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Global markets create security for U.S. dairy Vilsack gives 10 reasons for export growth By Jennifer Coyne jenn@dairystar.com
MADISON, Wis. – The global dairy industry is abounding with opportunity for U.S. dairy. That was the message Tom Vilsack reiterated throughout his presentation, “The Future of Dairy Exports: Responding to Challenges and Creating Opportunities,” Oct. 4 at World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis. Vilsack, president and CEO of the U.S. Dairy Export Council, updated dairy farmers and industry representatives about the council’s 5% initiative and the opportunities that lie in the global dairy market, particularly in Asia, and Central and South American countries. “As long as we have this imbalance between consumption and production, domestically, it becomes very important for us to look for additional markets outside of the United States,” Vilsack said. “The reality is [the United States] represents roughly 5% of the consuming public, globally. Over the course of the next 10, 15 years, 97% of the world’s consumers will live outside of the United States.” In 2018, the United States sold 317,000 metric tons of dairy products more than in 2016, according to a report published by the USDEC; a value of $992 million of additional sales beyond 2016. This year’s data is not yet complete, but monthly numbers indicate another record year in exports, said Vilsack. To address this growing trend in consumer placement, Vilsack pointed to 10 reasons the nation’s dairy industry should be condent in the export market. No. 1, Japan: In late September, the United States conrmed a limited trade agreement with Japan, meaning it does not require Congressional approval to move forward. The partnership will put the United States on par with the European Union and New Zealand for dairy items sold to Japan. “By Jan. 1, 2020, we will begin to see the benets of this agreement,” Vilsack said. Market shares should remain Turn to VILSACK | Page 7
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Volume 21, No. 16
Cumberland, WI bride to marry on pond that nearly cost her life
Change of fate
By Cassie Olson Contributing Writer
CUMBERLAND, Wis. – Booking vendors, inviting guests and preparing a ceremony are common stresses for a bride. Dora Hershberger’s biggest wedding stress, however, has been conquering her greatest fear: The pond that nearly claimed her life in August 2018. Hershberger and her ancé, Toby Borntreger, will marry on the 945-cow dairy CASSIE OLSON/DAIRY STAR they both work at, Valley Vu Dan and Pam Schullo (leŌ) and their employees, Dora Hershberger and Toby Borntreger milk 945 cows on their farm near Cumberland, Wis. Hershberger and Borntreger will marry Turn to WEDDING | Page 6 on Saturday, Oct. 12 at the farm pond that nearly took Hershberger’s life in August 2018.
SCC reaches record low
Historical levels indicate a greater focus on milk quality By Jennifer Coyne jenn@dairystar.com
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Jason Smelter milks 67 cows in Benton County near Foley, Minn. The dairy farmer maintains a somaƟc cell count below 100,000, which he aƩributes to clean and dry bedding, and a consistent milking rouƟne.
FOLEY, Minn. – Dairy farmers in the Upper Midwest Marketing Area are producing higher quality milk. In an analysis reviewing the values that make up milk production for Federal Order 30 in 2018, it was determined somatic cell count levels have dropped to a record low of 182,000 cells per milliliter. “The most surprising to note is the trend downward has continued for the entire time we have data,” said Dr. Corey Freije, agricultural economist with Federal Order 30. “The trend is milk is becoming a higher quality.” SCC was rst tracked in 2006 when analysis was used to compare Midwest dairy farmers’ pay price to that of other federal milk marketing orders. At the time, the weighted average SCC was 280,000 with a weighted standard deviation of 133,000, meaning those surveyed Turn to SCC | Page 5
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A glance at what’s inside Now that it is mid October, World Dairy Expo is past us. There are several items in this issue that highlight a few happenings at the annual dairy event. Sonny Perdue, United States Secretary of Agriculture, listened to dairy farmers and Tom Vilsack, president and CEO of the U.S. Dairy Export Council, talked to attendees about dairy in international markets. In addition to this, we covered the WDE seminar “Are You Buying Your Milk Production?â€? highlighted on page 6 in second section. This issue’s “From our side of the fenceâ€? also comes from World Dairy Expo. We talked to dairy farmers from across the country asking them about the advantages of dairy farming in their area. Check out their responses on pages 15-16 in ďƒžrst section. For our “A day in the lifeâ€? feature, we visited Poortvliet Dairy near Prinsburg, Minn. A large portion of the day included chopping corn for brothers, Don, Ken and Tim, who milk 600 cows and run 1,000 acres of land. Look for their feature on pages 16, 18-19 in second section. The Van Maanen family shared their gradual expansion and upgrades on their 1,200-cow dairy near Rock Valley, Iowa. Winding Meadows Dairy milks its herd in a double-20 parallel parlor built in 2013 and houses the cows in tunnel ventilated barns. Read more about the farm’s facilities and strategies on pages 3-4 in second section. In Theresa, Wis., the Ehler brothers, Tim and Nick, started their dairy after their parents sold the family’s herd. In re-establishing their dairy, the Ehlers made a switch from milking Holsteins to Jerseys. The breed ďƒžt better into the stalls of their barn along with other beneďƒžts. Read more about what decisions the brothers have made to make their dairying dream continue on pages 14-15 in second section. While many farmers are rushing their harvest for weather reasons, the family and employees at Statz Bros. Farm were hurrying to put forage in the bunker for a different reason. They had to have ďƒželds ready to host country music star Luke Bryan on their 4,500-cow dairy near Marshall, Wis. Read more about the concert on page 3 in third section.
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ConƟnued from SCC | Page 1 were not necessarily close to the average value. Thirteen years later, SCC continues to decline with a weighted average 98,000 less than in 2006 and a weighted standard deviation of 89,000. State by state, Wisconsin had the lowest SCC for the year at 175,000 followed by South Dakota at 185,000, Minnesota at 190,000 and Iowa at 198,000. “The trend we’re seeing is that everyone is having a lower average herd count, and the spread is more narrow. We’re not seeing big swings,” Freije said. “Everybody is doing a better job.” Jason Smelter milks 67 cows in Benton County, near Foley, Minn. For the duration of his 19-year career dairy farming, Smelter has placed an emphasis on milk quality, particularly with a low SCC. On average, Smelter maintains a SCC below 100,000. “For me, the biggest reason to keep a low SCC is because it’s the easiest to make extra money on the milk check,” Smelter said. “With years like we’ve had, that money is there for the taking and sometimes it’s the only glimmer of hope.” The central Minnesota dairy farmer receives about 55-60 cents per hundredweight through Bongards Creamery. When the creamery rst began issuing premiums on milk quality, Smelter received $1 per cwt., he said. Across the entire federal order, Midwest dairy farmers received an average of 13 cents per cwt., for SCC under 350,000 on $16 milk, according to the analysis. However, if SCC was above the threshold, farmers were penalized and saw a deduction on their milk check. “The penalty is not big, but we always want money coming in,” Freije said. Rewarding dairy farmers for low SCC came in 2009 when the European Union created a standard for milk quality which dropped the United States’ maximum SCC from 750,000 to 400,000. Additionally, for Federal Order 30 to fairly compare to Federal Orders 32 and 33 – Central and Mideast, respectively – milk components need to be evaluated. “We don’t have Class I utilization, so one of the ways we look to see farmers are receiving the federal order minimum is to look at test values and see farmers get paid roughly the same based on quality,” Freije said. “And part of that quality is SCC.”
The formula to create the milk price has since included a small adjuster to consider SCC. “The adjuster is meant to be small,” Freije said. “But, they wanted to create an incentive where if farmers improved the quality of their milk, they would get more money.” While cents on the dollar were miniscule compared to components where butterfat was $9.92 per cwt., and protein was $5.16 per cwt., in 2018, SCC premiums have proven to hold value on dairy operations. “It really comes down to the milk price and present dairy situation,” Smelter said. “What’s left are better dairy managers and an average lower SCC.” In the analysis, Freije categorized SCC by monthly milk production. The report indicated farms producing 5 million pounds of milk or more each month had a lower average SCC. “One of the things larger farms can do is take the infected animal out of the milking string and return her after treatment,” Freije said. “In that regard, because of hospital pens, herd averages go down.” Like many dairy farmers, Smelter works through the occasional spike in SCC caused by chronic mastitis cases often seen in the summer months. He will initially treat a cow and then decide to remove the quarter or cull the animal if problems reoccur. Smelter combats further incidences by maintaining clean, dry stalls for his lactating herd, and also focuses on a consistent milking routine amongst him and his two part-time employees. The herd is bedded with straw, and stalls are coated with an antibacterial powder twice daily before milking. Once a year, Smelter has scheduled maintenance done on the milking equipment and makes repairs when necessary. “When it comes down to it, I look for consistency and hope for the best,” Smelter said. “The incentive to have a low SCC is there, and I’ve found a feasible way to reach that on my farm.” Freije agreed. “If anything, we expected a pause in dropping SCC or bottoming out, but we really aren’t seeing that,” he said. “The management on dairy farms has gotten a lot better.” In the coming years, Freije anticipates similar analysis to indicate the trend continuing with higher quality milk and lower SCC.
