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Volume 20, No. 23
January 26, 2019
“It’s tough, but you have to stay positive.” – Cody Zidlicky Ven�la�on: Not only a warm weather concern Zidlickys work
Twins take on dairying together
By Jennifer Coyne & Danna Sabolik Staff writers
PERHAM, Minn. – Summers in the Midwest are unpredictable, with extreme weather uctuations affecting cow comfort and health on dairy farms throughout the region. The concern for animal welfare does not end when the sun begins to set sooner. In fact, the same challenges with temperature and moisture are present throughout the winter months, and the solution lies in proper ventilation. “Being in the Upper Midwest, we get a wide temperature range; so how do we manage that?” said Kevin Janni, professor and engineer with the University of Minnesota. Janni gave a presentation on proper barn ventilation during a Moo University workshop Jan. 14 in Perham, Minn. As cold weather sets in, barns are buttoned up; but it is crucial ventilation through the facilities remains to deter lingering stale air and the build up of unwanted moisture. “While a higher temperature in the barn will keep manure from freezing, it also raises relative humidity and increases the risk of pneumonia in the herd,” David W. Kammel said. Kammel, a professor of biological systems engineering with the University of WisconsinMadison, has worked with the state’s extension as an expert in livestock housing since 1985. During the winter, farmers should manage the barn climate to the point when manure is likely to freeze and adjust accordingly with weather conditions and the needs of the animals. Naturally ventilated barns provide a temperate climate conducive for animal welfare nearly all year-round. However, winter cold snaps make them less efcient, and for this reason mechanically ventilated barns are growing in popularity.
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off-farm jobs while maintaining Ayrshire herd By Krista Kuzma
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DECORAH, Iowa – As twins, Cody and Carter Zidlicky share many aspects of life. So when both of them felt the call to be dairy farmers, starting their careers together was natural. In July 2017, the now 21-yearolds started milking cows. Today, they have a herd of 45 mostly registered Ayrshires on the farm they rent from their parents, Don and Karrie, near Decorah, Iowa. They call their herd Canoe Ridge Dairy. “It’s cool owning our own cows and looking forward to working with our own genetics,” Cody said. Both working off-the-farm jobs, the brothers put in long days. “We both knew we needed off-
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Twin brothers, Carter (le�) and Cody Zidlicky, work full-�me off-farm jobs while also maintaining their herd of 45 registered Ayrshires on the farm they rent from their parents near Decorah, Iowa.
PK program advances with industry
PK nalists go from 12 to 10, amongst other changes By Jennifer Coyne jenn@dairystar.com
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Twelve county dairy princesses are named Princess Kay of the Milky Way Finalists during May Event in 2017. This year, only 10 nalists will be named, among other changes to the program.
ST. PAUL, Minn. – In an effort to continually provide the dairy industry with its best advocates, Midwest Dairy is launching three changes to the Princess Kay of the Milky Way program. Most notably, the nalists named for Princess Kay will go from 12 to 10. Also, eligibility for Princess Kay will be more inclusive of young women passionate about dairy, and the Dairy Princess Promotion and Leadership Event, commonly known as May Event, will be at a different location. Such changes will begin with the selection of nalists for the 66th Princess Kay this spring. “We’re constantly evaluating the program,” said Theresa Reps, agricultural affairs manager for Midwest Dairy. “We’re always asking how we can Turn to PRINCESS KAY | Page 5
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Well, it’s ofďƒžcially winter. It sure feels like it anyway. With teeth-chattering wind chills in the upper Midwest, I think everyone is looking forward to springtime. This cold spurt hopefully won’t last long and before we know it we’ll be back in the ďƒželds wondering where those slower winter days have gone. This issue we’ve put together a variety of stories, from basketball hobbies to the Persian Gulf. In our From Our Side of the Fence feature, we asked dairy farmers about their maternity pens and birthing procedures. Read about their habits and techniques they use on their farms on pages 15 and 16 of the ďƒžrst section. Traveling far and wide, we spoke with a dairy farmer from Revillo, S.D., who sent 102 bred heifers to a small country in By Mark Klaphake the Persian Gulf, called Kuwait. Kevin Souza of Victory Farms Editor learned about the idea from his Select Sires representative, who suggested he work with a broker from North Carolina who was looking for 100 head to export to a dairy farm in Kuwait. You can ďƒžnd that story on page 12 of the ďƒžrst section. We spoke with a dairy farmer from Arlington, Minn. who enjoys his winters because that’s when he coaches elementary school girls basketball. Read about his blue ďƒ&#x;ame and how he keeps all gears grinding this time of year in the third section. After attending the Minnesota Organic Conference on Jan. 11, we wrote up a couple stories about what we heard. David Jones spoke about high-quality forages and the economic impact they have on an operation. Hettenbach presented on recordkeeping - an essential part of being organically certiďƒžed - and offered tips on how to maintain accurate records for organic certiďƒžcation. Read both those stories in the second section. In a previous issue, we did a story about a young girl who wrote a letter to the president and got a response. Per reader’s requests, we’ve included a copy of the letter President Trump wrote to Hannah Olson. You can ďƒžnd that on page 11 of the ďƒžrst section. We featured a large family of seven kids this issue for Kids Corner. Read about this big, happy family and how all the children are involved on the farm in the third section.
Favorite quotes from this issue: “Many dairy farmers might be scared to get out because of the repercussions of pride, criticism or having to deal with the aftermath, but we had to cut the emotional side from the business side.� – Darienne Frickson (First Section, Page 10)
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ConƟnued from PRINCESS KAY | Page 1 nd the best advocates for dairy, and that’s where the idea for all of these changes came from.” The reason behind only naming 10 nalists is two-fold – to work with the ample media requests for Princess Kay during the rst day of the Minnesota State Fair, as well as giving the woman carved at the end of the fair the same recognition as her peers earlier in the week. “It’s getting harder and harder to feature the women on the front end and back end of the state fair,” Reps said. Under the new structure, Princess Kay’s butterhead will be carved over the course of the rst two days of the fair. “We receive a lot of media request for Princess Kay during that rst day, which is awesome,” Reps said. “Unfortunately, that puts a time crunch for Linda (the professional carver). In taking two days to carve Princess Kay, we’re getting a lot of media opportunities and getting a great sculpture out of the deal.” Likewise, there will not be a butterhead carved on the last day. This will allow the remaining nalist and her family time to embrace the butterhead before the fair ends. “In the past, if a nalist’s family couldn’t make it to that last day of carving, then they didn’t see it in the butter booth,” Reps said. “The sculpture is usually completed by 5 p.m., and if the fair winds down by 8 p.m., that’s just not a lot of time to enjoy it.” By only naming 10 nalists, the selection of such representatives becomes ever more important for Minnesota’s dairy farmers. Two requirements have been added to the eligibility guidelines for young women vying for Princess Kay of the Milky Way. While current dairy princesses must either come from a dairy farm operated by their parents or siblings, or themselves, their parents or guardians are employed to some capacity on a dairy farm, the guidelines are now expanded to include those who are involved in raising or leasing dairy animals. The exact wording reads, “Either you, your parents or guardians care for and/or custom raise dairy cattle that will return to farms who contribute to the Minnesota dairy promotion checkoff; Either you, your parents or guardians own or lease a dairy animal(s) that are housed on another dairy farm. You participate on that farm without pay in exchange for the care and housing of those animals. The county ADA board must determine that you demonstrate a reasonable commitment throughout the year and could provide verication of such if requested.”
“The caveat with both of these guidelines is that the dairy farm associated with animals and paying into the checkoff must endorse you as a dairy princess,” Reps said. In adding these two eligibility requirements, the program is now open to women who are just as passionate about the dairy industry as dairy farmers’ daughters. “Our goal is to have the best advocates for dairy in front of the consumer,” Reps said. “And right or wrong, the consumers don’t care if they’re dairy farmers’ daughters. They just want to connect with someone who can build their trust in dairy farming and dairy products.” The nal change to the program is the relocation of the May Event. Due to structural changes at the College of St. Benedict’s in St. Joseph, Minn., the weekend-long event will be held at the Courtyard Marriott in St. Cloud, Minn. The Sunday banquet will be held nearby at the St. Cloud River’s Edge Convention Center. While these changes may seem drastic, it is not the rst time the program has been modernized. In the early ‘90s, eligibility was extended to include young women who worked on a farm, or their parents or guardians worked on a farm. Nearly a decade later, the Princess Kay of the Milky Way program went from having 11 regional dairy princesses named as nalists to 12 with the addition of the May Event. When such changes are made to this long-standing Minnesota tradition, they are suggested by dairy farmers and then approved by them, too. Over the course of the past three years, the Princess Kay of the Milky Way Committee – which has been around for over a decade and made up of farmers, county board members and past princesses – reviewed the program and found ways to enhance it. The committee of eight then presented its suggestions to the 22-member Minnesota Division Board of Midwest Dairy. While the changes have been met with mixed reviews, the underlying goal of the improvements is to continue to have young people involved in the dairy industry and to share their passion as dairy leaders, Reps said. “We don’t take changes lightly, and we want to do what is right for the tradition of Princess Kay,” she said. “This is a competitive program, and we’re highlighting it in the best way.” Midwest Dairy is sending out information packets regarding the program to county ADA chairs and county dairy princess coordinators.
