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Taking home goat champion titles

CONGRATULATIONS To the Five winners of the

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Sandy Spoden of Kimball, Minn.

Menno A. Borntreger of Augusta, Wisc.

Joseph L. Miller of Rice Lake, Wisc.

Each winner found 377 logos in zone 1 RU 369 logos in zone 2 of the June 9th Dairy Star.

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The Allens – Morgan holding Reese, Keith and Mason – took home the grand champion Ɵtle in the Oberhasli breed at the American Dairy Goat AssociaƟon naƟonal show in Columbus, Ohio. The Allens milk 30 goats on their farm near Kenyon, Minn.

Each winner receives Àve pounds of butter and Àve pounds of cheese.

Allens, Franseens win Oberhasli, Recorded Grade breeds at ADGA national show

KENYON, Minn. – A few dairy goat farmers in the upper Midwest had big wins at the American Dairy Goat Association National Show June 23-29 in Columbus, Ohio.

Grand champion Oberhasli Morgan and Keith Allen knew their 3-year-old SGCH Haycreek Kane Stradivaria was a good goat, but they were shocked when they took home the biggest award of grand champion in the Oberhasli breed at the national show.

“There’s this feeling that you can’t believe it’s happening,” Morgan said.

“I was trying not to cry.”

The couple along with their two children, Mason, 8, and Reese, 2, milk 30 does on their farm near Kenyon, Minn.

“I was excited about her because she was an A.I. breeding so we worked with her a little more,” Morgan said about Stradivaria in her earlier years.

“As a kid she didn’t do much and as a [dry] senior yearling she looked nice.”

Last year, as a 2-year-old, is when the doe started developing more, win-

“A good showman can make a goat look good when they’re standing still, but you can’t hide aws when they’re walking.”

MORGAN ALLEN, DAIRY FARMER

ning classes at shows and even taking home best in show at the Iowa State Fair.

“When she walks, that’s what catches your eye,” Morgan said. “A good showman can make a goat look good when they’re standing still, but you can’t hide aws when they’re walking. That’s her thing.”

The Allens also had success with Stradivaria’s maternal sister that won the 2-year-old class. The duo also won the produce of dam class.

“It’s a good family line,” Morgan said. “It’s fun to see the daughters do better than their mother and progress.”

In their breeding program, the Allens focus on quality udders with good attachments, and good feet and legs.

“Then, I just hope the rest will come with it,” Morgan said.

Sometimes does will be bred by a buck they save or one from A.I. breeding to get new genetics. About 20 percent of the herd is A.I. bred.

“I want animals that are strong and have the will to milk,” Morgan said.

“But I still want them fancy for showing in the general appearance category.

This year marked the 20th year since Morgan circled the show ring at her rst national show in 1998. Although the couple does not go every year, they try to make it work when the event is relatively close.

“We’re conscious of who will be doing chores at home,” Keith said. “We had to be gone eight days for this year’s show.”

However, every year the Allens attend the Minnesota state show, the Minnesota State Fair show and one other club show, along with three local county fairs – Rice, Dakota and Olmsted.

“We don’t travel too far away from home,” Morgan said.

When not out at the events, the Allens are home doing chores and each working their full-time off-farm jobs.

They start the kidding season each year in March and milk through the year and into the rst part of January before drying up the herd. Milk from their dairy goes to a local farmstead creamery, Singing Hills Goat Dairy.

Grand champion recorded grade The Franseen family feels proud to have a national champion come from their commercial dairy.

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ConƟnued from ADGA | Page 3 not all about the show herds.

The Franseens – Jeremy and Kristen, along with their children, Zach, 15, Nathan, 12, and Morgan, 8 – had the grand champion recorded grade with their 6-year-old CH FFA’s Roxie at the national show.

The family milks 175 goats on their dairy near Clinton, Wis. “It’s all a blur,” Franseen said about the moment his family’s goat took the top title.

“We are rst and foremost a commercial dairy, but I always pay close attention to genetics.”

When describing Roxie, Franseen said she has good size and has lots of dairy strength.

“She has held up,” he said.

“At 6 years old, her feet and legs are phenomenal.”

It is the type of animal

Franseen tries to breed.

“In my mind and in our barn, she is the perfect model of a goat,” he said. “I hope I breed another one like Roxie; but if I don’t, Roxie is as perfect for me as it gets.”

When it comes to breeding, Franseen rst focuses on good feet and legs.

“Without good strong feet and legs … she’ll never hold up in a commercial setting or in the show ring,” he said.

Udders are also important.

“It has to be productive, but well attached with good teat placement,” Franseen said.

“That carries into the parlor. If I’ve got a 3- or 4-year-old goat where the udder is swinging back and forth and the teats are to the outside and I can’t keep a milker on, that does me no

good.”

Longevity also plays a role in breeding on their farm.

“I try to breed for goats that are going to hold up over time so the less replacements I have to raise and the more money in the long run for me,” he said.

Roxie descends from the Alpine breed, with a registered Alpine sire, but an unregistered Alpine dam. She ts in with the majority of the Franseen herd, which is 98 percent Alpines and Recorded Grades that descend from Alpines. There are a handful of the Oberhasli, Toggenburg and Saanen breeds that his wife and children have brought in as show projects.

“My son, Zach, loves showing,” Franseen said. “It’s his summer job this year. We PHOTO SUBMITTED

Zach Franseen poses with his family’s 6-year-old Recorded Grade, CH FFA’s Roxie, who was named grand champion at the recent ADGA naƟonal show. The Franseens milk 175 goats near Clinton, Wis.

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SGCH Haycreek Kane Stradivaria is a 3-year-old Oberhasli owned by Morgan and Keith Allen and was named grand champion in her breed at the recent American Dairy Goat AssociaƟon naƟonal show.

made an arrangement with him that he works with the goats, clips them and gets them ready for shows. Whatever he makes for premiums he gets to keep.”

Zach is the one who led Roxie in the show ring during her grand champion venture.

He was the one who pushed the family to participate in this year’s national show after Roxie received reserve grand champion recorded grade at last year’s national show in Madison, Wis. These are the only two national shows the family has participated in.

“He’s got the show bug,” Franseen said.

As the third generation on the farm, Franseen transitioned the dairy from cows to goats when he joined the farm in 1997. He started showing shortly after.

“I always showed cattle growing up, so showing goats

was a smooth transition,” he said.

But Franseen likes to emphasize they are not a huge show herd.

“What makes Roxie good for us is milk production,” he said. “That rst and foremost makes her an awesome goat.”

Last lactation, she produced over 4,000 pounds of milk and in her other lactations aside from her rst, she produced over 3,500 pounds of milk.