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“There was already an ambulance and helicopter landing,â€? Toby said. “I realized it must be Dora; we all stopped working as they pulled her from the pond.â€? Dora was airlifted to a hospital in Eau Claire, Wis., where she did not wake up until two days later. A worker at heart, Dora was confused by her surroundings. “I remember waking up and thinking, ‘I’ve got to go to work,’â€? Dora said. “I had never been in a hospital before, so I was confused and scared at ďƒžrst.â€? Dora spent a total of eight days in the hospital before she was released. Taking things slow, she eased her way back into her daily routine on the farm but remained hesitant of the pond. “As long as I stayed away from the pond, I was OK; I was just happy to be back to work,â€? Dora said. Soon thereafter, Dora and Toby began to take notice of one another. The couple began dating in early February, and Toby soon knew Dora was the one. He proposed in the farm’s calf shed as they cared for the calves during an April snowstorm. As the couple began planning their nuptials, Dora knew the pond was the place to hold the ceremony. “It’s the prettiest place on the dairy, and I always wanted a farm wedding,â€? Dora said. Dan knew having the wedding at the pond meant conquering Dora’s fear. “You cannot live in fear all your life,â€? Dan said. “We would have to meet the fear head on; she just had to let me know when she was ready.â€? This summer, Dora and Dan walked to the pond, facing her fear and coming to terms with her traumatic experience. As her wedding date approaches, Dora’s fear has been replaced with excitement. “We are really excited; just hoping the weather cooperates and everything goes smoothly,â€? Dora said. On the day of the wedding, those involved with her rescue will all be in attendance. The Barron County EMTs, Cumberland Fire Department, Barron County squad cars and the helicopter that transported her will all be attending the ceremony to witness Dora say, “I do.â€? Just 14 months after nearly losing her life, Dora is ready to replace her terrifying memory at the pond with the happiest moment of her life.
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According to the USDA, more than 22,600 New York, President Donald Trump and Japanese dairy farmers are enrolled in the 2019 Dairy Margin Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced the ďƒžrst stage Coverage program. That means 78 percent of U.S. of the new trade agreement between the United States dairies with an established production history signed- and Japan. This agreement would level the playing up. In Minnesota, 2,334 or 82 percent of ďƒželd for U.S. agricultural products dairy farmers are enrolled. against competitors. “Japan will open Ag Insider new markets to approximately $7 billion AFBF recommends changes to federal in American agricultural products,â€? milk marketing orders Trump said. “Japanese tariffs will be The American Farm Bureau signiďƒžcantly lower or eliminated entirely Federation is seeking changes in the for U.S. beef, pork, wheat, cheese and federal milk marketing orders. The wine. It’s a huge victory for America’s recommendations include the elimination farmers and ranchers and that’s very of bloc voting by cooperatives for any important to me.â€? The ďƒžrst stage of the changes to milk pricing regulations. Farm agreement is expected to be ďƒžnalized by Bureau also wants more information to January 2020. be made available through mandatory price reporting. A working group has CoBank reviews dairy situation By Don Wick released these recommendations, which In its quarterly rural economic review, will be part of the policy discussion at the CoBank forecast U.S. milk production Columnist American Farm Bureau annual meeting to hold steady to decline slightly in the in January. remaining months of this year. Class III milk prices have hit levels that have not been seen Inching toward a USMCA vote since 2014. The increase in block cheese prices is cited Despite the impeachment inquiry, the House as one reason for the stronger milk check. However, continues to work on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada CoBank says “the ever-widening block-barrel spread Agreement. National Milk Producers Federation continues to stress barrel cheese processors.â€? senior vice president Chris Galen says it is a slow process, but lawmakers are inching closer to a vote. Dairy product report released During August, total U.S. cheese production “We need something to happen in 2020 because who knows what will happen as we get closer to the increased nearly 24 million pounds from last year. election,â€? Galen said. “Given all the other economic Nearly all of that increase was in American cheese uncertainty, including the slowdown in manufacturing production. According to USDA’s Dairy Products and concerns about the global economy, getting Report, butter production went up by nearly 3 million the USMCA would be a big shot in the arm for our pounds; nonfat dry milk increased 3.2 million pounds economy and for agriculture, in particular.â€? On and skim milk powder rose 3.8 million pounds. Dry another trade front, the World Trade Organization has whey supplies increased 5.7 million pounds in August. authorized the United States to move forward with tariffs on $7.5 billion worth of European products. Focus on pasture repair this fall Cold and wet weather conditions prohibited That’s the largest retaliation ďƒžgure ever authorized by the WTO. Galen is pleased EU dairy products are on proper development and timely weed control in pastures this past year. Corteva Agriscience ďƒželd the retaliatory list. scientist Scott Flynn said when soils stay cool and First Stage of United States-Japan Trade saturated, the amount of root development is restricted. “That results in weak stands. In the fall of the year Agreement Announced During the United Nations General Assembly in with weak stands there is an opportunity to tune up
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MADISON, Wis. – All sectors of the dairy industry gathered Oct. 1 to voice their concerns and praises for the industry as United States Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue hosted a town hall meeting at World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis. The event, which kicked off Perdue’s visit to America’s Dairyland, shed light on national and foreign policies weighing heavily on the minds of dairy farmers across the country. “We are truly interested in your prosperity and livelihood,” Perdue said. “Even as an advocate and representative for agriculture to our administration and Congress, I cannot do the job that you (farmers) can do. I want to exhort you all to make your voices heard.” Perdue was joined alongside Brad Pfaff, secretary-designee of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, and Brody Staples, an eastern Wisconsin dairy farmer who moderated the meeting. Farmers from across Wisconsin, as well as cooperative representatives speaking on behalf of their farmer members, spoke to Perdue. Many were curious to know how their products are best being marketed on a global scale, given the recent announcement of a trade partnership with Japan and the pending United State Mexico Canada Agreement. While there are continued challenges with the names of dairy products, particularly European cheeses, and tensions in the Chinese market, Perdue was optimistic about the opportunities available currently and in the future for American dairy exports. He spoke of marketplace access in Japan but also other Asia territories in India, Malaysia and Thailand – and even the prospective export market coming from USMCA. “A lot of people are concerned with trade and the economy, and we need to make those expectations known,” Perdue said. “I frankly think that if USMCA was put on the oor today, it would pass both caucuses.”
However, Perdue urged dairy farmers to be patient as agreements are formed with American products at the forefront of discussions. “Based on the productivity of our dairy farmers, I can understand where other countries want to put up barriers,” he said. “But, they can’t expect to come into our country freely and fairly without opening up their markets, and that includes the E.U., India and everywhere else.” The United States is using money from the market access program to grow exports across the globe while resolutions are sought with China. “We need to work ourselves into the market elsewhere,” Perdue said. “I would love the day when we don’t have to become dependent on China, and we can trade fairly and frequently.” Farmers stood up and commended Perdue for his work to address local issues, particularly adjusting the dates for grazing and haymaking on prevented plant acres due to the wet spring. “Loosening of the rules was really nice for farmers to give them exibility in what they were going to plant,” said Amy Penterman, a dairy farmer in Clark County, Wis., and vice president of the Dairy Business Association. “It really helped farmers get a crop and feed their cows through the winter.” Perdue agreed. “The dates we were looking at is something we’re talking about possibly making permanent,” he said. “We think it would be possibly helpful in our livestock industry where cattle and farmers can benet from that. But, I’m also hoping we never have a record-breaking year of prevent plant again.” Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery CEO and President Paul Bauer expressed his concerns for a stable pay price for his dairy farmer members. Bauer delved into the vast spread between block and barrel prices, and the cost of such spreads to dairy farmers in a bullish market. “The federal milk order system has worked for 50 years, … but the USDA has failed to review and ne-tune the system, and it’s been at the cost of dairy farmers as technology and processors have grown,” Bauer said. “It’s time to protect our farmers and food supply as this system was intended.” The concern over milk price was not avoided in the town hall meeting. Turn to PURDUE | Page 11
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years like this downturn?â€? Perdue quickly pointed to the Dairy Margin Coverage Program and encouraged any dairy farmer who has not yet enrolled to do so. “There’s no doubt dairy farmers had the most stress from the ‘14 farm bill than any other sector. They got it right in the 2018 farm bill. ‌ More dairy farmers will be able to survive with [it] and its risk mitigation measures,â€? Perdue said. “Prices are moving forward and frankly, farmers would rather have a good crop and good milk [production] and a fair price than a government check any day.â€? Perdue concluded his town hall meeting after collecting the feedback from those in attendance and left with a note of encouragement for the dairy industry. “In the dairy industry, we have to understand it’s a new day. ‌ I think with the milk prices and being able to have a risk management, that means something to farmers,â€? Perdue said. “We need to look forward, not backward. There has no doubt been economic stress in the dairy industry, but we believe that better days are ahead.â€?