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Cody Zidlicky pets one of the Ayrshires on the dairy he operates with his twin brother near Decorah, Iowa. farm jobs to pay the bills,” Cody said. While Cody drives semi for a feed milling company hauling fertilizer and feed ingredients, Carter is a service technician for a local dairy equipment dealer. It is not uncommon for either one to put in 14-hour days at their non-farm job. “But one of us is always here,” Carter said. Plus, their mom helps with the majority of the milkings while at least one of the twins does the rest of the chores. “On days when you work 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., plus the farm chores, it makes you question milking cows, but once I’m out there in the barn it’s ne,” Carter said. “The new calves and seeing the herd grow makes it feel worth it.” Since their parents’ farm is only a building site with no crop ground, Carter and Cody source their feed from a neighboring farm. The set-up works for their dairy because they have little time in their schedule for eldwork. The brothers grew up helping their grandparents and parents on their dairy. “We were helping in the barn as soon as we could walk, but we probably were more in the way than anything,” Carter said. Their admiration for dairy drove their participation in the dairy project in 4-H, and they bought their rst three animals at the age of 9 with a $5,000 loan. But in 2009, the Zidlickys’ parents had to sell their 106-cow herd due to the crash of the dairy economy. Three months later, the family started milking again but with a herd of 40 animals. By 2014, they made the decision to sell out for good. “It was painful,” Cody said. “When you work with them everyday, they’re like family. But [with the cows gone] you train yourself to live a different lifestyle.” The two owned a few show cows but had been housing them at other people’s farms. One of those animals, Canoe Ridge Double Barrell Preston, had a successful show season in 2016, including being supreme champion at the Iowa State Fair and reserve intermediate champion of the junior Ayrshire show at World Dairy Expo as a junior 2-year-old. “I didn’t want to part with her and have her at another farm,” Cody said. “That’s what started this whole thing.” After making the decision to begin dairying, the brothers worked together for several months to get their parents’ barn back
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Con�nued from VENTILATION | Page 1 Steve Driessen and his family updated their 1991 naturally-ventilated freestall barn to a tunnel-ventilated system about ve years ago. “Before, we were always dealing with frozen teats and frozen manure,” Driessen said. “Now, there are no frozen teats and the manure doesn’t freeze either.” The Driessen family milks 200 cows near Porter, Minn. Since renovating the housing facility, the Driessens have noticed the barn remaining consistently warmer. However, to ensure proper airow, vents are open on the sidewalls to let fresh air in, as well as a vent on top of the barn to let warm air out as it rises through the building. Oftentimes, the trickiest part of managing any housing facility is maintaining a temperature in which the animals can thrive. Within a herd, the temperature range in which an animal is comfortable varies based on age, Janni said. The thermal neutral zone for cows is between 5 and 77 degrees Fahrenheit. For calves, they are comfortable at temperatures ranging between 50 to 77 degrees for those less than 1 month old and 32 to 73 degrees for those older than 1 month. Outside temperatures in the Upper Midwest can vary from minus 20 degrees to more than 100 degrees, so maintaining a consistent climate in the barns is essential. As a benchmark, naturally-ventilated facilities should remain about 5 to 10 degrees greater than the temperature outside to provide minimum air exchange to prevent manure freezing, yet a quality air environment for the cows, Kammel said. “We think the temperature needs to be more than it really does for cows,” he said. “As long as they’re out of the drafts, they can handle it. The key is to manage temperatures to the point where manure would freeze as best as possible.” There are four components of indoor
temperature to consider when determining if the barn is adequately ventilated – relative humidity, temperature-humidityindex, air velocity and ammonia levels. Relative humidity and dew point temperatures both benchmark points in which moisture is in the barn. While both values indicate moisture in the air, relative humidity is the percent saturation at a given temperature. Once the relative humidity reaches 100 percent – the air is entirely saturated – then the dew point is reached. “Personally, as an engineer, I prefer to work in dew point temperatures,” Janni said. “I like to keep relative humidity at a point where no condensation or frost will form in the barn.” Farmers should aim for 50 to 80 percent relative humidity in their housing facilities. If relative humidity and dew point are not managed with effective ventilation, moisture accrues and will pose health risks for the animals. “I was in a calf barn with a metal roof and no ventilation,” Janni said. “The ceiling was frosty in the morning, and as the sun rose and heated the roof, the frost melted and it was raining on the calves.” Adequate air velocity should measure at 60 feet per minute at the calf level. In tunnel-ventilated and cross-ventilated barns, farmers should aim for 528 feet per minute, or 6 miles per hour, whereas the inlet air velocity should be between 800 to 1,000 feet per minute. Aside from numeral benchmarks, the animals within the barn will also show signs of adequate airow. Respiration rates, milk production and cost lost in milk production are all indications something is not right in the barn. “If animals are exposed to high humidity for a long period of time, it can be detrimental to their health,” Kammel said. Janni agreed. “Monitor the cow with the highest production as a baseline,” he said.
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Baffles help direct airow through the Driessens’ barn near Porter, Minn. Proper ven�la�on in the winter is essen�al for providing adequate air quality for the animals, while also controlling the barn temperature at a manageable level. Visual cues in the barn, such as fog or wet trusses, may also indicate there is not enough ventilation. “If the steel surfaces are dripping or frosted, then the humidity is too high and the materials are too cold,” Kammel said. “Same thing if it’s foggy in the barn. You need to open up inlets of the curtains and bring in an exchange of cold, dry air.” Janni agreed. “Air is lazy; it takes the easiest path,” he said. “When trying to manage ventilation with bafes, avoid open aisles or the wind will all go there.” Damp conditions also cause added wear on the facilities, creating weak points in the structural soundness of the barn and impacting the building’s longevity. Wintertime poses its own set of challenges, regardless of barn design. “Everyone brags about cow comfort in the summer and how you don’t lose milk [with tunnel ventilation], but no one
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Trump tells farmers the greatest harvest is yet to come For a second straight year, President Donald increased. The Federal Reserve’s Agricultural Finance Outlook said the year-over-year Trump paid a visit the American Farm Ag Insider volume of operating loans rose more Bureau Federation Convention. Trump than $10 billion, or 22 percent. Due spent most of the speech focused on to the strong demand for farm loans, border security. The Waters of the liquidity at agricultural banks trended United States rule was also addressed. lower and collateral requirements “We’re going to keep federal regulators continued to tighten. Loan delinquency out of your drainage ditches, puddles rates edged higher but remain low from and ponds,â€? Trump said. In closing, a historical perspective. Trump assured the 6,000 Farm Bureau members in attendance that better times USDA extends MFP application are ahead for U.S. agriculture. “To all deadline of the farmers here today and across USDA is extending the deadline to our country, the greatest harvest is yet By Don Wick apply for Market Facilitation Program to come.â€? Columnist payments. The original deadline was Jan. 15 but is being adjusted due to Duvall outlines policy priorities The American Farm Bureau Federation is the government shutdown. According to United celebrating 100 years, with several policy wins States Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, the for agriculture. At the opening general session, deadline will be extended for a period of time equal American Farm Bureau Federation President to the number of business days FSA ofďƒžces were Zippy Duvall highlighted the policy successes closed. of the organization. While farmers and ranchers faced struggles in 2018, Duvall said the year also New faces coming to the House ag committee House Agriculture Committee Chairman brought great policy change for the future. That work and success will continue this year. “With all Collin Peterson will have a lot of new faces on this discussion about a wall and all this discussion his committee. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has about immigration reform, we’ve got to solve the announced 12 freshmen members will join the biggest problem facing the American farmer and committee. The new members come from rural and that’s farm labor.â€? Duvall also emphasized trade, urban areas, including Iowa, New York, Connecticut regulatory reform and the need for broadband and California. That list includes Minnesota Second District Representative Angie Craig. technology. Fed releases ag credit outlook In the fourth quarter of 2018, the number of non-real estate farm loans was up 8 percent from a year ago. In addition, the size of individual loans
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DAKOTA, Minn. – Although Andy and Darienne Frickson hoped to make milking cows their lifetime career, the downturn in the dairy economy made them change their path, forcing them to sell their herd of 115 dairy cows Jan. 4. “We realized we were burning the candle on both ends,â€? said Andy Frickson from Dakota, Minn. “Last year (in 2018) we went on the hope of the milk price turning around. They didn’t. We said, ‘That’s the end.’ We weren’t willing to risk anymore.â€? They are not the only ones. According to the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, in 2018, Minnesota lost 262 dairy farms, bringing the total in the state to 2,814. What should dairy farmers do if faced with this situation? Having an exit strategy is important, said Jack LaValla, farm business management instructor at Riverland Community College. The ďƒžrst thing to do is have accurate and current ďƒžnancial information available, LaValla said. “Be real about the current situation,â€? he said. “People aren’t enjoying looking at balance sheets, ‌ but we need to know what the numbers are. In the long run, that will be helpful.â€? With this information, LaValla said dairy farmers should then meet with others who have an invested interest in the dairy. This could include lenders, dairy improvement team, silent partners, other family members, farm business management instructors or others deemed capable to help make a decision about the future of the dairy. “Having the key players together is really important,â€? he said. Together, this team of people can look at scenarios for the future of the farm. “Do some projections and run through ‘What if ‌’ situations,â€? LaValla said. “Farmers have a lot to do day-to-day on the dairy. This group can challenge them to come up with other ideas for income.â€? LaValla has seen dairy farmers add beef herds to their dairy or ďƒžnd off-farm income; however, he has seen other producers make a switch from the industry. They have become custom dairy raisers by leasing their facilities or raising animals for others. They have also become crop farmers by selling their forage equipment and investing it to grow a cash grain enterprise. There have been a few dairy farmers who sold their herd and retired.
“Everyone has a different situation and different equity,â€? LaValla said. The Fricksons regularly met with LaValla, who is their FBM instructor, and helped them crunch numbers for their farm. Knowing their cost of production helped them determine the right path for their dairy. “When you put pen to paper and it’s not working anymore, you have to know when to cut the ties,â€? Darienne said. “By selling the cows, we’re still in a positive equity position, and we want to keep it that way.â€? The Fricksons started their dairying career in 2009 with a herd of 10 cows in a rented facility. They added to their herd when they could and upgraded equipment as income allowed. Eventually, they bought their own farm in 2013, and in 2016 built a double-10 ďƒ&#x;at parlor, saving cost by doing work themselves and buying used equipment. Their herd had been milking up to 90 pounds of milk per cow, per day with an average somatic cell count between 50,000 and 80,000. LaValla said this low in the milk price is not like others he has seen in his 17 years as a FBM instructor. “In this most recent downturn, so many people, like the Fricksons, who have done things right are struggling,â€? LaValla said. “How do you get more efďƒžcient when you’re doing things right? The industry is changing. We are seeing what I didn’t think we would see. It’s starting to look like the swine and poultry industries, especially on the size and scale of farms.â€? Even though selling their herd was the right decision, it was not easy for the Fricksons. “There were lots of tears shed,â€? Andy said. “Our whole families were there and it was an honor to have my grandpa be the auctioneer at the sale. The day was a blur.â€? The Fricksons planned their sale for three weeks, making sure to advertise with all records available and getting the cows ready by clipping and hand brushing them. “If you put effort into your sale, it makes a difference what you get for your cows,â€? Darienne said. Now that the cows are gone, the Fricksons are raising steers, adding a beef herd and plan to crop farm their land. Andy has a job as a sprayer applicator at a local agronomy business, and Darienne plans to do childcare for their two daughters, Paislee, 3, and Jolena, 2, along with one other family. “Many dairy farmers might be scared to get out because of the repercussions of pride, criticism or having to deal with the aftermath, but we had to cut the emotional side from the business side,â€? Darienne said. “It’s a business. It’s one of the hardest things we’ve done, but we didn’t give up on agriculture. We are just doing something different.â€?
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Learn to put the brakes on milk production Dairy farmers, as a lifelong veteran of our great Midwestern dairy industry, I am greatly saddened by what we are witnessing in our rural communities. Many good, hardworking families are choosing, or are being forced, to exit the way of life they had chosen as the way they wanted to support their families. Who can we blame? We are the labor, but we are also responsible for management. Do we really manage, or do we reluctantly react? We hear terms like, “Get big or get out.” Farmers tend to over expand, or quit, neither of which helps our communities. Many times, I have heard the excuse, “When milk is low, farmers need every pound they can get, and when milk is high, they want every pound they can get.” That does not sound like a sound management strategy for the 21st century global market we are in. As independent managers of individual operations, we must learn to expect and manage around market volatility. Dairy farmers have been led to believe that maximum output always leads to the best margins, and since we don’t look at our inputs annually, or seasonally, it is easy to neglect to make market-based input decisions. Minnesota is fortunate to have an excellent farm record system available through farm business management. If people look at the analysis for 2014, when the milk price was high, the high input farms did well, but in 2016, when milk was low, the moderate input farms outperformed those with higher production. I believe more farms would benet from adjusting costs to survive low prices instead of always adding more cows to help recover losses when prices recover. I believe prices crash harder and longer because not enough producers are exible enough to manage their margins by adjusting inputs based on price and not only based on production. Crashes can be reduced if producers learn how and when to apply some brakes. Race cars have big gas pedals right next to the equally important brake pedal. A good example of this is given in an article in the Dairy Star by Dave Vanderkooi. He reacted to market forces by removing cottonseed from the mix. It is not as cheap as it used to be, but milk is. He did a great job of doing the math that proved that less could be more. How many farmers do their own math? Do we eventually react because he have to, or should we learn to manage inputs to protect our margins because we want to? As we engage more in global markets, it becomes more critical we all learn to ex to serve it. When will we learn to serve the market according to demand instead of spending too much on inputs that create an oversupply and small margins? Hopefully, if we learn to use some brakes, we will have some neighbors left in the race when we are done. Joe Borgerding Dairy farmer Belgrade, Minn.
