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DAIRY ST R “All dairy, all the time”™
Volume 19, No. 17
October 28, 2017
“She just does her thing, and I guess she does it pretty well.” – Scott Pralle
Producers cope with discontinued Blue-collar work cow breaks the glass ceiling use of rbST Heightened management tactics may alleviate impact By Jennifer Coyne jenn@dairystar.com
PINE CITY, Minn. – Cows at J.M Peterson Farms have not been administered a dose of recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST) for the past ve months, and the Petersons have yet to recoup the loss in production. “A piece of technology has been taken away that was a protable part of our operation. This next year, we will continue making management changes that we think will soften the blow of the loss of production,” said Marianne Peterson, noting a 10-pound decrease in milk production a month after rbST was no longer used. Peterson and her husband, Jeff, along with their son, Jacob, manage a 400-cow dairy near Pine City, Minn. The Petersons’ other son, Nick, is an employee on the farm. The Peterson family is one of several dairy farmers who were notied last spring of the ban on the synthetic growth hormone by milk processors across the Midwest. By Jan. 1, 2018, those processors will no longer accept milk from dairy animals treated with rbST. “We were notied that we needed to discontinue rbST before June 1,” said Peterson, who is a part of the Burnett Dairy Cooperative in Grantsburg, Wis. “We made the decision to keep all cows on it until May 30, and six weeks before that deadline not enroll any new cows.” When the herd no longer received a dose of rbST, the Petersons immediately noticed a drop in milk production. “Within the rst three weeks, we saw a 5-8-pound drop, and by the end of June, it was nearly 10 pounds lost,” Peterson said. Dr. Jim Bennett, with the Northern Valley Dairy Production Medicine Center in Plainview, Minn., anticipates milk production loss being the greatest setback to this industry change. “Farmers can expect to see a 10-pound decrease with every cow treated,” Bennett said. “It’s not going to affect much else, but it will put a wrinkle in how reproduction is managed.” To accommodate the change, farmers will have to reevaluate their reproduction strategy to maintain production, while eliminating animals that may hinder the farm’s protability. “Most farmers have already begun to make reproductive decisions for no rbST in the herd. If they haven’t, the time to do so is now,” Bennett said. “These strategies will force farmers to be more aggressive as the importance of culling or do-not-breed will become greater.” Before the Petersons eliminated rbST, they implemented changes to their breeding protocol. Previously with rbST, a cow could be bred up to 260 days in milk (DIM) and milking 100 pounds per day. Now, cows are bred up to 230 DIM and milking 100 pounds per day. “The greatest challenge we’ve had is culling cows earlier that we felt were protable, but without rbST, they became unprotable,” Peterson said. Like many farmers, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration rst approved the synthetic growth hormone for use in 1993, the Petersons incorporated it into their herd management as a way to increase protability. “We used rbST very close to label directions,” Peterson said. “We would start most cows on it after 63 DIM, and would make sure they were off it two weeks before dry off. This was for our Turn to RBST | Page 5
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Selz-Pralle AŌershock 3918 VG-88 is the new holder of the NaƟonal Single-LactaƟon Milk Record, having produced 78,170 pounds of milk with 3,094 pounds of fat and 2,393 pounds of protein in 365 days. The cow is owned by the Pralle family, who milks 425 cow on their dairy near Humbird, Wis.
Clark County bovine sets national production record By Danielle Nauman danielle.n@dairystar.com
HUMBIRD, Wis. – A regular blue-collar working girl has broken the glass ceilings, setting the new national milk production record for a single lactation. Selz-Pralle Aftershock 3918 VG-88 broke the previous record during the lactation she just completed at Selz-Pralle Dairy, owned by the Pralle family, where they milk 425 cows near Humbird, Wis. 3918 is a Holstein cow that began her record-breaking milk record at 5 years and 11 months of age, calving Sept. 26, 2016. She is a daughter of MS Atlees Sht Aftershock-ET and produced 78,170 pounds of milk with 3,094 pounds of fat and 2,393 pounds of protein in 365 days. This broke the previous standing record of 77,480 pounds of milk, which was held by Ever-Green-View My Gold-ET, owned by the Kestell
family of Waldo, Wis. As a comparison, the average production for all U.S. Holstein herds that participate in production testing programs was 25,558 pounds of milk, 946 pounds of fat and 790 pounds of protein. “3918 is a testament to
the outstanding production capabilities of the Holstein breed. Not only did she set the national record for milk production, she also tested 4 percent for butterfat,” said Daren Shefeld, production records specialist. “She is an
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DANIELLE NAUMAN/ DAIRY STAR
ScoƩ Pralle takes Ɵme to admire a few cows on the farm, from leŌ an Excellent Atwood, a Very Good AŌershock and an Excellent Braxton.
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Fall is a big hunting time for many in our coverage area. The season has been particularly successful for Grant Giese, who shot his ďƒžrst bear on Oct. 8 on his family’s 66cow dairy near Alma Center, Wis. Although Giese has had two other tags since 2009, this is the ďƒžrst time he has been able to ďƒžll it, bagging a nearly 400-pound boar. Read about his hunting tale on pages 4 and 8 in third section. On the Biels’ family dairy near Harmony, Minn., reproduction has been an area of improvement in the last few years. Last year, the family’s 180-cow herd had a By Mark Klaphake pregnancy rate average of 30 percent with a ďƒžrst service conception rate of 52 percent. That has increased since Editor they hired an A.I. technician to chalk the tails on the cows every day and run the reproduction program. Read about how the Biels get their cows pregnant in our Reproduction Leaders feature on pages 18 and 20 in ďƒžrst section. Oct. 17 was a busy day for the Middendorf family. In addition to routine chores on the 104-cow dairy, near Melrose, Minn., Joel Middendorf and his family needed to ďƒžnish corn silage harvest and a few acres of soybeans near the main farm site. With help from Dad Eugene, farm employees and custom harvesters, the Middendorfs ended the night with their to-do list complete. Turn to pages 16, 18-19 in second section to read more about how Oct. 17 went for the Middendorfs. The Lubichs are stretching outside their comfort zone. This year, the family added a goat yoga studio called Have Ya Herd on their 60-cow dairy near Roberts, Wis. With a few goats left on hand after a failed attempt to start a milking herd of goats, the Lubichs turned an off-the-wall idea into a reality. They turned a shed on their farm into a yoga studio, hired an instructor and had people come enjoy the exercise amongst their group of goats. Read about the Lubich family’s newest venture on pages 20-21 in second section. Tractors and other farm equipment have been rolling through the ďƒželds in order to ďƒžnish this year’s harvest and ďƒželdwork. In this issue’s “From our side of the fenceâ€? feature, we asked dairy farmers in our area to answer questions about their favorite piece of equipment, favorite tractor, the biggest upgrade in equipment on their farm and what maintenance they do on their equipment before putting it away. Read their answers on pages 15-16 in ďƒžrst section.
Favorite quotes from this issue: “This is a team eort. It’s very important to work with our milk buyer because they need to understand what’s happening on the farm. Likewise, we need to understand how the ďƒžnal product gets to consumers.â€? – Tom Molitor, Pages 6-7 in second section
“My painting was of a bunch of cows that look happy. I wanted to show that dairy farming is really humane and that dairy farmers treat their cows well.� – Arnold Jibbon, Pages 24-25, 27 in second section
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Students across the Midwest are encouraged to enter dairy art contest Pages 28 - 29 Crop and weather reports Pages 30 - 31
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ConƟnued from SELZ-PRALLE | Page 6 when 3918 had completed her 365-day lactation. After that conrmation, amid the phone ringing off the hook, Pralle took a few minutes to think about and ponder what 3918 has accomplished throughout her four lactations. Having a total of 1,554 days in milk, she has produced over 222,000 pounds of milk in her lifetime. In those 1,554 days in milk, she has averaged 143 pounds of milk per day, doing all this with an average dry period of 75 days and carrying a somatic cell count under 125,000. “The most impressive thing to me is that she made this record while carrying high components,” Pralle said. “Her last three tests, she averaged over a 5 percent butterfat test. At her highest, she produced 19.6 pounds of combined fat and protein a day.” That high-component milk production ts into the Pralles overall breeding goal and philosophy. “We’ve always focused a lot on type,” Pralle said. “Now with genomics, we’ve started looking a lot at components and health traits like DPR (daughter
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pregnancy rate) and somatic cell scores. The goal in our herd is to have seven pounds of combined fat and protein (CFP). We get paid more on our components, selling to Lynn Dairy, a small cheese plant.” The Pralles plan to continue to stay at their current herd size, with no plans to expand. “Instead of adding concrete and becoming a CAFO, we’ve opted to put more cows through the barn,” Pralle said. “We decided to leverage our genetics and sell about 100 cows a year to maintain our herd size.” The Pralles also sell about 100 head of breeding bulls a year to area farmers. “We have buyers from a number of states, most of which are repeat buyers,” Pralle said. “Developing a private market for cattle sales has been really good for us.” At the end of the day, the Pralles work to provide all of their cows with a great deal of consistency: consistent feed and consistent, stress-free care. The cows respond in kind, reiterating the concept that what you put into something is what you’ll get out.
