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Schroeders continue dairy farming tradition in Ottertail County Pages 38 - 39

Koopmeiners back on dairy farm after time in the seminary

Women in Jeans: Kara Czanstkowski

Bergs bring New Zealand twist to dairy farming

Page 37

Pages 35 - 36

Pages 2- 3 Third Section

Beckmans build new barn, install robotic milkers

Pages 4 - 5 Second Section

Dairy’s Star Youth: Megan and Matt Struss

Bull, Rother enjoy being Wabasha County dairy royalty despite not having dairy backgrounds Page 10 Third Section

Page 20

Fergus Falls

McGrath

Schumachers build parlor, prepare for next generation on farm

St. Francis

Pages 18, 20

Kerkhoven Delano

SDSU holds scholarship, awards banquet Page 5 Third Section

Brookings

Pages 1, 8

Shakopee A day in the life of the Nelson family

New Prague Lake City Sleepy Eye Courtland

Pages 16 - 17 Second Section

Eyota La Farge

Contents FIRST SECTION Pages 12 - 13 First District is the big cheese Pages 15 - 16 From Our Side of the Fence Page 23 On the Road with Princess Kay Page 25 A new type of class for World Dairy Expo Page 26 FSA News & Notes Page 28 Fan selection and maintenance Page 29 Crossbreeding – Implications for dairy cow fertility, survival Page 31 Shedding for the wedding SECOND SECTION Page 7 Making Cents of Dairy Page 9 Dairy in the Suburbs Page 10 The “Mielke” Market Weekly Page 11 Dairy Markets Page 12 Iowa hay auction results

Pages 14 - 15 Second Section

Pages 1, 5

Kids Corner: The Hoefs

Pages 10 - 11

Hauser family effort leads to outstanding SCC level

On-farm creamery adds value

Theis brothers continue family tradition as fourth generation on Century Farm

Page 18 Plainview Milk Products suffers re Page 23 Mid-American hay Auction Results Pages 24-26 DHIA results Page 27 Crop and Weather Reports Page 28 CROPP celebrates twenty-six years in business Page 30 Dairy Recipes THIRD SECTION Page 6 Keeping silage losses low starts at harvest Pages 8 - 9 Raising replacements right Pages 12 - 13 Annual crops help ll grazing gaps Pages 17 - 19 Some Udder Stuff Pages 20 - 21 Dairy Calendar Page 22 People in the Dairy Community Pages 23 - 27 Classieds

St. Olaf Franks milks cows as high school senior Pages 3, 6 Second Section

Columnists Ag Insider Pages 6-7

Nutritionist Page 34

Just Thinking Out Loud Page 32

The Next Generation Page 33

Getting Kerry’d Away Page 27

Dear County Agent Guy Page 30

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A) How many acres do you have and how do you plan to use those acres?

B) How will last year’s crop year affect this year’s cropping plans for your dairy?

C) How have the crops you’ve planted in your career changed and why did you make those changes?

D) When do you think you’ll get in the eld? Explain.

E) How do you think this year’s growing season will go?

F) What’s the earliest and latest you’ve ever got in the eld?

G) Tell us about your farm and plans for your dairy this year.

When do you think you’ll get in the eld?

Art Hoffman Theilman, Minn.

Wabasha County 125 cows

Tim Pieper Lonsdale, Minn.

Rice County 420 cows

A) We farm 200 tillable acres, which includes 90 acres of corn, 46 acres of oats seeded with alfalfa and 64 acres of established hay.

A) We have 966 acres and plan to have 591 acres of corn, 133 acres of oats and alfalfa, 129 acres of established alfalfa and 113 acres of soybeans.

B) I don’t think last year will affect this year’s crop. I’m just worried about running out of hay.

C) All of our machinery wore out and didn’t get replaced, so now about 90 percent of our eld work is custom hired. We used to make all wet corn, but with the number of cows and the limited acres we have, we now use it for corn silage or earlage. We also now make balage out of oats instead of dry bales. The alfalfa is now mostly haylage, and not as much dry hay as it used to be. This will also be the second year we plant winter rye. We hope to chop it to use for the youngstock. We will plant corn after the winter rye has been taken off the elds. There isn’t a lot of land in the area to rent or buy so we have to get the most out of the few acres we have.

D) Hopefully by the week of April 28 we will be in the eld. We have clay ground and a lot of hillsides.

We can’t get on those areas too fast.

E) I hope it warms up and stays warm. I hope we’ve gotten through the drought cycle. There’s plenty of moisture out there. We can hope for a good year.

F) The earliest was in 2012 when we started planting in late March. It went from one extreme to the next because last year, 2013, was the latest. We didn’t start planting corn until June 8.