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Sending cattle overseas
Victory Farms sells 102 bred heifers to dairy farm in Kuwait By Jerry Nelson
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REVILLO, S.D. – On the morning of Jan. 6, dairyman Kevin Souza did something unusual. He loaded 102 head of his bred Jersey heifers into waiting trucks, launching them on a journey that would take them to the Persian Gulf emirate of Kuwait. “It was the rst time I had done anything like it,” said Souza, who manages Victory Farms, home to some 4,400 head of Jersey cows near Revillo, S.D.
Victory Farms has three owner/partners, including the Orradre family, the Nuss Family and the Souza family. Souza and his wife, Suzanne, have two daughters. Audrey is studying veterinary science at Iowa State University. Hayley and her husband, Ryan Anderson, work full time at the dairy. The Andersons have two children, Kylyn and Jace. The idea of exporting bred Jersey heifers to Kuwait came to Souza from his Select Sires representative. “My Select Sires rep said that he had been talking to a
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Kevin Souza is an owner and partner at Victory Farms, which is home to 4,400 head of Jersey cows near Revillo, S.D. Victory Farms shipped 102 bred heifers Jan. 6 to a dairy farm located in the Persian Gulf emirate of Kuwait.
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cattle broker in North Carolina who was looking for 100 or so head to export to a dairy farm in Kuwait,” Souza said. “The broker was able to nd only 20-30 head at a time in his area. My rep told him that he knew of a herd where he could get all 100 head at once. That’s what led him to us.”
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into recipient animals that have been determined to be in the herd’s second tier. The bottom 35 percent of the cows at Victory Farms are bred with beef semen. The reproductive excellence achieved at Victory Farms was recently recognized with a plati-
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Victory Farms’ Jerseys test 5.04 percent buƩerfat and 3.8 percent protein, which is ideal for making cheeses and yogurts commonly found in the KuwaiƟs’ diet. num award from the Dairy Cattle Reproduction Council. “We have harvested eggs from heifers that were as young as 9.5 months old,” Souza said. “We recently had a heifer whose genomics were off the charts, so we started harvesting oocytes from her as soon as she reached puberty.” The dairy herd at Victory Farms is housed in a cross-ventilated facility that features free stalls bedded with sand. The herd is milked three times a day in a pair of double-35 parallel milking parlors. After Souza agreed to sell bred heifers, the manager of the Kuwaiti dairy farm came to Victory Farms to inspect the animals. “The manager was originally from Britain,” Souza said. “He was a nice guy. We got along with him really well.” Souza assembled a pool of about 150 eligible animals for the Kuwaiti dairy farm manager to select from. The manager gradually winnowed this pool down to 102 head with a few extra as standbys. “They were looking for a group of heifers that were ve to six months bred,” Souza said. “They wanted them to calve and get bred back before it gets really hot over there.” Kuwait’s hot and arid climate is markedly different than that of the Midwest. On July 21, 2016, a high of 129.2 degrees Fahrenheit was recorded in Mitribah, Kuwait. This was the highest temperature ever reliably recorded on the planet. Kuwait, the world’s seventh wealthiest nation, holds about 10 percent of the planet’s petroleum reserves. Kuwait’s population, which has a median age of 33.5, has grown from 3 million in 2010 to 4.25 million today. The Kuwaiti diet is becoming increasingly westernized, which has resulted in a growing demand for dairy products. “I was told that Kuwaitis eat a lot of cheese and yogurt, so the high components from our Jerseys makes sense for them,” Souza said. The herd at Victory Farms is averaging 5.04 percent butterfat and 3.8 percent protein. “I think that Jerseys can take the heat better than Holsteins,” Souza said. “I understand that our heifers went to a 900cow dairy that does its own processing and wants to grow its production.”
A series of health tests was the next step of the journey for Victory Farm’s heifers. “The cattle all had to be Bangs vaccinated and were tested for tuberculosis, blue tongue and leukosis,” Souza said. “Our vaccination program was better than they expected. Even so, we gave the heifers a nine-way vaccine for good measure before they left. The buyers paid for all of the testing and the veterinary work.” The nal step prior to the heifers leaving Victory Farms was a 30-day quarantine. “We have the capability to quarantine them on our farm,” Souza said. “The heifers had to be kept in a separate pen that was at least 35 feet away from other animals. The objective was to prevent any nose-to-nose contact with our nonquarantined animals.” Once the quarantine was over, the heifers were loaded into trucks and taken to a United States Department of Agriculture inspection facility in Chicago. The next morning the heifers were put into crates that held four to six head apiece. The crates were then lifted into a waiting cargo jet. “They told me that I should go to Chicago and watch the heifers get loaded onto the plane, but I was just too busy,” Souza said. “I wish that I had, though. It might have been a once-in-a-lifetime event.” After crossing the Atlantic, the plane carrying Victory Farm’s heifers landed in Moscow for refueling before continuing onto its nal destination. It took about 17 hours for the cattle to travel from Chicago to Kuwait. “The whole transaction went very smoothly,” Souza said. “We were wired the money for the heifers four days before they left. We got about $250 more per head than if we had sold them to a buyer in the United States. These days, you have to do anything that you can to get the best dollar.” Even after selling 102 head, Victory Farms still has quite a few more replacement heifers than their operation needs. It is entirely possible that more of their heifers could nd new homes overseas. “We are currently looking at a deal that might send some of our heifers to the Cayman Islands,” Souza said.
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From Our Side Of The Fence What is your procedure for delivering calves?
Darrel Nyhof Sioux Center, Iowa Sioux County 500 cows Describe your maternity pen or calving area. We began to use our new dry cow barn last February. It features a 30- by 40-foot bedding pack pen for the close up animals and three 15- by 15-feet pens with head gates for cows that are having trouble. The barn has curtain sidewalls that open in the summertime and fans that turn on when the temperature hits 70 degrees. What is the timeline for cows and heifers entering and exiting the pen? We walk the dry cow barn several times a day and move close up cows into the maternity pen when we begin to see changes. We have cameras over the maternity pen, so I can check on the cows whenever I want with my computer or my smart phone. On average, how many cows are in the pen at a time? That changes daily, but it usually averages four to six head. What is your procedure for delivering calves? When do you intervene? When do you call for help? We leave them alone and monitor progress with the cameras and by walking the barn. We will step in and help a cow if we see that she hasn’t made any progress for an hour. We can handle almost any delivery problems. We have had only two C-sections over the past 30 years. What steps do you take to maintain proper sanitation? We keep a fresh layer of sawdust over the grooved concrete ďƒ&#x;oor and clean the pen whenever necessary. If the bedding is wet enough to stick to the animals, it’s time to change it. After delivery, how do you assist the calf and cow? We let the cow bond with the calf for one to four hours, depending on our milking schedule. Each calf is fed 1 gallon of colostrum within an hour of birth and is given a second feeding 12 hours later. The cows are trailered to our fresh pen so we can harvest colostrum from them for the next set of calves. What is the most important step you take to make a smooth transition for the cow as she enters the lactating herd? Make sure she is as healthy as possible. Cow comfort is our top priority. Since we began using our new dry cow barn, our SCC has dropped to 130,000 from its ďƒžve-year average of 260,000. We recently had a SCC of 93,000. Our ďƒžrst service conceptions are 12 days less and the involuntary cull rate in our fresh pen has dropped down to the single digits on a percentage basis. Tell us about the most unique calving you have ever had. About ďƒžve years ago, one of our cows had a twoheaded calf. She was having trouble, so I reached in and found one nose and then found a second nose. We called our vet, and he managed to get the calf out vaginally. The calf was born dead and had four eyes and three ears. The cow turned out ďƒžne. Tell us about your farm. My wife, Mary, and I have two kids who are both grown and out of the nest. We have three grandkids, and Mary works at our NRCS ofďƒžce. We farm 480 acres that are planted mostly to corn, along with a few acres of soybeans. We purchase 100 percent of our hay. Our herdsman, Jeff Kroese, has been with us for 15 years. He and his wife, Rebecca, raise all of our heifer calves from birth to 6 months. Over the past eight years, Jeff has been working toward building ownership and equity in our herd. Jeff and Rebecca now own 50 of our 500 cows.
Andrew Plumski Quarry Hill Dairy Rollingstone, Minn. Winona County 750 cows Describe your maternity pen or calving area. Our close-up pen consists of 72 sand-bedded freestalls in a tunnel-ventilated barn. We are able to separate the pen into two sections – for springer heifers and cows with two lactations or more – with adjustable gates to accommodate ďƒ&#x;uctuations in numbers from the two sides of the pen. The pen is normally set to be 24 freestalls and headlocks for the springers and 48 freestalls and headlocks for the cows. The pen is closest to the parlor so we are able to have a team-focused approach to monitoring cows going into labor. This allows us to have someone walking through the pen every 30 to 45 minutes. Once a cow has been identiďƒžed as going into labor she is then move to a small bedded pack at the end of the barn to calve. This area includes two separated bedded packs that are cleaned and sanitized one to two times per day, depending on the number of calvings that day. There is also one headlock in this area for when we need to assist the cow. What is the timeline for cows and heifers entering and exiting the pen? Cows and springers are added to the pen once per week and will exit the pen at calving. Cows are added every Wednesday and are 250-256 DCC while our heifers come from an offsite grower and come back in groups of about eight head that are 245-255 DCC on Thursdays. On average, how many cows are in the pen at a time? On the springer side there are usually 14 to 22, and in the cow pen there are 32 to 45 depending on the day of the week. What is your procedure for delivering calves? When do you intervene? When do you call for help? Once the cow has been identiďƒžed in the freestalls as going into labor, she will be moved to the bedded pack area to have the calf. Once moved to the bedded pack area progress is monitored every 20 to 30 minutes. If things are progressing normally, we will not intervene. If no progress is seen after one hour, we will check to make sure the calf is coming properly. If the calf is positioned correctly, the cow is given more time to progress, but if something isn’t right we will provide assistance. What steps do you take to maintain proper sanitation? Our entire team has been trained to always wear a new set of gloves any time they are assisting a cow with calving. The other thing we have is a metal bucket that is designated for the warm water and disinfectant that we use to prep the cow before assisting. After delivery, how do you assist the calf and cow? After delivery, we dip the navel of the calf with iodine, and within an hour we feed the calf colostrum; it usually takes that long for the colostrum to warm up. We feed pooled colostrum that has been pasteurized, cooled and tested to have a brix refractometer reading greater than 22. For the cow, we administer a bovikalc bolus to all cows in their second lactation or greater and then move the cow to the parlor where the ďƒžrst milking of colostrum is collected. Then she is moved to the fresh cow group. What is the most important step you take to make a smooth transition for the cow as she enters the lactating herd? I believe close monitoring is crucial when it comes to transition cows. Feed intakes and urine pH on the close-up group are monitored to ensure the ration is just right. Cows in the fresh pen are monitored through a team effort. We monitor the cows after freshening with daily milk weights, as well as individually checking each cow in the fresh pen
Terry Eick Plainďƒželd, Iowa Bremer County 60 cows Describe your maternity pen or calving area. We have an enclosed, heated and mechanically ventilated pre-fresh/calving barn that is a repurposed hog barn. We also have a 1-acre pasture that is subdivided and rotated to maintain grass cover. The facility has one larger pen with self-locking panels and 150 square feet of resting area per head. There are two adjacent individual calving pens with 200 square feet each and catch gates. Chopped bean straw or sawdust for bedding seems to work best for us. What is the timeline for cows and heifers entering and exiting the pen? Cows enter the pre-fresh pen two to three weeks before their expected due date. Thin cows and those carrying twins, and heifers with female pregnancies, are moved a bit earlier. At ďƒžrst sign of calving, they are moved with as little disruption as possible to adjacent, clean and newly-bedded calving pens. On average, how many cows are in the pen at a time? We have enough room for 10 percent of the herd. The outside lot helps reduce some of the crowding stress. What is your procedure for delivering calves? When do you intervene? When do you call for help? We try not to intervene unless there is an abnormal uterine discharge or lack of progress. We assist once the bridge of the nose is out. We call for help once or twice per year if we think a C-section might be needed. What steps do you take to maintain proper sanitation? We keep cattle outside during good weather and provide plenty of bedding when needed to keep cattle clean. We try to keep udders and ďƒ&#x;anks clipped. Drop buckets and milking equipment are sanitized before use. After delivery, how do you assist the calf and cow? We have a detailed standard operating procedure for transition cows and newborns. We’d like to have the cow up and working on the calf immediately after calving. We provide 10 to 20 gallons of warm water with drinkable calcium drench and plenty of soft grass hay in the calving pen. Our goal is to have the cow milked in the same pen she calves in and the calf tubed with 1 gallon of colostrum within an hour of birth. My daughter and I share night shift. Calves go directly to a hut, but are transitioned with a warming box when outside temp is negative 20 degrees. What is the most important step you take to make a smooth transition for the cow as she enters the lactating herd? We move them to a tiestall immediately after ďƒžrst milking. Observation and cow side checks do not require fetching or headlocks. We’ll provide some extra dry hay for a few days and add 8-16 ounces of propylene glycol/ glycerin to the morning TMR. Tell us about the most unique calving you’ve ever had. A rogue springer and newborn calf in a corn ďƒželd in August. You get the picture. Tell us about your farm. We mix it up a bit with an offfarm job in dairy nutrition in addition to steers, beef, corn, soybeans, horse hay, timber and CRP. We’re blessed to have two adult children who are working at changing the guard. until she is ready to move to the regular milking string, which is usually about two weeks. Tell us about the most unique calving you have ever had. We have had triplets with two black and white calves, and one red and white calf. Tell us about your farm. I am the herdsman at Quarry Hill Dairy, which is owned by John and Connie Meyer and they milk 750 Holsteins between two farm sites.
