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Online schooling becomes reality for Abrahams Farm family adapts to learning from home By Stacey Smart
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PLYMOUTH, Wis. – Attending school online has often been reserved for special circumstances. However, kids across the country are adapting to this form of schooling in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting shutdown of schools. Todd and Kara Abraham, and their two children, Jared, 17, and Macie, 12, are adjusting to virtual learning as school has shifted from the classroom to the household. The Abrahams milk 60 registered Holsteins and farm 385 acres near Plymouth. A-B-Lane Farm celebrated 100 years in 2018, and Jared and Macie are the fth generation to live on the farm. Jared is a junior at Plymouth High School, and his sister is a sixth grader at St. John Lutheran in Plymouth. Like many schools throughout the state, the last day classes were in session was March 13. Their rst ofcial day of virtual learning began March 18 after the schools spent two days getting this new approach to academics up and running. “We went to Macie’s
school that Tuesday to pick up her stuff,” Kara said. “We were asked to clear everything out of the lockers so they could be cleaned. Jared always has all of his school things with him anyway, so the only item we needed to get was his accounting book.” Macie’s teachers send assignments to her every day which need to be turned in by 9 p.m. and serve as the basis for taking attendance. For Jared, a plan is sent out daily, and teachers post all the assignments online with due dates. Attendance is tracked through each student’s guidance counselor. Teachers are also checking in with students through conference calls and virtual walk-throughs. “There was a learning curve to get everything set up and gured out,” Jared said. “The teachers started out taking things slow at rst, but now they’re dumping it on. I feel like they’re giving us more work than if we were actually at school.” Fortunately, both kids have their own computers to use. “I’m thankful each kid has a laptop so we can continue to use ours for paying bills and doing calf registrations,” Kara said. Jared’s school loans students a laptop to use throughout the school year. Macie also has her own laptop. Her
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The Abraham family (from leŌ) – Kara, Jared, Macie and Todd – milk 60 registered Holsteins and farm 385 acres near Plymouth, Wisconsin. Like many kids across the country, the Abraham children are aƩending school online due to COVID-19. school provides Chromebooks or iPads to students that do not have an electronic device at home. “Macie uses Google Classroom, which she was already familiar with,” Kara said. “I’m not a Google person, but I can
get into her stuff if I need to. Both kids are pretty independent with their homework and are taking care of it on their own for the most part.” The Abraham children are nding that virtual schooling can require more time and en-
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classes, we have to watch videos, which takes more time. It involves a little extra effort to get the assignment completed, but it’s not terrible. I’ll probably get in a groove by the time we go back to school.” The family has adapted to the new school routine without too much trouble. “It really hasn’t changed our schedule much,” Todd said. “We let the kids do their schoolwork on their terms. Jared does his stuff mostly in the afternoon. Macie does some in the morning, goes outside for a while, and then does more schoolwork in the afternoon.” Online schooling has beneted the farm in that Jared and Macie are now free to help with morning chores during the week instead of only on weekends. Jared handles feeding and helps with evening milking and other chores. Macie helps with calves and various farm chores. “It’s nice they can help out on the farm more,” Todd said. “One of our rules with them being home all day is they have to get out of the house and off the phone once in a while.” Jared and Macie miss their friends but are keeping in touch through social media, such as Snapchat. “Jared is very social and misses school because of the friend aspect,” Kara said. At this time, Wisconsin schools are projected to be closed through the end of April. The closing of schools has put sports and other extracurricular activities on hold. “Jared plays golf in the spring,” Kara said. “That’s his only sport. He looks forward to it all year and might not be able to play now. He is also on the Plymouth FFA agronomy team, but all 4-H, FFA and Junior Holstein events are currently canceled too. We were going to attend the Wisconsin Dairy Showcase in Madison from April 22-25. But like so many cattle Turn to ABRAHAMS | Page 5
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Macie Abraham works on her school assignments at the kitchen table April 2 at her home near Plymouth, Wisconsin. Abraham is a sixth grader at St. John Lutheran. shows around the country, it has been canceled due to COVID-19.” The Abrahams are abiding by Wisconsin’s stay-at-home order as much as possible. “It’s scary,” Todd said. “It’s like nothing we’ve ever seen or experienced before. It’s an invisible enemy, and you don’t know where it’s going to hit next. We’ve been keeping to ourselves because we can’t afford to get sick with running the farm.” The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically altered business transactions and social interactions for every walk of life. Todd said all the services they use, like dealers and the veterinarian, are open but will not allow people inside.
“We’ve been keeping to ourselves because we can’t afford to get sick with running the farm.” TODD ABRAHAM, DAIRY FARMER
“You have to call ahead, and they will set out parts,” Todd said. “Our breeder still comes. But people no longer stop in just to say hi. I know there’s some concern over supply lines right now. We have all of our inputs locked down in our seed, chemical and fertilizer and think most of what we need will be here.”
The Abrahams farm in an area heavy in cheese production. Todd said cheese plants have stated if a worker gets COVID-19, the plant has to shut down. One processor is asking dairies to cut production. “Our cooperative recently sent a letter assuring us they have market for our product and will continue to pick up our milk,” Todd said. “That’s reassuring to a point, but you never know what will happen. Things are changing daily. I wonder how long it’s going to take to overcome the disruption of our economy. Will it be six months, 12 months? I hope there will be some positives that come out of all of this.” Todd and Jared are sports lovers and are disappointed they cannot watch any games. “From March Madness to baseball, everything we look forward to in spring disappeared within a couple of days,” Todd said. Despite these uncertain times, education continues as teachers and students navigate through uncharted waters. “One of my teachers said this is basically a dry run for college because you are responsible for everything,” Jared said. “You either do it or don’t do it, pass or fail. I’m thinking about going to college, so I need to take this seriously while considering the future.” Like people everywhere, life for the Abrahams is not the same, but they are doing their best to adjust to what they hope is only a temporary new normal. “I hope we never have to do this again,” Kara said.