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In a time when dairy farmer morale has taken a hit after years of low milk prices, Molly Pelzer wants to share the good news about dairy. “Although we know milk consumption has continued to decline, dairy product consumption is at its highest in 56 years since 1962,” Pelzer said. “Butter and cheese are at their highest points ever. And 94% of all households in the U.S. buy milk. That’s 117 million households. That’s phenomenal.” Sharing this good dairy news along with continuing to work to establish dairy relationships and facing the challenge of dening healthy food are areas Pelzer wants to focus on as the new chief executive ofcer of Midwest Dairy Association. “I’m dedicated to fullling the role on behalf of our dairy farm families,” Pelzer said. “I’m humbled by the trust.” Pelzer, a 35-year veteran with the organization, began her new leadership role Oct. 1, taking over for Lucas Lentsch. She joined the predecessor organizations of Midwest Dairy in 1984, serving western Illinois and eastern Iowa. As a dietitian, Pelzer worked with health professionals and schools. Pelzer has also worked on the communication side of the organization, and most re-
cently served as chief experience ofcer setting strategies for Midwest Dairy. Pelzer also knows the hard work of farming as she and her husband operate a corn, soybean and hog farm in Iowa. “I have a great afnity for the commitment for feeding the world that our dairy farmers and all farmers make,” Pelzer said. “When I joined the Molly Pelzer dairy council in the CEO, Midwest Dairy mid ‘80s, it (farming) was all about diversifying. That was our inside joke – we had diversied and were now into dairy.” Pelzer knows the checkoff is part of this good news story for dairy. “Cheese and butter consumption is on the rise and a lot of that is thanks in large part to the investment dairy farm families make to the checkoff to do research,” she said. This research has also provided new information about whole fat dairy, which is starting to change consumers’ purchasing behaviors along with what healthcare professionals are recommending, Pelzer said. Pelzer also mentioned more good news about dairy, including that 42% of households that buy plant-based beverage are also buying milk. “They maybe want more variety in their refrigerators,” Pelzer said. And recently, leading medical and nutrition organizations recommended milk or water as the beverages of choice for children under 5 years old.
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U.S. dairy farmers: What are challenges in your region?
Brad Brainard Enid, Okla. Garďƒželd County 115 cows Tell us about your farm. We milk 115 registered Holsteins on our farm, Brainard Dairy, and have had a closed herd since 1965. At the time, my father was milking with my grandmother and completed a new dairy barn that December. He walked 110 cows down the road for 2 miles to the current facility where we have been milking every morning and night since. We are a centennial farm and I am the fourth generation to farm this land. We have around 2,000 acres, using 500-600 acres for pasture and planting the rest. It is easier to hire people on the crop side than the dairy side, so I try to spend more of my time on the dairy and also have a couple employees who help me there. We sell registered breeding bulls to other dairy producers. We used to sell all the way south of Albuquerque, N.M., over to Franklin, La., up to Illinois and over to Ledger, Mont. But with the decrease in dairy farms, I only have one customer now. What is the dairy community like in your area? I am both the largest and the smallest dairy in my county because I am the only dairy left. The closest farm is about 30 miles away. One other guy and I are the only dairy farmers in a 6-county rectangular area, and he milks 25 cows. I believe we are down to 138 dairy farms in the state of Oklahoma. At one time, we had a local co-op that took in 6-8 counties and had over 10,000 producers. This was probably in the late ‘60s or early ‘70s. There used to be two regions of AMPI, and I was in the southern region shipping milk to Gold Spot Cooperative Creamery, which was one of the ďƒžrst four original co-ops to start Dairy Farmers of America. What types of crops do you grow? We grow our own forages and feed a parlor ration inside the barn to balance things out. Our cows receive 25 pounds of grain per day. Outside they eat whatever we can grow. I do not have the labor to grow alfalfa, so I purchase it. We grow the following cash crops: wheat, milo and soybeans. We do a lot of grazing, and our pastures include winter wheat, oats, hay grazer and crabgrass. What are the two biggest challenges to dairy farming in your region? We are on the edge of the city limits. I have land right on the edge, and then my dairy is about 7 miles away from the city. We are in an area that is growing in residential population, therefore, we no longer have neighbors who are dairy farmers. With that comes a whole host of problems. My neighbors manicure their pastures and spray and mow the roadsides with a riding lawn mower so everything looks perfect. That leads them to complain to me because I have thistles growing in my pasture.
Sarah Rocha Tillamook, Ore. Tillamook County 1,000 cows Tell us about your farm. Our farm is operated by my husband and I, our four sons and a nephew. We have been in Tillamook for 27 years after we relocated from California. We have 700 Jerseys and 300 Holsteins. We raise everything at home. What is the dairy community is like in your area? Around us, most of the industry is dairy. There are basically two industries: Dairy and lumber. It’s deďƒžnitely not dwindling away. What types of crops do you grow? We grow corn for feed and also have pasture land. We don’t get a lot of heat, so we don’t grow much. What are the biggest challenges to dairy farming in your region? Manure management is the biggest challenge we deal with constantly. We get 100 inches of rain a year, so we have a lot of restrictions and water quality tests. It’s a lot of rain to deal with. It’s hard on the cows and the people. What advantages does your region have for dairy farming? The cool climate. The cows love it. Also, because of all the rain, we have lots of grass, so we pasture our cows. Why did you come to World Dairy Expo this year? We always go to Louisville, and just had high aspirations this year to attend expo. We are also trying to promote our herd. This year, I sold some embryos to people from Australia, so that’s exciting and we hope to network with more international customers. I’m eager to pursue that market.
Laron Martin Memphis, Mo. Scotland County 50 cows Tell us about your farm. My family milks 50 Holstein cows in a double-4 parlor. We raise all our replacements on the farm. What is the dairy community like in your area? There is not much dairy in our area. I work on a farm about 20 miles away and they have 180 cows, which is the largest around. What types of crops do you grow? We grow corn, soybeans and alfalfa for hay. The corn is for the cows and we sell some of the soybeans. What are the biggest challenges to dairy farming in your region? Depending on the time of year, it is either too wet or too dry. So, managing water is typically a challenge. Usually we don’t have both problems in the same week. What advantages does your region have for dairy farming? We have beautiful rolling hills, and a lot of people pasture their cows. We also don’t have extremely harsh winters like other parts of the country and don’t get too much snow. Why did you come to World Dairy Expo this year? This is my ďƒžfth year here and I like to see the trade show and watch the cattle show. This year we came for two days and I’ve had a great time so far. There is always something to learn from the vendors or showmen. It’s also fun to see all the high-quality cattle.