G) My wife, Karen, and I have a daughter, Amanda, and a son, Tyler. We have one part-time milker, Becky Gilsdorf. This year we plan to build a heifer shed and bring all our heifers home. For the past 20 years, our heifers have been custom raised.

B) It hasn’t really affected it that much. All the acres of alfalfa we have were seeded last year. About 50 acres we will take off a rst crop and then plant corn (those 50 acres were counted as corn acres in the questions above). Half of our alfalfa last year was affected by winter kill. Right now, we’re feeding more corn silage and soy hulls.

We had a lot of carryover feed from 2012 so that’s what saved us.

C) Since I rst started farming, corn has changed.

There were no BT traits, roundup ready gene or rootworm traits. Now corn has all three of these traits.

This new corn yields a little higher and the standability is a little better. I also don’t have to use as much insecticide. We are also planting soybeans this year, which we didn’t do last year. We might look into roasting our own versus buying.

D) Hopefully, by about April 21 we will be in the elds at least to plant oats and then go right into corn.

It’s just about dry enough now. A few of our neighbors have planted their oats.

E) Hopefully it will go better than last year. It all depends on what Mother Nature decides to give us. The alfalfa is starting to look nice.

F) The earliest we’ve been in the eld was in the early 2000s when we were planting oats by March 26 and we injected manure by the end of February. The elds were dry by then. Last year was denitely the latest. We had 240 acres of corn planted by May 17, but we didn’t nish until July 3.

G) I farm together in partnership with my parents, Ray and Bridget, along with ve of my siblings – Chrissy Duhme, Brian, Nick, Dan and Tracy. I have two sisters, Beth and Maize, who don’t work on the family farm and two other sisters, Maria and Emily, who are still in school. We raise all our heifers and bulls are sold at two weeks. This winter, we just got done building a calf barn for animals from two months old to about seven months old. This summer, we are going to build a bunker for earlage. Next year, we are going to look into the possibility of a different parlor.

Corwin Van Veldhuizen Rock Rapids, Iowa Lyon County 220 cows A) We farm about 500 acres. The majority of it will be in corn, but we always have about 120 acres of alfalfa. We also have some grassland.

B) We won’t be making any changes from last year. We will do some double cropping of rye and barley followed by corn for silage to help with our forage supply.

C) We never used to do any double cropping, but now we do it on a regular basis. Crop yields have increased dramatically over the years. There once was a time when we thought 120 to 130 bushel corn would be tough to beat.

D) We have already been in the eld for a while. We nished planting our barley on April 10 and started planting corn on April 21.

E) Nobody can predict that; there are never any two years that are alike. We have to leave it in the Lord’s hands.

F) The earliest was when we had our small grain planted by March 28. The latest was last year, when we planted our double cropped corn following rye on June 14. It turned out very good though, with a silage yield of 27 tons per acre.

G) I farm with my wife, Stephanie, and our three kids, Tyler (14), Shelby (10) and Trevor (7). Our nephews, Kyle and Keith, also work on our farm. We put up a new 145-cow free stall facility in 2012. We really like that new barn, which has curtain sidewalls and is bedded with ground limestone. Our plans for this year are to stay the same and improve on what we have.

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JD 7410 , 6230 hrs, ‘97..........................$52,900 JD 4555, 2wd, 4745 hrs, ‘89..................$47,900 JD 4955, MFWD, 8060 hrs, ‘90..............$52,900 JD 8400T, 8169 hrs, ‘98.........................$59,900 JD 7320, 4850 hrs, ‘05...........................$64,000 JD 7800, 2wd, 7866 hrs, ‘93..................$51,900 JD 7130S, MFWD, 5348 hrs, ‘08............$64,900 JD 7210 , 3441 hrs, ‘00..........................$55,900 JD 8100, MFWD, 5839 hrs, ‘97..............$83,500 JD 8300, 4200 hrs, ‘97...........................$86,900 JD 7630, MFWD, 3260 hrs, ‘07............$116,900 JD 7820, MFWD, 3036 hrs, ‘05............$116,900 JD 7430, MFWD, w/ldr, 2700 hrs, ‘08. .$117,000