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LITCHFIELD, Minn. – Springtime is an active time in the dairy industry for dairy cattle sales. This spring that activity has come to an abrupt halt as global measures are being enacted to help curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. This halting of dairy cow commerce has led many to do what dairy farmers do best: nd innovative solutions to problems they face. As many states began observing social distancing, issuing stay-at-home orders and orders prohibiting large gatherings, dairy cattle sales began to be postponed and cancelled. Sale managers and dairy farmers began to scramble for ways to make their sales happen and continue to do the business of buying and selling dairy cattle. Chad and Stacy Bohn own Stadview Jerseys in Litcheld, where they milk about 30 cows. Since last summer, they have been making plans to host a registered Jersey sale, selling about 50 head, at the Crow River Winery in Hutchinson, Minnesota. The sale was planned for April 18. “We had planned for the cattle to be at our farm for viewing the week of the sale,” Chad said. “The actual sale would be held at the winery following a noon meal. The cattle were to be presented to those in attendance by video, with videos done at the farm during sale week, and sold by live auction. The idea was for everyone to be able to sit and enjoy a meal while bidding.” The Bohns were fortunate to have time to evaluate their situation before their event. “We discussed moving the sale back to May, but so many other sales that were scheduled for March had already moved back to May,” Chad said. They watched as the pandemic situation unfolded around the country and waited until the end of March to make alternative plans to make their sale a reality in a modied version. “We are no longer able to use the winery and comply with social distancing, so we have changed our sale to be online only using Cowbuyer,” Stacy said. “We are now going to have the sale on our farm, setting up a sale ring in our shop. Every lot will walk through the ring and people can bid online from their homes.” Deviating from months of well-laid plans and developing a new plan in a matter of days has presented challenges for the Bohns, but they are hoping for a positive outcome despite the challenges. “We won’t be able to have a large crowd of people viewing the cattle at our farm,” Stacy said. “We understand the seriousness of the situation, but the dairy industry has to keep going every day. We all have a lot of passion for the industry and a good animal.”
Online bidding has become a staple at many dairy cattle sales over the past decade and is proving to be an essential tool for dairy cattle breeders during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cowbuyer Livestock Marketing Solutions, of Ennice, North Carolina, is an online bidding service. “Cowbuyer started 10 years ago as a project I worked on with a friend who is an auctioneer and sells equipment, and then we started selling cows,” said Aaron Ray Tompkins, owner of Cowbuyer. Connecting buyers and sellers allow for producers to access new markets for their animals. “The biggest challenges we are seeing is the number of new customers that have to sign up,” Tompkins said. “Many aren’t used to operating a computer and some have never even been online for a sale. We work to get them set up to use the technology of online bidding for an auction.” Gordon and Cathy Speirs operate Shiloh Dairy near Brillion, Wisconsin, where they milk about 2,200 Holsteins. Before the pandemic hit the United States, they had planned to disperse Cathy’s Brown Swiss herd of 40 milking females and 100 youngstock at the Great Northern sales arena in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. “The Brown Swiss are my wife’s project, and she
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wants to retire and liquidate her herd,” Gordon said. “With the limitations on our ability to gather people for an auction and the extreme economic uncertainties we are facing, we decided to postpone the sale indenitely.” The Speirs said holding off on the dispersal of the Brown Swiss will not have a negative impact on their farm, as they will continue operations as they have been doing. “The herd will still be there in the fall, so we can reschedule for a better time,” Gordon said. The possibility of conducting an online sale was discussed, but they opted to wait for the opportunity to reschedule the live auction as planned. “There are a lot of unknowns with the online sale, especially with the economy,” Gordon said. “And then there is the question of logistics. If we sell 140 head to 140 buyers, we could end up with 140 trailers pulling up on our farm.”
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Page 10 • Dairy Star • Second Section • Saturday, April 11, 2020
By Lee Mielke
COVID-19 pulls Class III prices down sharply
U.S. milk prices are coming down. The Agriculture Department announced the March Federal order Class III price at $16.25 per hundredweight, down 75 cents from February but still $1.21 above March 2019 and the highest March Class III since 2014. The three month average stands at $16.77, up from $14.30 a year ago, and compares to $13.87 in 2018 but that average will be falling as well. The COVID-19 outbreak has resulted in Class III futures being pulled sharply lower and late Friday morning the April price was at $14.05; May, $12.22; June at $13.11, with a peak in October of $15.01, a price that weeks ago topped $17.00 The March Class IV price is $14.87, down $1.33 from February and 84 cents below a year ago and the lowest Class IV price since September 2018. Its three month average is at $15.91, up from $15.68 a year ago and $13.01 in 2018. Using futures market expectations as of March 31, HighGround Dairy says “the Class III and Class IV are estimated to decline at rates similar to the 200809 dairy market selloff. While current futures market projections do not predict sub- $10 per cwt Class III prices like those seen in 2009, Class III could drop below $13 for the rst time since 2016. However, it has been more than a decade since Class IV dropped below $12, with prices likely to hit levels not seen since 2009.” There is help available for farmers in the $2 trillion stimulus package dubbed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES). The bill includes $9.5 billion to assist agriculture producers impacted by the coronavirus, including specialty crop producers; producers who support local food systems such as farmers markets, schools, and restaurants; and livestock and dairy producers. The National Milk Producers Federation is developing recommendations for the USDA on how to best help dairy producers and have called for reopening signup in the Dairy Margin Coverage program for calendar year 2020. Hemorrhaging continued in the dairy markets in the “April Fool’s Day”Week, due to the COVID-19 epidemic. The Cheddar blocks saw nine consecutive days of decline and closed the rst Friday of April at $1.15 per pound, down 44 cents on the week, lowest price in 11 years (July 2009) and 51 cents below a year ago. The barrels saw a close at $1.1375, 20.25 cents lower on the week and the lowest since July 2009, 43.75 cents below a year ago, and 1.25 cents below the blocks. Only 2 cars of block exchanged hands on