I explain to them there’s only a limited amount of herbicides I can spray. But every year, I get turned in to the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture for having weeds. Secondly, I own land on both sides of the road, and for years, we walked our cows from one side to the other for a distance of 300 yards. I got complaints, so I shortened it to 30 yards, but I still get complaints. People will call and say, “My new car smells like cow manure.â€? I try to be a good neighbor and work with everyone as well as I can. Finally, I told one neighbor, “Hey, I’ve been here a long time, and when you came out to buy your land, you knew I was here. You knew what I did. If you don’t want to put up with some manure on your road, cows getting out occasionally, noise, dust, or whatever you want to complain about, then don’t live in the country.â€? What advantages does your region have for dairy farming? Oklahoma is a milk deďƒžcit state,
meaning we do not produce enough milk within our border to meet our demand. This area is high class I utilization. I’m about 80 miles from the plant, and my milk goes into the jug at Highland Dairy. Sometimes it goes to Blue Bell Ice Cream. Both are great products. I am told we get paid about 60 cents more per hundredweight because of that. It seems like it is a little slow to trickle down into my milk check though, so I plan on asking some questions at the next meeting. I attended meetings at World Dairy Expo discussing how our milk price is determined, and it stirred up questions I would like to ask. Why did you come to the World Dairy Expo this year? I have been in the dairy industry a long time, but this is only the third opportunity I have had to come to World Dairy Expo. I recently had a neardeath accident and decided to come while I can. I bought the $35 pass for the whole week. Turn to OUR SIDE | Page 16
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ConƟnued from OUR SIDE | Page 15 Timothy Coon Amenia, N.Y. Dutchess County 350 cows Tell us about your farm. We live about halfway between Albany and New York City right on the Connecticut border. There’s a lot of very wealthy people around us who have moved and built big homes and bought up a lot of land which has given us the opportunity to farm a lot of land and not have to own it and pay the high taxes. We run 2,000 acres and only own 300 of that. We also raise all of our youngstock on the farm, so we tend to about 500 animals total. What is the dairy community is like in your area? There’s still a bunch of small farms in the area, but there’s a few midsize farms like us, and everybody’s trying to stay ahead of the bill collectors. My family farm ships milk to a small niche market in Poughkeepsie, NY that has done quite well called Hudson Valley Fresh Dairy, and one of the big requirements is to have really high-quality milk with an extremely low somatic cell count. My family milks 100 Guernseys and 250 Holsteins, so they do have high-quality milk. What types of crops do you grow? We farm 2,000 acres. 1,000 acres of corn, about 500 acres of hay and the remainder to wheat and soybeans. What are the biggest challenges to dairy farming in your region? The number one issue is keeping your neighbors happy. The second biggest challenge that we don’t take seriously is educating the public about where their food is from. It’s something we know we need to do because the big co-ops haven’t done it and it’s not something they’re going to do. We need to let people know that without farmers you’re going to go hungry. Farmers have gotten much more efcient than we used to be, but the day will come when the population continues growing and there’s less land and people need us. But, we can’t think just because they need us, we don’t need to tell them why they need us. That’s where we’ve lost our grasp a little bit. What advantages does your region have for dairy farming? It’s a great way to bring up a family. Hardly anybody has a good work ethic anymore but if you grow up on a farm, you should have a good work ethic. You learn about life, and you learn about death. And, if you don’t know there’s a God taking care of everything, you’re in big trouble, and if you don’t realize that farming, I don’t know where else you’ll learn it. Why did you come to World Dairy Expo this year? This is my 43rd year here. A neighboring farm pays me to come take care of their cattle. But, I would come anyway. The best part is the competition. I love competing but win lose or draw, when it’s over it’s over, and I’m looking forward to the next competition.
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Tim Seipt Easton, Pa. Northhampton County 60 cows Tell us about your farm. I have a 60 head milking herd and we raise our own replacements, so we have about 150 animals on the farm. It’s a family farm; I farm with my parents and brother and we run about 230 acres of land. What is the dairy community like in your area? There’s not very much dairy in my immediate area. If you travel west about an hour or so, dairy is very prominent in Lancaster and Lebanon Counties. What types of crops do you grow? We grow alfalfa for hay and haylage and corn for corn silage and high moisture shelled corn. We also do a little bit of wheat for straw and grow some rye to chop as well. What are the two biggest challenges to dairy farming in your region? Same as any region, milk price is the biggest challenge right now and not making enough money to be sustainable. The second thing would be land base. The area where I’m at is rural, so there’s not any ground that we don’t farm or our neighbors don’t farm that’s able to be picked up. It’s restrictive that way as far as growth. What advantages does your region have for dairy farming? There’s a great market in our area for niche dairy products or a farm to table store where you can sell raw milk and that kind of stuff. There’s a big push for this in my area and I have a neighbor who has pursued it a bit, even. There’s a great opportunity for that in my region. Why did you come to the World Dairy Expo this year? I come every year because I’m a dairy cow tter on top of all that. So, I’m here to clip cows and get them ready for the show. I also brought a heifer this year to exhibit.
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Do you contract your milk? We have not contracted consistently, especially in recent years. We have not seen any opportunities to lock in a prot. It is an extra stress to add in the mix that we do not need; however, we are on board with the new dairy assistance programs.
Describe your housing and milking facility. We have two sand bedded head to head freestall barns. One is a 4-row barn and one is a 5.5-row barn. The herd is milked in a double-8 parallel parlor that was retrotted in 1996 into a 1965 tiestall barn by previous owners of the farm. What is your herd health program? All cows get double
ovsynch. We pregnancy check and fetal sex every Monday (ultrasound). Open cows get resynched or ovsynch with CIDR. Our vaccination protocols are pretty typical. The main ones include Endovac, Bovishield and Scourguard. What does your dry cow and transition program consist of? All dry cows are in one group and move to the fresh pen at calving. They stay in that pen for 30 days until they are put in one of three milking groups. In the past year we tried selective antibiotic treatment, using just teat sealant on some cows at dry off after hearing positive research about it; however, we had several good cows calve in with mastitis. They were cows we never had trouble with
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Good employees, including (from le�) Seydin, Eladio and Leonel, are a big part of what keeps Reiland Farms working towards its goals. in the past. This summer we decided to go back to antibiotic treatment and teat sealant for all cows at dry off. For the dry cow ration, we use weigh-back from the milking cows. It has really helped reduce our feed waste and has worked well for the dry cows. Our heifers are housed 20 miles away so we don’t have the option to feed weigh-back to them. What is the composition of your ration? The milking cows’ ration consists of BMR corn silage, haylage, corn or high moisture corn, corn gluten pellets and linseed. In June, we started feeding all the milking cows one ration that is fed three to four times a day. Prior
to that, we had been feeding different rations to each of our milking cow groups one or two times a day. Labor-wise, it has been trickier for us, but it has helped keep feed intake up. It also helps us while we are overcrowded. Another change has been feeding ryelage this summer. It helped us stretch our corn silage supply, and it surprised us how well it fed. Although we would like to do it again for next year, we probably will not be able to because it is getting too late in the season to plant. It has been too wet for us to get into the elds.
Through the years you have been farming, what change has created the biggest jump in your herd average? Moving from a stanchion barn to a barn with sand bedded free stalls in 1993. It was a night and day difference in the health of the cows and our cull rate. Although we no longer use it, rBST also was a wonderful tool for getting more milk. It allowed us to milk fewer animals and have less youngstock. We could also keep a cow milking longer if we did not want to breed her back but did not want to sell her yet. Although it did not create a big jump in our Turn to REILAND | Page 22
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production, incorporating BMR corn into our ration more than 15 years ago has been benecial. It allows us to be able to grow more of our own feed since it is more digestible and improves rumen health. What role does genetics play in your production level, and what is your breeding program? Genetics are important to our herd. We are ramping up genomic testing again. We use top bulls from multiple bull studs, looking at net merit, productive life, health traits, good udders, and feet and legs. Although we used to milk only Holsteins, we purchased our rst Jersey about 15 years ago for the kids to show. They are smaller for the kids, and there is a cute factor to them. But ve years ago, we realized the other benets of Jerseys. Even though we’ve focused on reducing stature amongst the Holsteins, most of our black and white herd had gotten unnecessarily tall. We started breeding some of the tallest Holsteins to Jerseys. We also focus more now on fat-corrected milk more than rolling herd average. This is partly because our perpound hauling cost has gone up for our milk. It does not make sense to haul water so we need to be hauling more solids. We have to make more value of every pound. The Jersey ts well with these factors. What type of improvements would you like to make that would increase your rolling herd average even higher? We would like to have less crowding. We need to sell down our herd because we are currently at 150% of capacity. It is probably hurting us, but we are afraid to over cull and lose our base through our cooperative, Land O’Lakes. List three management strategies that have kept you protable and explain. We cannot think of anything that has been protable in recent years, but we do try to treat our employees well and take good care of cows. We have a really good team of people right now. We try to be conservative with spending and look for deals. Much of equipment is bought on online auctions these days. It is always used equipment and usually the same model we already run if we are replacing it. Tell us about your farm. Reiland Farms is a partnership between the brother, sister duo of Chris Sukalski and Scott Reiland. The home farm is near Spring Valley, Minn.; the dairy is near LeRoy, Minn., the farm Chris and her husband, Troy, bought in 2001 after a failed attempt to build a new facility at their farm in Spring Valley, Minn. That battle continues to haunt us to this day. It has resulted in some lost efciencies but also some good aspects.