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Pralle said. “She doesn’t mess with the other cows, or try to be a boss cow. She’s kind of a loner and keeps to herself. She just does her thing, and I guess she does it pretty well. She’s really what I refer to as a blue-collar kind of cow.” The idea that 3918 was on her way to writing her own page in dairy industry history books never crossed the Pralles’ minds until the rst of August, when looking through the herd’s production records, Pralle realized that 3918 was still milking right at 220 pounds per day, over 10 months into her lactation. She had peaked earlier in her lactation at 270 pounds of milk per day, being milked three times daily, based on daily milking parlor weights. That weight never made it into her calculations since the Pralles are on a seven day average milk weight for the milk tester. “That was the rst time I started calculating what her record might end up being, and thought she might have a good chance of setting a new milk production record,” Pralle said. “Before that, it just wasn’t something that was on our radar at all.” The idea of impending celebrity was not something that seemed to impress 3918, which she made apparent to the Pralles when they decided to have a professional photo of her taken. “She likes her routine …,” Pralle said. “We almost screwed up her record by taking her out of her group to get her ready to picture. She wasn’t happy being taken out of her element and being washed and clipped. She’d dropped 25 pounds by the next test.” A true working girl, 3918 bred back to calve with only a 14-month calving interval, settling on the second service. She is due in early December to Vieuxsaule Wilson-ET. She also currently has two milking daughters in the herd, a VG-87 3-year-old Topside daughter and a GP-83 Atwood 2-year-old daughter. The conrmation of the new-record setting lactation came in the form of a call from Holstein USA following the most recent test-day at Selz-Pralle Dairy,
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The Dairy Business Association and the Is NAFTA dead? Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources have While there once was a goal to ďƒžnish the North settled their legal dispute. With the settlement, American Free Trade Agreement renegotiations the DNR admits it overreached its by the end of the year, that timeline legal authority when dealing with is now being pushed back until next Ag Insider dairy farmers. The DBA sued the spring. There has been obvious DNR, alleging the agency illegally frustration on all sides with the current changed rules for how dairy farmers state of the trade talks. White House should manage rainwater that comes Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee in contact with feed storage and calf Sanders was asked if NAFTA is dead. hutches. The DNR is dropping its “Not yet,â€? was her response. “But, as blanket standards and will deal with the President said, it is a bad deal.â€? these issues on a case-by-case basis. Election-year politics could be an issue if the trade negotiations extend NAFTA round ďƒžve delayed into 2018. Mexico has presidential Just as the fourth round of discussion and congressional elections next year. surrounding the North American Free In the U.S., congressional elections By Don Wick Trade Agreement wrapped up, it was are also on the schedule next year. Columnist announced the next round of talks will NAFTA was a campaign issue in 2016 not take place until mid-November in and could also hang over the 2018 Mexico City. NAFTA negotiators agreed to delay elections if ratiďƒžed soon. continuation of talks due to signiďƒžcant conceptual gaps among the parties. With the delay, discussions House farm bill could move soon are now expected to continue into the ďƒžrst quarter House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member of 2018. Collin Peterson believes the farm bill could move quickly. “In the House, this is moving much faster NAFTA frustration than people realize. Two weeks ago, the chairman U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer met with me and we unleashed the staff. They are is frustrated with the lack of progress in the North working through all of those staff issues that have American Free Trade Agreement negotiations. to be resolved. They’re making good progress.â€? “Frankly, I am disappointed by the resistance Peterson said there is not enough money to do what to change from our negotiating partners on needs to be done in the 2018 Farm Bill. “That’s a both fronts.â€? When the fourth round of NAFTA problem. I don’t know what we can do about that. negotiations ended this past week, Canadian I’m in the minority and don’t support the budgets Foreign Minister Chrysta Freeland said NAFTA the Republicans put out there. In the House, they’re needs to work for all three of the countries involved, cutting $10 billion out of the ag budget and in the “but, that cannot be achieved with a winner-take-all Senate, it ended up even. With the prices being mindset.â€? Canadian and Mexican trade leaders said what they are, none of these commodities are cash they would look at other options if these trade talks ďƒ&#x;owing and we need to improve the safety net, I break down. believe.â€?
Conaway expects ag budget cuts to be eliminated in the Senate The House-passed ďƒžscal 2018 budget would require a $10 billion cut in agriculture spending. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway told reporters those cuts will disappear during the negotiations with the Senate. When asked about the budget, Conaway said the bigger issue with the budget is getting a vehicle for tax reform ďƒžnished. “I’m in conversation with the (Majority) Leader regarding prospective ďƒ&#x;oor time late in the fourth quarter, early in the ďƒžrst quarter. He will have tax reform and its impact on ďƒ&#x;oor time. We’re focused on getting the farm bill done, but quite frankly, until we know what the budget is, I can’t tell you what we’ll do other than assure you whatever comes out of it, we’ll do our part in what needs to get done for the Senate version.â€?
Guestworker bill revived House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte is bringing his guestworker bill to his committee. This bill would adjust the visa worker program to account for non-seasonal agriculture workers, like those needed for dairy farms or meat processing. When Goodlatte pulled the bill at the last minute a couple weeks ago, it was assumed he did not have enough support for passage, but that speculation may be unfounded. Tax plan outlined President Trump is actively promoting his tax reform plan. “Our plan goes from eight tax brackets down to four, expands the zero-tax bracket greatly, expands the child tax credit, repeals the estate tax and special interest tax breaks, cuts the corporate tax rate and cuts tax rates for small businesses to the lowest level in more than 80 years.� In a statement, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said the Turn to AG INSIDER | Page 9
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Trivia challenge Former Wisconsin Secretary of Agriculture Ben Brancel is the 2017 World Dairy Expo Industry Person of the Year. That answers our last trivia question. For this week, whose cow allegedly started the famous Chicago ďƒžre? We’ll have the answer in the next edition of Dairy Star. Don Wick is owner/broadcaster for the Red River Farm Network, based in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Wick has been recognized as the National Farm Broadcaster of the Year and served as president of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting. Don and his wife, Kolleen, have two adult sons, Tony and Sam, and ďƒžve grandchildren, Aiden, Piper, Adrienne, Aurora and Sterling.
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MONROE, Wis. – Four years after installing robots, Dan and Nick Rieder of Riedland Farms on the outskirts of Monroe, Wis. would not look back or change their decision to increase the automation on their farm. The Rieders milk 120 head of Brown Swiss and Holsteins using two Lely A-4 robots installed four years ago, and for the second time opened their farm to visitors as part of the Green County Dairy Modernization Tours, which took place throughout Green County on Aug. 24. The herd is housed in a three-row freestall barn with drive-through feeding. Stalls are bedded with sand, and manure is scrapped daily into a concrete pit with up to four months of storage capacity. “The very beginning, four years ago was rough,” Nick said. “It took nearly two months to really get the cows trained to use the robots. Now though, new cows and heifers usually have it gured out within two weeks. We take them to the robot at rst, and stay with them while they are being milked. Then they are able to just follow along with the rest of the cows.”
