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Volume 19, No. 10
July 8, 2017
“We bought his land with the assumption that we’d have it forever...” – Jason Weisenbeck
Weisenbeck family ghts to keep land from eminent domain
Sand from dredging the Mississippi River to be stored on acres along the banks By Danielle Nauman danielle.n@dairystar.com
NELSON, Wis. – The Weisenbeck family was thrown a curve ball on May 12 in the form of a Fed-Ex package from the Army Corps of Engineers (ACE). That package contained a plan for dredge work needing to be done on the Mississippi, and explained to this dairy farming family how it would suddenly become the focal point of their lives. The Weisenbeck family owns about 175 of the 470 acres of land, which they must
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Jason Weisenbeck stands near the 80-acre eld targeted as part of Plan A – land he may have to involuntarily sell to the Army Corps of Engineers to store sand from dredging a porƟon of the Mississippi River. The Weisenbecks milk 1,300 cows near Nelson, Wis.
involuntarily sell to the ACE to store sand from dredging a portion of the Mississippi River. The Weisenbecks milk 1,300 cows on their dairy, Burnside Dairy, near Nelson and Durand, Wis. “We bought his land with the assumption that we’d have it forever, to grow feed for our herd. As we’ve acquired land, we’ve added cows,” said Jason Weisenbeck, who by default is fast becoming the family’s expert on the situation. Weisenbeck’s farm, Burnside Dairy, is home to over 2,500 total head of livestock. The Weisenbeck family also farms 2,000 acres located between the home farm outside of Durand, and another farm just outside of Nelson. Jason Weisenbeck, along with his father, Bill, and brothers, Paul
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The route to automation
Bernings use robots for milking, calf feeding By Jennifer Coyne jenn@dairystar.com
ST. MICHAEL, Minn. – Since 2010, the Bernings have incorporated automated tools to improve efciency on their dairy, and now they would not farm any other way. Brothers Mark and Paul Berning, and Mark’s son, David, are partners at Green Waves Farm, Inc., near St. Michael, Minn., where they are milking 375 cows with eight robots and raising their heifer calves on an automatic feeder. The Bernings hosted a University of Minnesota Extension eld day June 30 showcasing their technology advancements to more than 200 dairy farmers and members of the community. “When we installed the calf feeder seven years ago, my brother said, ‘If those robotic milkers work as good as these calf feeders, we should invest in them right away,’” Mark said. “Now, it’s 2017 and we’ve nally completely the project.” Paul agreed. “We’ve basically done everything,
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The Bernings – (from leŌ) Paul, Stacy, Isabelle, Sharon, David, Sara, Mark and Julie – milk 375 cows with eight robots near St. Michael, Minn. Not pictured are Paul and Stacy’s sons, Blake, Brandon and Brady. starting with a tiestall barn to complete automation,” he said. The milking cows are housed in a cross-ventilated freestall barn that was built in 2014 with four milking robots. This past April, an expansion was completed, where an exact replica of the barn was added onto the west end of the building, accommodating four additional ro-
bots.
Pre-fresh heifers are also located in the barn, where they have roughly 10 days prior to calving to become acclimated to the milking machines. “We’re training them,” Mark said. “We run them through once or twice a day, with a few servings of pellets. They’re in the robots for about 3 minutes as the arm
moves back and forth.” At the point where the expansion and the original barn meet, two large bedded packs are available – one for fresh or problem cows and another for newborn calves. Within a few days of birth, heifer calves are moved to the group housing faTurn to BERNINGS | Page 6
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Now that the calendar has turned to July, we are bracing for the hot and humid summer weather. In this issue’s “From our side of the fence” feature, we talked to dairy farmers about methods they use to keep animals cool during the warmer months of the year. Read about it on pages 15-16 in rst section. On the other hand, farmers need to also care for themselves during extreme heat. Read on pages 12-13 in rst section about a story we wrote about how farmers can keep cool and prevent heat exhaustion while caring for their cattle. July is also an exciting time for two families who added By Mark Klaphake robots to their farms. Both the Pechous and the Andringa Editor families will be hosting open houses this month – the Pechous family on July 15 on their dairy near Tabor, S.D., and the Andringas on July 22 on their dairy near Castlewood, S.D. The Pechouses moved their herd into a new monoslope tunnel ventilated barn with four robots and room for 240 cows last fall. For the Andringas, four robots replaced a double-10 parlor on one of their two farms. Their facility has a unique layout in a U shape. Read about the Pechous family on pages 3-4 in second section and the Andringa family on pages 3-4 in third section. Starting this issue and for each subsequent issue until the Princess Kay of the Milky Way coronation, we will feature four of the Princess Kay nalists to learn more about their previous dairy experience and why they wanted to be a dairy princess. In this issue, read about Rebecca Schubert, representing Benton County; Gina Holdvogt, representing Stearns County; Ashley Warren, representing Meeker County; and Jessaca Zuidema, presenting Kandiyohi County. They are featured on pages 22-25 in second section. On June 27, the Sellners had a busy day of cutting and chopping their second crop alfalfa. We featured Mike and Judy Sellner along with their son-in-law, Ryan Pierson, in this issue’s “Day in the life” feature. The family, who milks 120 cows near Sleepy, Eye, Minn., talked about how their day didn’t go as planned, but it still turned out to be successful. Read about their day on pages 18, 20-21 in second section. This year is special for the Perkins family. The Minnesota Farm Bureau is recognizing them as having a sesquicentennial farm. The family milks 1,000 cows near Red Wing, Minn.; however, they have grown slowly over the years. Plus, they stressed farming isn’t about the size of the dairy. Read about their history and how they got to where they are today on pages 5-6 in third section.