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The dairy life for him
Martin takes over family’s farm By Danna Sabolik
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SAUK CENTRE, Minn. – Since he was a young boy, Rodney Martin has loved the dairy farming lifestyle. Recently, Martin made a big step in his lifelong dream of being a farmer. “I signed a contract for deed for the 160 acres and building site of the farm from my dad,” Martin said. “It was a big step. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do, so it feels right to be doing it.”
Martin, 27, farms with his father, Gene, wife, Jennifer, and also raises his 2-year-old daughter, Janika. The family mourned the loss of their 4-year-old daughter, Megan, who succumbed to cancer last May. “We sure miss her,” Martin said. “She was a great child.” Martin attended school until eighth grade and then began helping his brother and father full time on the farm.
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Rodney and Jennifer MarƟn with daughter, Janika, 2, run a 200-cow dairy in rural Stearns County near Sauk Centre, Minn. MarƟn is in the process of taking over the farm from his father, Gene MarƟn.
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Rodney MarƟn pushes up feed to begin evening chores Oct. 8. on his farm near Sauk Centre, Minn. MarƟn switched his family’s mostly-Holstein herd to Jerseys in 2016.
“Dad let me start taking over some of the planting and nances, and eventually I’ve come to run the farm,” Martin said. His brother, Shane, moved to South Dakota to farm leaving it in the hands of Martin and his dad. One of the rst major
changes on the farm Martin facilitated was switching the mostly-Holstein herd to Jerseys in 2016. “They t better in our small stalls, and I always wanted Jerseys because they’re easier to handle, have a small feed intake and give decent components,” he said.
Martin typically has 4.7% fat and 3.4% protein for components on each milk check which has been greatly benecial. He gures it adds around $4 per hundredweight above the base price. They have also changed Turn to MARTINS | Page 25
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hay and purchase corn for the heifers. “I’m proud to have taken this farm my dad started and continue it,” he said. He also enjoys the solitude and
a dairy farm and would not want to do anything else or raise her family in any other way. The couple’s daughter, Janika, likes
“I also like working with the land and seeing the everyday miracles. You put a tiny seed into the ground and get a 12-foot tall corn plant by the end of summer.” RODNEY MARTIN, DAIRY FARMER
peaceful life on the farm. “After spending quite a bit of time in Minneapolis for my daughter’s treatments as she was in and out of hospitals, I realized how good we have it here,” Martin said. He likes being able to work with his family and see them throughout the day. Martin’s wife also grew up on
to play with kittens and being around the cows. “Megan was always my buddy in the tractor,” Martin said. “That’s made this fall bittersweet as well not having her in the chopper with me.” The Martin family plans to keep farming and raising their family in this way of life for as long as they can.
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Megan MarƟn, daughter of Rodney and Jennifer passed away last May, at the age of 4 due to cancer. She is missed by her parents and sister and remembered every day on the farm. their bedding management and purchase manure solids from Riverview Dairy, of Morris, Minn. One load is delivered per week, and the Martins have seen great improvement from the sawdust bedding used prior. “I denitely wouldn’t go back,” Martin said. “This works so well, it’s just like sand. The cows like it, too.” On a typical day, Martin’s dad and a hired hand begin milking at 6 a.m. in the double-20 milking parlor. While Martin scrapes and feeds, his wife tends to the calves. By 9 a.m., the whole family eats breakfast together and begins the day’s jobs. Martin works with his cousins and
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Have you ever been given an amazing gift; something unexpected, yet something you have dreamed of? When the crown touched my head Aug. 21, I was given an amazing gift. I want this article today to be about gifts. One of my goals as Princess Kay is to On the Road with be a bridge. In today’s Princess Kay world, we so often look for the things that divide us, whether it is among the farming community or beyond. As a bridge, I want to look beyond the things that divide us and to be someone who brings us together. I want to bridge the urban rural divide, the farmer versus non-farmer By Amy Kyllo 66th Princess Kay of the divide and even the farmer to farmer divide. Milky Way I want to be someone whom everyone nds a connection with. As Princess Kay, I hope the interactions I have bring the gift of a smile to the faces of those I connect with. I hope as I spend time with each and every person I meet this year, they will walk away with a sense of increased condence in the dairy community. As your Princess Kay, I want to introduce myself so you all get to know me better. I am the youngest of four sisters. My sisters are Rachel (Isaac), Carolyn and Annette. My sister Rachel and her husband also have a little girl named Lisbeth who at only 8 months is the pride and joy of all of our lives. I am in my second year of college at the Association Free Lutheran Bible School. I am in the eld of biblical studies, and I will graduate with an associate degree this spring. I was homeschooled from Kindergarten through 12th grade. Homeschooling t our family in the way we were able to balance farm, education and family. As a person, I love the color blue, reading and listening to the Twins. I also play piano, sing and enjoy cooking. I feed calves, milk cows and am a hauler during haylage and corn silage harvest. Our farm is situated in rolling hills, woods and a river. None of this topography is particularly handy for farming, but I love the beauty of it all. We have about 400 acres and raise about 75% of our cow’s feed ourselves. We milk around 95 cows and raise all of our heifers. My parents, Paul and Susan, have been farming for 39 years and farming on our current farm for the last 32 years. My family and our farm are good gifts I have been blessed with my entire life. As far as staying busy as Princess Kay, less than
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The FARM Animal Care Program has been in the United States for 10 years. In 2009, we hosted a FARM program meeting for all the Midwest National Milk Producers Federation members in the Midwest so everyone could hear from FARM program staff on what was going to be implemented in January 2010. There was a lot of discussion but also an understanding that an assurance program on animal care was something necessary in order to have market access for dairy products. Fast forward to 2019 and a new version of the program – version 4.0. Every three years, the guidelines and requirements are updated by FARM staff with help from the technical writing group and, in 2019, with additional input from the farmer advisory committee. The committee includes 20 farmers representing all herd sizes and systems. The draft document was made available for public comment and about 400 responses were received. The nal draft was then By Marcia Endres revised by the NMPF Animal Well Being ComU of M mittee. Their revised document was submitted to NMPF Board of Directors to vote on the nal version that will be implemented and used on farms starting Jan. 1, 2020. About 60% of board members are dairy producers. There are 130 FARM participants (co-ops, processor and direct shipment), more than 98% of U.S. milk supply has been certied, more than 60,000 second party evaluations have been completed and more than 450 professionals have been certied as FARM Animal Care evaluators. The FARM program has increased its level of assurance by implementing mandatory corrective action plans (MCAP) and continuous improvement plans (CIP) in order for farms to maintain their FARM certication status. The FARM Program Animal Care Version 4.0 corrective actions were approved by the NMPF Board of Directors in June 2019 and will be in place from January 2020 to December 2022. The MCAP will require that the standard be met within nine months or less as determined by the program participant. Requirements included are: - Demonstration of veterinarian involvement by providing a written Veterinarian Client Patient Relationship (VCPR) that is signed by the farm owner and veterinarian of record annually and a written herd health plan reviewed and signed annually by the veterinarian of record. - Pre-weaned calf practices of disbudding prior to 8 weeks of age and feed and water access by 3 days of age. - Pre-weaned calf protocols for moving calves, colostrum management, provision of feed and water, and disbudding. - Acceptable non-ambulatory animal practices. - Non-ambulatory animal protocol. - Acceptable euthanasia practices. - Euthanasia protocol. - Acceptable tness for transport protocol. - Feed access for all age classes. - Water access for all age classes. - Signed cow care agreement for any non-family employees with
animal care responsibilities. - Continuing education for non-family employees on topics related to animal care and handling and job specic responsibilities. CIP will require action be taken to meet the standard within three years or less as determined by the program participant. Requirements included are: - Meeting animal observation benchmarks for body condition score, hock/knee lesions, locomotion and broken tails. - Pain management practice and protocol for disbudding; pain mitigation is expected to be used when disbudding calves with any method (including caustic paste). - Maintaining permanent written or electronic drug treatment records. - Signed cow care agreement by any family employees with animal care responsibilities. - Continuing education on animal care and handling and on job specic responsibilities for family employees. One item was moved from MCAP in Version 3.0 to immediate corrective action in Version 4.0 which the farm needs to resolve within 48 hours or less: the facility complies with the ban on routine tail docking. The guidelines include other items related to animal care that are not MCAP or CIP standards, but they are all important for continuous improvement for animal care on the farm. There are a lot of resources on the FARM program website (nationaldairyfarm.com/animal care) that can help you prepare for the Version 4.0 animal care assessment. It would be good to start working with your veterinarian this fall to make sure all documents are ready, and run a self-assessment of your dairy to check if requirements are being met. If some are not being met, work with your veterinarian, consultants and others to help with these issues prior to your farm being assessed. At a recent FARM update session at the World Dairy Expo, there were a lot of questions related to the pain management for disbudding CIP – what is acceptable practice. The FARM staff indicated they are following the American Association of Bovine Practitioners guidelines. These guidelines indicate that pain mitigation needs to be used for all methods of disbudding, including caustic paste. A session participant asked about education on how to reduce hock lesions on farms with mattresses. The answer to these and other questions was that resources are and will be included in the Animal Care Manual and posted on the FARM program website. Many of the requirements on the FARM program are things most dairy farms are already doing. For the smaller farms, having all the protocols available can be challenging. The FARM website provides protocol templates you could start with and then adapt to your farm needs. Templates are also available for drug treatment record keeping. In addition, the website includes continuing education materials that can be used by employees to meet the continuing education requirement. There are also online resources available from sources such as universities and the Beef Quality Assurance program (bqa.org) and in-person workshops in your area that can also be used to meet the continuing education requirement. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions or need resources. Thank you for the good care you provide to your animals.