Although they now have a national champion, they still do not give Roxie any special attention.

“When we brought her home, she went back in her pen with 70 other goats,” Franseen said.

And the Franseens went back to working hard on their commercial dairy.

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Stronger prices for Class III, IV milk expected

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The forecast for the Class III milk price for the rest of 2018 has been raised, according to the June Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Outlook report released by the United States Department of Agriculture June 18.

Economists with the agriculture department’s Economic Research Service (ERS) compile the report each month.

Expectations for the Class III price are now between $15.05 and $15.45 per hundredweight (cwt.); 20 cents higher than the May forecast.

Some of the expected price strength is based on a higher price for dry whey.

The Class IV milk price is expected to climb even more this year.

The outlook report has it rising by 50 cents from May and amounting to $14.30 to $14.80 cwt.

Meanwhile, the all-milk price for this year is also projected to increase.

The ERS sees it rising 35 cents from last month’s forecast. The new projection has it at $16.60 to $17 cwt.

A strong export market has helped boost prices.

Commercial dairy exports were high in April, reaching a monthly record of 4.481 billion pounds on a skim-solids milk-equivalent basis, according to the ERS. On a milk-fat, milk-equivalent basis, April commercial exports were 1.06 billion pounds, their highest level since July of 2014.

Mexico’s new tariffs on U.S. dairy products, implemented as part of the Trump Administration’s trade dispute, will interfere with cheese exports to some extent. Still, dairy exports overall are expected to remain robust for the remainder of 2018 and throughout 2019.

The ERS report has the U.S. milking herd slightly smaller for the rest of 2018; now forecasted at 9.405 million head. That’s partly due to cow numbers dropping this past April. It was the second consecutive monthly decline.

And the forecast for milk per cow has also been lowered. The ERS report has it down 55 pounds per cow to average per-cow production of 23,185 pounds.

The ERS attributes the drop to slower production growth in April and feed prices expected to be higher than previously thought. Now, milk production is seen at 218 billion pounds, or 0.7 billion pounds lower.

Lower milk production, along

with other factors, such as higher exports and stronger milk prices, will likely mean higher wholesale prices for butter, nonfat dry milk and dry whey. Butter is seen selling for $2.295 to $2.365 per pound, with nonfat dry milk bringing 77.5 to 81.5 cents per pound. Dry whey will likely bring 29.5 to 31.5 cents per pound.

However, the forecast for the wholesale price of cheese has not changed. The June report has it remaining at $1.605 to $1.645 per pound.

Turning to 2019, the ERS has raised its forecast for Class III milk; it is at $15.30 to $16.30. The increase is due to expectations for higher prices for cheese and dry whey.

In addition, the outlook for next year’s Class IV milk has been bumped. It’s expected that those prices will range between $13.70 and $14.80. That’s partly because higher wholesale prices for nonfat dry milk will probably more than offset any lower wholesale prices for butter.

Being led by expected higher prices for Class III and IV milk, the U.S. all milk price should also strengthen, according to the ERS. It sees the 2019 all-milk price going up 45 cents, to something between $16.70 and $17.70 cwt.

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An economic analysis by the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service shows higher milk prices in California would result in less cheese being made there, contributing to higher cheese prices.

But, with less milk going into cheese production, more milk would be made into butter and nonfat dry milk. That would lower the prices of those products. On average, according to the ERS, the U.S. all-milk price should strengthen with California as part of the federal milk marketing order system.

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DGN hosts workshop at Quarry Hill Dairy to learn more about agronomy

Focus on the eld

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ROLLINGSTONE, Minn. – Rather than talking about animals, a group of dairy farm women gathered for a meeting to focus on the agronomy side of their operations.

“You have to learn more about what’s going on in the eld and how it impacts the success of your farm,” said Jon Erickson, commercial agronomist for Mycogen Seeds.

Erickson and a team from the seed company presented June 26 during a Growing TogetHER Field Day put on by the Dairy Girl Network and hosted

by John and Connie Meyer along with their daughters, Kate, 16, and Megan, 15, who milk 750 cows on their farm, Quarry Hill Dairy, near Rollingstone, Minn.

John Anderson, a nutritionist for the seed company, rst explained brown mid-ribbed (BMR) corn.

“You have to learn more about what’s going on in the eld and how it impacts the success of your farm.”

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“It gives a ber digestibility you can’t nd in a regular corn plant,” he said. “That difference in ber digestibility is what helps get more intake and more milk. Forage quality is really important. You can run a diet that’s more economical and will perform better with the cows.”

Anderson said higher ber digestibility could equate to 3 to 5 more pounds of milk per cow, per day on

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Doug Becher explains how to determine the V stage of a corn plant to Dairy Girl Network Growing TogetHER Field Day aƩendees on June 26 at Quarry Hill Dairy near Rollingstone, Minn.

average. For high producing cows, it could be up to 8 pounds, he said.

Getting good quality forage starts in the eld.

“What goes into that cow starts with the seed you select and how you grow that hybrid during the year,” Anderson said.

Erickson took over the presentation about how to assess corn in the eld.

“The highest yield potential is the day you put it in the ground,” he said.

“We want to make each seed work out there. How many of those plants are going to be productive?”

Looking at this information will give farmers a better understanding of yield and quality at harvest time.

One factor to look at is stand quality. The corn plants should emerge in a uniform matter within 24 to 48 hours of each other, Erickson said.

“Ultimately, that will make uniform ears,” he said. “We want good consistent growth and germination.”

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Along with stand quality, farmers should look at stand count and plant population, the number plants per acre. Erickson said this is usually between 30,000 to 34,000 plants per acre, but it depends on the farm.

These two items can be assessed by taking a stroll through cornelds.

“Walking the eld sets the expectations of what the upcoming silage crop will be,” Erickson said.

Planting depth is also an important factor. This should be about 1.5 to 2 inches, Erickson said. At Quarry Hill Dairy, corn seeds are planted 2 inches deep.

“The root system needs enough room to anchor that plant and get the nutrients out there and take those to its advantage,” Erickson said.

Shallow planting will compact the root system, which is not good for the growth and production of a corn plant, Erickson said.

Plant spacing is also important, he said. It should be uniform without any

gaps or double plants.

“When evenly spaced, the plants have a better chance to take advantage of sunlight and nutrients in the soil and moisture,” Erickson said.

If there are gaps in the eld or areas where plants are too close, it might mean a farmer should look at his or her planting process the following year. It could have been caused by a need for planter maintenance or wear and tear on the planter. Soil bed prep might need to be done better or the person planting might need to slow down.

“Sometimes you get going fast and hit bumps, which can affect quality,” Erickson said.