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ConƟnued from OUR SIDE | Page 15 Becky Schefers Rice, Minn. Stearns County 500 cows Describe your maternity pen or calving area. Our maternity pen is a concrete oored pen that is 2,800 square feet with uorescent lighting and four 52inch fans along with three 36-inch fans. It is opened to the south with the remaining sides having 6-foot concrete walls and an automatic curtain above. We alternate bedding with straw and cornstalks. What is the timeline for cows and heifers entering and exiting the pen? Depending on the calving ow, we try to get them into the maternity pen three weeks prior to calving. Prior to moving heifers into the maternity pen, they receive their booster shot of Scourguard and J-Vac, while cows receive only J-Vac. On average, how many cows are in the pen at a time? We have a combination of 21 in the pen. What is your procedure for delivering calves? When do you intervene? When do you call for help? Our procedure for calving depends on each individual case. If we see that the calf is backwards, showing no feet at all or if it’s a heifer with a huge looking calf, we help her out right away. If we try to help for 15 minutes and are unsuccessful, we call Freeport Vet Clinic. What steps do you take to maintain proper sanitation? We keep fresh bedding in the pen, clean the water fountains daily, remove the manger cleanings daily and upon each birth the calves’ navels are dipped immediately. After delivery, how do you assist the calf and cow? We allow the cow to be with her newborn for 30 minutes. During the winter months, the calf is then placed into a calf warmer for two hours and then receives a calf jacket and is moved into a calf hutch. The fresh cow is brought into the milking parlor where she receives a Bovical pill if needed. She is then moved into the milking pen. The calf is fed her colostrum within the rst two hours of being born. What is the most important step you take to make a smooth transition for the cow as she enters the lactating herd? The most important step to make a smooth transition for the cow entering into the lactating herd is minimizing environmental changes. Tell us about the most unique calving you’ve ever had. When a second calf heifer was struggling and as I reached in to see what I was dealing with, I felt something weird. I had never felt anything like it before, and it was connected to the calf. I was able to turn the calf and pull it out with the help of an employee. As it fell to the ground, we saw the weird thing that I had felt earlier. It happened to be herd check that day, and as soon as the vet arrived we discussed the situation. The calf was born healthy with her intestines outside her body. I was told the chances of her living even if we did surgery were slim. We decided to opt out of surgery. Unfortunately, by the time we were done with herd check the calf had passed even though she did successfully gulp her colostrum down and appeared to be a great looking animal. Tell us about your farm. Our farm includes a double-12 parallel parlor and as six-row freestall barn. We milk three times a day and employ seven full-time employees.
Chris Gibbs Waterville, Iowa Allamakee County 400 cows Describe your maternity pen or calving area. We have a far-off and a close-up area. The far-off area has 22 sand-bedded stalls. The close-up is a corn stalk pen with two maternity pens. The closeup pen has lots of feed rail space. All prefresh are fed a DCAD and amino acid balanced ration. The dry cow/prefresh barn is naturally ventilated with curtain sidewalls. The prefresh area has two LED lights on a dark switch for nighttime checks. What is the timeline for cows and heifers entering and exiting the pen? Cows enter the far-off pen at 18 days prior to due date. Cows are moved from far-off to close-up according to a daily visual inspection. On average, how many cows are in the pen at a time? We try to keep 20 or less in the far-off area. What is your procedure for delivering calves? When do you intervene? When do you call for help? I have learned patience is my best tool. Generally, if no progress is made in 30 to 45 minutes, we sleeve to make sure of proper presentation. If so, we let her work at it longer. We intervene if we see or suspect the calf is in danger, i.e. swelling of the tongue or discoloration of the calf nose or tongue. We have chains and a calf jack in the maternity area if needed. I have a cabinet with needed products, such as sleeves, lube, Nolvasan, towels, etc. We will call for help if we cannot extract the calf ourselves before exhaustion sets in. After delivery we make sure calf is breathing and coughs. That is our sign the calf is OK. We will use a corn husk to tickle the nose if needed. Generally, we make sure the cow gets up and licks after delivery. What steps do you take to maintain proper sanitation? We use sleeves and lube laced with Nolvasan, if needed, to enter the cow. We try to have a second person to hold the tail and assist with delivery, if available. What is the most important step you take to make a smooth transition for the cow as she enters the lactating herd? After a cow calves, she receives a Bovikalc, and we move her to a cornstalk-bedded pen with a few cows in it for one or two days before we move her to the fresh pen. High-risk cows spend an extra day or so in cornstalks. Tell us about the most unique calving you have ever had. The most unique calving was a two-headed calf. It happened to be the rst embryo I put in. It was around 2005. Fortunately, it was born backwards so it delivered OK. Tell us about your farm. We are a family run operation with myself, my brother and our families, along with our parents. Both our wives work off the farm. We grow our own feed and do some cash crop corn and soybeans. We milk around 400 cows three times a day in a double-16 parlor.
Rebecca and Ryan Jopp Mayer, Minn. Carver County 100 cows Describe your maternity pen or calving area. Our pen is 40- by 60-feet in a curtain-sided shed. It houses all our dry cows. We use corn stalks and straw for bedding. What is the timeline for cows and heifers entering and exiting the pen? Cows are dried off 60 days prior to calving, and heifers 30 days prior calving are put into the pen. They are also given two vaccines: Scour guard and Presponse. That way when the cow starts making colostrum the antibodies for pneumonia will be in the milk. On average, how many cows are in the pen at a time? Fifteen to 18 each month. What is your procedure for delivering calves? When do you intervene? When do you call for help? When we notice one is calving, we check on her throughout the day. If she has been pushing for more than one hour and there are no feet showing, we’ll reach in to see what is going on. If something is wrong, we try and x it, or if she needs help by pulling it out at that point we do so. If we feel we can’t help her after doing that, we call the vet. What steps do you take to maintain proper sanitation? The pen is cleaned once a week and bedded with fresh bedding every day. After delivery, how do you assist the calf and cow? After the cow has cleaned the calf off, we bring her into the barn to be milked. The cow gets a Bovikalc bolus, and if it is a second lactation or later, she also gets a bottle of calcium. Twelve hours later, she gets another Bovikalc bolus. The calf is taken to the calf barn to a clean bedded pen. The navel is sprayed with a 7 percent iodine and vaccinated with Inforce 3 and calf guard. Then, the calf is fed the colostrum from the cow. What is the most important step you take to make a smooth transition for the cow as she enters the lactating herd? Making sure she has enough calcium in her system so she doesn’t get milk fever. The Bovikalc boluses help with that. Tell us about the most unique calving you’ve ever had. My dad had triplets that were all born alive. Tell us about your farm. We milk 85 cows and farm 115 acres of corn and 50 acres of alfalfa. We also raise and nish around 30 steers each year. Our farm is 132 years old. I am the fth generation Jopp to milk cows here. My wife, Becca, and I bought the cows from my parents in 2016. We also got married in the fall of that same year. Last April, we welcomed our son, Derek, into the world.
Casey O’Reilly O’Reilly Organic Dairy Goodhue, Minn. Goodhue County 100 cows Describe your maternity pen or calving area. It is about a 20- by 60-foot pen within our freestall barn, which is naturally ventilated with curtain sides. The pen is bedded with straw. What is the timeline for cows and heifers entering and exiting the pen? The timeline varies based on individual animal’s needs. A cow is placed in the pen two to three days prior to calving. She will stay in pen for one to two weeks after calving, depending on her needs. On average, how many cows are in the pen at a time? There are usually about two to ve animals in the pen. What is your procedure for delivering calves? When do you intervene? When do you call for help? I allow cows and heifers to calve naturally unless there are signs of stress that appear. If that’s the case, I will assist by pulling the calf if needed. I don’t usually have to call the vet, but it looks like the cow is really struggling and I can’t get the calf out, I will call. What steps do you take to maintain proper sanitation? I add clean fresh straw regularly and clean out the pen often to ensure cleanliness. After delivery, how do you assist the calf and cow? Once the calf is dry, it is taken to a separate calf shed and provided with an individual pen that has fresh clean straw bedding to be kept warm. In the winter, calves wear calf jackets. The cow will be milked at the next milking and the colostrum will be collected for three days and given to the calf. Newborn calves are fed 2 quarts of milk twice a day. What is the most important step you take to make a smooth transition for the cow as she enters the lactating herd? I make sure she is healthy and off to a good start prior to moving her to the lactating herd. The pen is right outside the parlor so fresh cows are checked frequently. They also received the milking cow ration from day one. Tell us about the most unique calving you’ve ever had. I don’t have any unique calving, but I try to use bulls with calving ease so we don’t have any hard births. Tell us about your farm. I farm together with my wife, Kim, and three sons, Carsyn, Cayden and Jack. We have 100 cows that are milked twice a day with 300 organic certied acres of crop and pasture land while raising all our own youngstock for future replacements. Kim and I both grew up on family farms, and wanted to pass along the same work ethic and family values to our boys.
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milk production, components, fertility and calving ease traits. How are cows and heifers bred? Do you have a different philosophy for breeding both? Heifers get two services of sexed semen. We use conventional and beef semen on cows. What do you do to settle hard breeders? We use beef semen.