Robots made improvements in the daily operations at Riedland Farms. The father and son duo added a Lely Juno automated feed pusher four years ago as well. The machine keeps feed pushed up to the cows hourly throughout the day. They also have two Luna rotary brushes for added cow comfort. “It still takes the same amount of work and time to get everything done,” Nick said. “However now instead of spending that time milking, we are spending more time with herd health and working with the cows.” The cows responded well to the increased personal attention. Production increased ve pounds per cow per day after the installation of the robots, compared to three-time-a-day milking in a parlor. Labor needs on the farm have also decreased. “One person can handle the work load now,” Nick said. “We can be more wise with our use of our time.” Another factor the Rieders value the robots for is the wealth of information they provide about the cows. Nick said the robots provide information about four factors of cow health: activity, rumination, Turn to RIEDLANDS | Page 11
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Dan and Angie Rieder, along with their son Nick, milk 120 head of Holsteins and Brown Swiss using two Lely robots on their dairy, Riedland Farms, in Green County near Monroe, Wis. Recently, they have also added Lely automated calf feeders. production and body temperature. The new system helps with heat detection and monitoring milk production information along with the basic milking functions. “The robots will text us alerts to anything abnormal,” Nick said. “Things like increases or decreases in body temperature, and presence of blood in the milk or any signs of mastitis, and which quarter those issues are occurring in.” One reason the Rieders chose their brand of robots was the close proximity to the dealer for servicing. The Rieders work with Argall Dairy Systems for the maintenance of their robots. The day of the tour, robot technician, Cory Segner, was at the Rieders’ farm taking care of routine scheduled maintenance on the robots. “Most of the maintenance revolves around the moving parts,” Segner said. “The sand used for bedding in the freestalls eats away at the moving parts, so we need to keep on top of those parts.” Segner said the robots are serviced four times per year, which usually heads off any issues that might arise. The Rieders were so impressed by how the robot technology increased efciency in caring for the milking herd that they decided to install automatic calf feeders. “We were raising our calves in the old dairy barn, and the ventilation wasn’t very good,” Dan said. “We had to do something and made the decision to build new rather than stick money into an old facility. We went with the automated feeders as a labor and time saving device.” The Rieders have seen
improvements in their calf raising program since starting the automated feeders about a year and a half ago. The automated feeders are located in a new calf barn that features positive pressure tube ventilation. The calves are kept in small group pens, beginning at about two weeks of age. “There was denitely a learning curve at the beginning. We had some air quality issues at rst, and then we had to get the hang of the automated feeders. Now, we have things rolling pretty well,” Dan said. “We are weaning at about 60 days now, as compared with nearly 10 weeks before. Calves are doubling their birthweight by about 45 days. At birth, each calf is fed colostrum, and then they are housed in hutches for the rst 10 days to two weeks. “That gets them the chance to get going and get their immune systems built up,” Dan said. The Rieders do not see a difference in how Brown Swiss and Holstein calves adapt to the automated system. “Brown Swiss calves don’t generally like to drink from a pail, so it’s nice for them to be on the nipples the entire time,” Dan said. “They have helped a lot,” said Nick. “The calves grow a lot faster than they did being fed conventionally.” The Rieders have embraced improvements in technology as it allows them to continue dairying while juggling commitments. “We all have other jobs to do and things to take care of, and the robots free up a lot of time,” Nick said. “We can stay in the elds longer now during crop seasons, instead of having to stop to come home to milk.”
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Jordan Farms enjoys increase in production with new barn Cow comfort drives facility improvement By Danielle Nauman danielle.n@dairystar.com
JUDA, Wis. – Dairy farming is a family affair at Jordan Farms located in Green County, near Juda, Wis. The farm is operated by Harlan and Barb Jordan, along with their sons Peter and Chad. They have a milking-age herd of 181 head. The Jordans opened the doors to their farm as part of the Green County Dairy Modernization Tours, which were held Aug. 24 to showcase farms that
had made improvements in facilities and made use of new technologies. In 2015, the Jordans made the decision to build a new facility to increase cow comfort and make caring for their herd an easier task. The new barn was built with the cows in mind and uses natural ventilation to maintain a comfortable climate. There are four rows of sand bedded free stalls. The cows are fed with drive-through feeding to make the process labor efcient. The sidewalls of the barn were increased from the standard 11 feet to 14 feet to increase the airow in the building. The Jordans can raise and lower the side curtains to control the temperature and airow in the barn. “We used LED lights in here and
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The Jordans – (from le�) Harlan and Barb, Kloe, Chad and Tiffany, holding Gavin – operate Jordan Farms near Juda, Wis., in Green County. Harlan and Barb’s other son, Peter, is also a part of the farm. Not pictured is a grandson, Ashton Coplien.
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One of Harlan’s favorite features of the new barn in this large bedded pack area for hospital and maternity purposes. The area is set up so that freestalls could be easily added in the future if the family decided to increase the number of freestalls available. Harlan said. The pack area was designed to make for easy installation of free stalls if the Jordans decided they needed to increase the number of free stalls available to them for the milking herd. The herd is milked in a swing-12 parabone parlor with detachers. In the two years the Jordans have been milking their herd in the new barn and parlor, they have seen continued production improvements. “Our herd average has increased over 1,000 pounds per year,” Harlan said. “In the two years we’ve been here, our herd average has gone up to over 21,000 pounds per cow. We hope to see continuing improvements in the next couple of years. Our goal is to get up to the 23,000 to 24,000 pound average per cow.” The Jordans are not planning to expand in terms of cow numbers, but have a few more plans for continuing to improve the facilities for the comfort of the cows. “This barn has a maximum capacity of 220 cows,”
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What is your favorite piece of equipment you have ever used? I like using our triple hay mower, which is basically a 30-foot haybine. It is efcient and can get the hay down quickly. It is easy to use once you learn it.
What is your favorite piece of equipment you have ever used? I like combining just because it is our payoff and we are bringing in our harvest. We are seeing our yields pay off.
What is your favorite piece of equipment you have ever used? Our skidsteer. It gets used every day for chores and all summer for haying.
What is your favorite piece of equipment you have ever used? Our 860 Massey Ferguson combine. Being able to harvest my own crops knowing that I do not have to wait for someone to get there when they have time is important to me.
What has been your favorite tractor you have ever owned? One of the rst tractors I purchased was a John Deere 4450. It was a handy tractor that worked on different equipment and could be used for different jobs. What has been the biggest equipment upgrade you have ever made on your farm? The most recent big equipment purchase we made was last year – a lowdisturbance manure injector along with a frac tank, hose and a couple of manure trucks so we can apply our own manure. If money were not a factor, what piece of equipment would you buy for your farm? We have most of the equipment we need to farm, but if I could splurge I would like a new four-wheel-drive packing tractor for packing the feed into the bunkers. What is the strangest thing that has happened to you while you have been operating a piece of machinery? When I was younger, I had the brakes go out on a tractor while pulling a load of silage. I was able to get it slowed down and stopped, but for a bit I thought that it might the last load of silage I would pull. It was pretty scary. What kind of maintenance do you do before you put your equipment away for the winter? We wash all the equipment well, grease it and perform any needed maintenance. The equipment is such an investment that it is important to keep it clean and well maintained. We built a new shop where nearly all of our equipment can be stored. Tell us about your farm. I farm with my two brothers, Gary and Troy. We farm 1,900 acres and milk 900 cows. We raise crops to feed the cows: alfalfa,
What has been your favorite tractor you have ever owned? My International 786. What has been the biggest equipment upgrade you have ever made on your farm? Our biggest upgrade was when we got into the Magnum series of Case IH tractors. If money were not a factor, what piece of equipment would you buy for your farm? Upgrading some of these older tractors would be nice. What is the strangest thing that has happened to you while you have been operating a piece of machinery? Fifteen years ago, I was planting corn and there was a storm coming through. I thought it was weird as I came back with the planter, and the wind sucked off the tops of the planter boxes. The next day, we kept walking elds until we found all of the tops, except for one that we did not nd until fall. What kind of maintenance do you do before you put your equipment away for the winter? We look at everything as we put it away, and write down what we need to do for next year. Then we look at it again before going out to the eld for next year. Tell us about your farm. My wife, Sandy, and I farm with my son, Kevin, and daughter-in-law, Jessica. Our workforce is almost entirely family and college students, and we just opened up a goat yoga studio called Have Ya Herd at Kevin and Jessica’s place. silage corn and some wheat, depending on whatever the crop rotation needs to be. We farm in the Yahara Watershed, so conservation farming methods are important to us. I serve on the board for Yarhara Pride Farms.