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is important for eld management applications or for harvest. For corn silage, Erickson said harvest should start 45 days after the corn has pollinated.

Out in the eld, a corn plant’s development stage can be determined by its vegetative growth stage, also known as its V stage. This process uses the Iowa State University Leaf Collar System to count how many collars are on a corn plant and what V stage it is in. The collar of a corn plant is where the leaf blade visually breaks away from the sheath and wraps around the stalk of the plant.

Erickson said corn plants should be between one leaf stage of each other.

More than that may lead to reduced ear set, yield and quality, he said.

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Sidewalk art promotes dairy Cole depicts farming in Chalk the Walk event

By Abby Hopp Staff Intern

LITTLE FALLS, Minn. – A touch of dairy was added to the sidewalks during a community-wide event June 28 in Little Falls, Minn.

The Little Falls Convention and Visitor Bureau hosted a Chalk the Walk event in hopes to add some fun to the community. Businesses had the opportunity to sponsor a section of sidewalk and made art throughout the day.

“We wanted to take the focus off of us and put it on someone who makes a difference,” said Debbie Cole, owner of Little Falls Domino’s Pizza.

Cole and her husband, Shane, participated in the art activity and highlighted the local dairy industry.

Dairy farmers Brenda and Nathan Rudolph, and their 9-year-old son, Everett, were Cole’s inspiration.

“I wanted a child in the picture,” Cole said. “I asked Brenda if she had a picture I could use and she did.”

The picture included Everett and his calf, Lady Wilt, from their dairy farm near Little Falls, Minn.

Everett exhibited his calf that morn-

ing at a dairy show in Brainerd, Minn.

On their way home, the Rudolphs stopped in Little Falls to see the progress of the art display.

“It felt really good,” Everett said about being drawn on the sidewalk.

Sidewalk spot No. 28 in front of Cole’s business was lled with dairy as Cole drew Everett and his calf.

“I added, ‘If you ate today, thank a farmer’ to the picture,” Cole said. “We wouldn’t have a business if it wasn’t for the farmer.”

Brenda agreed.

“Businesses like Domino’s know how important dairy farmers are to them,” she said. “The support [from this event] is exciting.”

Throughout the day, many visitors visited with Cole about her drawing.

Two employees also participated in the event outside nearby businesses.

“It is fun for the community,” Cole said. “It is fun to talk with people and share why we are doing it.”

While the event was designed to add fun to the community, Cole saw the activity as an opportunity to start a conversation. For Cole and her business, the event brought attention to people who are crucial in the pizza industry.

“We are focusing on people who we really should be thanking, the farmers,” Cole said.

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The “Mielke� Market Weekly

By Lee Mielke

June Class III highest prices seen in six months

The nation’s June Federal order bench mark milk price crept to the highest level it has seen in six months, but that’s not saying much. The Agriculture Department announced the June Class III price at $15.21 per hundredweight, up just 3 cents from May but $1.23 below June 2017 and 78 cents above California’s comparable 4b cheese milk price. It equates to $1.31 per gallon, down from $1.41 a year ago.

That put the six-month average at $14.41 down from $16.12 a year ago but compares to $13.48 in 2016. Class III futures late Friday morning portended a July Class III at $14.22; August, $14.74; September, $15.21; October, $15.47; November, $15.51; and December at $15.46 per cwt.

The Class IV price is $14.91, up 34 cents from May but 98 cents below a year ago, yet is the highest Class IV since September 2017. Its six month average is at $13.67, down from $15.08 a year ago and compares to $13.18 in 2016.

California’s comparable Class 4b cheese milk price is $14.43, down 47 cents from May, $1.17 below a year ago, and 78 cents below the comparable Federal order Class III price, highest differential since December 2017. The 4b’s six month average stands at $14.05, down from $15.12 a year ago and compares to $12.75 in 2016.

The 4a butter-powder price is $14.22, up 16 cents from May, $1.69 below a year ago, but the highest 4a price since October 2017. The 4a average for the year now stands at $13.37 and compares to $14.85 a year ago and $12.92 in 2016.

While the cheese market at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange may have recovered a little lost ground, particularly on barrel cheese, that was not the case in the July 3 Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction where the weighted average of products offered dropped 5.0 percent, biggest drop since March 7, 2017.

That followed a 1.2 percent slippage on June 19, a 1.3 percent loss on June 5. Sellers brought 58.5 million pounds of product to sell, highest total since December 19, 2017.

With the global market becoming a dumping ground for powder from Canada, the EU, and now India, it should come as no surprise that powder led the declines.

Whole milk powder fell 7.3 percent, following a 1 percent decline on June 19. Skim milk powder was down 4.6 percent after slipping 1.1 percent last time.

Cheddar cheese was down 4.3 percent, after it fell 3.6 percent last time, and butter was down 4.0 percent,

after inching 0.8 percent higher. Anhydrous milkfat was off 1.7 percent, and follows a 2.5 percent decline last time.

Only two offerings showed positive movement; buttermilk powder was up 6.4 percent and rennet casein was up 3.6 percent.

FC Stone equates the GDT 80 percent butterfat butter price to $2.3850 per pound U.S. CME butter closed Friday at $2.17. GDT Cheddar cheese equated to $1.6843 per pound U.S. and compares to Friday’s CME block Cheddar at $1.5425. GDT skim milk powder averaged 86.77 cents per pound and whole milk powder averaged $1.3175. CME nonfat dry milk closed Friday at 77 1/4-cents a pound.

The dairy markets have been trading off headlines for some time and reality is beginning to set in, according to HighGround Dairy’s Alyssa Badger. She talked about those headlines and how New Zealandbased Fonterra’s latest predicted farm milk price may be wishful thinking in the July 9 Dairy Radio Now broadcast.

She pointed to whole milk powder (WMP), Fonterra’s ďƒ&#x;agship product, and said it has seen a $3,000.00 per metric ton price level that’s been in place for some time, but the GDT index fell below that price, dipping 7.3 percent, the most aggressive fall since First Quarter last year. That, says Badger, jeopardizes Fonterra’s latest predicted farm milk price of $7.00 per kilogram. “The last time Fonterra was able to pay that kind of price was 2013-2014, when WMP was selling above $5,000.00 per metric ton, as was skim milk powder (SMP). Now we have WMP priced below $3,000 and SMP below $2,000.â€? “The $7 is over-priced,â€? Badger charged, “Plus we’re seeing weaker butterfat prices around the world, so it will be hard to justify that price.â€?