How many times do you try to breed a cow before you sell her? Four to ve times. Is there anything you have done or changed that brought about a signicant improvement in your reproductive program? The double lute shot. Tell us about your farm. We milk 1,700 cows three times per day on two locations.
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#124870..........................................................................$76,900 10 JD 6130R, 2016, Configuration: Narrow, Cab, Partial Power Shift, Guidance-ready: Yes, MFWD, Tire Width, 160 hrs., #124987........................$96,900 10 JD 6120E, 2016, Configuration: Standard, Cab, Partial Power Shift, MFWD, Tire Width, 259 hrs., #124310 .....................................................................$69,500 10 JD 6120E, 2016, Cab, Partial Power Shift, MFWD, Rear PTO: 540, Tire Width: Wide, Loader, 222 hrs., #124867..........................................................................$69,500 10 JD 6130M, 2016, Configuration: Narrow, Cab, Partial Power Shift, MFWD, Rear PTO: 540/1000, Loader, 195 hrs., #124993..........................................$99,500 10 JD 6420, 2002, 6900 hrs., #154564 ...........................................................$52,500 10 JD 3010, 1961, 5059 hrs., #155554 ............................................................. $4,500 17 JD 6110R, 2017, Configuration: Standard, Cab, Partial Power Shift, Guidance-ready, MFWD, Rear PTO: 540/1000, Tire Width: Wide, Loader, 364 hrs., #144495 .$99,500 17 JD 6110R, 2017, Configuration: Standard, Cab, IVT, Guidance-ready, MFWD, Rear PTO: 540/1000, Tire Width: Mid, 257 hrs., #144497 ............................$97,900 6 JD 6135E, 2016, Configuration: Standard, Cab, Partial Power Shift, MFWD, Tire Width: Narrow, 258 hrs., #142600........................................................$74,900 6 JD 6130R, 2016, Cab, Partial Power Shift, Guidance-ready, MFWD, Rear PTO: 540/1000, Tire Width: Mid, 300 hrs., #142596 ............................$99,500 12 JD 5115M, 2017, Cab, Partial Power Shift, MFWD, Rear PTO: 540, 540/1000, Tire Width: Mid, 130 hrs., #140105 .............................................................$71,900 12 JD 6120M, 2016, Configuration: Standard, Cab, Partial Power Shift, MFWD, Rear PTO: 540/1000, Tire Width: Narrow, 116 hrs., #141879 .......................$92,900 15 JD 6110M, 2016, Configuration: Narrow, Cab, Partial Power Shift, MFWD, Rear PTO: 540/1000, 292 hrs., #144493 ......................................................$79,500 15 JD 6110R, 2016, Cab, IVT, MFWD, 338 hrs., #144500 .................................$95,900 15 JD 6130R, 2016, Configuration: Standard, Cab, IVT, MFWD, Rear PTO: 540/1000, 539 hrs., #144507 ....................................................................................$109,500 15 JD 6130R, 2017, Configuration: Standard, Cab, IVT, MFWD w/ Suspension, Rear PTO: 540/1000, Tire Width: Mid, 403 hrs., #144505 ..........................$109,500 15 JD 5100E, 2016, Cab, Power Reverser, MFWD, 2075 hrs., #149334 ............$46,900 9 JD 6125R, 2012, Cab, Partial Power Shift, MFWD, Rear PTO: 540/1000, Tire Width: Wide, Loader, 779 hrs., #150781 ...............................................$89,500 9 JD 5075E, 2012, Syncro, MFWD, Rear PTO: 540, Tire Width: Mid, Loader, 465 hrs., #154217 .....................................................................................................$28,900 5 JD 5100E, 2016, Cab, Power Reverser, MFWD, 1971 hrs., #145220 ............$46,900 11 JD 6110R, 2017, Cab, IVT, MFWD, Rear PTO: 540/1000, 345 hrs., #142813 .....................................................................................................$99,500 11 JD 5115M, 2016, Cab, Power Reverser, MFWD, Rear PTO: 540/1000, Loader, 290 hrs., #149192 .......................................................................................$79,500 11 JD 5065E, 2015, 200 hrs., #155407 ...........................................................$30,000 8 JD 6130R, 2015, Configuration: Standard, Cab, Partial Power Shift, Guidance-ready, MFWD, Rear PTO: 540/1000, Tire Width: Wide, 262 hrs., #142595 ..............$99,500 8 MF 3545, 1983, Cab, Partial Power Shift, MFWD, Rear PTO: 540/1000, Tire Width: Mid, 4279 hrs., #151182 ...........................................................$19,500 8 JD 6130R, 2017, Configuration: Standard, Cab, Partial Power Shift, MFWD, Rear PTO: 540/1000, Loader, 156 hrs., #147778........................................$109,500 14 JD 6130R, 2017, Configuration: Narrow, Cab, IVT, Guidance-ready, MFWD, 213 hrs., #144504 .....................................................................................$106,900 14 JD 6130R, 2017, Configuration: Standard, Cab, Partial Power Shift, Guidance-ready, MFWD, Rear PTO: 540/1000, Tire Width: Wide, 150 hrs., #144503..............$99,500 14 JD 6110R, 2017, Cab, IVT, MFWD, Rear PTO: 540/1000, Loader, 100 hrs., #144499 ...................................................................................................$104,900 14 JD 6110R, 2017, Cab, Partial Power Shift, MFWD, Rear PTO: 540/1000, Loader, 100 hrs., #144496 .......................................................................................$99,500
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On dairy farms, we talk about a lot of things, like “efciency” and “productivity” and “protability” and that magical spot where all of those things come together. I think a really good example of this in the milking parlor. A parlor that runs efciently will have a high throughput and will maximize labor usage. Building on that, efcient labor will also lead to a calm environment for cows, which in turn stimulates milk ow and even production. Add to that the milk quality benets of a well-run parlor, and protability ties into the whole system. Is your parlor running at its most efcient? Is what’s being done in there helping your cows stay healthy and produc- By Emily Wilmes tive? Let’s review some ways University of MN to keep your parlor in tip-top shape. Think about the environment of the parlor itself. Is your parlor a place cows want to go? Is it clean? Is it calm and inviting? Things to consider in your parlor include cleanliness, noise levels, and light. A clean parlor will help manage environmental pathogens and help keep cows and milkers healthy. A quiet, calm parlor will help stimulate milk letdown and reduce potential teat damage from milking machines pumping when little milk is coming out. Loud music or milkers yelling may cause adrenaline release in the cows, which prohibits milk letdown. Lighting in a parlor is often overlooked, but shouldn’t be underestimated. A well-lit parlor benets the cows, as they like to clearly see where they are going and what’s going on. It also benets employees, as they are able to see the udder well and ensure its cleanliness. Good lighting can also aid in the visual examination of milk when stripping the udder during prep. Next, think about the management of the parlor. How are cows brought in? How are they prepped for milking? How long does it take? The ow of your parlor matters, from the moment that pump turns on to the moment it turns off. Cows should be brought in efciently, while still allowing them to move at a comfortable pace. Consider grouping cows by milking speed, or, at the very least, keep your slowest milkers until the end. While prepping cows, are all of the milkers (if there are multiple) doing the same thing? Is the prep pattern always the same? Is it timely? A quick review of important milking preparation times: – The teat skin surface requires 10-20 seconds of stimulation for optimum milk letdown – Teat dip should be on the teats for 30 seconds to effectively kill bacteria on the teat surface – Prep-lag time, or the time it takes from initial stimulation to attachment of the milking machine should be 60-120 seconds Preparation of cows in a timely manner that allows for proper stimulation and contact time is crucial to a well-run parlor. It also has a direct impact on parlor throughput. The environment and management of your parlor play critical roles in ensuring it is efcient, productive, and in the end, protable.
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Scoring with dairy Stearns County ADA sells ice cream, donates milk at basketball game By Danna Sabolik
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EDEN VALLEY, Minn. – The Stearns County ADA brought dairy products to the basketball court. During January, the association sponsored ice cream sales for the Eden Valley-Watkins FFA chapter, of Eden Valley, Minn., during Eden ValleyWatkins High School home basketball games to raise funds. Ice cream cones were sold for 50 cents each. They also donated a gallon of chocolate milk to the home team post-game to promote refueling through dairy protein and essential sugars for muscle repair. The girls varsity team enjoyed chocolate milk Jan. 11 after defeating the team from Holdingford, Minn. The boys basketball team refueled with the drink after winning their game with Holdingford, Jan. 18. At the Jan. 18 game, dairy princess Miranda Breth, daughter of Jerry and Tammy Breth of Albany, Minn., was at the game and helped the FFA serve treats. “I really enjoy being a dairy princess,” Breth said. “I am even Turn to BASKETBALL | Page 25
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Eden Valley-Watkins FFA members, Stearns County producers and county dairy princess sell ice cream cones for 50 cents during the boys basketball game against Holdingford Jan. 18 in Eden Valley, Minn.
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ConĆ&#x;nued from BASKETBALL | Page 23 planning to run again for 2019.â€? In addition to royalty, the Eden Valley-Watkins FFA students and a few Stearns County dairy producers pitched in to represent the FFA and promote dairy in the community. “I love advocating for dairy,â€? Breth said. “People are usually confused about what I do when I attend events like these, but after I explain they think it’s a great idea and are interested in why I advocate.â€?
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Stearns County Dairy Princess Miranda Breth serves ice cream to basketball fans at the Eden Valley-Watkins boys basketball game Jan. 18 in Eden Valley, Minn.
