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For June Dairy Month, we asked dairy producers who have been milking cows for over 30 years what they love about dairying.
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Loretta & Burnell Krohnfeldt
Reino Aho Dairy Farming for
Reino Aho milks 530 cows with his family near Wolf Lake, Minn.
41 Years
How many years have you been dairy farming? I have been farming 41 years. Tell us about your farm. We farm in a partnership with four of my brothers. We milk 500 cows and grow alfalfa and corn. What has been the key to the longevity of your dairy career? Commitment and being able to take the poor years knowing there will be good years, too. What has been your most memorable dairy farming experience? In March 2013, part of our barn roof collapsed because of snow load, and the whole community came out to help get us back on our feet. What do you love about dairy farming? The lifestyle and working with God’s creation. This is a great place to raise a family. What advice do you have for people considering dairy farming as their career? To look at the commitment needed, it is something you have to be involved in seven days a week, 24 hours a day. What does June Dairy month mean to you? Every month is dairy month, to me! What is your favorite dairy product or prepared dish with a dairy product in it? Milk or Ice cream
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Loretta and Burnell Krohnfeldt milk 75 cows near Leaf Valley, Minn.
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How many years have you been dairy farming? We have been farming for 50 years. Tell us about your farm. We farm here with my son, Kevin, and his wife, Steph. Kevin runs the land and we take care of the cows and buy the feed from Kevin. What has been the key to the longevity of your dairy career? There have been several keys. My wife working side-by-side with me, being open-minded, adapting to change and learning from our mistakes. What has been your most memorable dairy farming experience? Sharing our love of the farm with our children and now grandkids. What do you love about dairy farming? I love being my own boss and having the kids grow up with us on the farm. I love the cows and working with the animals. I also like seeing your rewards for doing a good job; if you do a good job with the cows, the cows do good; if you do a good job with the crops, the crops do good. What advice do you have for people considering dairy farming as their career? Be dedicated and work hard, run a low-cost operation and make investments that will pay off. Keep on learning. It denitely helps to have a wife that supports you 100 percent. What does June Dairy month mean to you? Every month is June dairy month. It’s just recognized because of the media attention to our industry. What is your favorite dairy product or prepared dish with a dairy product in it? Any ice cream or pizza.
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David Sellner
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Dairy Farming for
46 Years
David Sellner milks 106 cows near Sleepy Eye, Minn.
How many years have you been dairy farming? Our dairy farm will be in the family four generations. I started milking when I was 13. I started farming in 1973, in a partnership with my dad. Tell us about your farm. My farm is 390 acres. We raise corn, alfalfa, oats and soybeans. I am in partnership with my son, Christopher. We call our farm Autumn Breeze Dairy. We milk 106 cows in the original tiestall barn built by my grandfather. Our herd of Holsteins, Brown Swiss, Jerseys, and Red and White Holsteins are housed in a freestall barn which we built the fall of 2011. All of our calves and youngstock are raised and housed on the farm. What has been the key to the longevity of your dairy career? The key to my longevity…It’s in my genes. I look to the hard work ethic of the generations before me—my dad, my aunts, and my grandmother. I hope to be able to still farm for many more years, just like my dad. He’s 91 years old and still comes to our farm to help out when he’s able. Also a key to my longevity—my good knees. And a good wife. What has been your most memorable dairy farming experience? My personal most memorable dairy farm experience was getting twin Holstein heifer calves from a cow that I bred. It was my rst successful insemination in 1979. It was also memorable watching my children take an active interest in farming. Whether it was showing cattle in 4-H or returning to the farm. My oldest daughter dairy farms with her husband, my son farms with me, the second daughter is a high school math teacher but helps us on the weekends, and my youngest daughter works at Trans Ova. What do you love about dairy farming? I love being able to work with family. My wife and I raised four children on our farm and we were able to work sideby-side. Even today, my daughters come home on weekends to help my son and me. I also enjoy clean cows and the fun of watching two-week-old calves when we add fresh straw to their pens. What advice do you have for people considering dairy farming as their career? Use the KISS approach—Keep it Simple and Smart. At the end of the day, make sure to thank God for your good days, but also for your bad days. Be thankful for the lessons you can learn from the bad days. What is your favorite dairy product or prepared dish with a dairy product in it? Butter brickle ice cream. What does June Dairy month mean to you? I appreciate the acknowledgement from area businesses for June Dairy Month. It’s nice to know businesses realize the importance of the dairy industry to the local economy, but also that businesses realize the hard work and dedication that goes into producing milk.