She admits that SMP and NFDM stocks have fallen in the Northern Hemisphere but India will be adding more to those from Canada and the large inventories in Europe. Most of India’s product will go to the Middle East and North Africa, she said, and impact U.S. sales to those regions. The U.S. is also being hit from China as we have been shipping larger volumes there but now face a 25 percent tariff on nearly all dairy products exported to China. That, plus our relationship continues to be questionable with Mexico, Badger concluded. Meanwhile, the Trump Administration says it will defend farmers in the tariff-trade war.

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from April and 1.4 percent above May 2017. Yearto-date output stands at 5.36 billion pounds, up 2.5 percent from this time a year ago.

Wisconsin produced 287.5 million pounds of that cheese, up 1.1 percent from April and 0.5 percent above a year ago. California output totaled 216.8 million pounds, up 2.9 percent from April but 1.3 percent below a year ago.

Idaho provided 77.4 million pounds, down 9.5 percent from April and 2.1 percent below a year ago.

Minnesota, at 62.5 million, was up 0.9 percent from April and 0.6 percent below a year ago. New Mexico produced 75.5 million pounds, up 2.3 percent from April and 14.2 percent above a year ago.

Italian cheese output totaled 457.2 million pounds, up 0.4 percent from April and 1.1 percent above a year ago. Year to date (YTD) Italian is at 2.3 billion pounds, up 2.8 percent from a year ago. Mozzarella, at 356.3 million pounds, was up 1.7 percent, with YTD at 1.78 billion pounds, up 2.8 percent.

American type cheese production totaled 442.7 million pounds, down 0.1 percent from April and 0.1 percent below a year ago, with YTD at 2.16 billion pounds, up 1.3 percent. Cheddar output, the cheese traded at the CME, totaled 317.5 million pounds, down 0.4 percent from April and 3.0 percent below a year ago, with YTD Cheddar at 1.57 billion pounds, down 1.9 percent.

U.S. churns produced 167.9 million pounds of butter, down 4.2 percent from April but 2.8 percent above a year ago. YTD output is at 877.5 million pounds, up 4.3 percent.

California butter output totaled 50.7 million pounds, down 5.2 percent from April but 10.6 percent above a year ago. Pennsylvania, at 8.6 million pounds, was up 0.2 percent from April but 4.3 percent below a year ago.

Yogurt output amounted to 373.9 million pounds, down 2.9 percent from a year ago, with YTD hitting 1.9 billion pounds, down 3.1 percent.

Dry whey totaled 85.6 million pounds, up 3.2 percent, with YTD output at 441.3 million pounds, up 6.5 percent. Stocks totaled 78.9 million pounds, up 15.2 percent from April but 7.8 percent below those a year ago.

Nonfat dry milk production totaled 160.4 million pounds, down 2.1 percent from April and 4.5 percent below a year ago. YTD stands at 821.1 million pounds, up 2.8 percent. Stocks slipped to 271.4 million pounds, down 2 million pounds or 0.7 percent from April and are 8.7 million pounds or 3.1 percent above a year ago.

Skim milk powder production totaled 50.4 million pounds, up 1.9 percent from April but 1.9 percent below a year ago. YTD skim is at 225.3 million pounds, down 10.2 percent from a year ago.

Cash markets were mostly lower in the 4th of July holiday shortened week, thanks to the GDT and global trade uncertainty.

The Cheddar blocks closed Friday at $1.5425 per pound, down 1 1/4-cents on the week and a penny below a year ago. The barrels ďƒžnished at $1.2450, down 14 1/2-cents on the week, 13 cents below a year ago, lowest CME price since July 30, 2009, and a whopping 29 3/4-cents below the blocks. Only 3 cars of Turn to MIELKE | Page 11 Buyers & Feeders of damaged corn, soybeans, screenings, wet, hot, dry, ďŹ re and silo corn.

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Cheese demand is slipping, according to Midwestern producer’s reports to Dairy Market News, and there is concern over the markets. Barrel prices did rebound but “there were noted reverberations felt by cheese sellers after such a swift drop. Buyers are more apprehensive and no one on either side of the buyer seller relationship wants to be on the wrong side of the next market fracas.” Milk supplies in the region have yet to taper and were as low as $5 under Class.

Some Western manufacturers are cutting output but abundant milk supplies are keeping cheese output active. Trade issues are unsettling the market and the spread between blocks and barrels remains wide.

DMN also reports that European Union cheese output is up. “In the rst four months of 2018, total production increased 2.1 percent. Despite extensive production, the market has been absorbing all the available offers of cheese. Currently, cheese supplies are at lower levels due to a growth in domestic consumption. In addition, export trades have been higher, and sales are taking place at rmer prices. Some reports suggest that the current trade dispute may create even more international sales for EU cheese.”

Back home, FC Stone blames increased processing capacity for the barrel surplus in the country, “but also ample milk supplies with accelerating increases in milkfat and protein components adding to cheese yields. Now include the prospect of less mozzarella exports. Some plants in the country will be running more barrels in lieu of those mozzarella export orders.

Those surplus barrels will ultimately nd a buyer at the CME as the market of last resort,” FC Stone warns.

The bleeding butter price paused Friday at $2.17 per pound, down 9 3/4-cents on the week, lowest CME price since February 22, 2018, and 41 1/2-cents below a year ago, with 22 cars exchanging hands on the week.

DMN says butter sales have softened according to some producers and cream has been available further into the summer this year than expected but butter makers say they are continuing to pack away supplies for the fall.

Western butter stocks are heavy and more than enough to meet customer needs. Some processors intend to slow output by selling cream in the spot market.

Grade A nonfat dry milk closed Friday at 77 1/4-cents per pound, up 2 1/2-cents on the week but 9 1/2-cents below a year ago, with 7 sales reported for the week.

Friday’s dry whey closing was at 39 cents per pound, 1 3/4-cents lower on the week, with 3 cars sold at the CME. “Nearby dairy margins continued to deteriorate the balance of June, while the deferred margins held a bit steadier,” according to the latest Margin Watch (MW) from Chicago-based Commodity & Ingredient Hedging LLC. The MW states that “Trade relations between the U.S. and China, as well as the NAFTA partnership, continue to suffer as the early July deadlines for retaliatory tariffs are set to commence on multiple products including cheese and many dairy products, as well as meats and oilseeds. There has not been any

reported progress amongst the partners, and it is likely the proposed tariffs will take place. This week President Trump indicated his intentions to reset the NAFTA talks after the U.S. mid-term elections this fall, in line with the new Mexican administration,” according to the MW. The latest Crop Progress report shows that 79 percent of the nation’s corn is rated good to excellent, as of the week ending July 1, up from 68 percent that week a year ago. The report shows 71 percent of the soybeans are rated good to excellent, up from 64 percent a year ago. Looking at the cotton crop, 43 percent is rated good to excellent, down from 54 percent a year ago.