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In addition to determining total amounts of forage, segregating forages by quality, especially in a year when forage is expensive, may help increase farm protability. Recommended forage quality for classes of dairy animals is shown in Figure 1. The best practice is to sample and analyze forages during harvest. Bags or wrapped bales can be labeled by quality and cutting using spray paint. Five basic questions relate to developing a forage inventory: - How much total forage do I have available? - How much forage is required for all my animals? - How does the forage inventory quality match the requirement for my animals? - Can a feeding program be developed based on the forage supply available and the forage needs of the animals? - Should I change my cropping strategy next year to better match my forage requirements? One challenge with getting accurate inventories is forage density. The University of Wisconsin sampled 87 hay crop bunkers that averaged 15 pounds of dry matter per cubic foot but the range was 6.6 to 27.1 pounds. Corn silage bunkers averaged 14.5 pounds of dry matter per cubic feet and the variation was 7.8 to 23.6 pounds. Another challenge is accurately determining shrink. This also varies widely depending on storage location, type, sealing and feed-out management. These are important reasons why forage inventories need to be done frequently. Many excellent feed management software packages allow users to manage and monitor feeding accuracy as well as track feed inventories. Most nutritionists have spreadsheets and can help calculate forage inventory by class of forage (hay and corn silage) and the forage requirement. Many are available free on the internet. The purpose of regularly inventorying the forage is to determine the quantities of forage available on the farm. Matched with animal numbers, decisions regarding an adequate supply of forage for the intended feeding period can be made. Because there can be a large variation in forage density and dry matter intake, inventories should be updated every three months.
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The fresh prince Page 30 • Dairy Star • Saturday, October 12, 2019
One day our youngest son, who was a freshman in high school at the time, came to me with an air of anxiousness. This was not surprising; after all, his life brimmed with such worries as tting in at school and deciding which kind of hair gel to use. I was reading a newspaper when the boy quietly asked, “Dad? Do you know what girls want?” I quickly put down the newspaper and glanced around to determine if his mother was nearby. Seeing that she was not, I replied, “No. Why do you ask? What did you nd out? Tell me! C’mon, give your old man a break.” “That’s not what I meant. Suppose there’s a certain girl who told her best friend that she likes a certain boy. Then the friend tells the boy. What should I, um, I mean, the boy, do?” I leaned back and savored the moment. This was the kind of situation every father dreams of, namely, an
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For most of us, down cows are a downer. We do not like to see them. We feel bad for the animals; we worry they will never get up again, and we know that moving and caring for them will take extra work. Yet, we know that sooner or Veterinary Wisdom later every farm will have one. Every farm needs to be equipped to handle down cows, and needs to have time to care and handle them properly. Veterinarians see quite a few down cows. We may be called to examine or treat them. We may notice them in a pen while we are on the farm. Because we see a By Jim Bennett lot of them, we see a wide Columnist range of how they are handled and treated. On one end of the spectrum, we see farmers who spend time and work hard to help down cows recover even when the prognosis is poor. On the other end, we see farmers who euthanize cows not long after they are determined to be down. Most farms have an approach somewhere between these two. There is no perfect approach or system, but there are some principles we should be able to agree upon. Added together they answer the question: Do you have time, facilities and systems for dealing with down cows? The rst consideration is moving. Do you have a method to humanely and safely move a down cow? If not, then euthanasia is the preferred option. Cows can get themselves in some awful predicaments on farms, and sometimes it may not be possible to accomplish safe and humane moving. This also applies to moving down cows off the farm when they are not going to be slaughtered for human consumption. If, for some reason, they cannot be euthanized before leaving, there must be a humane way to get them on and off of the trailer, the trailer needs to have a soft or well bedded oor, and they should be protected from other ambulatory cows while on the trailer.
Prognosis is another consideration. Sometimes it For example, a proper place means a soft surface, not is obvious that an animal will not recover. For example, a bare concrete oor. Can the cow be isolated from a cow with a broken leg should be euthanized as soon signicant numbers of ambulatory cows? Is there a as possible. On the other hand, a cow with a very good way to make sure she always has water and feed? A 5 to excellent prognosis probably deserves some time gallon bucket will almost always be tipped soon after to try to recover. Many times, though, the prognosis presented to a down cow. Is there someone available is somewhere between or or assigned to take care of unknown. In these cases, her? If no one is in charge, one should devise a plan. Y Yes, down d cows are d downers, or no one has time, down For example, one might animals will suffer. decide to wait another 24 but they are a fact of dairy FARM 4.0 hours and reassess. There farming, and they deserve recognizes that down cows is nothing wrong with are a potential animal delaying euthanasia for a extra time and care. welfare concern and cow that does not have a requires that all farmers great chance of recovery if practice acceptable handling she is well cared for and not suffering signicant pain of down cows, have written protocols to that effect if one is willing to provide for her care. But, there and have criteria to determine when to euthanize an should be a plan, and part of the plan should include animal. Yes, down cows are downers, but they are a steps to take if her prognosis changes. fact of dairy farming, and they deserve extra time and A third consideration is pain and discomfort. care. If we do not have the extra time, or we cannot While it can be hard to assess pain, good cow people provide needed care, then euthanasia becomes the can use observations about appetite, water intake, cud best option and should be done as soon as possible. chewing and the like to determine whether animals are Bennett is one of four dairy veterinarians at in signicant pain. Cows suffering from signicant Northern Valley Dairy Production Medicine Center in pain that cannot be relieved in a reasonable amount of Plainview, Minn. He also consults on dairy farms in time should be euthanized. other states. He and his wife, Pam, have four children. Proper care, feeding and housing are another. Jim can be reached at bennettnvac@gmail.com with Is there an appropriate place to house a down cow? comments or questions.