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the week, 19 for the month of March, down from 31 in February. There were 34 cars of barrel that found new homes on the week, 79 in March, down from 80 in February. Cheese contacts are hopeful for a quick turnaround to the COVID-19 situation, says Dairy Market News, as retail accounts have slowed along with ailing food service orders. Milk is plentiful in the Midwest and, at mid-week, only discounted prices were reported. Cheesemakers say milk handlers are calling regularly as plentiful milk is equating to a growing cheese supply. Cheese markets are “resolutely bearish due to precipitous drops on the CME,” says DMN. Managers are in limbo when it comes to taking on extra milk and scheduling production. Retail cheese sales in the west continue to be strong but are down from the previous week. Orders from food service and international buyers are stable to lower. Cheese outputs are steady but milk is abundant. Several cheese makers took additional milk if they had the space for its processing. Cheese inventories were less tight than the previous week but are “sufcient to ll all needs.” Butter’s meltdown also continued, closing the week at $1.28 per pound, down 20.75 cents on the week, 99 cents below a year ago, and the lowest it has been at since October 2009. 22 cars were sold on the week, 38 on the month, down from a whopping 231 in February. Like many in the dairy industry, butter plant managers are facing a growing number of challenges due to COVID-19. Food service demand is bleak. Retail ordering is still rm, but with lighter restaurant and little to zero orders into educational institutions, butter inventories are growing. National contacts say Midwestern butter plants are taking more cream than their coastal counterparts. DMN says “While ice cream manufacturers and other plants that normally take on cream are running skeleton crews or even closed, the onus of current cream inventories falls on butter makers. Butter market prices are precipitously declining at disquieting levels and markets are resolutely bearish.” Western butter makers say offers for cream are abundant but they cannot take on more risk. Churning is active and producers are making more butter than can be sold in the near term so stocks are growing. Demand from food service is virtually non-existent, and while retail demand is higher than usual, it is slowing. Pricing for bulk butter has become challenging. A price set one day could lose a sizable portion of its value the next trading day, according to DMN. Grade A nonfat dry milk saw its close at 86.25
cents per pound Friday, down 5.75 cents on the week, 12.5 cents below a year ago, and the lowest it has been since November 2018. 43 sales were reported on the week, 195 for the month of March, up from 105 in February. CME dry whey was the one exception in the falling markets, and held at 33 cents per pound for 11 consecutive sessions, 1.5 cents below a year ago. Nothing was sold on the week, but 23 loads for the month up from 8 in February. The National Restaurant Association stated on its website that “Since March 1, the industry has lost more than 3 million jobs and $25 billion in sales, and roughly 50% of restaurant operators anticipate having to lay off more people in April,” due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many restaurants will sadly close permanently. How low prices will go is anybody’s guess. FC Stone’s Dave Kurzawski reminded us in his March 31 Early Morning Update that “The US did away with the price support system in the 2014 Farm Bill and switched to a system where the government would buy dairy commodities and donate them to people in need when farm gate margins fell to low levels. However, that program was dropped in the 2018 Farm Bill. The $2 trillion aid package passed by Congress does allocate $450 million for purchases of commodities to be donated to food shelves and you can be sure dairy will be part of that, but we do not have a hard oor directly under US prices,” Kurzawski warned. Speaking in the April 6 Dairy Radio Now broadcast, Kurzawski admitted there isn’t much in the way of a silver lining to look for right now. “We’re in a state of ux in terms of understanding what demand really looks like. On one hand we have seen tremendous retail sales, even on uid milk, but foodservice declines are huge.” Processors are hard pressed to make more product they can’t sell. He adds that “dumping of milk is happening around the United States,” and while that’s very disheartening to producers, he warned of the longer term consequences. “This is the time of year we normally make a lot of milk and dairy products and put them in coolers,” he said, and not doing that will have ramications later in the year. “If the U.S. economy gets humming again, and that is a wild card, but two, three, or four months down the road, we.re going to walk into a shortfall of inventory if we’re dumping milk today,” he concluded. National Milk’s senior vice president for membership services initiatives, Chris Galen, said in a podcast this week “Dairy farmers need effective policy advocacy in Washington as the economic effects of coronavirus are dealt with for months, in both anticipated and unanticipated ways. This is a really challenging time because the COVID-19 outbreak is affecting every aspect of our society. In dairy, we saw prices nally begin to rise at the end of last year after a prolonged trough. There’s a lot of economic stress on the farm, and then this seems like it’s adding insult to injury.” “It’s doubly important we advocate for the economic interests of our members because the typical dairy farmer, he’s really, she’s really at the end of their rope at the end of the last few years. And now we have to deal with the great unknown of how long the recession that’s caused by the virus is going to continue.” You’ll recall that February US milk output, adjusted for the extra “Leap Day,” was up 1.5% from February 2019. The USDA’s February Dairy Products Turn to MIELKE | Page 11
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report shows where the milk ended up. February cheese output totaled 1.03 billion pounds, down 1.0% from January, when adjusting for the leap day, but 0.1% above February 2019. That put the two month output up 0.6% from a year ago. American cheese totaled 415.0 million pounds, up 1.4% from January and 2.5% above a year ago, with YTD up 1.0%. Mozzarella, at 353.6 million pounds, was down 1.0% from January, 1.7% below year ago, with YTD off 0.5% Cheddar output, the cheese traded at the CME, was up 1.0% from January, up 3.7% from a year ago, with YTD up 1.2% Butter production came in at 179.2 million pounds, down 0.9% from January but 5.2% above a year ago, the ninth consecutive month butter output topped that of a year ago. YTD butter is up 3.6%. Revisions added 2.7 million pounds to January’s total. Dry whey for human consumption totaled 75.0 million pounds, down 3.0% from January and 1.7% below a year ago. YTD is up 1.0%. Stocks climbed to 73.7 million pounds, up 18.6% from January and 8.0% above a year ago. Nonfat dry milk output totaled 156.1 million pounds, down 5.3% from January and 2.0% below a year ago, with YTD powder up 0.1%. Stocks climbed to 317.5 million pounds, up 37 million or 13.2% from January and were 7.1 million pounds or 2.3% above the 2019 level. Skim milk powder amounted to 40.4 million pounds, up 7.7% from January and 9.6% above a year ago, with YTD up 5.2%. FC Stone notes that “Nonfat dry milk and skim milk powder had a bearish tilt in February. We saw production drop by some 9 million pounds but stocks increased 37 million pounds. Butter production was 7 million pounds higher than forecast and Cheddar production had 18 million pounds more than expected.” A falling All Milk price pulled February’s milk feed price ratio lower for the third month in a row and the lowest since September 2019. The USDA’s latest Ag Prices report put the ratio at 2.34, down from 2.41 in January but compares to 2.07 in February 2019. The index is