In politics, I share part of a discussion of the new Farm Bill by Geoff Vanden Heuvel, Director of Regulatory and Economic Affairs for California’s Milk Producers Council. He writes in his June 29 member newsletter that the Class I price formula will be changed in both the House and Senate versions.

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1,685 1,410 945 1,795 1,010 1,070 1,650 1,655 900 1,945 1,790 1,255 1,470 1,905 1,770 2,165 1,825 1,840 1,845 1,745 1,305 1,270 1,765 1,360 1,520 1,360 1,305 1,310 1,305 1,720 1,165 1,145 1,395 1,355 1,115 1,280 1,245 1,485 1,445 1,650 1,320 1,355 1,610 1,565 1,640 1,380 1,175 1,250

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

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138 110 108 170 136 126 120 99 135 135 105 70 101 110 100 125 95 100 103 103 100 100 105 95 110 115 111 120 101 95 105 78 103 95 95 100 95 105 88 80 75 106 95 80 80 88 92

3 1 2 1 7 11 1 10 1 2 2 1 10 1 1 1 4 3 2 2 5 2 1 1 3 1 4 1 6 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 3 1 1 11 4 1 1 2 3

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By Maria Bichler Staff Writer

UNION BRIDGE, Md. – When cows and visitors alike arrive at the rst-generation dairy farm of Katie Dotterer-Pyle and her husband, David Pyle, they are checked-in to a farm advocating for the industry and zeroing in on the health of their herd.

“I’m a big advocate,” Dotterer-Pyle said of the dairy industry.

“My favorite way to educate is actual in-person farm tours. It al-

lows the public to see with their own eyes what we do and how comfortable our cows are.”

The couple owns Cow Comfort Inn Dairy in Carroll County near Union Bridge, Md. The farm consists of 600 head housed in three locations and comprised predominately of Jerseys with a few Holsteins.

For the couple, dairy farming is nothing new. Pyle was the third generation on a farm in Vermont; Dotterer-Pyle a third-generation dairywoman raised in central Pennsylvania.

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The mostly-Jersey herd at Cow Comfort Inn Dairy is housed in a freestall barn and milked in a double-12 herringbone parlor near Union Bridge, Md. “My whole goal was to go home and be a part of that third generation, but things change,” Dotterer-Pyle said. “I love my family but working with them proved to be difcult. … David actually always wanted his own farm. I thought he was crazy, but I went along with it.”

Before purchasing their current farm in 2013, they rented a 90-cow dairy in Virginia in 2009 followed by renting a farm in Pennsylvania.

In a double-12 herringbone parlor, 370 cows are milked twice a day. The herd is housed in a freestall barn. In addition, the couple has cows at a dry cow facility 10 miles from their farm and have heifers raised at another location.

“If David is not at the main dairy, he is at one of the other two places,” Dotterer-Pyle said.

“With everything else going on with a farm this size, he gets

pulled in a lot of different directions.”

In 2015, the couple built a calf barn after losing their previous barn in a snowstorm. The 200-foot long barn is equipped with self-feeders, adjustable pens and split curtains. Calves start in individual pens for 14 days before being moved to a group pen with automatic feeders. They are weaned at 8 weeks and move out of the barn when they are 14 to 16 weeks old.

The couple is aided by six full-time employees.

“They’ve been great,” Dotterer-Pyle said of the farm’s employees. “They are like our second family.”

The farm is made up of 87 tillable acres producing corn and cover crop. The farm is a feed purchase operation.

“There are pros and cons with everything, but we enjoy being a feed purchase operation for the

most part other than being at the mercy of other farms,” DottererPyle said. “It allows us to focus solely on our herd. So, everybody else comes in and plants, harvests and actually takes our manure.

We have really great neighbors that we work with for that.”

The farm added a manure handling facility in 2015 by using the United States Department of Agriculture’s Environmental Quality Incentives Program and state-aided funds. They also use a separator to furnish the farm with bedding.

“Our somatic cell count averages 180,000,” Dotterer-Pyle said. “It has to be well managed.

We put an additive into the reception pit to help kill any bacteria.

It’s way cheaper than buying another bedding source.”

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Land O’Lakes Inc. Every other day 44,000 pounds of milk is shipped to either a butter facility in Carlisle, Pa., or to Dairy Maid Dairy in Frederick, Md. “We do contract milk, so that really helps,” Dotterer-Pyle said. “My husband does that and I give him all the credit in the world because that is how we are surviving right now; with contracts and components.”

The farm has a 4.9 percent butterfat test and a 3 percent protein.

Dotterer-Pyle said she recently purchased a concession stand with the goal of producing and selling ice cream on their farm.

A concern of Dotterer-Pyle’s for the dairy industry is the prevalence of plantbased consumer preference when it comes to dairy alternatives. She said the future of agriculture has her worried.

“I try my part to do what I can, but I am only one person,” Dotterer-Pyle said.

“The dairy promotion denitely has me concerned.”

Dotterer-Pyle engages with consumers through social media channels and aims to educate the public about the dairy industry. She is also a part of LEAD Maryland Foundation, Inc., an agricultural leadership group in the state. Dotterer-Pyle is a Dairy Girl Network board of director, as well.

They are both involved in Dairy Farmers Speakers Bureau, a program funded

through their local checkoff program where they speak to groups throughout the year. Pyle is a recent graduate of the Young Dairy Leaders Institute, a leader and communication skills development program offered through the Holstein Foundation.

Dotterer-Pyle accommodates farm tours on a weekly basis as the need arises, giving groups of all ages and backgrounds the insight of a working dairy farm.

As part of Pyle’s YDLI program, the couple hosted a cow camp event in June 2017 at their farm. The week-long event was geared towards non-farm children ages 8-12, and it allowed the children to take sole responsibility of a weaned Jersey calf. They learned how to wash, clip and show their calf, culminating in a mock show for their family members. Industry professionals – a veterinarian, nutritionist, hoof trimmer, Land O’Lakes representative – were brought in each day to provide hands-on learning.

As for the future of Cow Camp Inn Dairy, robots are on the horizon, DottererPyle said, as labor force will continue to be a concern for their farm. A future cow camp event is also a goal. Further, the couple would like to purchase more acres.

“I love knowing what we do feeds people,” Dotterer-Pyle said. “I feel like dairy farmers are like our best customer. … Every time I eat a yogurt or cheese, I think, ‘It’s pretty awesome to be the beginning of all this.’”

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NEW ULM, Minn. – After a miserable bout of wet weather in southern Minnesota, the Griebels were looking forward to a day of sunshine and heat to dry out the elds and farm.