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What has been the biggest equipment upgrade you have ever made on your farm? The biggest being when we upgraded combines from a 510 Massey Ferguson to a 860 Massey Ferguson, which can combine more while saving time in the process. If money were not a factor, what piece of equipment would you buy for your farm? A bigger tractor, one with a 150-horsepower to put on the 3950 John Deere chopper and to plow with. What is the strangest thing that has happened to you while you have been operating a piece of machinery? That strange feeling of helplessness you get when a chopper box starts pushing the chopper around. What kind of maintenance do you do before you put your equipment away for the winter? My dad has always been helpful with cleaning everything, starting with the power washer and then oiling all the chains and greasing everything so it is ready to go for the next year. Tell us about your farm. We have 110 acres with about 100 tillable. Of those tillable acres, 50 is hay, 20 is oats or barley, and 30 is corn either silage or grain. We milk registered Brown Swiss and a couple registered black and white Holsteins. Turn to FENCE | Page 16
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ConƟnued from FENCE | Page 15 Gerry Buetow Cologne, Minn. Carver County 130 cows What is your favorite piece of equipment you have ever used? Our Claas Chopper we purchased at Arnold’s. It’s a self-propelled chopper that chops corn silage and haylage. We’ve had it for 18 harvests. We can chop corn in any direction. When we went with 20-inch rows, we didn’t have to worry about the corn head with a pull-behind and the processor is really easy to use. In 20 minutes, we can adjust two three-quarterinch bolts and start chopping haylage. What has been your favorite tractor you have ever owned? CaseIH MX170 Maxxum. We used to have two, but now we only have one and it has over 5,000 hours on it. It’s never broken down and it’s always there when we need it. What has been the biggest equipment upgrade you have ever made on your farm? Purchasing the self-propelled chopper because it cost a lot of money to make that upgrade, but no doubt it’s been our best upgrade. We were previously using a pull-type Gehl chopper. Otherwise, we added Bluetooth technology in our combine, which is nice. If money were not a factor, what piece of equipment would you buy for your farm? A brand new CaseIH 8240 combine on tracks to get through the wet spots. I’ve been driving my combine since 2005, and it works great, but something bigger and with a wider head would help us get done quicker. What is the strangest thing that has happened to you while you have been operating a piece of machinery? This year, our baler started on re. I was able to pull the pin and get the tractor away and the baler was covered under insurance, so that was good. One year, we were hauling liquid manure and a piece broke and it started blasting away at the back of the tractor and hitting my partner, Steven. What kind of maintenance do you do before you put your equipment away for the winter? We always wash each piece of equipment, shine the windows and grease everything. This way when we pull it out in spring, it’s ready to go. We put up a new shop in 2014 and installed a wash bay. That allows us to wash the equipment inside if it gets too cold by the time we’re done. Tell us about your farm. My cousin, Steven, and I each milk 65 cows on two farm sites as part of Buetow Farms, Inc. Both of our sons are also involved, Chris and Austin. We raise all of our replacements. We run 1,600 acres of owned and rented land, which is all within 3.5 miles of the drying setup.
Don Austin Platteville, Wis. Grant County 85 cows What is your favorite piece of equipment you have ever used? My Speedrite SP980 fence charger that I bought from Dan Patenaud in 1988 for $340. It’s never had a day off and has never been in the shop. It has always worked. With some polywire, lanes and waterers, it replaces a lot of harvesting, storage and manure handling equipment for me. What has been your favorite tractor you have ever owned? I prefer orange or red tractors, mainly because if a piece falls off it’s easier to nd. I’ve had ve or six tractors and liked them all. What has been the biggest equipment upgrade you have ever made on your farm? Last year, my wife, Kathy, and I toured farms in Europe with Organic Valley. That gave me the idea to replace my skidsteer with an Avant articulated loader. It’s easier to get on and off of, has great visibility, and doesn’t rip up the sod and gravel I’m on most of the time. The bonus is a telescopic arm that I’ve used a number of times to push myself out of the mud. If money was not a factor, what piece of equipment would you buy for your farm? I’ve always looked for a better way to feed round bales, especially during spring calving season. No matter what feeder I use, the cows always drag a bunch of hay out and waste it. Maybe a tub grinder or something like that would be nice, but I can’t justify it for the 50 to 60 bales fed then. What is the strangest thing that has happened to you while you have been operating a piece of machinery? In 1994, I had an IH 460 with a frontmounted cultivator. One day I was cultivating some tall corn, got to the end of the row and noticed that I was missing a set of shovels. I walked the row and found them. When I tried to reattach them, the wrenches wouldn’t t. I thought, “What’s going on?” I nally realized they must have fallen off another cultivator years ago, surviving numerous moldboard plows, disks, etc. The strangest part was that they were sitting upright, like they’d just fallen off. To this very day, I walk down that particular row, looking for a set of shovels. What kind of maintenance do you do before you put your equipment away for the winter? I don’t have much equipment. I custom hire my cousin to make hay and I buy my corn. What equipment I do have gets power washed and any rust gets the rattle can (spray paint) treatment. Tell us about your farm. Our farm is 200 acres, a mile long, with two streams joining. One hundred acres are tillable; 12 acres are a woodlot; six acres are in CRP; and 82 acres are permanent pasture. We milk in a swing-10 parlor that was retrotted into our
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Hiring A.I. tech helps Biels keep up with reproduction Biel Farm Bob and Eunice Biel; Kevin and Kelly Biel Harmony, Minn. Fillmore County 180 milking cows What was your pregnancy rate average last year? Our herd’s pregnancy average was 30 percent last year. What is your voluntary waiting period for cows? For heifers? For cows, the voluntary waiting period is 60 days.
For heifers, it is 14 months. What is your rst service conception rate? The rst service conception rate is 52 percent. What is your reproduction program? Do you use a synchronization program? Every day around noon, Nate Rindels, an A.I. technician from Select Sires comes to tail chalk the cows. The cows are on a double ovsynch program unless Rindels sees them in heat while he is chalking.
KRISTA KUZMA/DAIRY STAR
Kevin Biel farms together with his family on their 180-cow dairy in Fillmore County near Harmony, Minn. Their herd’s pregnancy rate last year averaged 30 percent with a 52 percent rst service concepƟon rate. How do you observe for heat? We use the tail chalk, unless we see them in heat ourselves when we are in the barn. How do you conrm pregnant or open cows? Our veterinarian comes once a month to do ultrasounds. Cows are checked at 35-50 days and then re-
KRISTA KUZMA/DAIRY STAR
An Angus-Holstein calf rests in the calf barn at the Biel family’s dairy near Harmony, Minn. When a cow does not seƩle aŌer four or ve services, she is bred to an Angus bull.
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breed mostly for type, but now we have switched to breeding for high production and genomics. All traits have to be positive in order to use a bull. We still want good type bulls, but that is not our main concern anymore. We also used to crossbreed our Holsteins with Jerseys, Fleckvieh and Montbeliardes. We are getting out of that because we found our crossbred cows did not milk as well. We are now breeding cows back to pure Holsteins with a few Jerseys because our kids like to show the breed. As for fertility, we like to choose bulls with higher daughter pregnancy rate (DPR). Every so often, Nate and I (Kevin) have a meeting where we talk about which bulls to use.
ent philosophy for breeding both? Heifers are bred with sexed semen on the rst two services. Conventional semen is used on the third or more services. We also use calving ease bulls on heifers. They must be under 7. Other than that, the traits are the same. We might try to breed the top 25 percent of our cows with sexed semen and breed the rest to Angus. This will help us focus on the top genetic cows; however, we have not started that yet.
How are cows and heifers bred? Do you have a differ-
How many times do you try to breed a cow before you sell
What do you do to settle hard breeders? After four or ve services, we breed using higher conception bulls or to Jersey or Angus bulls. We will not resort to these measures for a really good cow. KRISTA KUZMA/DAIRY STAR
Two cows with prominent chalk on their tailheads lie in the freestall at the Biel family’s dairy. Tail chalking done by a hired A.I. technician is an integral part of the Biels’ reproducƟon program. her? If a cow reaches 200 days or her production falls below 60 pounds, then we will sell her.
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This cow, who has high numbers in producƟon and genomics along with good type, is an example of the type of cow the Biels strive to breed for in their herd.
Is there anything you have done or changed that brought about a signicant improvement in your reproductive program? Hiring Rindels to take care of breeding our cows two years ago. Before that, I was breeding the cows myself and ran a cleanup bull with the heifers. There was no issue with cows getting preg-
nant, but I was not always getting them bred in time. Breeding especially suffered during eldwork. We had activity monitors for awhile, but when the batteries went out on the collars, it was too expensive to replace them all. Our reproduction fell behind and it got ugly for awhile. That is when we decided to hire Rindels. It is so nice having someone take care of the reproduction program. It is almost like having a bull in the pen.