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All dairy farmers sell off their poorer cows so at the older cows we move into the regular milking they can replace those poor cows with younger, string. If I see a cow that will not be able to carry better cows. We all have culling criteria that usually another calf next year because of her age and udder starts with milk production levels below a certain conformation, I code her in the computer as “do not threshold that creates an unproďƒžtable cow. A non- breed.â€? Then, we milk her that year until she reaches pregnant cow milking below 60 pounds a day might our low milk threshold, and we sell her. This saves be an example of a potential money on insemination cull cow. A pregnant cow costs and drastically in late lactation and due to IIt was lik like a 48 h hour mystery lowers our involuntary calve again in 90 days or death loss because older less can be down to 40-50 television show that goes on cows cannot handle that pounds a day of milk, and forever. one last pregnancy. she is perfectly safe from So, why on earth getting a trailer ride to would we suddenly cull a hamburger heaven. pregnant late lactation 2 There are multiple reasons cows leave the herd. year old cow milking 74 pounds a day? She looks When Eddie and I milk the fresh cows every morning perfect, would probably score 83 points with the in the fresh cow parlor, one of my priorities is to look Holstein classiďƒžer, and she is easy and fast milking
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MIESVILLE, Minn. – For Jeff and Nikki Schaffer, eggs and milk are staples in their family. Nikki and Jeff, along with their three daughters, Brooke, 6, Alexis, 4, and Taylor, 1, raise 500 layer and 500 broiler chickens every year on Jeff’s family’s farm near Miesville, Minn. Along with raising chickens,
Jeff dairies with his dad, uncle and brothers, milking 140 cows. Poultry has been a venture for the Schaffers for the past six years. They rst bought 25 hens when a friend of Jeff’s knew someone looking for fresh eggs for a high protein diet, “We realized there was a market for them, and I like eggs for breakfast so we decided to get some chickens,” Jeff said. Their customer base grew from word of mouth and the demand for eggs quickly began to pick up at the farm. In 2016, the Schaffers expanded sales into one grocery store in Hastings, Minn. Now, the family sells eggs in seven stores and restaurants within a 30-mile radius in addition to off-farm sales. “Being in grocery stores
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The Schaers have rollaway nesďż˝ng boxes for their laying hens. hours needed to take care of the hens has stayed the same. “Now it’s a lot more efďƒžcient,â€? Nikki said. Before, the Schaffers housed the hens in two small barns. Every day, the Schaffers had to feed and water the birds, and collect eggs by hand. Now, the Schaffers ďƒžll the feed hopper every two to three days, and the chickens are fed on a timed schedule. Eggs are collected once a day and packaged. In addition to the laying hens, the Schaffers raise two groups for a total of 500 broiler chickens for meat each year. “People who bought our eggs started asking if we had meat for sale, too,â€? Jeff said. The Schaffers feel the chickens have been a good addition to the farm. Each day, the hens are given time outside. “They get let outside daily, roaming free with no limits and eating grass and bugs,â€? Nikki said. “It makes the eggs really ďƒ&#x;avorful. Lots of people comment about the Schaffer ďƒ&#x;avor of our eggs.â€? Jeff agreed. “We call them the clean up crew,â€? Jeff said. “If there is any spilled grain outside, it will be gone by the end of the day. They go out and eat it. They’re like little red vacuums.â€? At ďƒžrst, the Schaffers raised the layer hens starting as chicks. But waiting nearly ďƒžve months for the chicks to mature and start laying eggs put a lag time on their egg sales. “Plus, there was the added expense of raising them – housing them, feeding them and bedding them,â€? Jeff said. Now, the Schaffers buy their birds at 19 weeks old. Within about one month, the hens are mature enough to be laying extra large sized eggs. “It’s just more efďƒžcient to do it this way,â€? Jeff said. “Our demand got so big so fast. We got smarter and ordered older birds to start them laying eggs sooner.â€? While most birds lay extra large sized eggs, occasionally a few chickens will lay a jumbo sized egg with double yolks. The Schaffers set those aside for customers who speciďƒžcally ask for jumbo eggs. Each fall, the Schaffers get a new ďƒ&#x;ock so the birds will be in peak production during the busy holiday baking season. They have Hyline Brown layers that lay about one egg a day. “From Christmas until Easter, we can’t keep enough eggs to our customers,â€? Jeff said. As summer approaches, the demand
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Women In Dairy Madeline Schmidt Tomah, Wis. Monroe County 40 cows Family: Bronson Schultz and myself. We are both rst-generation farmers and lucky to have the support of both our families. Tell us about your farm. Bronson started How-Law Holsteins in 2015, and I came on full time about two years ago after I graduated from University of Wisconsin-Platteville with a degree in dairy science. What is the busiest time of day for you? All day is busy as I work another job off the farm during the week. The nights are busy as we are nishing up projects from the day and getting Bronson off to work. When you get a spare moment what do you do? The rare down time I get, I usually do not stray too far away from the cows as I try to get things ready for the next show or take some time out to work with them. Tell us about your most memorable experience working on the farm. I love seeing what has changed and improved since we started the farm in 2015, and that feeling of growing and creating something new. Bronson started with 20 registered cows he had collected and lled the rest of the barn with grades and crossbreds. We are now about 80% registered. What have you enjoyed most about dairy farming or your tie to the dairy industry? I love the community of the industry. You can go to an event like World Dairy Expo and know so many people. I also love being able to mentor youth and help create a passion for the industry in them. We have two girls who have gotten involved in our farm about three years ago and enjoy showing. They are denitely a bright spot. They are so interested, and it is so cool to watch their interest, passion and knowledge grow. They are a blessing.
How do you stay connected with others in the industry? I stay connected through my job. I work with dairy producers on a daily basis. I also keep connected with others in the industry by going to cattle shows and meeting new people there. Who is someone in the industry who has inspired you? Bob and Ryan Olson were the ones who got me into Brown Swiss and also gave me the opportunity to start my herd. Bob was the person that taught me how to raise heifers and also gave the greatest life advice at the perfect times. If you could give a tour of your farm to a prominent woman in today’s society, who would it be? I would love to invite Ellen DeGeneres to our farm so she could see the truth about what dairy farming is, the commitment and how deeply farmers care for their animals. I would love her to see how passionate the girls are about their animals and all the things they are learning while working with those animals, not only in terms of animal husbandry but lessons that apply to life and make them better people. What is the best vacation you have ever taken? I have never actually taken a vacation that was not going to a cow shows; but the best show, where we have had the most fun and that we have enjoyed, was the Central Wisconsin State Fair in Marsheld, Wis. It was competitive but relaxed. We got there not knowing many people and left with so many new friends and connections. It was a great experience, and I would highly recommend it to anyone.
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Rohlfs thrives despite childhood farm accident
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EDEN, Wis. – John Rohlfs was just 3 years old when he lost one of his arms in a farm accident. On a fall morning in 1974 during corn harvest, Rohlfs’ left arm got caught in a feed grinder and was severed just below the shoulder. “I was supposed to be in the barn with my mom, but instead, I ran off to see what my dad was doing,� Rohlfs said. “My dad picked me up, and while he was holding me, I stuck my arm in the opening between the two augers. In that split second, the feed sucked my hand down into the auger and cut off my arm.� Because he was so young, Rohlfs has no memory of the event other than hearing his dad yell for his mom while wrapping Rohlfs in towels to control the bleeding. “They didn’t stop to call 911 and just took me straight to the hospital themselves,� Rohlfs said. “That’s the only thing I remember from my prekindergarten days.� Agriculture is consistently ranked one of the most dangerous industries. According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, 581 people died in farm accidents in 2017, which is equal to 23 deaths per 100,000 workers. Thousands more were injured. Since 1944, the third week of September has been declared National Farm Safety and Health Week. Designed to increase awareness of safety issues on the farm and make farmers and farm workers more safety-conscious, this year’s Farm Safety Week will take place Sept. 15-21. Promoting safe and healthy practices that prevent accidents is the goal. Rohlfs, who has farmed his entire life with one arm, milks 90 cows and farms about 200 acres with his sister and brother-in-law, Julie and Tim Narges, and their children, Austin, Nick and Shayley. The farm has been in the family since 1896, and Rohlfs purchased it from his parents in 1994 at the age of 23. “Doing stuff with one arm comes natural to me,� said Rohlfs, who grew up feeding calves and doing other farm chores with one hand. “I grew up doing everything that way.� Rohlfs never let the fact he only has one arm slow him down. As a kid, he
did everything other kids did, including playing sports like baseball, basketball and football. Rohlfs was even the point guard in basketball because he was such a good ball handler. Sports became lifelong interests of Rohlfs, who played basketball until he was 30 years old and baseball until just recently. “Sports were a big thing when I was younger to get me doing stuff,â€? Rohlfs said. “I wasn’t any better than the other kids, but I wasn’t any worse either. My football coach told me that he would never forget what my dad once told him: ‘Don’t give John any special treatment because he has one arm.’ But my coach said he didn’t have to because I was right there with everyone else in my ability.â€? Rohlfs used to wear a prosthetic arm to school and church but found it to be more of a hindrance than a beneďƒžt and stopped using it when he was in the seventh grade. Losing a limb as a young child required Rohlfs to have his upper arm bone shortened to prevent it from growing out of the skin – a grueling procedure he sometimes endured on a yearly basis. “That was the worst part of it all,â€? Rohlfs said. When Rohlfs was 14 years old, a new type of procedure put an end to these regular operations. The UW-Madison hospital performed a procedure on Rohlfs in which they removed cartilage from his hip and placed it on the end of his arm bone. “They zigzagged it in, and that was the last surgery I ever needed, even after growing more than a foot during high school,â€? Rohlfs said. Rohlfs is good at adapting and ďƒžnding innovative ways to do things onehanded. For example, Rohlfs can easily tie his shoes with one hand and is currently teaching a neighbor’s kid who also has one arm how to do the same. Rohlfs also has no problem milking cows. “Milking is easy,â€? said Rohlfs, who mastered the technique of milking with one hand when he was 16 years old. “I do it every day.â€? Rohlfs is in the process of building a milking parlor after a tornado ripped through his farm on Aug. 28, 2018. The tiestall barn suffered major damage and is being replaced by a swing-12 parlor. Turn to ROHLFS | Page 37
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“Learning to milk in the parlor will be a new challenge for me,” Rohlfs said. “But I’m condent I can gure it out.” Pounding in a nail or greasing something with a grease gun are a couple tasks Rohlfs does nd somewhat complicated. “I’ll shove the nail in rst and then start pounding,” Rohlfs said. “I manage to nd a way around most everything and learn how to do it with one hand. I just keep trying until I gure it out.” Rohlfs can also operate all the farm’s equipment but said his skid steer has been specically adapted for use with one hand, featuring modied hand and foot controls. Rohlfs’ accident often puts safety top of mind for the Fond du Lac County dairy farmer. “I worry most about the young ones,” Rohlfs said. “Little kids are so curious, and that can be dangerous.” Rohlfs said machines like the one he was injured in have a cover over the opening now to make them safer. Ever since he was little, Rohlfs has relied on the use of just one arm and hand to complete all kinds of tasks – where most people would require two. “Life with one arm is all I’ve ever known,” Rohlfs said. “To me, it doesn’t even seem like I have just one arm. What I do looks amazing to some people, but to me it’s just normal, everyday stuff. I think with one arm instead of two.”