Mike Griebel and his family spent July 6 catching up on tasks around the dairy and making preparations for the

upcoming Brown County Fair.

“Lately, we’ve been cleaning up from all the rain,” Mike said. “After morning chores, we’re either doing yard work, eldwork or construction all day.”

The Griebels – Mike and his wife, Jenna, and their three children, Isaac, 21, Elizabeth, 15, and Molly, 8 – milk 180 cows on their 330-acre farm near New Ulm, Minn.

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Mike Griebel preps a fresh cow for milking during evening chores July 6.

July 6 began at 4:30 a.m. with Mike milking the herd in the double-8 herringbone parlor and Isaac pushing up the groups of cows before he cleaned stalls and moved newborn calves into individual pens.

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ConƟnued from GRIEBELS | Page 16 “With the new facilities, our cull rate has dramatically dropped,” Mike said. “All the things that built up as reasons to cull haven’t happened anymore.”

Most recently, they remodeled the freestall’s 72 stalls – putting in mattresses and using

interest to be better in all we do,” said Isaac, who recently returned full time to the dairy.

With Isaac home, the responsibilities are largely split between father and son.

While Mike always milks, maintains equipment and oversees the operation, Isaac manages the youngstock and breeding, and also feeds when the hired hand is not working.

“Isaac went to school for this, so this is right up his alley,” Mike said.

Isaac agreed.

ISAAC GRIEBEL, DAIRY FARMER “This is all I’ve ever wanted to do,” he said.

Since Isaac’s sawdust for bedding. The remainder of the milking herd is return, the Griebels have also re-evaluated their breeding housed on a bedded pack.

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“Our rst Angus calf hit the ground in November, and that was the best change we’ve made in the last ve years.”

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Isaac Griebel throws fresh straw bedding into calf pens on July 6. Isaac is responsible for the calf chores on his family’s dairy near New Ulm, Minn. in milk or with poor traits are bred to Angus.

“Our rst Angus calf hit the ground in November, and that was the best change we’ve made in the last ve years,” Isaac said.

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Isaac Griebel prepares feed for the milking herd during the aŌernoon of July 6.

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By 10 a.m., Mike was done milking, the calves were fed and the parlor was washed down.

Isaac bedded the calves and gave electrolytes to newborns. At the same time, Mike

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ConĆ&#x;nued from GRIEBELS | Page 18 on the farm to make repairs,â&#x20AC;?

Mike said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love the mechanics side of things. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m always putting out ď&#x192;&#x17E;res throughout the day.â&#x20AC;?

Julian made the two-hour trek for equipment parts in Lake Henry, Minn. When he returned shortly after noon, he and Mike ď&#x192;&#x17E;xed the mower so Julian could get further along with second-crop hay.

The Griebels were a week behind because of torrential

rains that blanketed southern Minnesota. They had about 100 acres left to cut and bale as dry hay.

However, Julian only had time for two passes in the ď&#x192;&#x17E;eld before heading to a neighborsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to ď&#x192;&#x17E;nish baling. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dad bought a round baler in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70s, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been custom baling a little bit ever since,â&#x20AC;? Mike said.

By midafternoon, Elizabeth and Molly retrieved two

of their fair animals and were waiting for Mike to help halter one more heifer.

This year, the girls are planning to bring two winter calves, a fall calf and a summer junior yearling to the Brown County Fair in August. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nice to work with the calves,â&#x20AC;? Elizabeth said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like walking them.â&#x20AC;?

Molly agreed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Training the animals is a lot of work,â&#x20AC;? she said.

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Mike Griebel plugs in a fan before starĆ&#x;ng evening milking July 6.

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In celebration of 65 years, the county’s American Dairy Association hosted a princess ball June 22 at the Falls Ballroom in Little Falls, Minn.

More than 70 past and present princesses were in attendance at the Morrison County Dairy Princess Ball.

“It was great to get people back together and to see that the dairy industry is still alive,” said Ron Rinkel, a member of the Morrison County ADA. Rinkel and his wife, Mary Ann, are in a partnership with their oldest son, where they milk cows on their dairy farm near

Hillman, Minn.

Rinkel suggested Morrison County ADA host a princess ball to celebrate 65 years of dairy royalty.

“We have a great board in Morrison County and a very successful princess program,” Rinkel said. “We have to be proud of what we have accomplished.”

The Princess Ball opened with a social hour, following with a dinner. After the completion of the dinner, a banquet took place which included a speech from Mary [Zahurones] Amundson, 2011 Princess Kay of the Milky Way and introduction of princesses and attendants from 65 years. The evening ended with entertainment from Devas through the Decades.

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ConƟnued from ROYALTY | Page 20 tion’s rst year offering a princess program.

“I was 18 years old and a senior in high school,” said Peterson of the 1953 crowning. “I don’t remember much, but I do remember riding in a parade.”

Janet (Rauch) Haugen, the 1954 dairy maid, agreed.

“I remember riding in a convertible through a big parade,” Haugen said.

Haugen grew up on a dairy farm with her parents and seven siblings near Pierz, Minn.

“We had 150 acres and milked 15 cows,” Haugen said. “There were much smaller farms back then.”

Haugen was 18 years old when she served as dairy maid and still remembers the excitement of being crowned.

“The biggest change is that when I was a princess, speaking wasn’t a big thing,” Haugen added.

From the start, Morrison County has been one of the most prominent dairy counties represented by royalty.

“When I rst started we had 40 to 50 girls compete for county princess,” Rinkel said.

Many of the Morrison County princesses have gone on to serve as a Region IV Princess, Princess Kay nalist and even Princess Kay of the Milky Way. In 2011, Mary (Zahurones) Amundson was the rst Morrison County representative to be crowned Princess Kay of the Milky Way. “Serving as Princess Kay was such an honor,” Amundson said. “It was lled with a whirlwind of a year lled with events where I met dairy advocates who have become lifelong friends and role models, as well as dairy farm families who stories I shared in the over 300 classrooms. Every day was a new adventure, and I feel so blessed to have had the chance to represent the genuine and hardworking community of Minnesota dairy farmers and to be a lifelong dairy advocate.”

While Amundson served as the state’s ofcial dairy goodwill ambassador, she was mindful of representing her home county.

“My local community wholeheartedly supported me from the very beginning, and it was so incredible to

have such an outpouring of encouragement,” Amundson said. “I hold them close to my heart, because even when I was hundreds of miles away from Morrison County I always knew my home county was supporting me.”

Amundson attended the 65-year celebration to meet former princesses and support the current royalty.