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JD 7430, MFWD, w/ldr, 805 hrs, ‘10. . . .$139,000 JD 7130, MFWD, w/ldr, 336 hrs, ‘12. . . .$109,000 JD 8120, MFWD, 3206 hrs, ‘03............$118,000 JD 8320 , 6220 hrs, ‘03........................$118,900 JD 8130, MFWD, 3648 hrs, ‘07............$133,000 JD 8130, MFWD, 2300 hrs, ‘08............$108,803 JD 6170R, MFWD, IVT, 203 hrs, ‘13.....$162,900 JD 6190R, MFWD, 500 hrs, ‘12............$136,900 JD 6190R, MFWD, 213 hrs, ‘13............$145,000 JD 6210R, MFWD, 378 hrs, ‘12............$141,000 JD 7830, MFWD, 1200 hrs, ‘08............$150,000 JD 7930, MFWD, 3469 hrs, ‘08............$143,000 JD 8330, IVT, ILS, 3979 hrs, ‘06...........$154,900 JD 7200R, MFWD, 477 hrs, ‘12............$159,900 JD 7200R, MFWD, 150 hrs, ‘13............$160,000 JD 7200R, MFWD, 256 hrs, ‘12............$163,500 JD 7215R, MFWD, IVT, 134 hrs, ‘13.....$179,000 JD 7230R, MFWD, 150 hrs, ‘13............$172,500 JD 7230R, MFWD, IVT, 150 hrs, ‘13.....$177,750 JD 7230R, MFWD, IVT, 350 hrs, ‘12.....$188,000 JD 8230, MFWD, 2193 hrs, ‘08............$154,000 JD 8230, MFWD, IVT, 2055 hrs, ‘07.....$158,500 JD 8420, MFWD, 4700 hrs, ‘04............$144,900 JD 8430T, 3050 hrs, ‘07.......................$169,000 JD 8430, MFWD, 3788 hrs, ‘09............$186,000 JD 8235R, MFWD, 615 hrs, ‘12............$199,000 JD 8235R, MFWD, IVT, ILS, 200 hrs, ‘13.$210,000 JD 8235R, MFWD, ILS, 142 hrs, ‘13. . . .$220,000 JD 8245R, 650 hrs, ‘10.........................$195,000 JD 8260R, MFWD, 199 hrs, ‘12............$191,500 JD 8260R, MFWD, 87 hrs, ‘12..............$194,000 JD 8260R, MFWD, 221 hrs, ‘12............$197,000 JD 8270R, MFWD, 1350 hrs, ‘10..........$174,000 JD 8285R, MFWD, 1050 hrs, ‘11..........$227,000 JD 8285R, MFWD, 302 hrs, ‘13............$231,000 JD 8285R, MFWD, 843 hrs, ‘12............$233,900 JD 8295RT, 1350 hrs, ‘10.....................$212,000 JD 8310R, MFWD, ILS, IVT, 179 hrs, ‘12 $244,000 JD 8310R, MFWD, ILS, IVT, 319 hrs, ‘13 $248,000 JD 8310RT, 129 hrs, ‘13.......................$245,000 JD 8310RT, 247 hrs, ‘13.......................$269,000 JD 8320R, IVT, ILS, 2653 hrs, ‘10........$195,000 JD 8335R, MFWD, IVT, ILS, 300 hrs, ‘13 $260,000 JD 8335R, MFWD IVT, 182 hrs, ‘12......$261,900 JD 8335R, MFWD, IVT, ILS, 364 hrs, ‘13 $270,000 JD 8345R, MFWD, IVT, ILS, 852 hrs, ‘10 $265,000 JD 8360RT, IVT, 500 hrs, ‘12................$285,900 JD 8360RT, IVT, 285 hrs, ‘13................$301,000 PLANTERS

5 JD 1710, 12R30, ‘97...............................$20,000 4 Case 1220, 6R30, ‘13.............................$35,000

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JD 1750, 6R30, 3 bu, ‘14........................$37,900 JD 1750, 8R30, 3 bu, ‘12........................$37,500 JD 1780, 12/23, 3 bu, ‘98.......................$35,900 JD 1780, 24R20, ‘97...............................$39,500 JD 1780, 24R22......................................$46,000 Kinze 3600, 16R30, 2 bu, ‘05.................$49,500 Moore 24R22, 1.6 bu, ‘03.......................$54,900 JD 1770, 12R30, 3 bu, ‘02......................$49,000 JD 1770, 16R30, CCS, ‘13....................$118,500 JD 1770, 24R30, CCS, ‘04......................$82,000 JD 1790, 16R30/31R15, ‘03...................$69,900 JD 1760, 12R30, 3 bu, ‘13......................$73,900 JD 1760, 13R30, 3 bu, ‘11......................$73,999 JD 1720, 24R22, 3 bu, ‘01......................$47,900 JD 1720, 16R30, CCS, ‘13....................$110,900 JD 1770NT, 12R30, 3 bu, ‘11.................$95,000 JD 1770NT, 16R30, CCS/PROS, ‘13.....$132,000 JD 1770NT, 16R30, CCS/PROS, ‘12.....$135,000 JD 1770NT, 24R30, CCS, ‘08...............$145,000 JD 1770NT, 24R30, CCS, ‘13...............$185,000 White 8500-C, 24R22, CCS, ‘12...........$136,900 JD DB44, 24R22, CCS, ‘13...................$204,900 JD DB44, 24R22, CCS, ‘13...................$205,000 JD DB88, 48R22, CCS, ‘11...................$255,000 JD DB66, 36R22, CCS, ‘08...................$184,000 JD DB66, 36R22, CCS, ‘11...................$192,900