NICC judging team places rst in Practical Contest
The Northeast Iowa Community College (NICC) Dairy Judging Team won the International Post-Secondary Practical Contest at World Dairy Expo held Sept. 30 at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wis. Dairy Science Technology students competing on the Dairy Judging Team included: Brandon Gilbertson, Elk Mound, Wis.; Derek Littrel, Deer Park, Wash.; Austin Raymond, New Richmond, Wis.; and Collin Wille, Rice Lake, Wis. The team won the Practical Contest and placed third in the International Post-Secondary Dairy Cattle Judging Contest. Placing in the top three of the Dairy
Cattle Judging Contest qualies the team to compete in Scotland, and this is the third time in four years an NICC team has won the Practical Contest, according to Mariah Schmitt, team cocoach and Iowa’s Dairy Center director. “This is a group of talented young minds who are not afraid of putting in the time to succeed. We’ve been practicing dairy cattle judging for a while now, but really honed in on preparing for the Practical Contest in the week leading up to the World Dairy Expo. They have put in many hours on their days off of school, between classes and after class to prepare for the biggest contest of their post-secondary dairy judging
career,” Schmitt expressed. “I am so proud of their achievements, backed by their can-do attitude and willingness to learn. They are a very coachable team and are always striving for improvement. These qualities alone will help them achieve many great things in their future.” Ten teams competed nationally in the Practical Contest at the World Dairy Expo and 14 teams competed in the Dairy Cattle Judging Contest this year. The team is coached by Schmitt, Karla Schmitt, dairy genetic mating specialist for ABS Global, and Dave Lawstuen, NICC Dairy Science instructor.
University of Minnesota team places 3rd in National Intercollegiate Dairy Cattle Judging Contest The University of Minnesota placed 3rd overall in the National Intercollegiate Dairy Cattle Judging Contest on September 30 at World Dairy Expo, Madison, WI. The Minnesota team was only 5 points behind the 1st team overall (2464 versus 2459 points), and was 1st in Holstein, 2nd in Ayrshire, 2nd in Brown Swiss, 5th in Guernsey, and 5th in Jersey. Individually, Rachel Coyne, Spring Valley, Wis., was 2nd overall and Tanner Morrison, Peterson, Minn., was 3rd overall. Furthermore, Coyne placed 4th in Jersey, 9th in Ayrshire, and 9th Brown Swiss, and Morrison was 6th in
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Dairy proďƒžle How did you get into farming? My family and I are farming on the farm my dad bought in 1960, so I am the second generation to dairy on the site. I attended the University of WisconsinMadison Farm and Industry Short Course before returning home. I farm together with my brother, Mike. What are your thoughts and concerns about the dairy industry for the next year? Price, not only for milk, but for the crops. With the way the prices have been the last few years, it will take two years to catch up. The weather is a real concern, too. We planted corn in April, but then had to wait to plant more due to wet weather. The last of our corn was planted in June. Our corn we have in the ďƒželds now looks great, but it’s just late and it will be a late harvest. What is the latest technology you implemented on your farm and the purpose for it? In 2013 we put in a computerized calf feeder, which has helped with feeding the calves. In December 2014, we started using a crossventilated barn we built. We love it. It’s a great facility. In August 2015, we started using separated manure solids for bedding. I wouldn’t recommend it for everyone, but it works for us. We like it. What is a management practice you changed in the past year that has beneďƒžted you? We have started using cover crops.
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We planted rye last year for the ďƒžrst time and then sprayed it off when the crop started coming up this spring. We haven’t harvested the corn on that ground yet, but it looks great. What cost-saving steps have you implemented during the low milk price? We cut back where we can. Three years ago we switched from milking three times a day to two times a day. We had to cut back on labor. It hurt our production, but our solids actually went up, which helps our price. Tell us about a skill you possess that makes dairy farming easier for you. I like breeding cows. I enjoy it and it is rewarding to see the outcome from it. We have our cows on a synch program, which has helped reduced the cows’ days in milk. I’m also good at noticing and treating sick cows when they need it.
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What do you enjoy most about dairy farming? I really enjoy each individual cow. I like to walk through the cows in the barn. They will nose around and are curious. I like calm, content cows. They give more milk.
herringbone parlor. I would love to put in a robotic carousel parlor. It is so hard to ďƒžnd labor. That’s why I would look at the robots. What has been the best purchase you’ve ever made on your farm? The cross-ventilated freestall barn and the equipment for the separated manure solids for bedding.
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Fuller’s Milker Center, Inc. Monroe WestfaliaSurge Sioux Dairy Equipment, Inc. Fuller’s Milker Center, Inc. Midwest Livestock Systems Lancaster, WI • 800-887-4634 Monroe, WIRock • 608-325-2772 Valley, IA Lancaster, WI • 800-887-4634 Menomonie, WI • 715-235-5144 712-476-5608 • 800-962-4346 Pine Island, MN • 800-233-8937 Leedstone, Inc. Sioux Dairy Equipment, Inc. Colton, SD J. Gile Dairy Equipment, Inc. Sioux Falls, SD • 800-705-1447 Central Ag Supply, Inc. Melrose, MN Rock Valley, Service IA 800-944-1217 Central AgWI Supply, Inc. Cuba City, WI320-256-3303 • 608-744-2661 Beatrice, NE • 800-742-5748 Baraboo, • 608-356-8384 • 800-996-3303 712-476-5608 • 800-962-4346 Edgerton, MN Baraboo, WI • 608-356-8384 Juneau, WI • 920-386-2611 Glencoe, MN SD Chemical Sales 507-920-8626 Monroe WestfaliaSurgeColton, / Juneau, WI • 920-386-2611 Leedstone, Inc. 320-864-5575 • 877-864-5575 Service 800-944-1217 Koehn, Inc. Melrose, MN Centre Dairy Equipment and Supply Inc320-256-3303 Baraboo, WI • 608-356-8384 • 800-996-3303 712-476-5608 Tri • 800-962-4346 County Dairy Supply, Inc. Monroe, WI • 608-325-2772 Eastern Iowa Dairy Systems, Inc. 877-608-3877 • 800-996-3303 Juneau, WI • 920-386-2611 Glencoe, MN Janesville, WI • 800-822-7662 Colton, SD Epworth, IA • 563-876-3087 Glencoe, MN 320-864-5575 • 877-864-5575 Preston Dairy Equipment Service 800-944-1217 Centre Dairy Equipment and Supply Inc. 320-864-5575 • 877-864-5575 Sparta, Fitzgerald, Inc. Plainview, MN Sauk Centre, MN Midwest Livestock Systems, Inc. WI Edgerton, MN 608-269-3830 • 1-888-863-0227 Elkader, IA • 563-245-2560 507-534-3161 • 800-548-2540 320-352-5762 • 800-342-2697 Menomonie, WI • 715-235-5144 Chemical Sales 507-920-8626 Woodville, WI • 866-467-4717
Fitzgerald, Inc. Elkader, IA • 563-245-2560
Owen, WI • 715-229-4740 Pine Island, MN • 800-233-8937 Sioux Falls, MN • 800-705-1447 Beatrice, NE • 800-742-5748