based on the current milk price in relationship to feed prices for a ration consisting of 51% corn, 8% soybeans and 41% alfalfa hay. In other words, one pound of milk purchases 2.34 pounds of dairy feed containing that blend. The U.S. All-Milk price averaged $18.90 per hundredweight (cwt.), down 70 cents from January but is $2.10 above February 2019. California’s All Milk price was $18.60, down 80 cents from January but $2.10 above a year ago. Wisconsin’s, at $19.10, was down 30 cents from January but $2.80 above a year ago. The national average corn price averaged $3.78 per bushel, down a penny per bushel from January but 18 cents per bushel above February 2019. Soybeans averaged $8.59 per bushel, down25 cents from January but 7 cents per bushel above a year ago. Alfalfa hay averaged $171 per ton, unchanged from January but $9.00 per ton below a year ago. Looking at the cow side of the ledger; the February cull price for beef and dairy combined averaged $65.80 per cwt., up $4.40 from January, $6.90 above February 2019, but is $5.80 below the 2011 base average of $71.60 per cwt. Regarding those ever important feed prices, the Daily Dairy Report’s Sarina Sharp warned in the March 27 Milk Producers Council newsletter, that “Ethanol plants are slowing output or closing altogether, disrupting feed markets throughout the Corn Belt. The corn basis had been sky-high since the rains became problematic last spring, but now the basis is close to zero in much of the Corn Belt. Cash corn values are down hard. Dairy producers and other live-
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Grain Markets
Sanborn, MN Sanborn Farmer’s Elevator
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Almena, WI Synergy Cooperative
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In late 2019 international supplies of NFDM began to become tight, pushing cash values to $1.30/lb. Since then demand has been eroding prices with U.S. trading 86 cents, EU $1.10, and NZ $1.25. With the exception of whole milk powder most U.S. dairy product prices are the cheapest in the world. This normally allows U.S. exports to rebound significantly. Typically, regions such as the Middle East and North Africa/Black Sea region will respond to U.S. product value shopping with better demand. What can hinder this demand is a strong dollar or low energy prices. Ironically, both of these are at devastating levels for these buyers. This will be the first time dairy markets have had to find a disaster value that fixes the current market situation with no fixed government support programs in place. Over the coming weeks the dairy industry will get its first taste of how bad prices can get with no protective government price support floors.
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Diversied dairy makes meat an income stream
Fagle family dabbles in multiple ag ventures By Sherry Newell Contributing Writer
FAYETTE, Iowa – Dan Fagle started farming with seven cows, a truck, a motorcycle and $50. Today, after 33 years in business near Fayette, he and his family milk 62 cows along with managing 20 Angus cows, 25 ewes and a dozen laying hens. They also feed out 200 broiler chickens, 50 hogs, and 60 beef and dairy steers each year while raising the crops that feed them all. The diversication of Fagle View Farms is a source of pride for the family, and it adds meat sales to the milk sales they depend upon for a living.
“People raved about it, and they switched to buying our meats,” Dan said. The popularity created new challenges. “While many people were enjoying our meat, some cuts didn’t sell as well as others. Our freezer was getting full of meat that didn’t sell as quickly as, say, steaks or beef sticks,” Dan said. “We also found out that when people wanted their meat, they wanted it now, and the turnaround time to get a locker appointment, and get the beef processed and packaged to sell was about four weeks.” In addition, the Fagles had to pay for the processing of the
“I love it when people talk to others about how good (our meat) is.” MELISSA FAGLE, DAIRY FARMER
Dan and his wife, Melissa, started selling meat when people began asking the owner of the local feed store about buying steaks. The Fagles responded by sending dairy beef to the nearby Winthrop Locker to be inspected, cut and packaged into individually priced roasts, steaks, ground beef and beef sticks. Melissa began sampling at local vendor shows, and word got around that meat from the Fagles was a tasty, local option in the community.
beef only to wait until the meat sold to recover their investment. Soon, they quit processing animals for retail cuts and began offering their beef as quarters, halves or a whole beef. Now, they have a running list of customers, and when a whole animal is sold, they deliver it to the locker. “The customer pays us for the beef and then pays the locker for the processing,” Dan said. “And we’re not getting rich, but we enjoy doing it.”
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Dan and Melissa Fagle are raising sons Reed, 9, and Nate, 2, on their diversied farm near FayeƩe, Iowa. The family posts the availability of various animals on their Facebook page, Fagle View Meats, or on Melissa’s personal Facebook page. Melissa said it is not unusual to get ve or six inquiries each time. Fagle View Meats is also listed at IowaFreshFood.com. But it is word-of-mouth that generates most sales. “I love it when people talk to others about how good (our meat) is,” Melissa said. Some customers buy meat seasonally, and others take advantage of the Fagles’ butchering schedule. They work with
ewe ock grew from those initial lambs, and now the Fagles make fat lambs available seasonally for customers. Recently, the Fagles added a small Angus beef herd to the farm, adding to the dairy beef sales. Dan said feeding animals right makes a difference in meat quality. That includes raising his own crops for consistency of rations; he follows programs from Kent Feeds to produce high-quality meat. The Fagles’ diversication and dedication to farming is no Turn to FAGLE | Page 15
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Melissa Fagle, holding Nate, watches Reed feed calves on their farm near FayeƩe, Iowa. accident. Dan lost his rst wife, Sally, who worked alongside him on their dairy farm, to cancer in 2007. Dan and Sally raised three children, Chelsey, Nichole and Kayla, who all grew up involved with the farm. Chelsey and her husband, Jason Matthias, also raise animals and crops, and have three children. Chelsey milks with her father each morning. Nichole married into a farming family and lives with her husband, Chase Leech, on his home farm. The youngest, Kayla, has animals of her own, and is engaged to Cody Kuehl. Melissa and Dan, married 10 years, are parents to two boys, Reed, 9, and Nate, 2. Each of the children were given farm responsibilities, including raising broiler chickens as 4-H projects. In the gap between the girls and the boys, the
family continued to raise meat birds to ll their freezer. Now Reed is looking forward to his third year of showing broilers at the fair, handling his ock on his own. “I’m tickled to death,” said Dan of his family’s farming connections. “You wonder if your kids got it when you tried to teach them, but they did. After a recent review at her job, Kayla called to give me 100 percent credit and thank me for getting her out of bed and making her work hard every day.” Melissa, who works full time on the farm, said she loves having her kids and grandkids with her. “Our community sees us as a farm family,” she said. “A lot of people come to our farm and think it’s like Old McDonald’s farm. We love it, and we make it work for us.”