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ConƟnued from FETZER | Page 22 percent pregnancy rate that we began to have too many heifers calving in under 22 months. We didn’t feel that it was the best option because they were coming in too small and weren’t physiologically as mature as we would like,” Paul said. “So, we put off breeding until 385 days of age, and on top of our pregnancy rate going up to 47 percent, we’ve been much happier.” Their heifer facilities consist of two barns: one building for calves from just after weaning to 6 months of age, and the other for calves age 6 months all the way up to prefresh heifers. “The calves are raised in hutches at the main farm and then brought up here after weaning,” Paul said.
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When those calves grow into breeding-age heifers, they are watched for standing heats before breeding. Steve estimates that over 90 percent of their cattle are bred on standing heats. “They’ve started off well in hutches, they’re well-conditioned, and they’re stress free,” Steve said. “Anyone beyond 40 days after breeding that isn’t pregnant yet gets started on a Novasync or CIDR program, and bred again a week later.” The barn with younger heifers
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More than 20 chefs and culinary brought about $2 billion in value to professionals gathered at Cooks of America’s dairy farmers. Crocus Hill in St. Paul, Minn., to Over the past two years, Midwest create and enjoy a dairy-packed menu Dairy has reached out to chefs and of soups, salads, gourmet culinary professionals grilled cheese sandwiches throughout the Midwest and an ice cream dessert. region, offering interactive While this might seem like cooking experiences, as a familiar setting for these well as providing them professionals, Midwest opportunities to meet dairy Dairy Council, who hosted farmers and visit their farms. the group, was eager to share What better way to engage the story of milk’s journey food inuencers than by from farm to table, the latest By Julie Mattson getting them into a kitchen dairy research and tips for Ostrow, MS, RD, to enjoy cooking with dairy featuring dairy ingredients FAND ingredients, helping them into creative menu options. Midwest Dairy understand dairy’s nutrition Food trends come Association and versatility, or getting and go, however, there them out on the farm to are several ingredients today’s see the care and commitment dairy consumers continue to seek from farmers take in producing milk. their favorite restaurants – including Showcasing dairy to these cheese and butter. From burgers professionals has taken several with locally sourced cheese, to forms. This spring, Midwest Dairy grown-up versions of grilled cheese held a sensory evaluation of cheese sandwiches, to creamy sauces and workshop for chefs at the Washburn desserts, dairy ingredients play a key Culinary Institute in Chicago. During role in many of the attention-grabbing the session, Dr. Stephanie Clark from menu items today’s customers are the University of Iowa introduced craving. Culinary professionals are various cheeses and provided the instrumental in inuencing how chefs with strategies to identify cheese consumers feel and experience their characteristics based on the ve food, also. senses to help them better integrate a With emerging research on wider variety of cheese options into milkfat increasingly showing fat their menu offerings. does not have a negative impact on Midwest Dairy has hosted overall health, it is the perfect time to culinary events in Nebraska and share this information with culinary Minnesota. One session was held professionals. In fact, greater milkfat with the National Pork Board, and consumption in 2016, alone, has attendees spent one day visiting
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By Laura Scholtz & John Rosenhammer Father/Daughter Farming Duo The air has changed from enjoyable warmth to brisk cold, indicating a sure sense of urgency. The leaves have turned from green to their golden fall colors. The grass from its soft, silent touch to a mixture of crunching leaves. Even the once bright sun has grown tired of putting in overtime and seems to fall helplessly from the sky far too early in the day. It seems as though we are given more tasks to complete in a lesser amount of time – a challenge taken on by every farmer throughout the harvest season. By modern standards we are two weeks behind normal because of the recent rains. Today’s farmers have access to more power and larger, more efcient equipment than was available 20 years ago. The fact
H Harvest season h has always l been a time to count my blessings, to enjoy and to appreciate the privilege to till God’s earth. that the capable equipment does not move in the rain, however, reminds me of who is really in control of the harvest – God. Harvest season has always been a time to count my blessings, to enjoy and to appreciate the privilege to till God’s earth. How can one bag of seed corn transform and reproduce into nearly 500 bushels? Just ve short months ago we prepared the soil and picked up rocks; full of anticipation for what the growing season ahead may have in store for us. Harvesting the crop also has various meanings to people of different stages in life. Younger minds tend to be anxious to get started; they tend to respond to a rumor that another farmer is in the eld already and that is the signal for them to also get in the elds. They seem more concerned about getting done than about being patient and waiting an extra day in hopes of less challenging eld conditions. My uncle commented to me the other day, “If you like it (combining) so much, why are you in such a hurry to get done?” I remember that early adult stage, as I have been there, too. I experienced that rewarding reection again. As Greg and I switched the combine from soybeans to corn, two of my daughters were in the eld. Mary chopped corn stalks while Laura operated the ripper in a neighboring eld. At 4 in the afternoon, my 83-year-old dad headed with his truck to the eld
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Laura was occupying, to replace her so she could start the evening chores. Chores seem to become less of a priority during harvest, as we are thinking about the progress that needs to be made in between chore times. Despite our scatterbrained thoughts and full agendas, daily chores always get done and thankfully cows know when to be at their best. One area many farmers struggle with is nding good laborers who are dependable and concerned about the good of the farm altogether. Harvest season entails many long days and late nights. It takes people who are passionate about the success of the farm and who care about their work in order to get through the long and tiring harvest season. Without effective helpers and employees, how is one supposed to function on a daily basis? One never knows if the help will show up to complete milking and calf chores so that others can continue with eldwork. In
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addition to passionate people, however, their support systems must be understanding and accepting of the unpredictable hours and time away from home. My wife, Patty, grew up on a farm so the understanding aspect of farm life and long hours came easy to her. Without passionate, reliable and responsible employees to make the farm a success alongside the owners, there would be no success. As the chilling wind howls through the night, my alarm goes off and I wonder, “What happened to the light?” I walk to the parlor with an extra layer of clothes, hoping to be surprised by a ray of warmth from the sun that seems to have overslept. Wishful thinking on my part. Just another reminder that the days are getting shorter. John Rosenhammer farms with his daughter, Laura, on Roseview Dairy near Sleepy Eye, Minn. They milk 200 Holsteins and run 580 acres of cropland.
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Farmers have many questions about cover crops. I have traveled thousands of miles around Minnesota for the “Integrating Cover Crops and Manure” project, both collecting data and making presentations to farmer audiences. With this project, we plant winter cereal rye after chopping corn silage or harvesting soybeans, and then inject liquid manure into the growing cover crop in the fall. The following year, we compare nitrogen use and corn yield between the strips with and without winter cereal rye. I have observations I would like to share based on conversations with farmers and group discussions during the presentations. These are my personal comments and not a By Randy Pepin scientic research study or survey. U of M Extension Erosion prevention: Helping keep rich topsoil in place is a substantial benet of cover crops. Most farmers recognize potential wind and water erosion reduction with cover crops. Other potential benets of cover crops, such as increasing soil organic matter and soil health, are not as widely understood, especially since they take several years to observe improvement. I think the most important step is for farmers to recognize the long-term benets of cover crops, then they will gure out how to incorporate them into their system. Nitrogen: Almost all farmers admit that the toughest nutrient to manage is nitrogen. Utilizing cover crops to minimize potential nitrogen losses, especially leaching, does catch the attention of farmers. Conicting interpretations of cereal rye research on allopathic interaction versus nitrogen tie-up creates confusion for some farmers. Our project indicates when we terminate winter cereal rye at 8 inches or less and then incorporate it, release of nitrogen in the rye usually happens in the current growing season without a yield hit. Our project also indicates that winter cereal rye sequesters a signicant amount of nitrogen in early spring, sparing this nitrogen from potential leaching loss. Many farmers understand nitrogen in undecomposed residue will most likely be available in following growing seasons. Economics: I think the status-quo of realizing a return on investment within the current crop year makes cover crops a challenge for some farmers. Cover crops are an annual investment for long-term gains in soil health benets; these gains can be substantial. Expenses of establishing cover crops and the
corresponding returns vary wildly depending on farm practices, and farm and eld situations. Species selection: The wide array of species available for cover crops can be overwhelming. Which species or combination you plant varies depending on your system and goals, such as when you plant or if you plan to harvest it or not. If considering planting a cover crop after corn silage or soybean harvest, choices are limited to cool-season plants, due to the late season. I would like to emphasize that planting a one- or two-species cover crop is better than no cover crop planted. Busy fall: Fall is a busy time for all farmers, especially for livestock farmers with the additional workload of manure application. However, with creativity and determination, many livestock farmers have gured out a way to overcome the busy fall issue. Equipment: There are options available to plant cover crops. A broadcasting tool capable of lightly incorporating the cover crop seed would be ideal. Broadcasting without some incorporation is risky; no incorporation leaves seed germination dependent on rainfall shortly after application. Drills work great, but may not be time efcient. Integrating cover crop planning with manure application intrigues some farmers. Ensuring adequate manure incorporation without planting the seeds too deep is a challenge. Ingenuity is a trait of farmers and the equipment industry; we will witness several inventions. Inter-seeding: There is concurrent research on inter-seeding cover crops into growing corn or soybeans. Not incorporating the inter-seeded cover crop seed has the same germination risk as described earlier with broadcast seeding. Most research indicates inter-seeding cover crop seed after V-5 corn (about 8 inches tall) or R-4 soybeans (full pod) will have little or no impact on crop yield. This requires specialized equipment, but does eliminate seeding the cover crop during the busy time after harvest. Forages: Some livestock farmers are interested in harvesting cover crops as forage or pasture. Harvesting winter cereal rye or triticale as forage in the spring can provide good quality forage if harvested in the boot stage or earlier. If the plan is to plant corn following spring forage harvest, it may be necessary to add nitrogen from manure or commercial fertilizer. There is considerable interest in cover crops and most farmers have questions. Some farmers have tried cover crops; many others are thinking about cover crops. For starters, I encourage you to try some cover crops on a portion of a eld.