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JD 980, FC, 26’, 3-bar, ‘94......................$21,000 JD 980, FC, 44.5’, ‘01..............................$22,000 JD 985, FC, 49.6’, 3-bar, ‘95...................$20,900 Sunflower 5035, 28’, FC, ‘05..................$25,000 Case TIgerMate 200, 50.5’, 5-sec, ‘10. . .$59,000 JD 2200, FC, 54.5’, 3-bar, ‘03.................$42,900 JD 2210, FC, 27.6’, 3-bar, ‘08.................$34,900 JD 2210, FC, 44.6’, 4-bar, ‘05.................$42,500 JD 2210, FC, 44.5’, 2-bar, ‘07.................$47,900 JD 2210, FC, 45.6’, 5-sec, ‘13.................$64,000 JD 2210, FC, 46.6’, 5-sec, ‘11.................$76,900 JD 2210, FC, 47.5’, 4-bar, ‘12.................$77,000 JD 2210, FC, 49.5’, 4-bar, ‘05.................$46,000 JD 2210, FC, 54.5’, 3-bar, ‘06.................$49,500 JD 2210, FC, 41.6’ , 3-sec, ‘13................$59,000 JD 2210, FC, 55.5’, 5-sec, ‘13.................$89,000 JD 2210, FC, 58’, 4-bar, ‘12....................$74,900 JD 2210, FC, 60.5’, 4-bar, ‘12.................$83,000 JD 2210, FC, 60.6’, 5-sec, ‘13.................$86,900 JD 726, mulch finisher, 30’ 9””, ‘97........$32,000 JD 2310, mulch finisher, 33.9’, ‘12.........$67,500 JD 2310, mulch finisher, 39.9’, ‘13.........$94,000 JD 2310, mulch finisher, 45.9’, ‘13.......$107,000

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Dairy promotion is dairy princesses’ main task

Across Minnesota in recent weeks, our county American Dairy Associations have been crowning their local dairy princesses. In Iowa, dairy promotion groups are holding banquets and doing the same. And in South Dakota, we just selected another state dairy princess. Regardless of how and where it’s done, a dairy princess coronation is a fun time for local dairy enthusiasts and an exciting event for the young women and their families.

But it’s really after the celebration that counts for the dairy industry as a whole, because the crown and banner is simply a tool with which we can reach out to the people who

By Seena Glessing buy what we produce. A dairy prinMidwest Dairy Assoc. cess title comes with both great opportunity and great responsibility.

Becoming a dairy princess, usually fresh out of high school or in the rst year or two of college, is not without its challenges. Dairy farmers like my husband and me contribute signicant money to the dairy checkoff with the expectation that those funds will help grow dairy sales and reinforce consumer condence.

As part of that, we hold up our dairy princesses as examples of all that’s good and wholesome about dairy farming and the people who choose to do it. And in the case of state dairy princesses, we place them in the media spotlight and depend on them to perform in a way that reinforces dairy’s credibility. It requires a time commitment, communication skills and personal responsibility.

That’s why Midwest Dairy invites dairy princesses to attend our Minnesota promotion workshop in May, and our Iowa dairy princess workshop in June. The title comes with tools.

The workshops Midwest Dairy will host include sessions on how to be a dairy champion in media interviews and public presentations. Participants receive background on what consumers would like to hear about dairy farming and dairy products. They learn how to use social media to tell their dairy story, and what resources Midwest Dairy offers to help them with their appearances throughout the year.

In Minnesota, a weekend format also allows for improving classroom presentation skills, and of course choosing the next 12 Princess Kay nalists. The North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa state dairy princesses will also participate. This year, the participants in our May weekend will enjoy a kickoff presentation from Greg Peterson of the farm boy group that’s made itself a YouTube sensation, the Peterson Brothers. We’re excited, and I think the dairy princesses will be, too.

It’s hard for busy young women to commit to a weekend or even a full day in their busy lives, let alone a full year of carrying out a dairy princess role. We wish every single young woman eligible to participate in the dairy princess program would do so, and every single local dairy princess would attend the workshops we’ve planned. What they’ll discover is an opportunity to boost their own personal skills for everyday life. Perhaps even more, they’ll realize the unique opportunity they’ve been given because of their connection to dairy.

Seena Glessing is a consultant for Midwest Dairy Association who implements the dairy princess programs in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. She is also an agriculture education teacher at Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted High School. Seena was a nalist for Princess Kay of the Milky Way in 1999. She and her husband, Dan, and their four children along with Dan’s parents are dairy farmers from Waverly, Minn.

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