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Crop and Weather
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I farm with my dad, Paul, and my brother, Marc. We milk 250 cows and have 640 acres that we will plant. This year, we will do 130 acres of soybeans, 310 acres of corn, 160 acres of alfalfa and 40 acres of a cocktail mix of 60% BMR sorghum sudangrass, 25% annual rye grass, 15% of three different clovers. We have mostly medium black soil. We plan to get the equipment ready later this week and then hopefully next week we can haul out the lagoon.
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800 cows, 1,000 acres
My wife, Lisa, and I farm with our daughter, Ashley, and her husband, Justin Hoheisel. Ashley and Justin joined the operation about six years ago. We raise 750 acres of corn and 250 acres of alfalfa. Our soils are mostly loam and fairly level. My dad purchased this farm in 1961 and started milking in a 20-cow stanchion barn. We built a 60-cow tiestall barn in 1977. In 1999, we built a parlor and freestall setup that could accommodate 350 head and gradually grew our operation to where we are today.
(Day County)
DAVID EWALT
60 cows, 780 acres
This spring we will plant 200 acres of corn, 200 acres of soybeans, 70 acres of oats, and 140 acres of cover crops. We have 130 acres of alfalfa and 40 acres of grass hay. Our land is a mixture of clay and loam with a lot of sloughs. Our farm has been in the family for over 100 years. My grandpa, Anton Ewalt Sr., bought land for cheap during the 1930s and was able to give each of his six children a quarter section. Our son, Connard, graduated from college last year and has joined our operation.
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Crop and Weather Fort Atkinson, IA (Winneshiek County)
GLEN SCHMITT
560 cows, 1,500 acres
Crop and weather conditions in Dairy Star country
Rock Valley, IA (Sioux County)
STEVE ROZEBOOM 600 cows, 710 acres
Cumberland, WI (Barron County)
MIKE RIEBE
100 cows, 1,200 acres
Cadott, WI
(Chippewa County) RYAN HARM
100 cows, 585 acres
I farm in a family corporation with my brother, Greg, parents, Diane and Mark, and sisters Gail and Jane. My brother and I are the only ones that work on the farm. This year we will crop 1,500 acres; 950 acres of corn, 300 acres of hay, 150 acres of soybeans, and 100 acres of oats. Our soil varies a lot. We have sand, shell rock, peat, clay and black ground. We seeded 50 acres of oats yesterday (April 7) and have another 50 we would like to seed later this week. We’re emptying our heifer pit.
I farm with my brother, Brian, and our father, Glenn. We will plant 540 acres of corn and will have 170 acres of alfalfa. We have seven full-time employees. Our land is gently rolling, and our soils are loamy and very forgiving. This farm has been in our family since homesteading days. The farm changed hands during the Great Depression, but it always remained in the family. Dad began dairying here in 1971 after he returned home from his service in Vietnam. If the weather holds, we hope to start seeding 100 acres of new alfalfa next week.
We have about 1,200 acres of rented and owned land, including pasture. It is pretty heavy sandy silt loam soil with rolling hills. We plan to plant corn, soybeans, alfalfa, winter rye and oats. We use Jung Seeds. We are planning to plant about 200 acres of corn, 80 acres of soybeans, 300 acres of alfalfa and grasses, 40 acres of rye and 20 acres of oats. Last year, we planted some rye in August and harvested in October, and will be harvesting it again here this spring for heifer feed due to the alfalfa winterkill last year. We are hoping to get in by April 25 to May 1. We are starting to haul manure. People to the south and east of us are hoping for tillage around April 15 and planting by April 25.
We are farming about 585 acres. We own about 300 of that and rent the rest. We have clay soil and our rented ground is sandy, so we hope to be able to start there first. We plan to plant around 350 of corn and the rest will be clover, grasses and alfalfa. This year, we are going to try some clovers and grasses. Last fall, we did a bunch of cover crops like cereal rye and triticale, which were new to us. The rye and triticale are really coming on nicely, but could use some heat and sunshine. Our other fields have firmed up considerably but they need heat and sunlight, as well. It is probably three to four weeks out from doing any fieldwork yet.
Gleason, WI
Oconto Falls, WI
Brownsville, WI
Monroe, WI
(Lincoln County) BEN BONKE
(Shawano County)
SHAWN WAGNER
75 cows, 350 acres
650 cows, 1,400 acres
We run 350 acres on mostly clay soil. We usually plant corn, peas, oats and clover. The corn is from Terning Seed Company, the peas and oats come from Red Robin, and the clover comes from the LaCrosse Seed Company. I am planning for 120 acres of corn, all for chopping. And then about 60-80 acres of peas and oats. The rest will be clover. This year, we are going to plant sorghum sudangrass again. The fields are starting to dry, hopefully by the beginning of May we can start fieldwork.
We have 430 acres of standing alfalfa and will be planting 45 acres of new seeding alfalfa, 677 acres of corn silage, 38 acres of tropical corn silage and 190 acres of soybeans. This will be our first year planting soybeans. The tropical corn silage is also new for us. Last year, we planted sorghum sudangrass for dry cow feed. The overall crop quality was outstanding, but we struggled to get it harvested at the appropriate time which led us to try something different this year. We use a low-lignin alfalfa seed and Mycogen BMR corn silage seed. We work with an independent agronomist and a custom harvester who does our planting, harvesting and manure hauling. I do the tillage end of it. We have a sandy loam soil and some rolling hills. I disced 175 acres April 6, which is probably the earliest ever. We have some standing water right now, but at least half of our ground has tile drainage. I see some green starting to spurt up in our hay fields, and some people are currently planting new seeded alfalfa. We hope to plant corn by early May.