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By Luciano Caixeta
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Hypocalcemia has been reported as a problem of fresh cows for over two centuries. Nonetheless, effective nutritional management during the dry period and early lactation determined a decrease in the occurrence of the clinical cases (milk fever) to rates lower than 1 percent. On the other hand, subclinical cases have been reported to affect as many as 73 percent of animals of third and greater lactation. Traditionally, milk fever has been associated with higher risk of dystocia, uterine prolapse, retained placenta, mastitis and displaced abomasum. Lately, decreased milk production, decreased immune function, increased risk of ketosis, decreased reproductive performance and increased risk of early removal from the herd were reported as the negative consequences of subclinical hypocalcemia. Taken together, the cost of the direct and indirect effects of hypocalcemia on animal health and production was calculated to be up to $9,162 per year in a 250cow herd. Therefore, prevention of hypocalcemia is extremely important not only for animal health but also for the protability of dairy farms. Both types of hypocalcemia are characterized by low blood calcium concentrations (< 8.6 mg/dL). Yet, milk fever cases are characterized by the development of clinical signs (i.e. down cow, lethargy, cold extremities and rumen atony) while clinical signs are absent in subclinical hypocalcemia cases. The understanding of this difference is extremely important when developing standard operating procedures (SOP) in dairy farms since administration of intravenous (IV) calcium is only recommended for clinical cases. Milk fever cases should be treated with 500 mL of 23 percent calcium gluconate IV and followed by the administration of two oral calcium bolus given 12 hours apart. It is important to emphasize that oral calcium bolus should not be administered if cows do not respond to the calcium IV treatment. In milk fever cows, failing to rise after treatment with IV calcium is a signal that normal muscular function has not been re-established and cows may choke on the calcium bolus if treatment is given to cows while they are still down. A veterinarian should be consulted and further treatment should be evaluated when milk fever cows do not respond to IV administration of calcium. Contrary to the milk fever cases, supplementation with IV calcium to dairy cows with subclinical hypocalcemia is not recommended. A team of researchers in California demonstrated that IV supplementation of calcium to dairy cows with subclinical hypocalcemia resulted in a long term decrease in blood calcium concentration. In these animals, blood calcium concentration reached levels even lower than their baseline six hours after treatment. Moreover, blood calcium concentration remained lower than the levels measured in cows that did not receive any IV calcium. Since dairy cows with subclinical hypocalcemia do not show clinical signs and cow-side measurements of blood calcium concentrations are cost prohibitive, subclinical hypocalcemia is rarely diagnosed in commercial farms. Despite that, the prophylactic administration of two oral calcium bolus (rst bolus immediately after calving and second bolus 12 hours later) to lame and high producing cows (lactation greater than second lactation) contributes to minimize the risk of the development of milk fever. It has been established that the administration of calcium bolus to these groups of cows (approximately 51 percent of the animals in an average dairy in the United States) can result in a return on investment of 180 percent ($1.80 of return for each $1.00 invested). A variety of different nutritional strategies have been used to prevent hypocalcemia. Among those, feeding low potassium diets and forages during the pre-fresh period can result in a change in the dietary cation-anion difference (DCAD), which will in turn cause an acidogenic response in dairy cows. This response is essential to improve the cow’s ability to mobilize calcium from bones and to absorb dietary calcium from the small intestines. However, the changes
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It’s been awhile since I had a song pop into my head just wanting to be rewritten. A few days ago, the classic “Fishin’ In The Dark” by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band came to mind, and after the rst opening beats a new song was born. Play the song in the background, or hum along to sing this little ditty. Melanie, Stacy and I are discussing going on the road with our farmthemed song parodies, but, if we did, who would take care of the cows when we got famous? Busy little girl comin’ ‘cross the room, Crawling on her knees. Bees are buzzing and ladybugs are oating on the breeze, Fall already. Heifers are home and pens are crowded way too tight.
Chores take long and boys are tired most every night, Fall already. Ooooo, Oooo. Dad and Peter run the combine ‘til dark, Filling up trucks back and forth to the farm, Shelling tall corn rows. Up in the barn under brand new lights, Calves are on their feeders in the middle of the night, Just eatin’ slow. Cows are calvin’ too, fall’s a busy time it’s true. Pumpkins are ready and the leaves are changing, Gardens are done. Waited all month for the time to be right, stop mowing the lawn, Fall already.
Sweatshirts are out and the nights cool down, so snuggle up tight. Furnace is running and the wood is stacked Ramblings from the Ridge for long, cold nights, Fall already, Ooooo, Oooo. Me and Mel pull calves in the barn, Go nice and slow, so we do no harm, The herd grows and grows. Down in the shop boys are tearing up bikes, Using the tools that make moms say, “Yikes!” Just learnin’ you know.
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Farming’s what we do, every day is something new. Jacqui and her family milk 700 cows and run 1,200 acres of crops in the northeastern corner of Vernon County, Wis. Her children, Ira (10), Dane (8), Henry (3) and infant, Cora, help her on the farm while her husband, Keith, works on a grain farm. If she’s not in the barn, she’s probably in the kitchen, trailing after little boys, or sharing her passion of reading with someone. Her life is best described as organized chaos-and if it wasn’t, she’d be bored.
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Here in the ofce, my co-workers and I participated in a fall health challenge for the rst few weeks of October. The idea was to consciously make choices that would create healthy habits lasting far longer than the challenge – getting enough hours of sleep at night, eating so many servings of fruits and vegetables daily, and keeping active were among the requirements. At the end of the challenge, there was a drawing to receive a bonus on our next paycheck. Granted, my participation began with the want for a little spending money, but part of the challenge tugged at my perspective on life more than I had originally thought it would. With each day, we were encouraged to share a positive message with our co-workers – taking those kind words and intentions and making the most out of every day. Bible verses, movie quotes and the wise words from philosophers spammed my email. By Jennifer Coyne While those words remained in the ofce, I subconsciously began noticing the positivity that surrounds Staff Writer me in the rural community I’m fortunate enough to call home. Willie and I purchased a house west of Sauk Centre, Minn., last February. As we’ve settled into the daunting responsibilities as homeowners, we’ve been overwhelmed by the support and kindness our neighbors have displayed. As boxes were still piled high in our living room and our fridge was looking sparse, with only a few takeout boxes remaining, our newest neighbors came and introduced themselves, carrying a basket of warm dinner, sweet treats and a delicate friendship plate that I’m anxiously waiting to pass along to another new homeowner. Throughout the year, this couple has offered their groceries when I run out of sugar and I’m half way through a recipe, they delivered fresh strawberries when they were passing by and they’ve always been the kindest souls. Another couple has helped us landscape the yard – clearing trees, moving cattle housing and lending equipment that we have yet to purchase. They’ve served as mentors to Willie and I – offering advice, personally and professionally, to better ourselves. Most importantly, this couple has watched over our growing hobby farm while we’ve traveled. To some, it’s trivial work to feed three head of cattle and a small ock of chickens, but those chores take time and they have to get done. Plus, our rambunctious border collie is still learning how to herd, which makes feeding that much more difcult. Over the last nine months, we have encountered more people than I could have ever imagined when we rst moved. And instances like the ones mentioned above are more common than they are not. These people have become good neighbors and good friends. Whether it’s stopping to help someone nish putting up hay before the rain arrives, waking up a few hours early to milk cows before heading off to work, or riding along in the combine for late-night company, Willie and I have enjoyed getting to know our little, rural community. It’s not just us that have received compassion because we’re new to the area – country folk are genuinely hard working, seless people. While harvest is well underway, it’s been a wearing one. Rain has coated the elds for what seems like most of the growing season and the cool temperatures haven’t helped. In a race against Mother Nature, farmers across the countryside are working to get the elds cleared, and doing so without getting stuck or leaving much of the yields behind. But the farming community, as always, is showing resilience. When one eld is complete, another one opens up. And when one farmer is complete with harvest, they aid their neighbor in doing the same. Without giving it much thought, these actions are natural to the farming community – of course we would help each other with any means available. In light of my work challenge, I’ve had the humbling opportunity to reect on all the positivity that surrounds me – within my neighborhood, throughout my ofce space and in every encounter I have with the dairy community. Frankly, the challenge gave greater value to my life and those who are a part of it. In a world weighed down with negatives, how are you making a positive inuence in someone else’s life?