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A quick get a way The Transition Pen
By John Rosenhammer & Laura Scholtz Father/Daughter Farming Duo Some times when glancing through magazines, opportunities to attend events jump out. Looking back, I guess I actually make it to about 10 percent of these events. Of the 10 percent I am able to attend, I usually am drawn by a topic or speaker I nd interesting. Going home, more often than not, my take-home idea is not from the spokesman, but from an attendee who shared valuable information that’s probably not even related to the topic. Many times when I plan to attend workshops that interest me, I plan on going, and at the last minute some thing comes up or another priority arises to extinguish any chance of attending. Such was the case last week. A month ago I noticed the “I-29 Winter Workshops; Benchmarks for Success” meeting on Jan. 15 in Brookings, S.D. I asked Laura if this would interest her, and she quickly responded, “sure.” My underlying plan all along was to take a day off for a quick little get a way; meet other dairy people and learn something; and drive a few more miles and visit Johnny at Lake Area Tech in Watertown. Well on the 14th, the day before, I got a lot done – more than usual because I was attempting to make chores ow swiftly the following morning. We were in the midst of a slug of cows calving – way more than normal. Over night only one calved. Milking went great and things were looking good. Then, Laura checked fresh cows and noticed one that needed to have her stomach pumped. Due to lack of time we discussed waiting, but I told her I would rather pump the cow now than when we get home that night. The twinkle in her eyes expressed agreement, and in record time the cow was treated and on the road to recovery. Next, we noticed a calf that needed to have an IV. Fluids given this way seem to have better and longer lasting results. Laura started the IV and headed to our house to get ready. I remained with the calf and went over my nal list of instructions with Greg. Chores were covered and despite last minute challenges, we were on our way to Brookings. Knowing we were going to be late for the rst session did not dampen our moods because together we overcame challenges to make this little trip possible. Also along with us was Morgan, Laura’s 2-month-old daughter. Morgan won’t remember this trip, but Grandpa will, because here were three generations headed west on Highway 14 for an I-29 dairy meeting. During the last hour of our trip west we experienced quite a bit of fog, reducing our speed to around 45 miles per hour. At around 11 a.m., we pulled in to the Swiftel Center, entered and were met by very accommodating people who quickly got us registered. The format was different, but interesting. The speaker interacted with the people, presented benchmarks that have accumulated from research and why ideas have adapted or evolved over time. This was followed by discussion within each table of eight to 10 people. A sponsor represented each table and that person led the questions. That was followed by an open interaction of the results of each table. Again, no real earth shaking ideas, rather reassurance that we are on the right road and little subtle reminders that quick xes usually don’t have long term success. The speakers were very accessible and very willing to spend time with any producers. Part two of our trip began as we headed north on Interstate 29. We stopped in Clear Lake, S.D., to meet Laura’s college roommate, Rachel Friese. After seven years of college, she is now Rachel Friese, DVM. Johnny met us there around 4 p.m., just in time to witness Rachel working cattle in an outdoor chute with a digital scale at the vet clinic. Johnny likes beef cattle. As the animals entered the chute,
Johnny could guess their weight. Once done with that job, Rachel showed us the interior of the clinic and nally posted a colored calf to determine the cause of its death. Next, we headed to Watertown where Johnny showed me three elds he tilled for a local crop farmer. Johnny worked three to four nights a week for this farmer during harvest. It was his rst taste of driving a track tractor, and I think he was impressed. The amount of acres he could till in an evening is comparable to how many we cover in a couple days at home. Next, he showed me the John Deere dealer, semi trucks for sale and another horse trailer dealer. I think he does a lot of driving around Watertown because he seems to know where everything is located. It’s probably why he traded his truck for a car – to get better gas mileage. Since we were hungry, we ate at Harry’s per Johnny’s recommendation. He said the burgers were good and the food was great. Ashley, another of Laura’s friends, also met us there. Ashley is also a DVM in Watertown. Laura had some pretty smart roommates in college. They provide great support for Laura when she has questions, and I think she is always quizzing them for information. Throughout all the business
and noise, Morgan was a very good baby. It seemed like if she wasn’t eating, she was sleeping. It was her rst time meeting some of Laura’s friends, and I think she left a good impression. The eventful day came to a close as we said our good byes around 9 p.m. I suppose Johnny was a little lost in the conversation with three young ladies doing all of the talking, but a great burger at Harry’s sure beats the usual mac and cheese he’s accustomed to. Knowing I had a three-hour trip home ahead of me, I asked St. Christopher to keep me awake and safe. His help, along with the satisfaction that Laura, Morgan and I had gotten a little get away, an idea or two for the farm, and taken the time to visit Johnny and a few others, made the trip so worthwhile. After dropping Laura off at her house I realized all the effort to make the trip happen. It would have been easier to stay home, but it was very much appreciated by all! John Rosenhammer farms with his daughter, Laura Scholtz, and brother, Greg, on Roseview Dairy near Sleepy Eye, Minn. They milk 200 Holsteins and run 580 acres of cropland.
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Are your sand lanes freezing? By Kevin Janni & Erin Cortus University of Minnesota
Last winter, we visited a 400-head dairy because they were having problems with their sand lane freezing in cold weather. Another dairy with a sand lane and over 1,300 cows a few miles away did not report having sand lane freezing problems under similar weather conditions. These two cases raise questions, and we need help to learn more before we can attempt to explain why some farms have sand lane freezing problems. This is an opportunity for you to inform future research on this issue. Sand lanes have been used for over 20 years. We have been told that most dairy operations in Minnesota with sand lanes and over 1,000 cows are able to operate the lanes successfully all winter without having freezing problems. Farms with fewer cows, we are told, have sand land freezing problems. So, we are wondering how many dairy operations with sand lanes are having freezing problems. You can help us with this dilemma. We would like to hear from you if you have sand lane freezing problems or not. We set up an online survey for dairy operations with sand lanes. There are nine questions, which are listed in Table 1. You can access the survey by going to https://z.umn.edu/freezingsandlane. If we get more than 25 usable surveys, we will report the survey results in a future column. No farm or producer names will be included in the survey results. Sand bedding is popular with dairy producers because well designed and managed free-stalls bedded with sand can provide a comfortable place for cows to rest. Sand in manure, however, is not as popular. Sand is abrasive and hard on mechanical equipment and pumps. Sand-laden manure collected from manure alleys can simply be stored before being applied to cropland to recycle the nutrients. Larger dairy farms often nd it economical to separate the sand from the manure so that the sand can be recycled as bedding and the manure stored separately before being land applied. Mechanical separators and sand lanes have been around since the mid ‘90s to separate sand from sand-laden manure for sand recycling. Both mechanical separators and sand lanes can do an effective job separating sand from sand-laden manure. One of the challenges with sand separation equipment and systems is that they use water in the separation process. Sand lanes are located outside, and they must have owing water. Water freezes in the winter in Minnesota. But, why do some sand lanes have freezing problems more often than others? What factors impact when sand lanes begin to freeze? We know that adding salt to our roads lowers the temperature at which the water begins to freeze and become ice. There is a limit to salt; it cannot lower the freezing temperature below -6 degrees. We also know that adding ethylene glycol, an important
ingredient in antifreeze, to coolant water prevents it from freezing. An equal mixture of water and ethylene glycol will lower the freezing point of the mixture to -35 degrees. The mixtures of water with salt and antifreeze that lower the freezing temperature cause freezing point depression. Flush umes are used to remove sand-laden manure from barns and transport it to sand lanes. Flumes are designed to have liquid velocities of 5 to 8 feet per second in half lled umes. Barns with similar sized umes will have similar ow rates irrespective of the number of cows in the barn. This means that ume water from a barn with more cows will have more manure than a barn with fewer cows. Does the amount of dairy manure lower the freezing point of water and manure mixtures? What components of the manure cause the depression? Water velocity and turbulence can also impact freezing temperature. This is one reason that rivers do not freeze as early in the winter season as calm ponds at the same temperatures. We tried some simple experiments to measure freezing point depression. The rst tests were done with salt and our results matched published results. Freezing point depression temperatures for manure and water mixtures produced mixed results. Increasing the proportion of manure to water in the test mixtures decreased the freezing temperature, but the results differed between manure sources. This suggests there are other things in the manure that might impact freezing point depression. We need more information to gure out what is causing these differences. We are looking for farms that are not having sand lane freezing problems and farms with sand lane freezing problems. If you have a sand lane, please visit https://z.umn.edu/ freezingsandlane and complete the survey. If sand lane freezing is a big problem, we hope to get grant funding to conduct a study. Your help is appreciated. Freezing sand lane survey questions 1. Do you have a sand lane? Yes / No 2. Do you use your sand lane year round? Yes / No 3. Do you have problems with the sand lane freezing in cold weather? Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Very often, Always 4. If you have freezing problems, at what air temperatures does your sand lane start to freeze? Below -20, -20 to -10; -10 to 0; 0 to 10, 10 to 20 or 20 to 30, Do not know. 5. How many cows supply manure to your sand lane? 6. Are there other sand land problems you have concerns about? 7. What is the zip code where your sand lane is located? 8. Would you be willing to answer more questions about your sand lane, allow a site visit and taking of some manure samples at your convenience in follow-up research? Yes / No / Maybe 9. If the answer to No. 8 is yes or maybe, please provide a name, phone number and email address
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Breeding for A2 milk By Brad Heins & Glenda Pereira University of Minnesota
A2 milk appears to be all the rage in the dairy industry today. In commercials on TV, online, at the grocery store and even on the farm, many people are talking about A2 milk. There have been claims in the popular press that A2 milk is easier for humans to digest, improves health and lowers the risk for some diseases. Many of these claims have not been proven by science. Let us dig a little deeper into this A2 phenomenon. What is A2 milk? Betacasein, which makes up 30 percent of milk protein, exists in two forms: A1 and A2. A2 milk only contains the A2 variant of beta-casein protein. Cows with the A2A2 gene only produce A2 milk. Jersey, Guernsey, Normande and Brown Swiss breeds have a higher percentage of A2 genes than Holstein. Some farmers have transitioned to being A2 herds, but this can take many generations depending on the status of your herd. One way to determine the status of your herd is to genomic test your cows and heifers. If you are already genomic testing, A2 status can be determined for an extra $5 per animal. If you choose to transition to an A2 herd, you can determine which cows and heifers to keep or cull once you receive your genomic results. An A2A2 animal bred to another A2A2 animal will always have an A2 offspring. Cows that are A1A2 or A1A1 will not produce A2 milk. Many A.I. studs have been marketing A2 bulls, and more information can be found online or in published bull catalogs. The University of Minnesota’s research dairy herd at the West Central Research and Outreach Center at Morris, Minn., uses Holstein, Jersey, MontbĂŠliarde, Normande and Viking Red in their breeding program. Table 1 gives the A2 status of the top 25 net merit proven bulls for Holstein and Jersey and the top proven MontbĂŠliarde, Normande and Viking Red bulls available in the United States. For the Normande breed, six bulls have daughters and the other 14 bulls are genomic only bulls. As expected, the Holstein breed has the lowest percentage of A2A2 bulls in the top 25 for net merit. The Jersey and Normande breeds have the highest percentage of A2A2 bulls. During the past year, all cows and heifers were genotyped at the University of Minnesota’s research dairy herd. The A2 status of the cows and heifers in the herd is shown in Table 2. Over 50 percent of the Holsteins in the herd are A2A2, which was not expected because we did not select for this trait. The 1964 genetic line Holsteins had a lower percentage of animals that were A2A2 at 26 percent. The crossbred cows and heifers ranged from 36 to 50 percent of animals that were A2A2. Should you care about A2 milk? Well, if the industry pays a premium for A2 milk, then you might consider selecting your herd for A2A2 animals and even start using A2A2 bulls. However, remember that selecting from the top net merit bulls is essential to maximize farm proďƒžtability, so be sure to check out that list when placing an emphasis on A2 genetics. The future will tell if A2 milk is a fad or if it will permanently have a seat at the table of the dairy industry.
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Table 2. A2 status of the University of Minnesota dairy herd in Morris, Minn. Number of cows A2A2 A1A2 A1A1 ---------- Percentage ---------Holstein 114 56 33 11 1964 Holstein 82 26 48 26 Holstein-sired crossbred 65 49 34 17 Jersey-sired crossbred 51 47 45 8 MontbĂŠliarde-sired crossbred 98 36 47 17 Normande-sired crossbred 56 50 45 5 Viking Red-sired crossbred 136 45 40 15
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Cold wars
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Can you feed reduced-lignin alfalfa with BMR corn silage?