(Dodge County)
DAVID KINDSCHUH 80 cows, 500 acres
We farm on top of the Niagara Escarpment and our land is gently sloping, containing a limestone ledge and gravelly hills with a combination of high and low ground. Our soil is welldrained clay loam.We plant 50 acres of straight oats that we hope to get in by early April. We do a lot of no tilling, and the high ground is ready to go. We have 50 acres of alfalfa and will also plant 40 acres of new alfalfa, 250 acres of corn, 100 acres of beans and 50 acres of winter wheat in September and October. I didn’t get any winter wheat planted last fall because the ground was too wet and froze early. I have been a Renk Seed dealer for 42 years and use all their seed. I made corn stalks on April 6 and baled about 600 bales that week. I also did some chisel plowing on my silage ground from last year. I like to get my notill alfalfa in by mid-April. I put a lot of grass with my alfalfa and am going to put nitrogen on it as quick as I can. It helps the grass green up and makes more tons per acre. I may pick a higher, drier field to get going on corn or beans, but we’re supposed to get snow April 11. Typically, I shoot to be in the fields by May 1.
(Green County)
JOSH STEINER
90 cows, 180 acres We’re right along the Illinois border, which is flatter than northern Green County and have a 6% slope on average with good, productive soils. We plant 20 acres of soybeans, 80 acres of alfalfa and 60 acres of corn with Dairyland Seed. We plant contour strips and fall cover crops, and will plant 20 acres of rye after we chop corn. We take the rye off and then plant soybeans mid-May. I’ve tried winter wheat in the past, but the price of wheat combined with wet summers has led me to harvest rye for forage rather than wheat for straw. It makes more financial sense. The weather has been nice, and fields are currently welldrained and dry. Farmers around here have been seeding alfalfa. We recently disced our corn grounds and patched a couple hay fields that had winter kill with new alfalfa seed. Alfalfa looks like it’s going to come up good except for a few spots where we had ice.
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2019 Rolling Herd Averages above DHIA Average Dollar Value
Jackson/Nobles/ Cottonwood DHIA Representatives Producer Name BROCKSHUS DAIRY LLC D & S HILLTOP FARM LEUTHOLD DAIRY PEDLEY DAIRY
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Cheryl Hook Tyler, MN 23 years 507-530-5261 % Milk Sold 100 102 102 104
3X X X X
Producer Name
City
PENNOCK PENNOCK GROVE CITY PENNOCK BLOMKEST PRINSBURG NEW LONDON
% Milk Sold 105 102 101 104 105 99 99
Producer Name
BERNDT DAIRY GREGOR, DANIEL & ANNETTE HOEFS’ DAIRY MEADOW FRONT FARMS RYNDA, FRANCIS & THERESA SHANGHAI DAIRY INC.
City
ELYSIAN MONTGOMERY NEW PRAGUE CLEVELAND MONTGOMERY LE CENTER
BENSON DAIRY INC. BODE DAIRY + FEEDLOT CHRISTENSEN, JON HOWE HOLSTEINS JER-LEY HOLSTEINS KURTH, MICHAEL & KACIE KURTHKINE HOLSTEINS SCOTT & JACOLYN RICKEMAN SUNSHINE DAIRY LLC
City
STEWART GIBBON HUTCHINSON HUTCHINSON HUTCHINSON STEWART COSMOS HUTCHINSON ARLINGTON
3X X
% Milk Sold 100 101 101 103 98 105
3X
X
City LITCHFIELD WATKINS
% Milk Sold 103 104 100 101 104 101 98 101 100
3X X X
City ELK RIVER PRINCETON
164 61 46 57 70 624 52
Brd HO HO HO HO XX HO HO
Current Rolling Average Milk Fat Prot 27,083 23,475 22,951 24,372 21,745 22,931 22,876
1,019 880 909 994 867 822 880
855 733 714 789 722 740 719
$Value
$4,689 $4,073 $4,074 $4,461 $3,977 $3,949 $4,045
# Cows 87 66 293 124 49 332
Brd HO HO HO HO HO HO
Current Rolling Average Milk Fat Prot 23,148 23,285 24,735 24,060 23,225 24,212
912 991 1,038 965 911 941
748 769 799 792 727 758
$Value
$4,165 $4,371 $4,612 $4,395 $4,134 $4,263
# Cows 240 651 190 101 46 102 138 100 91
Brd HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO
Current Rolling Average Milk Fat Prot 24,506 25,450 23,186 22,119 24,076 22,586 24,347 26,473 26,829
945 932 885 867 910 826 1,022 1,024 995
$Value
804 805 706 696 773 710 769 840 826
$4,347 $4,377 $4,013 $3,920 $4,224 $3,881 $4,478 $4,702 $4,617
Current Rolling Average Milk Fat Prot 23,336 927 714 25,140 995 786
$Value $4,132 $4,477
Current Rolling Average Milk Fat Prot 28,143 1,006 856 20,212 882 669
$Value $4,739 $3,869
Jeff Piepenburg Grove City, MN 36 years 320-857-2112 % Milk Sold 98 99
3X
Mille Lacs DHIA Representative Producer Name CANC FLYINGCOW DAIRY
# Cows
Andrew Alsleben Glencoe, MN 58 years 320-864-4884
Meeker DHIA Representative Producer Name HEUER, STEVE&DEB WARREN, JOHN & MIKE
$Value $4,768 $4,419 $4,731 $5,000
Darcy Freohlich Kerkhoven, MN 3 years 320-905-5609
McLeod/ Renville/Sibley DHIA Representative Producer Name
Current Rolling Average Milk Fat Prot 27,917 1,032 847 26,187 938 802 25,499 1,092 806 29,033 1,099 876
Tracie Vikla Lonsdale, MN 4 years 507-581-2205
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AMINO PLUS SOY ISOLATE WHEAT MIDDS WHEAT GERM MEAL BEET PULP CASEINATES CHEESE SCRAPS SAW DUST FOOD BY-PRODUCTS LACTOSE NONFAT DRY MILK SUGAR/DEXTROSE WHEY PROTEIN POWDER
Brd HO HO HO HO
Kandiyohi DHIA Representative
BECKMAN FARMS INC BLDG-BLOCK FARM GROSHENS, COREY HALLBERG, DAVID & STEPHANIE PENNINGS, LAWRENCE POORTVLIET DAIRY SWART, ROGER & MARY
CANOLA MEAL CORN GLUTEN FEED CORN DISTILLERS GRAINS CORN STARCH LINSEED MEAL FLAX SEED OAT HULLS RICE HULLS SOYBEAN MEAL SOY BEST SOYBEAN HULLS SOY FLOUR SOY PLUS
# Cows 647 312 151 306
Daryl Hook Tyler, MN 38 years 507-530-5472
% Milk Sold 107 101