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No more “America’s Dairyland” on Wisconsin license plates? Thank you, Kurt Bauer. Your suggestion to consider taking America’s Dairyland off Wisconsin license plates provided the inspiration for this column. Before you oated the idea, I was oundering, searching for an idea for my October column. I was leaning toward writing about the fall colors and how my 2017 garden fared. But then Mr. Bauer spoke at a meeting in mid-month and washed away all garden column thoughts. Bauer is the president of Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (WMC). According to its website, the WMC has its ofce in Madison, Wis., and dates to 1911. The organization describes itself as the state’s chamber of commerce and largest business trade association, representing more than 3,800 employers of every size and from every sector of the economy. The WMC president stated that he prefers a more contemporary phrase to grace Wisconsin’s many thousands of license plates. He offered as a possible substitute the Badger State’s scintillating and
memorable motto: Forward. At least he didn’t suggest neutral or reverse. Bauer said he thinks words that point to the state’s wide-ranging manufacturing sector would be a better t on the plates. Wisconsin makes everything from engines and turbines to heating and cooling equipment, to motorcycles and military vehicles, along with vital products as paper towels and toilet paper. And it also makes cheese, butter, yogurt and ice cream. The last time I looked, those were all dairy products. And they all helped Wisconsin earn its welldeserved title of America’s Dairyland. Where I live and work, agriculture is important. Right now, from my ofce window, I see cornelds and soybean elds. Beef cattle graze in the distance. Milk trucks rumble on the county road. There’s a dairy farm with iconic, black-and-white cows just three miles distant, and another such family farm ve miles the other way, plus many more perched atop the
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ridges and tucked into the valleys. For me, the America’s Dairyland license plate slogan makes perfect sense. It’s been traveling up and down city streets, highways and byways, rural routes and gravel roads for 77 years, since 1940. My meager collection of plates does not contain any that go back that far. Other states have Rural Roots or have had interesting slogans on their plates. My favorite of those might be from a southern state: Georgia On My Mind. I can hear Willie Nelson right now. Idaho’s is cute: Great Potatoes, Tasty Destinations. Iowa’s is good: Fields of Opportunity. I’ve long By Ron Johnson liked New Mexico’s slogan: Land of Staff Writer Enchantment. Of course, we can’t forget the rebellious and patriotic New Hampshire classic: Live Free or Die. If Mr. Bauer does not like America’s Dairyland on our license plates, what might he like? I have compiled a list – not an ultimate compendium or encyclopedia – but a simple list of substitutes. Some are my own creation; some originated in the minds of others. With a gentle elbow to the ribs of our neighbor to the west: More Lakes than Minnesota. Yes, depending on which source you believe, and the size criteria for a body of water to qualify as a lake, Wisconsin really does have more lakes than Minnesota. The words “10,000 Lakes” reside at the bottom of the Dairy Star car I drive, but my research tells me that Wisconsin could be home to as many as 15,074 documented lakes, most of them not named. One source claims that Minnesota has more than 10,000 lakes. But I guess “Land of 11,842 Lakes” just doesn’t have quite the same ring to it. Here’s another possible slogan that I must take credit for: Deep in the Heart of Taxes. Yep, Wisconsin has long been known for its fairly cold tax climate. According to the Tax Foundation, in 2010, Wisconsin ranked fth on the list of highest state and local taxes. Wisconsinites paid 11.1 percent of their income in the form of state and local taxes that year. New York topped the list, at 12.8 percent, followed by New Jersey, Connecticut and California. I’ll give a nod to New Hampshire for inspiring this as a license plate slogan for Wisconsin: Eat Cheese or Die. Here’s a license plate slogan inspired by the one on Illinois plates. My Wisconsin version is: Land of No Presidents – No, Not Even One. A quick search of the internet turned up a list of alternate slogans that other keen minds concocted. I suspect they have not found their way onto license plates. I like this suggestion for Arizona: But It’s a Dry Heat. For Connecticut, consider this alternative: Like Massachusetts, Only the Kennedys Don’t Own It – Yet. For Oklahoma, there’s this: Like the Play, Only No Singing. For Illinois: Please Don’t Pronounce the ‘S’. For Florida, I like this suggested slogan: Ask Us About Our Grandkids. Finally, for Wisconsin, maybe Mr. WMC president would prefer this alternative slogan. It plays off Wisconsin’s long and storied cheesemaking tradition that dates to at least the 1830s: Don’t Forget the Crackers.
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“For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance…” Ecclesiastes 3:1-4 My Auntie Konnie’s time to die came on Friday, Oct. 13. In several ways, the past two weeks have been Dairy Good Life some of the hardest of my life. One of the hardest parts has been the need to explain who Auntie Konnie was and why saying goodbye to her hurts so much. Apparently, at least from the countless quizzical looks, most people don’t think losing an aunt should bring so much grief. But Konnie was more than an aunt. My mother worked a full-time job an hour’s drive away from our farm. When my sisters and I were little, Mom dropped us off at Konnie’s house for the day. When we were a couple years older, By Sadie Frericks Konnie started coming to our house instead. We Columnist spent as many of our growing-up hours with Konnie as we did with anyone else. And her willingness to run her daycare business out of our home meant my sisters and I had an incredible world: a houseful of kids to play with, a dairy farm to roam over, and being close enough to Dad and Grandpa that we saw them everyday, too, and were there to pitch in with farm chores as we grew old enough to help. Konnie was the one who taught us how to cook and clean; that barn language belonged in the barn, not the house; and that lying about your misbehavior was far worse than misbehaving itself. We knew Konnie’s time with us was limited. Three years ago, almost to the day of her death, we almost lost her to septicemia following a cortisol injection. The recovery from that ordeal was long and complicated, but Konnie came out of it with a renewed appreciation for life. The sadness that had lled her when her only son (and only child) died in 2013 seemed to lift away. Konnie’s long recovery gave us our turn to take care of her. Then, a bout with pneumonia this spring led to the discovery of a suspected tumor in her lungs. Konnie never smoked a cigarette in her life, but cancer doesn’t follow the rules. Konnie was too frail for surgery or chemotherapy, so we worked to accept the inevitable. But knowing death is coming doesn’t make it any easier to accept. The grieving is still just as hard. Unfortunately, U f l the h world ld Unfortunately, the world doesn’t stop spinning doesn’t stop spinning – even – even for a moment – to for a moment – to allow time allow time for grief. There is no time to mourn. The for grief. grieving just keeps on while you go through the motions of living. Numb to the core, but still moving. The kids need supper and help with their homework and clean clothes for school tomorrow. The cows need to be milked. There are no mental health days for dairy farmers – or moms. At the same time I lament these relentless demands, I am thankful for both my family and my farm. Thankful I’m not grieving alone. Thankful for the joyful moments our children create – smiles that pierce through the sadness. Thankful for a job that allows me to keep working while my mind remembers, grieves and heals. Cows don’t care if I cry while I milk. Sadie and her husband, Glen, milk 75 cows near Melrose, Minn. They have three children – Dan, 10, Monika, 7, and Daphne, 4. Sadie also writes a blog at www.dairygoodlife.com. She can be reached at sadiefrericks@gmail.com.