High-quality forages are essential to maximize performance in lactating dairy cows, especially if your goal is to feed high-forage diets. With the introduction of reduced-lignin alfalfa, some producers ask if pairing this product with brown midrib (BMR) corn will result in too much digestible ber. While controlled research on feeding both reduced-lignin alfalfa and BMR corn silage is limited, producers are having success Something to Ruminate On with this strategy. The decision and extent to move toward lower-lignin forages are farm-specic. A complex organic compound, lignin binds cellulose bers, and hardens and strengthens plant cell walls. Lignin content increases as plants mature and gives structural support to the plants as they become taller. Lignication is most pronounced in older stems of mature plants and least pronounced in young, developing plants. The increase in lignin in mature plants negatively affects forage quality and interferes with animal digestion rates. In numerous controlled dairy feeding trials from multiple locations and years, BMR corn silage nuBy Barry Visser trient composition improvements have translated Nutritionist into greater dry matter intake and milk yield. Agronomic and yield drag concerns remain in certain locations and growing conditions. Even so, BMR corn silages have become the preferred hybrid choice for many high-producing dairy herds. More recently, reduced-lignin alfalfa varieties have become commercially available. Alfalfa forage with reduced lignin will digest faster in the rumen, allowing for increased intake. This increased rate of digestion can result in greater milk production. Alfalfa forage yield is generally highest at full maturity (full bloom), but forage quality decreases with plant maturity, generally due to the increased lignin content that accumulates as plants mature. The downside to cutting at earlier plant maturities and imposing shorter intervals between cuttings has been reduced alfalfa dry matter yield per acre, more cuttings (and harvest costs) per year and compromised stand longevity. One option with reduced-lignin alfalfa is to simply capture higher-quality forage through greater NDFD at your current harvest maturity and cutting frequency. Another option might be to widen the cutting interval to capture more yield per acre of alfalfa similar in quality to normal-lignin varieties. The latter approach can eliminate a cutting and save associated harvest costs. Reduced-lignin alfalfa varieties are showing 5 to 15 percent reductions in lignin content and up to 15 percent improvement in NDFD compared to normallignin varieties in research trials. The greatest differences have been found with transgenic varieties. By contrast, NDFD is typically about 20 percent greater for BMR corn hybrids relative to non-BMR hybrids. Usage rate for reduced-lignin forages depends on several agronomic factors,
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On a paper trail
Why do we hold on to stuff? Is it for a bridge between past and future generations? Do we see future potential and purpose in an unused item today? Or, is it a backup plan for when new technology crashes? What is stuff of value and what is worthless junk? The difference depends upon who is telling the story. There is my stuff and Mark’s junk. Mark has a machine shed lled with his saves. There are old paint cans lled with used nails, nuts and bolts. There are piles of wood scraps waiting to be used in future repair projects. There are pieces and parts of old machines lying on a sheet of plywood straddled over two wooden saw horses. I have tried to clean out the shed over the years, but I cannot even make a dent. What I call junk is redened as needed stuff and nds a new storage place back in the shed. We cannot throw it out now because we might need it in the future. We cannot tempt fate because you know the moment you get rid of something, you will nd the perfect use for it a couple of days later. It never seems to fail.
Because I could not make a dent in reorganizing the machine shed, I thought I would refocus my energy on decluttering our house. We moved down to the main farm 15 years ago this spring. I was overwhelmed with all of the closet and storage spaces compared to our old house. There was no way I was going to need all of that space. Well, I found enough stuff to save over the years and everything is full. Of course, most of the stuff being stored belongs to the kids. Totes and boxes lled with mementos from elementary to college days. Whenever they settle down and have their own place, their boxes of stuff will move with them. Until then, I needed to focus on clearing out some of the other junk. I have been keeping the farm record books since we were married. At rst, every transaction was written down in the record book and every column was manually calculated. When we upgraded and moved the bookkeeping to the computer, I still wanted to have a paper trail in case the computer crashed. For the last 20 years, I have
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Assigned seats
There are six chairs around our kitchen table. Each chair corresponds, roughly, with a portion of the table that is referred to by my children as a spot. As in, “That’s my spot! I was sitting there.” More often than not – despite my ongoing efforts to prevent and correct – part of the square footage of our table surface is covered in homework and/or mail. In this case, the chairs get pushed closer to the vacant end of the table and the geometry of each spot is reduced accordingly. Each night when we sit down for supper, my children Dairy Good Life race to see who gets which spot. Daphne covets the round spot on the rounded corner of our rectangular table. (We line three chairs up on each side of the table because there isn’t room in our kitchen for a chair at each end of the table.) If someone else takes Daphne’s spot, she wails, like any proper youngest child. Dan and Monika are usually indifferent to where they sit. But spot deliberations are often complicated by who wants to sit next to Mom or Dad that night. We were enjoying a Christmas visit with neighborhood friends when the topic of kitchen tables and chairs came up. Glen mentioned that when he was a kid, each member of his family had an assigned seat at the kitchen table. “You didn’t dare sit in someone else’s spot,” he said. By Sadie Frericks I had one of those “For real?” moments, as if the conColumnist cept was completely incomprehensible. In my childhood, we sat wherever there was an open seat. Composure regained, I immediately understood why. Assigned seats eliminated all of the “I wanted that spot” suppertime bickering. I then wondered, did other families have assigned seats at the table? Is this a generationsold tradition that has slowly faded? And, then, of course, my mind jumped to the parallels between assigning spots at the table and assigning stalls in the barn. When I was a kid, each cow had her own spot in the barn. Complete with her name written on a card above. Each time the herd came back in the barn, each cow knew where her stall was. One of the rst decisions we made when we moved the cows to our farm was whether or not the cows would have assigned stalls. We reasoned that it would be more trouble than it was worth to train an entire herd all at once to nd their stalls. Especially since Glen was still doing chores at the neighbors, and I was loading the barn by myself. And, so, a generations-old tradition faded away. We were talking about assigned stalls with the kids and their incredulous reactions mirrored mine at the mention of assigned table seats. “So you mean each cow went in the same stall every time?” they asked in wonder. I realized they’re missing out on an opportunity to observe how intelligent cows really are and how much they love routine. I still notice our cows’ tendencies. Even though our cows no longer have assigned stalls, many cows choose the same stall or, at least, the same section of the barn. We can often tell when a cow is in heat or isn’t feeling well because she’s out of place in the barn. Some cows prefer stalls in the front of the barn, while others choose the back. Some stand in south-facing stalls. Others choose north. I suspect this is because cows become accustomed to making either right or left turns. Or sequences of turns. Some cows always take a right out of the entryway and then a left into a stall. If they happen to get jostled or blocked and end up taking a left out of the entryway, they still take a left into a stall. So they tend to stand in kitty-corner sections of the barn. When we milked in a parlor, we noticed that some cows preferred the left side of the parlor, some preferred the right, and some really didn’t give a moo which side they entered. Milking in the parlor also conrmed my theory that cows can count. We milked in a double-4 parlor. Each spot in the parlor had a grain bowl, which allowed us to entice them into the parlor with a small amount of grain and top dress the cows that needed it. Each bowl had a hopper above that was operated with a rope and pulley system. The hopper in the last stall had a sensor on it, which detected when the hopper was empty and then turned on the auger to ll all the hoppers. It didn’t take long for one of our cows, Danka, to learn that if she was the fourth cow into the parlor on any given turn, she would be in the spot with the sensor-equipped hopper. She’d run the lever on the hopper, which emptied the grain into her bowl. She would repeat this until she heard the auger turn on, which would deliver more grain to her hopper. Voilá! Endless buffet in the parlor. After that, without fail, Danka would be the fourth cow into the parlor. Every single time. We quickly learned that we had to turn the feed system off when Danka came into the parlor. I always gured that cows used counting to nd their stalls. As in, my spot is eight stalls down on the right. And, really, I’m OK with cows being able to count. I’m just glad they can’t talk. Seriously, can you imagine the arguing that would take place in a barn without assigned stalls? “That’s my spot!” “Hey, I wanted that stall.” “Get out. I’m just going to wedge myself into this stall with you until you move.”
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The future of Minnesota
Dunns recognized as Agassiz Ambassadors By Jennifer Coyne & Mark Klaphake Staff writers
OSAKIS, Minn. – Rural communities are the backbone of Minnesota. For small pockets of the state, in areas driven by agriculture, the livelihood of a community is dependent on leaders willing to invest in their neighborhoods, and ultimately that of the North Star State. “Every time you do something and help the people around you, you’re helping the next generation,” Darla Dunn said. “As dairy farmers we don’t have a ton of extra time, but we’ve decided it’s worthwhile to commit to something that is important to us.” Darla and her husband, Levi, are Agassiz Ambassadors of the Red River Valley Emerging Leadership Program, where they represent the future of northwest and west central Minnesota in one of the state’s oldest University of Minnesota
Extension programs. The couple is completing their term as ambassadors on behalf of Douglas County, where they dairy farm near Osakis, Minn. They spent the past two years connecting with other individuals in 19 rural counties as they took part in leadership training, networking between new participants and alumni, and recognizing past participants in local and regional public events. The rst year was spent as participants of the leadership program and the following year has been spent as ambassadors for the program. “We got hooked in right away and were really excited about the program,” Levi said. Darla agreed. “In dairy farming, when do you get the opportunity to do something like that?” she said. In October 2017, after
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Darla and Levi Dunn are Agassiz Ambassadors of the Red River Valley Emerging Leadership Program, represenƟng the future of northwest and west central Minnesota. The Dunns dairy farm near Osakis, Minn. being nominated by a friend and former participant, the Dunns decided they would represent Douglas County as part of the leadership program,
which began a month later. “We went back and forth,” Darla said about getting involved. “How do we commit this time? Who do we get to
milk?” Levi agreed. “[My friend] laid it on thick, and then I thought, he had cows at the time [he was a participant] and made the effort to nd somebody to milk and they really enjoyed it,” he said. “They used it as a way to get off the farm; as a getaway.” Participants spent four separate occasions – three weekend excursions and one during the week – honing their skills as rural leaders. The course took place over the winter months in locations across the 19-county region of Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Douglas, Grant, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman, Otter Tail, Pennington, Polk, Pope, Red Lake, Roseau, Stevens, Traverse and Wilkin counties. “By the time we got to the last session, we didn’t want it to end,” Darla said. “It was just too good. In four session, we developed relationships with people who are now like family.” Following the yearlong program, participants can then Turn to DUNNS | Page 35
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Levi and Darla Dunn talk about their involvement in the Emerging Leadership Program Jan. 7 at their farm in Osakis, Minn. The program has given the Dunns more to talk about while they complete farm chores. be nominated to serve as ambassadors for another year – promoting the program and working with staff to train the next class of participants. Traditionally, each class nominates couples to serve as ambassadors. Those who accept the nomination go through an interview process that decides one pair to act as program representatives. “We were really on the fence about doing this and being nominated as ambassadors,” Levi said. “How could we commit to another full year of this?” Despite their slight reservations, the Dunns wanted to be ambassadors and play a larger role in the leadership program. In March 2018, Levi and Darla were appointed as the 2018 Agassiz Ambassadors. Soon after their appointment, the Dunns began traveling across the region, attending county recognition events and meeting new couples as part of the 2018 class and alumni. This spring they will also help with the program’s end-of-year recognition banquet before completing their term as ambassadors. “It was a lot of fun because you meet more people from the program,” said Darla about her and Levi’s role as ambassadors. “You know your classmates who are there and then you meet the new couples and all the other alumni.” Of all the responsibilities as an ambassador, Levi most enjoys the camaraderie he upholds with fellow program participants. “We have built fantastic relationships,” he said. “We’re not afraid to give them a call and say this is what we have going on in our area and what would you do?” While the program is no longer designed solely for those involved in
agriculture, or dairying specically, many are familiar with farming. “It’s people with the same ideas, a very rural mindset, same age and place in life,” Levi said. As the Dunns reect on their time in the Emerging Leadership Program and the short months remaining as Agassiz Ambassadors, they appreciate the tools the program provided them to reconnect as a couple and serve as leaders in rural Minnesota. “It’s given us a lot more to talk about in the barn,” Levi said. The couple now realizes their strengths and how they can best facilitate compromise for local issues. They have also found condence in speaking with state representatives and legislators on issues that directly affect their daily lives, or that of their community. Since participating in the Extension initiative, the greatest step the Dunns have taken to nd purpose in their community is becoming members of a local 4-H club. “In a small manner, you need people to be in those leadership positions,” Darla said. “That’s something we’ve never thought of before, and that’s why we got involved.” Participating in the leadership classes and then facilitating its evolvement as ambassadors has transformed the Dunns into trailblazers for themselves, the local community and that of greater Minnesota. “This program taught us that there is a need for people to step up in leadership roles and get involved,” Levi said. “Previously, I didn’t think leadership was for me, and I didn’t want to take any more time away from my family. Now, I look at it as something I’m doing for my family.”