“I am proud my rst title will always be with a Morrison County dairy princess,” she said. “My county has shown me that all our small towns are lled with the biggest hearts. It was so wonderful to celebrate 65 years of smart, young women advocating for our small town dairy farmers and to see the ongoing support this county gives to our princess program.”

As the evening quieted, Rinkel was humbled by the event’s success as it represented the county’s strong dairy industry. “[The banquet] was enjoyable,” Rinkel said. “Morrison County is very successful. We have had involvement, and it was great to see everyone together again.”

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Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had just a trace of rain in the last three weeks, so we are getting dry. Everyone around here is done with second crop, and ours was awesome. RAINFALL The corn looks good. TOTALS Last 2 Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got the fertilizing Weeks done. It looks good and green, but some is starting to pineapple a little. None of it has tasseled; the average height is between waist and chest high.The new seeding is all taken off and the soybeans Since April 25 look pretty good and are 5.9â&#x20AC;? branching out good. The third crop hay is looking pretty decent. Overall, the crops all still look good, but the lawns are all brown around here.

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The conference kicks off with the General Session, “Challenges Facing Animal Production,” on Wednesday, Sept. 19, at 1:00 p.m. The session’s keynote speaker, sponsored by Nutriad, is Robert Saik, Professional Agrologist and Certied Agricultural Consultant with Saik Management Group. He will speak on whether agriculture will be allowed to feed 9 billion people. Later in that session, challenges facing future animal production including how to work with environmental groups will be addressed. In addition, the role of gene editing and biotechnology breakthroughs in animal production will be explored.

We are also pleased to announce that complementing the General Session is the Pre-Conference Symposium “New Innovations for the Use of the Soybean”, sponsored by the Minnesota Soybean Research and Promotion Council. The role of soybeans and soybean meal in the production of safe, abundant and healthy animal food products will be addressed. The Pre-Conference Symposium will be held from 8:30 a.m. to noon on Thursday, Sept. 19, at the same venue.

Species sessions (equine, non-ruminant and ruminant) are scheduled to start on Thursday, Sept. 20 at 8:30 am. Amino acid nutrition, host-microbiome interactions, ne-tuning energy, protein and mineral requirements, and managing for reduced enteric emissions are among the topics to be covered in these sessions.

The Midwest Chapter of ARPAS will be hosting and providing monetary awards for the 3rd Graduate Student Poster Competition taking place during the conference.

The competition is intended to facilitate the dissemination and presentation of research conducted by graduate students at universities in the Upper Midwest region. The competition encourages graduate education and creates networking opportunities with industry and academia.

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Grimm, Owens receive Senior, Junior Championships at Crow Wing County Dairy Days

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Senior Showmanship Reserve Champion Abby Grimm (leŌ) and Grand Champion Ellen Harth stand with judge Gabriella Sorg aŌer the Crow Wing County Dairy Days dairy show June 28 in Brainerd, Minn.

Dairy Days was held on Thursday, June 28th at the Crow Wing County Fairgrounds in Brainerd, Minn. There were 33 exhibitors and 48 head of cattle. The judge was Gabriella Sorg from Hastings, Minn. Maya Owens, Ogilvie, won Junior Champion with a Holstein winter yearling and Abby Grimm, Milaca, Minn., won Reserve Champion with her Jersey fall calf. Receiving Senior Champion was Abby Grimm, Milaca, Minn., with a Jersey Aged Cow and Chloe Lien, Spicer, Minn., won Reserve Champion with her Holstein 3-year-old cow. Junior Showmanship went to Kaitlyn Byker, Foreston, Minn., and Clare Caughey, Fort Ripley, Minn., got second place. Jenna Caughey, Brainerd, Minn., won Intermediate Showmanship and Elli Meyer, Rothsay, Minn., received second place. Senior Showmanship went to Ellen Harth, Hinckley, Minn., and Abby Grimm, Milaca, Minn., got second.

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Nominate high-quality milk producers for NMC’s NDQA program Nominations are open for National Mastitis Council’s (NMC) prestigious National Dairy Quality Awards (NDQA) program. The nomination deadline is Aug. 31.

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DUBUQUE, Iowa – The development of low-lignin alfalfa is has prompted farmers and researchers to focus more on forage quality.

Ev Thomas, an agronomist with Oak Point Agronomics, Hammond, N.Y., spoke on reducedlignin alfalfa and brown midrib corn during the Four-State Dairy Nutrition and Management Conference June 13-14 in Dubuque, Iowa.

Lignin is a form of cellulose that gives plants strength and seals the vascular bundle so it can transport water. Younger plants contain less lignin, while older plants contain more of it, Thomas said.

That is one reason young alfalfa plants – rst cutting, for example – make better feed. Since their ber contains less lignin, it is more digestible to dairy cattle.

Two main types of low-lignin alfalfa are on the market, Thomas said. One, HarvXtra, was developed by way of genetic engineering and is therefore considered a genetically modied organism (GMO).

The other type, Hi-Gest, was developed through traditional plant breeding. Thomas said all HarvXtra varieties of low-lignin alfalfa are also tolerant of glyphosate and are considered Roundup Ready.

“Both types are lower in lignin and higher in neutral detergent ber digestibility (NDF-d) than conventional varieties,” Thomas said. “Hi-Gest has a similar percentage change in lignin and NDF-d, while HarvXtra has twice the percentage change in lignin as in NDF-d.”

Thomas said there are potential advantages to

“Repeatedly harvesting at the bud stage, especially if followed by a fall harvest, may deplete alfalfa stands.”

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“It allows farmers to delay harvest by seven to 10 days while maintaining forage quality,” Thomas said.

Holding back harvesting one week to 10 days means farmers will cut at 10 percent bloom.

Delayed harvest might reduce the number of cuttings made each year. That, in turn, could result in a higher yield and help the alfalfa stand last longer.

Longer stand life would partly be due to less trafc over the eld. Plus, it would be due to the alfalfa plants’ roots getting a longer recovery period between cuttings. The longer recovery time would let the roots store more carbohydrates.

Higher yields would be realized during the stand’s nal year or two.

With early cutting, alfalfa is subject to an accumulation of insults, Thomas said.

“Repeatedly harvesting at the bud stage, especially if followed by a fall harvest, may deplete alfalfa stands,” Thomas said. “It’s not a root carbohydrate issue. Harvesting also affects rhizobial nodules and root hairs.”

Those root nodules are home to rhizobia bacteria. Rhizobia bacteria let an alfalfa plant take nitrogen out of the air and x it in the soil.

When an alfalfa stand is harvested three or more times during a year, every plant in the eld is run over at least once by something heavy, Thomas said.

“That often results in crown damage,” he said.