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Feed costs are the largest expense on most dairies. In addition to lower feed costs, byproducts can be used to increase the nutrient density in a dairy ration and extend forage or grain inventory. Careful consideration should be given when selecting byproducts to use. Keep in mind some byproducts are extremely high in certain nutrients, such as water, sulfur, phosphorus, sodium or chloride. Many byproducts Something to Ruminate On have signicant variation from source to source and, in a few cases, variation within a facility. Closely monitor consistency and quality. When assessing the economics of byproducts, make sure to compare feeds on a dry matter By Barry Visser basis. Account for Nutritionist associated costs, such as shrink, delivery, handling, processing or chemical analysis. Shrink is dened as the loss of feed that occurs from the point of purchase to what is actually consumed by the animal. Shrink can range from 2 to 20 percent, depending on the storage structure and physical nature of the commodity. Limited shelf life can lead to spoilage with certain wet byproducts in the summer months. Spreadsheets are available to establish a value per ton based on the nutrient analysis of a byproduct compared to a list of reference feeds. By products can be divided into the following ve primary categories. Carbohydrate byproducts: These ingredients provide soluble sources of sugar or starch. These commodities can serve as a potential grain extender and energy source beyond corn. Examples include whey permeate, molasses, bakery products, cereal nes and potatoes waste. Protein byproducts: These commodities come either from plant or animal origin. Be sure to evaluate cost per unit of supplemental protein. Consideration should also be given to specic amino acid contribution and level of bypass protein. Commonly used protein byproducts include soybean meal, canola meal, corn distiller grain, corn gluten meal, brewers grain, blood meal, and meat and bone meal. Non-forage brous byproducts: Options include highly digestible ber sources, allowing for reduced starch while maintaining energy levels. These commodities are commonly used to replace forages due to inventory or quality concerns. Upper limits of these byproducts may be dictated by physically effective ber. Common feedstuffs in this category include cottonseed, beet pulp, corn gluten feed and soy hulls. Fat-enriched byproducts: Consider using fat from oilseeds rst before animal fats, based on economics. Carefully evaluate digestibility and value of fat relative to cost. The physical form of the commodity can impact the rate of fat availability. For example, corn distiller grain in a meal form has a faster rate of fat availability compared to cottonseed where the fat is encapsulated in the seed. Other forms of fat byproducts include vegetable oil, tallow and choice white grease. High-ber, low-digestibility byproducts: These are ingredients that may be considered for heifer diets or lower-energy dry cow diets. Examples include oat hulls, cottonseed hulls and malt sprouts. Byproducts can be a viable alternative to dairy rations to reduce ration costs, increase nutrient density, or extend forage or grain inventory. Although they may seem like a good deal, recognize the signicant cost associated with variation and shrink. Work with your nutritionist to evaluate specic byproducts for individual farm needs. Barry Visser is a nutritionist for Vita Plus.
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Patience, dedication net monster buck Hendrickson bags 10-pointer on rst bow hunt of the season By Danielle Nauman danielle.n@dairystar.com
BELLEVILLE, Wis. – Brooks Hendrickson knew exactly what he was doing when he headed to the woods with his Hoyt bow Oct. 11. After years of studying trail cam photos and observing deer activity on his family’s 105-cow dairy farm near Belleville, Wis., he knew what deer were in his area and what to expect of their behavior patterns. “We got home from World Dairy Expo on Sunday night (Oct. 8), and I went out to check the cameras. I saw this buck active on the cameras, where he was hanging out and spending his time,” Hendrickson said of the buck he eventually bagged. The weather helped him get his rst buck of the season. “I’m a big fan of hunting following the cold fronts … I knew this particular buck would be moving, and I knew where he’d be,” Hendrickson
trail cams. I actually passed him up last year, knowing that he’d continue to mature and get bigger,” Hendrickson said of his encounters with the deer. Hendrickson waited for the best shot while the buck made a few rubs and scrapes. “I shot him from about 17 yards at 5:45 p.m. The gratication you get, going in and harvesting the one buck you were specically going to hunt is amazing. There is no feeling like it in the world,” he said. The 10-point mature buck eld dressed at 227 pounds and rough scored 141 inches. Hendrickson is having a shoulder mount made of his trophy buck. While this is the largest buck Hendrickson has harvested in his hunting career, he has passed up deer with bigger antlers. “I’ve let a lot of big deer go by, including this one, because I know they have more potential,” Hendrickson PHOTO SUBMITTED Brooks Hendrickson shot this mature 10-point buck with a bow on his family’s Green County said. “I’d rather let them dairy farm. The deer eld dressed out at 227 pounds and rough-scored 141 inches. Hendrickson reach that than take them before their prime. I’ve been dairies with his family near Belleville, Wis. watching this one for at least said. “Being wet and windy, I his tree stand at 3:30 p.m. that wandered below his stand. ve years.” gured I’d be able to sneak in Wednesday. After waiting a “I knew it was him. I Hendrickson was without him knowing.” couple hours, his patience and have a lot of history with introduced to his family’s Hendrickson arrived at intuition paid off. His buck him, watching him on the tradition of hunting at an Turn to HENDRICKSON | Page 37
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early age and has been accompanying his dad and brother in the woods for as long as he can remember. “I went along on hunts long before I could carry a gun,â€? Hendrickson said. “When I was 12, I took hunter’s safety class and started hunting under the guidance of my dad and brother. That ďƒžrst year I got my ďƒžrst turkey and a nine-point buck. I experienced the adrenaline rush and excitement and was hooked right off the bat.â€? Hendrickson’s love of hunting is not limited to deer, but also includes coyote, turkey, rabbits and squirrels. He also hunts raccoons with a friend who has dogs to help with the hunting. Someday, Hendrickson would like to hunt elk or moose.
“That week is my favorite week of the year. Hunting with my dad, brother and family is all about quality family time.â€? Čƒ BROOKS HENDRICKSON, DAIRY FARMER
Hendrickson cites his admiration for the intelligence of the animals as one of the factors that fuels his passion for hunting. “Animals are smart,� he said. “They use their senses to survive and to avoid their predators. Hunting, I’m the predator. To have the ability to sneak in close to an elusive animal is very satisfying. You think you’ve learned everything about these animals, and then something will change, and you have to ask yourself why. You have to learn more about them, and how they react to their environment. That is what drives my passion.� For Hendrickson, preparing for deer hunting is a year-round pursuit. “In the spring I go shed hunting to see what bucks survived the winter,� Hendrickson said. “It’s also easier to see where their bedding areas are in the spring. That’s the time when we
plant food plots, place trail cameras, trim up trails and put up and maintain tree stands. Tree-stand safety is very important to me.â€? Food plot items used by Hendrickson include beans, corn, turnips and brassica. “We want to make sure they have food to survive the winter and make it a little easier for them,â€? Hendrickson said. Hendrickson spends time throughout the remainder of the year scouting deer and looking for the routes they are taking to their food sources. Over the years, Hendrickson has begun ďƒžlming his hunts as a tool to help, both in the ďƒželd and for his preparation. “I will look at the ďƒžlm to determine where I hit the deer, if it was a good fatal shot or not,â€? Hendrickson said. “That helps me determine how long to wait before going to ďƒžnd him. Filming the hunts allows you to relive the excitement of the hunt. Everything happens so fast and sometimes you just kind of black out exactly what happened. It’s nice to go back and see exactly what happened. I like sharing them with family and friends, too.â€? While bow hunting is Hendrickson’s personal favorite, he also treasures the nine-day gun-deer season. “That week is my favorite week of the year,â€? Hendrickson said. “Hunting with my dad, brother and family is all about quality family time. Being on the farm, we don’t get to do a lot of family stuff.â€? Hendrickson has acquired several guns, but his favorite remains the ďƒžrst gun he purchased, a .30-06. “I saved money for a long time to buy that gun,â€? Hendrickson said. “It will always be pretty special to me.â€? Hunting has taught Hendrickson the value of patience and perseverance, whether it be sitting in a tree stand or saving up for his ďƒžrst hunting gun. Above all, Hendrickson has developed a deep sense of respect and appreciation for nature and the conservation and management of the resources available in our world.
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