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Women In Dairy Karen Timm, pictured with her daughter Madalynn Plainview, Minn. Winona County 110 cows Family: My husband, Duane, and I have four children: Rebecca, 27, is a calf manager on a nearby dairy; Brittany, 25, is DMS at MUSC in Charleston, S.C.; Aaron, 23, is a test engineer for Kuhn-Knight in Brodhead, Wis.; and Madalynn, 18, is a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Tell us about your farm. We have 400 acres, 240 of which we purchased from Duane’s parents. We milk in a double-8 parallel parlor that Duane and I put in July 2010. We raise our heifers, and our bull calves are sold at weaning. We also have 20 Angus cows. What is the busiest time of day for you? Mornings are the busiest time of day for me. I start by feeding calves in hutches and the youngstock on the farm where we live. I then drive to our dairy down the road and take over milking so Duane can scrape and bed the freestall barn, and mix feed. After cleaning up and taking care of any newborns, I nish feeding the youngstock at another farmsite. When you get a spare moment what do you do? Between morning and evening chores, I run errands, make dinner, do bookwork and household chores, along with yardwork in the summer. I enjoy gardening and reading if time allows. Tell us about your most memorable experience working on the farm. The night we were going to put our cows through the parlor for the rst time, two of our kids each haltered one of their fair cows and walked in on each side of the new parlor. I also have a lot of great memories of milking with our kids. We had a lot of great conversations and spent a lot of time together in the barn.
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From ambassadors to industry leaders Midwest Dairy program hopes to engage college students in dairy community By Krista Kuzma
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ST. PAUL, Minn. – After serving one year as a dairy ambassador, Kennedy Haney knows the direction of her future, and it includes being involved in the dairy community. “It totally changed my aspirations,â€? said 21-yearold Haney, a senior dietetics major at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minn. Haney is talking about her involvement in the dairy ambassador program through Midwest Dairy. Last year, the program debuted in Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, Illinois, Kansas and Missouri. It started in Nebraska ďƒžve years ago. This year, North Dakota is being added to the list. “It’s designed to develop dairy leaders but also give them the opportunity to be out at events, promoting dairy and sharing their dairy story,â€? said Theresa Reps, agricultural affairs manager for Midwest Dairy. Kennedy Haney The year-long program is open to college-aged students who simply have an interest in dairy. “This is an opportunity for all dairy leaders,â€? Reps said. “There’s a need to ďƒžnd people who didn’t grow up on the farm but have an interest and are going to be part of the dairy industry.â€? That is the case with Haney. “I’m here [as a dairy ambassador] because I have a different avenue than most,â€? she said. Although her grandparents lived on a dairy, she had limited exposure to dairy growing up. She learned more about dairy two years ago when she met her boyfriend, who is a dairy, beef and crop farmer; however, she still Becca Hermann was not headed into a career as a clinical dietitian with dairy in mind. When one of her professors suggested the dairy ambassador program, she decided to try it. “Dietetics goes hand in hand with agriculture,â€? Haney said. “After I met [my boyfriend] Dylan, ‌ I see the activist and opposing side of dairy. I wanted to better myself to combat those. What better way than to get involved.â€? After being in the program, Haney now wants to be in dietetics on the food production level. She said she would love to work for Midwest Dairy, a state beef council, the United State Department of Agriculture or a similar organization. There are also many ambassadors, like Becca Hermann, who grew up on dairy farms. Hermann, 21, is studying dairy science technology at North-
east Iowa Community College in Calmar, Iowa. After graduating with a two-year degree, she plans to transfer to South Dakota State University to study dairy manufacturing before returning to her family’s 30cow Guernsey dairy to create an on-farm processing facility near Manchester, Iowa. “I wanted to build trust with consumers and get to know the way consumers think,â€? Hermann said about why she wanted to be a dairy ambassador. “I hope I shed some positive light on the dairy community.â€? Throughout her year, the ambassadors ďƒžrst went through a communication training to prepare for the year. Then they attended events where they interacted with consumers. This included state fairs, farm-totable events, breakfast on the farms, school visits and on-farm open houses. Hermann liked explaining that many farms have similarities, but every farm is different. “It was nice to be more transparent to the public and connecting with them by answering their questions,â€? Hermann said. “They just want to know they have nutritious, good quality food that is safe for them and their kids.â€? Haney had the opportunity to teach a unit about dairy and beef in one of her classes called Current Issue. This was important to Haney because several people in the cohort are vegetarians or vegans. “I had the opportunity to bring dairy to my own campus,â€? she said. “I maybe didn’t change their (the vegan and vegetarians) minds, but I gave them more information.â€? Ambassadors also interacted in the dairy community by attending industry meetings, such as the Dairy Experience Forum and the Central Plains Dairy Expo. They also went on dairy farm tours. “I saw ďƒžrst hand what goes down,â€? Haney said. Hermann said the program was a beneďƒžt to her. “I made a lot of connections with people,â€? she said. Haney also spoke positively about being an ambassador. “They let me go out to events and do things related to dairy nutrition,â€? Haney said. “I tailored it to
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WELCH, Minn. – Dr. Anne Proctor said the three weeks before and after weaning can make or break a calf raising program with the success of this transition time revolving around the development of the rumen. Proctor, dairy technical specialist, and Amanda Altman, nutrition and production specialist, shared tips on raising calves during their seminar, “Tips for Top Calf Performance” Jan. 18 during the 2019 FormA-Feed Professional Dairy Conference in Welch, Minn. “If we can hit the sweet spot, we can avoid the post weaning slump and calves will continue to gain after they are weaned, which is the ultimately the end goal,” Altman said. “The sooner we can get them off milk and do it successfully, the sooner they can get into the milking herd.” Proctor started the seminar talking about milk and starter intake. Growth is energy intake minus maintenance costs. Maintenance is when a calf is idle, but it can also be affected by environmental temperature, activity level, immune system and management decisions. As a newborn, milk is a calf’s rst and only source of energy. A calf’s thermoneutral zone is 68 degrees. Cold temperature increases the amount of energy a calf requires. The solution to meeting that energy level can come through increased feedings from twice daily to three times a day, more volume of milk per feeding or higher milk
concentration. Is a higher fat milk replacer the answer? A 20-24 milk replacer will provide a 10 percent energy increase compared to its low-fat counterpart of a 28-15 milk replacer, Proctor said. “A one unit increase in fat content will offset slightly more than 1 degree drop in temperature at a 1 pound feed rate,” Proctor said. “We need to do some other things in addition to changing the fat or energy level of our milk replacer.” Dr. Anne Proctor Research has also shown concerns of a higher fat diet for calves, Proctor said. She said calves do not digest fat well. “As we increase the fat in the diet and there’s more fat and energy in the milk portion, it offsets the starter intake, and we have a net decrease in total energy intake,” Proctor said. Rather than increase fat, Proctor has a different solution. “My personal philosophy is to feed more powder,” she said. Based on her Amanda Altman calculations, Proctor said a 100-pound calf will need 2.27 pounds of 28-15 milk replacer in order to gain 1 pound per day at zero degrees. “The goal of the calf program is to not only put weight on the calf, but is to raise a cow,” Proctor said. “In order to raise a cow, we need rumen development.” In order for the rumen to mature, mi-
crobes are needed in the gut and the rumen’s physiology needs to develop in order to absorb fatty acids. The rumen’s anatomy must also change, developing papili and muscular capacity in order to churn feed. “We’re developing a smaller version of a cow’s digestive system,” Proctor said. “This process begins when we get both starter and water into the rumen of that calf. The milk and starter program interact dramatically. Those two things have to be in agreement with each other that when we start the weaning process, the rumen is ready to sustain the calf and meet her nutritional needs without the contribution from milk.” Starter intake will determine when a calf is ready for weaning. Proctor said the benchmark used to be when a calf eats 2 pounds of starter three days in a row. Now, a calf can be weaned when it consumes at least a quarter pound of starter each day for 21 days in a row, Proctor said. “Average daily gain should increase during and after weaning,” Proctor said. “I want to see better growth on calves after weaning than I do before weaning. The day you take milk away, they ought to still be gaining well. If we do that, we can avoid the post weaning slump where they’re at risk of particularly respiratory disease. We can get that calf through that weaning stress easily if we have the right rumen development.” Altman nished the presentation talking about management pieces that are critical while feeding milk and starter. “We can have the best milk and starter, but if we don’t properly manage it, we can still fail,” she said. A good starter contains starch, she said. “I like to see a whole corn or rough cracked corn, which reduces the amount of nes,” Altman said.
It also should be low in molasses. “There has been research that molasses will hinder intake on calves,” Altman said. One of the most important aspects of starter is that it is available to calves at an early age. “Put starter in front of the calves that rst week of life,” Altman said. … “Give them a handful. Maybe they’ll accidentally eat a little bit, like the taste of it, and they’ll come back tomorrow and eat a couple more bites. Starter is important for rumen development.” Water is also important. It should be warm, clean and fresh. “Even in the winter, calves should still have water … especially if it is colder, and we’re going to increase the amount of powder we feed on a daily basis, we want to have water available for them,” Altman said. Other ways to reduce maintenance energy is having deep bedding and calf jackets in the winter. It is also important to keep the calves as dry as possible and x any holes in their housing that may cause drafts. Healthy calves also reduce energy needs. Use good sanitation and ventilation, and create an up-to-date vaccination protocol with a veterinarian. During transitions, only introduce one stressor at a time. This can include dehorning, vaccination and moving. Try to keep pen sizes small with six to eight animals in the rst few weeks. Also, move groups of animals, not individuals, Altman said. All this will help avoid the post-weaning slump, she said. “The most expensive pound is the one you have to put on twice,” she said. Overall, Proctor and Altman said giving a calf its energy needs through milk and starter along with good management will help grow a good calf to enter the milking herd.
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with Dean Binder of New Ulm, Minn.
Dean Binder New Ulm, Minn. Nicollet County 85 cows
It’s always a joy when a good cow comes in and puts out a lot of milk, and she has a nice udder and feet and legs. For as long as I can walk and talk, I’ll have cattle.
How did you get into farming? My dad farmed here. I’ve always been interested in cows, so after college I came back and farmed with my dad. We did that until four years ago when he passed away. He helped until the very end.
What advice would you give other dairy farmers? Farming is different than it was 20 years ago. Don’t borrow a lot of money in case things go south. Take it slow and be careful. Spending money on things is OK, but be careful in case you get out of business.
What are your thoughts and concerns about the dairy industry for the next year? There are going to be a lot of farmers in their 50s calling it quits in the next ve years. It takes a lot of money to keep the owner/operator farms in business. We’ve already seen consolidation starting. My concern is about large herds controlling production and the rest of us hurting. What is the latest technology you implemented on your farm and the purpose for it? We now use soil grid sampling to get a better of idea of where to put manure and know what the elds have in them. We found a few elds with low pH. We’ve always wondered why those spots didn’t do well with alfalfa, and now we know. What is a management practice you changed in the past year that has beneted you? Ten years ago, I was breeding one-fourth of my cows to Angus. Then, when dairy fell out of bed last year I moved that up to half. What cost-saving steps have you implemented during the low milk price? I haven’t bought much new since four
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