# Cows 35 143
Brd HO HO
Brenna French Foley, MN 715-557-1447 3X X
# Cows 69 166
Brd HO XX
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Continued from DHIA / Page 18 John Kelzer Randall, MN 24 years 320-749-2805
Morrison DHIA Representatives Producer Name HOURSCHT DAIRY WALCHESKI FARMS
City LITTLE FALLS FOLEY
% Milk Sold 100 100
Bruce David Rice, MN 36 years 320-393-4206
3X
# Cows 82 76
Mower DHIA Representative
Producer Name JAX DAIRY FARM INC. MILLER’S BLUE RIDGE FARMS TWIN SPRUCE
City ADAMS RICEVILLE ROSE CREEK
Murray DHIA Representatives Producer Name JOHNSON DAIRY POST, BILL RIDGEVIEW DAIRY RYLAARSDAM DAIRY FARMS SCHWARTZ DAIRY THISTLE DEW DAIRY VANDER WAL DAIRY
Olmsted DHIA Representatives Producer Name
ANDRING, MATT BLUE HORIZON FARM BORST FAMILY DAIRY LLC BROGANS OAK HEIGHTS FJEL-MAR DAIRY HIDDEN HILL DAIRY LLC IHRKE FARMS KYLLO, PAUL LITTLE VALLEY DAIRY REILAND FARMS SHEEHAN, JAMES AND JEROME SHEEHAN, ROBERT AND JEANNETTE SIEM, RICHARD AND DAN TERRA MCCREE HOLSTEINS TWOHEY, EDWARD
City ST PETER FAIRFAX NEW ULM NICOLLET NEW ULM ST PETER
% Milk Sold 100 99 99
3X X
# Cows 1,168 230 88
DOVER ROCHESTER ROCHESTER ST CHARLES ZUMBRO FALLS ST CHARLES EYOTA BYRON PLAINVIEW LEROY ROCHESTER ROCHESTER ROCHESTER BYRON STEWARTVILLE
658 head sold
$Value $4,758 $4,324
Brd HO HO HO
% Milk Sold 103 100 103 103 103 99 102
# Cows 103 X 134 205 253 121 121 X 727
3X
3X
X
% Milk Sold 102 103 99 102 103 102 99 103 102 103 103 100 99 101 102
X X
X
2ND & 4TH THURSDAYS:11 a.m. Stock cows Baby & Started calves • Feeder Cattle
Current Rolling Average Milk Fat Prot 26,783 1,068 832 23,958 923 756 27,759 1,205 885
3RD THURSDAY: 9 a.m. Dairy Sale • Springers, Bred & Open Heifers • Breeding Bulls • Herd Dispersals
$Value $4,756 $4,222 $5,235
Brd HO WW HO XX HO HO HO
Current Rolling Average Milk Fat Prot 24,279 952 764 27,538 1,003 872 26,117 991 812 21,498 839 713 22,462 901 742 26,656 1,057 848 23,020 837 724
$Value $4,342 $4,725 $4,549 $3,841 $4,093 $4,805 $3,848
Producer Name BROOKSIDE DAIRY BURKE DAIRY INC DREYER DAIRY
City CLITHERALL SEBEKA OTTERTAIL
% Milk Sold 100 104 104
3X X X
Pipestone Livestock Auction Market, Inc. PIPESTONE, MN
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# Cows 194 149 175 284 113 62
Brd HO HO HO HO XX HO
# Cows 129 690 274 519 300 352 140 95 166 492 261 58 217 91 302
Brd HO HO HO HO XX HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO
Current Rolling Average Milk Fat Prot 28,679 1,124 894 25,202 1,004 793 24,227 900 765 28,181 1,019 897 25,438 885 799 28,425 1,086 890
Brd XX HO HO
• Liquid Manure Handling • Solid Manure Handling • Trucking • Pushing & Packing
$Value $5,085 $4,487 $4,203 $4,835 $4,277 $4,983
951 1,201 979 923 899 970 915 912 975 1,230 964 1,003 940 956 910
798 925 801 768 756 772 846 734 761 941 746 774 762 773 745
$Value $4,422 $5,385 $4,529 $4,271 $4,120 $4,396 $4,511 $4,089 $4,324 $5,450 $4,274 $4,446 $4,269 $4,330 $4,196
Becky Bitzen Parkers Prairie 2 years • 320-815-1426
# Cows 486 178 561
320-760-0848
Warren Farr Stewartville MN 7 years 507-533-9379
Current Rolling Average Milk Fat Prot 25,071 30,850 26,483 24,852 22,364 24,440 28,531 22,335 24,563 29,904 24,035 24,569 24,227 24,388 24,522
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Ron Lange Lewiston, MN 26 years 507-523-2020
3X
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Rebecca Novey Courtland, MN 5 years 262-995-8970 % Milk Sold 105 104 105 100 102 101
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Daryl Hook Tyler, MN 38 years 507-530-5472
Dale Woodward Eyota, MN 33 years 507-545-2137
City
DAIRY SALE RESULTS
FROM MARCH 19, 2020
Current Rolling Average Milk Fat Prot 26,567 1,054 846 24,776 954 766
Cheryl Hook Tyler, MN 23 years 507-530-5261
City HERON LAKE CHANDLER LAKE WILSON CHANDLER SLAYTON WESTBROOK SLAYTON
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Warren Farr Stewartville MN 6 years 507-533-9379
Nicollet DHIA Representative Producer Name ANNEXSTAD DAIRY FARMS INC BASTIAN DAIRY BERANEK BROTHERS LLP PAUL AND CINDY SWENSON R K D DAIRY SEITZER, PETER
Brd HO HO
NEXT DAIRY SALE
Brenna French Foley, MN 715-557-1447
Current Rolling Average Milk Fat Prot 27,344 959 826 26,380 1,123 817 23,111 906 765
$Value $4,574 $4,872 $4,163
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% Milk Sold 102 108 102 106 99 102 100 99 102 107 102 101 100 100 103 101
X X X X X X
# Cows 136 162 202 165 40 389 82 63 181 91 296 163 353 50 500 187
3X X
# Cows 434 63
Cheryl Hook Tyler, MN 23 years 507-530-5261 % Milk Sold 101 102 99 101 101 100 100 102 100
City LAKE BENTON EDGERTON PIPESTONE EDGERTON EDGERTON PIPESTONE HOLLAND PIPESTONE HOLLAND
Brd HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO
Current Rolling Average Milk Fat Prot 29,606 1,105 893 23,109 932 728 23,920 1,002 775 26,891 1,097 876 25,398 898 777 24,949 888 755 23,571 980 760 21,913 859 695 26,527 981 841 23,167 917 729 25,608 917 795 22,116 895 718 27,542 1,107 881 22,508 939 737 25,624 1,047 841 25,653 1,000 830
Brd HO HO
Current Rolling Average Milk Fat Prot 30,044 1,117 881 24,211 913 752
Daryl Hook Tyler, MN 38 years 507-530-5472
3X X X X X X X
# Cows Brd 1,205 HO 530 HO 115 HO 551 HO 406 HO 1,418 HO 647 HO 36 HO 902 HO
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Current Rolling Average Milk Fat Prot 25,991 997 821 26,565 1,007 803 27,037 1,031 823 28,070 1,029 894 26,501 1,071 833 27,277 1,092 861 26,586 1,005 825 28,008 1,084 842 30,519 1,155 953