Lawrence Pennings milks 64 cows near Blomkest, Minn., with his grandson, Wes Kleinjan.
Lawrence Pennings
Dairy Farming for
59 Years
How many years have you been dairy farming? I have been milking on my own for 59 years. But I started milking my family’s cows in Sioux County, Iowa at the age of 9 until I graduated high school. Tell us about your farm. I moved here in 1955 after nishing two years in the service. I started out with three cows I bought on a sale. I continued to buy a few heifers and cows once in a while. By 1974, we went from 32 cows to 64 cows after remodeling the barn twice. My wife, Marty, and I are still milking 64 cows using four units in our tiestall barn with our grandson, Wes Kleinjan. We also run 160 acres of corn. What has been the key to the longevity of your dairy career? The thing that has kept me going is my family. I love working with them everyday. I also love to work outside and with the animals. What has been the most memorable dairy farming experience? I had a heart attack 20 years ago. I didn’t know if I would be able to milk cows any more. Fifty-ve percent of my heart was dead and the operation took 17 hours to complete. While I was in the hospital and in rehab, my family took care of the cows. Less than a month after rehab, I was in the barn milking the cows. I got tired more easily, but I was still doing it. When I went in for my check ups, they told me, ‘I don’t know what you are doing, but don’t change anything’. Being in the barn actually help me heal. What do you love about dairy farming? There are so many things. I love the cows and getting up early in the morning. There is nothing like the view of a sunrise. God gives you one everyday. I gure if I am sleeping, I am wasting it. What advice do you have for people considering dairy farming as their careers? You are going to have to like the business end of the dairy farm as much as the cows. With size of farms today, you will be chasing people as much as cows. What does June Dairy Month mean to you? There is a lot of advertising going on, but it helps give a positive impression of dairy farming and helps with prices. But most importantly, it keeps dairy in front of people. What is your favorite dairy product or prepared dish with a dairy product in it? A big glass of ice-cold milk. The colder it is, the better.
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REPORTS
CROP & WEATHER
NORTHERN MINNESOTA
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Chippewa Clark
Eau Claire
CENTRAL WISCONSIN
Pepin Buffalo
Trempealeau
Polk Polk
It’s been cool and damp here, but things are growing pretty good. We cut and round baled and small square baled 20 acres of our first crop (June 23) and have another 35 acres down. Nobody else has cut much in this area. We’ll get two crops off a quarter of our hay fields and just one crop off the rest. ARTHUR The oats and wheat look really good. KRAHN The soybeans are barely up and the Warroad, MN corn we got in early stands at about 10(Roseau Co.) 12”. We haven’t had an inch of rain the 40 cows, 160 acres past two weeks. We pasture our cows and the bull – flies have been really bad.
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Crop and weather h conditions d in Dairy Star country. SOUTH DAKOTA Our first crop was really good, we didn’t have it tested but our nutritionist reduced the soybean meal in the ration. We’ll cut second crop July 5. We are spraying our corn now, it stands about 30” tall. Our notill soybeans are lagging behind. The ones on the tilled ground look good. BOB We sprayed for weevils and they said FREDRICKSON there was some aphid activity after Arlington, SD that. We plan to spray soybeans next (Brookings Co.) week. We have some corn standing 200 cows, 1,500 acres in water on low ground, but things look really good around here.
CENTRAL MINNESOTA We have all the dairy hay up. I cut June 7-8 and chopped it June 10-11. The hay tested 128 RFV and 22 protein. I have 20 acres of heifer hay that we should be able to wrap tomorrow. The weevils and aphids in our field are quite bad. The second crop was greening up and then it got pale in color. The neighbors DANIEL have started spraying for them. The ROERICK corn that’s not under water is better than knee high and looks really good. Burtrum, MN (Morrison Co.) The corn fields are getting pretty hard. 80 cows, 220 acres We’ve had 2.5 inches of rain the past two weeks.
SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA
MATT ANDRING St. Charles, MN (Olmsted Co.)
115 cows, 700 acres
We plan to cut second crop in a little over a week, depending on the weather. I haven’t heard of anybody in this area that has had to spray for weevils or aphids. The corn we planted in early May looks great and is almost chest high. The soybeans are 12” tall and look better than the corn. A lot of guys have been spraying the soybeans. Most are done spraying the corn. We’ve received 5.5 inches of rain the last couple weeks so we have plenty of moisture but it’s warm and things are growing. The crops look pretty good in our area.
EASTERN IOWA We got first crop hay and planting done the same day, June 14. The second crop is coming back really good and is knee high already. Some area corn looks really good and stands waist high. Mine is 4” tall; I planted on Monday and we rolled it on Saturday. The oats and barley are heading out. We’ve had 10” of rain the last two weeks. The fields are wet. A few guys are trying to spray but there are a lot of low spots.
We haven’t done any first crop hay because we can’t string a couple days together to work on it. Some fields have been laying for a while and are turning brown. The guys that cut, can’t get it off. The corn stands about 8-10” and looks really decent. The soybeans that were planted early in the area look really nice. We’ve had over 3” of rain the last two weeks. We’ve been missing the heavy rains but getting the smaller ones. Near Owen, one farmer was having trouble with cutworms.
MARK FROST Withee, WI (Clark Co.)
60 cows, 265 acres
NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN We cut first crop hay on June 8 and harvested on June 11. The hay tested 150 RFV, 20 protein and we yielded 2.2 tons dry matter an acre. There is a lot of variation in the second crop because we’ve had too much water. Our corn is 6-8” FRED BROKER high and looks yellow. We haven’t Rice Lake, WI sprayed anything yet. We have a 26 (Barron Co.) acre field of corn that we haven’t 150 cows, 270 acres planted. I think we’ll try to plant it in forage. We’ve had 4-5” of rain the last two weeks.
WESTERN WISCONSIN
CHUCK BUSHMAN Castalia, IA (Fayette Co.)
80 cows, 750 acres
SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
WESTERN IOWA
The alfalfa is up and baled. We big square baled it all June 13. There is 275 bales in the shed. The second crop is coming a little slower because we’ve had 7” in the last two weeks. We plan to replant a drowned out spot tomorrow (June 25) and will replant another 10 acres when it dries up. I plan to take JAN ZUIDEMA second crop next week. The corn Blomkest, MN stands knee high and hasn’t grown a (Kandiyohi Co.) lot the last two weeks because it’s wet. 60 cows, 350 acres The soybeans are 2-3” tall. I’ll have to replant 5 acres in a 90 acre field that stood in water too long.
We’ve got about 6-7” of rain the last two weeks. In Pipestone County, Minnesota some areas had 20”. Sioux City and Sioux County had their wettest months on record by June 20. Our crops look green and lush except for the low spots. The majority of corn stands over 6’ and BILL KOOIKER looks really good. The soybeans are Orange City, IA 8” tall and look good. We plan to cut (Sioux Co.) our new seeding alfalfa in the next 350 cows, 1,000 acres two weeks. Minus the flood damage, Iowa corn looks fantastic. It could be a great year.
We’ve got a load and a half of first crop hay left. We started cutting two weeks ago, but had mower problems, otherwise we would be done. Everybody is pretty much done chopping. The second crop that I cut first is up and it won’t be long before we cut that. Some fields are awfully short. The corn is RON KANNEL growing and some is knee high and Elmwood, WI (Pierce Co.) the soybeans are 6-7” tall. The fields are soft so we haven’t been able to 60 cows, 400 acres spray. We’ve had 4-6” of rain the last couple weeks.
SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN
TOM NOVAK Highland, WI (Iowa Co.)
65 cows, 220 acres
Tomorrow (June 25) will be four weeks since we harvested first crop alfalfa. We had four inches of rain June 16-19 and a couple rain showers since then. I finished cultivating today, most of the corn is waist high. The corn is so tall I have to lift the cultivator up because I sidedress with the cultivator and try to get the nitrogen on somehow. The small grains that farmers harvest for forage is really close. We’ve had 880 GDU (Growing degree units). The crop progress has been great, the biggest problem in our area has been weed control.
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