated eye was redder than red can be. It doesn’t hurt. Just looks like I was in a Three Stooges act and Larry poked me in the eye.

Thursday morning wasn’t any different. It didn’t involve my eye, but it was pretty darn close. As I mentioned earlier, the person doing the milking is actually standing lower than the cows. Our parlor was constructed with safety in mind. The lower bar behind the cows was put at a certain level to prevent the cows from having the ability to make contact with a body part.

The design works pretty slick, as long as you keep most of your body parts behind that particular pole. Put anything in front of it and I can’t guarantee the cow won’t make contact with that body part.

Cows have stepped on my hand, kicked my arm and jammed my ngers.

Like I said, the design works great as long as everyone follows the rules. Sometimes the smaller cows scoot forward and you have to lean in beyond the invisible safety barrier to dip the cow’s teats with iodine. Sometimes the cows have sore feet, mostly those nasty hairy heel warts, which have to be treated with this awesome smelling medicine. I don’t know what’s in the treatment, but it really does smell good.

It’s too bad the smell doesn’t take away the way it must sting when we spray it directly on the heel wart of the affected foot. Thursday morning, was such the case. A new heifer, which gave birth overnight, came into the parlor for the rst time. She had a nasty wart on her right-rear foot. (By the way, we had two new calves this particular morning, and one of them came from the heifer named M, which I wrote about just the other week.)

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Steve scolded me. I said “I am a 46-year-old and I know I screwed up. You don’t need to reprimand me.”

I tried to give him a kiss, and he ran the other way. Of all the nerve.

I may have to consider a goalie’s mask to use as a piece of safety equipment, providing I don’t have a growth on my face next week. If that happens, I may have to steal the Unknown Comic’s costume.

For questions, or comments, e-mail me at kahoffman@newulmtel.net.

Kerry and her husband Steve have operated their New Ulm, MN dairy farm as a team since 1993. Currently, they milk 130 cows with the help of several employees. They have two sons: Joey is a sophomore at South Dakota State University, Brookings majoring in dairy production and Russell is a senior at Cathedral High School in New Ulm.

Manure application license requirements for 2014

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In 2013, the Minnesota legislature and Governor Dayton approved changes to the Commercial Animal Waste Technician (CAWT) licenses.

The details in the nal approved bill were developed during a series of meetings in 2012 and 2013. All changes in the new CAWT license

By Jose A. program were disHernandez cussed by a group Extension Educator of stakeholders that included manure applicators, feedlot ofcers, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Minnesota Department of Agriculture, Soil and Water Conservation Districts, and University of Minnesota Extension.

Minnesota law requires that companies, site managers and applicators that manage or apply manure for hire obtain a Commercial Animal Waste Technician (CAWT) license from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA).

MDA issues CAWT licenses MDA issues three types of CAWT licenses: • CAWT company license; • CAWT site manager license; and • CAWT applicator license.

A business may not manage or apply manure to the land unless a CAWT company license is held. The company license number must be printed on the application equipment. The company must also employ a CAWT Site Manager who must be on-site to oversee operations and supervise applicators applying manure to the ground. The Site Manager must pass a certication exam for the application of liquid, solid or both types of manure to qualify for the license issued by MDA. A licensed Site Manager may apply manure.

A person that is not a licensed Site Manager may not apply manure to the land for hire without a valid CAWT Applicator license. A CAWT Applica-

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tor must be certied by MDA and operate under the supervision of a licensed CAWT Site Manager.

When is a CAWT license needed?

A business must hold a license to conduct commercial manure application or manure stockpiling operations.

A person applying manure for hire and, in certain instances, private producers managing or applying their own manure to the land must be licensed.

The following are examples of when a license is required: • A commercial or a for-hire application when money or other compensation is exchanged to manage or apply manure to the ground; • A private producer applying their own manure when they have a capacity of 300 animal units or more and do not have an updated manure management plan; or • A commercial or a for-hire operation that stockpiles manure.

manure or both. Verify on the application form that nancial responsibility obligations are met.

A CAWT License is valid for one (1) year and must be renewed annually.

Preparing for the exam: MDA has study materials available to help you prepare for the open-book exam. All test questions come directly from the study manuals. Contact the MDA to request a study manual.

Certication: You must pass the certication exam for a license to be awarded. Each test contains 100 multiple-choice questions. The test is monitored.

To schedule testing in your area, see CAWT Testing Locations in Greater Minnesota (https://www.mda.state. mn.us/en/licensing/licensetypes/cawt/ cawtcontacts.aspx).

To schedule testing at the MDA St.

Paul ofce, call 651-201-6633.

Recertication: Prior to renewing your license, you must attend a recertication workshop once every other year.

The MDA will approve workshops that meet certain standards, are educational, and include training programs addressing manure applicator concerns, such as water quality protection and the development of manure management plans.

The one-day workshops are geared towards liquid and/or solid license categories and must be a minimum of 3 hours long.

For application forms or information, please email to pesticide.licensing@mda.state.mn.us, or call 651-2016615.

For more information, visit the MDA CAWT Website: https:// www.mda.state.mn.us/licensing/licensetypes/cawt.aspx

When is a CAWT license not needed?

Private producers do not need a business, site manager or applicator license in certain situations. The following are examples of when a license is not needed: • Private producers applying manure to their own elds when they have less than 300 animal units; or • Private producers applying manure to their own elds when they have an updated manure management plan that meets the requirements of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency rules.

How to obtain a license Application: Apply for a CAWT Company or Site Manager license online. You may obtain a paper application form from MDA. The license application fee is $100 for a CAWT company license and $50 for a CAWT Site Manager license. This is a non-refundable application fee.

Fill out the application completely.

Indicate on the form what type of manure you apply — solid manure, liquid

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