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Tom Quist Center City, MN 39 years 651-583-3226
% Milk Sold 102 105
City PINE CITY HINCKLEY
3X X
$Value $4,554 $4,564 $4,702 $4,883 $4,792 $4,897 $4,607 $4,888 $5,300
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With the coronavirus keeping us hunkered down on the farm, life is not much different than before. It has forced me to stop restocking my shelves and using what I have on hand for meals, which is probably a blessing. A heifer broke her leg, and I have to make room for more hamburger. For many of you, the kids are home from school and trying to learn remotely. If you have a hands-on learner, then they are going to love these projects in the kitchen. I found a couple of websites with food science experiments. I wish my teachers had access to these neat ideas. Maybe I would have taken science more seriously. Check out http://www. weareteachers.com or http://www. littlebinsforlittlehands.com. I lost track of time looking at these sites. It made me wish my kids were still around to play mad scientist in the kitchen. Edible soil layers Using a clear glass, layer the ingredients to visualize the different layers of soil. Bedrock: chocolate and butterscotch chips. - Subsoil: chocolate pudding. - Topsoil: crushed Oreo cookies. - Organic material: green colored coconut and gummy worms. Colored deviled eggs with natural homemade colors Hard boiled eggs Food coloring 1 teaspoon vinegar for each color Water Remove the shells from the hard boiled eggs and slice each egg in half. Remove the yolks from egg halves and
place in a bowl. Set yolks aside. Get enough mugs for the number of colors you want to use. Fill two-thirds of the way full with cold water. Add three drops of desired food coloring along with 1 teaspoon vinegar to each mug. Place egg whites in mugs and allow to sit in the food coloring until desired color is reached. Remove whites from dye and drain on a plate lined with a couple of paper towels. Make your favorite deviled egg lling. Mine is mashed egg yolks combined with Miracle Whip, vinegar or sour pickle juice, mustard and salt. We like them with a bit of bite. Top with paprika. Now if you are ambitious, you can make your own natural color dyes. Red/ purple is probably the easiest. Just use pickled beet juice. You can use spices for yellow and orange colors. Boil 2 cups of water with 2 tablespoons turmeric or 2 tablespoons paprika for 5 minutes. Pour into cups or bowls. Add 1 tablespoon vinegar. For the color blue, you will need to boil 2 cups of water with 3 1/2 cups of frozen blueberries for 5 minutes. Strain color liquid into cups or bowls and add 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Since we cannot gather together for an Easter church service, here is a way to teach the resurrection story. I found this in my church cookbook when the kids were in grade school. We made these cookies together as we talked about the Easter story. Here is a hint. Like any good 4-H demonstration, have everything premeasured and prepared to move smoothly between the steps to keep their attention. I cannot wait to do this with our grandkids.
Food columnist, Natalie Schmitt Resurrection cookies 1 cup whole pecans 1 teaspoon vinegar 3 egg whites Pinch of salt 1 cup sugar Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Place pecans in zipper baggie and let children beat them with a wooden spoon to break them into small pieces. Explain that after Jesus was arrested, he was beaten by the Roman soldiers. Read John 19:1-3. Let the children smell the vinegar. Put 1 teaspoon into the mixing bowl. Explain that when Jesus was thirsty on the cross, he was given vinegar to drink. Read John 19:28-30. Add egg whites to vinegar. Eggs represent life. Explain that Jesus gave
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his life to give us life. Read John 10:1011. Sprinkle a little salt into each child’s hand. Let them taste it and brush the rest into the bowl. Explain that this represents the salty tears shed by Jesus’ followers and the bitterness of our own sin. Read Luke 23:27. So far the ingredients are not very appetizing. Add 1 cup of sugar. Explain that the sweetest part of the story is that Jesus died because he loves us. He wants us to know and belong to him. Read Isaiah 1:18 and John 3:1-3. Fold in broken nuts. Drop by teaspoonful onto a wax paper covered cookie sheet. Explain that each mound represents the rocky tomb where Jesus’ body was laid. Read Matthew 27:6566. Put the cookie sheet in the oven. Close the door and turn the oven off. Give each child a piece of tape and seal the oven door. Explain that Jesus’ tomb was sealed. Read Matt 27:65-66. Go to bed. Explain to children that they may feel sad to leave the cookies in the oven overnight. Jesus’ followers were in despair when the tomb was sealed. Read John 16:20 and 22. On Resurrection morning, open the oven and give everyone a cookie. Notice the cracked surface and take a bite. The cookies are hollow. On the rst Resurrection day, Jesus’ followers were amazed to nd the tomb open and empty. Read Matthew 28:1-9. He has risen. Hallelujah. Natalie, Mark and his brother Al, farm together near Rice, Minn. They milk 100 registered Holsteins under the RALMA prex. Their four children are grown up and all involved in agriculture with hopes of someone returning to the farm. For questions or comments, please email Natalie at mnschmitt@jetup.net.
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