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Fewer cuttings can result in a healthier alfalfa which yields more. Thomas offered proof from research conducted at the University of Wisconsin.

There, he said, taking three versus four cuttings of conventional alfalfa each year was compared. The three-cutting schedule yielded a 15 to 20 percent higher yield.

“Heavy equipment damages alfalfa crowns, opening them up to diseases and desiccation,” Thomas said. “More trips equal more crown damage.”

The higher yield on the three-cutting schedule also resulted from the plants getting more rest.

“Harvesting at the bud stage never allows the alfalfa to fully recover its root carbohydrates,” he said. “Neither does delaying harvest by seven to 10 days. But it’s closer to ideal.”

Are there problems with reduced-lignin alfalfa lodging?

“Plant breeders, farmers and university trials say no,” Thomas said.

What about making late-summer cuts at the bud stage? Researchers at Pennsylvania State University cut alfalfa every 28 days and measured the NDF. The third cutting tested at 30 percent NDF, while the fourth cutting tested at 25 percent NDF.

“Harvesting at the bud stage never allows the alfalfa to fully recover its root carbohydrates. Neither does delaying harvest by seven to 10 days.”

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Thomas also discussed cutting reduced-lignin alfalfa at the bud stage versus at 10 percent bloom.

Holding off on the cutting seven to 10 days, until 10 percent of the plants are blooming, gives farmers more time for other things, like nishing planting corn and other eldwork, he said.

“Wide windrows are a must when delaying harvest, because it increases the yield by about half a ton of dry matter per acre,” Thomas said.

One advantage to cutting at the bud stage is that it allows for seeding alfalfa-grass, which has higher yield and higher milk production potential than straight alfalfa. Such a seeding also allows for unexpected harvest delays due to weather and breakdowns.

Thomas offered these tips on working reduced-lignin alfalfa into a farm’s forage system.

- Seed part of the alfalfa acreage to reducedlignin alfalfa or regular alfalfa. Use your best alfalfa ground.

- Harvest any alfalfa-grass elds rst. Then harvest elds of conventional alfalfa, followed by reduced-lignin alfalfa.

The goal, Thomas said, is to make uniformly high-quality forage from the rst eld to the last and extend the ideal harvest window.

Thomas posed two questions that will be answered in time: Will farmers pay the higher price of the seed of reduced-lignin alfalfa? What if the farmer does not need the $140 Roundup Ready trait in HarvXtra?

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Summer eating As the garden starts to come into full production, would you want to try some new and different recipes? A friend passed on some of her cooking magazines for me to look through. I found three new interesting recipes I wanted to try. They were a hit with the family and with me. I made a few adjustments and changes to t our family’s tastes. You can mix things up to t your family as well. I found all three recipes in the January/February 2018 issue of “Eating Well.”

In my favorite John Wayne movie “The Cowboys,” he hollers at the boys to get moving. They’re burning daylight. Well, we seem to take that same mentality in the summer. If the sun is up, so are we. Some mornings, you never know when you’ll be back in the house to eat, so here is something quick to grab on the way out the door.

I store the individual egg bakes in a gallon zip-lock bag in the freezer for the guys to grab on the way out the door because they don’t want to be burning daylight.

Mufn tin quiches 2 Tbsp. olive oil 1 1/2 cups nely diced red-skinned potatoes 1 cup diced red onion 3/4 tsp. salt, divided 8 large eggs 1 cup shredded smoked Cheddar cheese 1/2 cup milk 1/2 tsp. ground pepper 1 1/2 cups chopped fresh spinach Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Coat 12-cup mufn tin with cooking spray.

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Food columnist, Natalie Schmitt heat. Add potatoes, onion and 1/4 tsp. salt and cook, stirring until potatoes are cooked through, about 5 minutes.

Remove from heat and let cool 5 minutes Whisk eggs, cheese, milk, pepper and the remaining 1/2 tsp. salt in large bowl. Stir spinach and potato mixture into beaten eggs. Divide the quiche mixture among the prepared mufn cups. I use a large spoon to ladle the mixture into the mufn cups. Do not use paper liners. Make sure you spray the mufn tin with cooking spray.

Bake until rm to the touch, about 25 minutes. Let stand 5 minutes before removing from the tin.

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To make ahead: Individually wrap in plastic and refrigerate for up to three days or freeze for up to a month. To reheat, remove plastic, wrap in a paper towel and microwave on high for 30 to 60 seconds. Great for a snack out the door in the morning when you know it will be a while before you get back in.

Cauliower rice pilaf 6 cups cauliower orets, about one head 3 carrots, peeled 1/2 to 1 cup chopped mushrooms 1/2 cup chopped red, green or yellow pepper 3 Tbsp. olive oil 2 cloves garlic, minced 1/2 tsp. salt 1/4 cup toasted sliced almonds 1/4 cup chopped fresh herbs, such as chives, parsley, cilantro and/or basil 2 tsp. lemon zest Pulse cauliower orets 2 cups at a time in a food processor until chopped into rice-size pieces. Do the same to the carrots. Heat oil in large skillet over medium-high heat. Sauté mushrooms and peppers for a few minutes. Add garlic. Cook for 30 seconds, then add cauliower and carrots. Sprinkle with salt and cook, stirring until softened 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in almonds, herbs and lemon zest. You can refrigerate raw cauliower rice for up to three days.

Kielbasa and cabbage soup 8 ounces kielbasa 2 Tbsp. olive oil 2 cups chopped onion 2 cups diced carrot

3/4 cup diced celery 2 large garlic cloves, minced 8 cups quartered and thinly sliced cabbage, about 1 pound 8 cups low-sodium chicken broth 4 cups diced, peeled russet potatoes 1/4 cup chopped fresh dill 3/4 tsp. ground pepper 1 1/2 tsp. smoked paprika 1/2 tsp. salt 2 Tbsp. white wine vinegar Cut kielbasa in half lengthwise, then crosswise into 1/4-inch thick slices.

Cook in a large pot over medium-high heat, stirring until browned and the fat has rendered, about 5 minutes. Transfer to a plate with a slotted spoon. Add oil, onion, carrot and celery to the pot and cook, stirring often until starting to brown, about 5 minutes. Reduce heat to medium and continue cooking, stirring often until the vegetables are soft, about 4 minutes more. Add garlic and cook, stirring for 1 minute. Add cabbage and cook, stirring occasionally until slightly wilted, about 3 minutes. Add broth, potatoes, dill, paprika, pepper and salt. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to maintain a simmer and cook, uncovered until the potatoes are tender, about 30 minutes. Stir in vinegar and the kielbasa. Serve topped with sauerkraut and/or sour cream if desired.

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

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