Favorite quotes from this issue:
“Some of them have been with us quite a long time. That’s why we gave them every chance to – and gave it to them all along – get on Grade A. Almost all our plants are going to strictly Grade A milk. It got to the point where we had to do something.” - Terry Hanson (Second Section, Pages 16-17)
“Ninety to 95 percent of kids have never been to a farm. Kids need to know where their food comes from, and not from the grocery store.” - Mike Robers (Second Section, Pages 27-29)
By the Numbers
herd average of 31,800: Rolling D&D Dairy, coupled with 1,164 pounds of fat and 960 pounds of protein. (Pages 18, 20 in First Section)
6: miles from the Canadian border is where Don and Gene Bitzer dairy farm. (First Section, Pages 35, 37)
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FIRST SECTION
Sleepy Eye
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Second Section: Pages 18, 20 - 21
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The Weisenbecks’ 80-acre eld at the juncƟon of Highways 25 and 35 is targeted by the Army Corp of Engineers to use for sand storage. and Bill, raise about 1,300 acres of corn and 700 acres of alfalfa each year. Weisenbeck said 100 percent of the crops grown on their farm are used for feeding their own herd of dairy cattle. The family has been involved in the dairy industry since 1919, and milking in their current facilities since 2000. The dredging plan for Lower Pool 4 of the Mississippi encompasses 40 years and nearly 11 million cubic yards of sand the ACE is planning to store on farmland near the river. Land acquisition by the ACE is broken into two phases. The rst phase, Plan A, will take 80 acres from the Weisenbecks’ farm that also happens to be one of the Weisenbeck family’s best elds. It is on the edge of a residential area that borders their second farm where Weisenbeck’s parents reside. The second wave of the plan will take most of that farm. The ACE hopes to implement Plan A by February. The loss of this production land will create problems for Burnside Dairy through lost feed production. They will either need to source and purchase additional feedstuffs or cut back their herd size to what can be supported on fewer acres. They will also need to make changes to their nutrient management plan with the loss of land for manure. In addition to the Weisenbecks, four other farms are being targeted for land acquisition by the ACE. However, Weisenbeck said the effects will be felt far beyond those four families. The project will have a great impact on
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The milking herd is housed in a cross-venƟlated freestall barn that was built in 2014. AŌer an expansion this past spring, the barn now includes eight milking robots and two automaƟc feed pushers. cility, which was built in 2010, while bull calves are sold. “By the end of the year, we should be milking 480 cows, so we’re keeping every heifer. Our goal is to have 15 heifers a month, which will be enough for replacements,” Mark said. The Bernings are currently raising nearly 50 heifer calves in two group pens with one automated calf feeder. “Ideally, we’d like to be at 20 calves or less in each pen,” Mark said. “It’s a little more work to get the timid calves to drink when there are too many in the pen.” At 3 months of age, the calves are moved to a custom growing site. They return to the farm as springing heifers and are housed in the old freestall barn with dry cows. When Mark and Paul’s father purchased the farm site in 1993, the only functional buildings were a loang shed and brick milking barn. By 1999, the family had developed a plan for building renovations and expansions, beginning with a freestall barn built two years later. In the years that followed, the Bernings continually updated their facilities and made on-farm improvements to better the herd and also the farm’s position for the future. “I didn’t expect to do the expansion as quickly as we did, but when everything was clicking and everyone had a good role, we decided to do it sooner rather than later,” said Mark about the four newer robots and development of the freestall barn. David joined the operation in 2014, and works alongside his father and uncle. As Mark oversees the farm and handles bookwork, Paul is responsible for animal nutrition and eldwork, while David manages the milking robots. “Would we have done this if David weren’t coming back? Probably, but not at this scale,” Paul said. “David and his generation all know about technology. To us, it’s a foreign language that we’re learning
from them.” David credits the livestock for his ability to join the family business. “Not everyone has this opportunity to return, and I think a large portion of that is because of the option to expand the herd – and my dad and uncle were open to having me come back,” he said. “I’m not going to sugar coat it, either. I could probably get paid more with another job, but this is what I enjoy doing.” Together, the business partners make decisions that will benet the dairy as a whole. In moving forward with the automated milking systems and freestall barn, the Bernings considered the economic benets, as well as cow health benets before settling on a plan. “We toured a lot of barns before constructing this one,” Mark said. “We thought we had cow comfort in the other barn, but it’s quite a bit different here.” The stalls are waterbeds bedded with sawdust, and the alley scrapers are designed to stop when they bump into a cow and begin again when the animal moves. Additionally, the robot rooms remain locked at all times to lessen any disturbances for the animals, and an automatic feed pusher allows access to feed throughout the day. When the Bernings transitioned into the new barn, they saved over $500-worth of electricity within two-months time. They have also been able to improve labor efciency. “It’s an efcient barn,” Mark said. “Right now, it costs us $1.48 per hundredweight for labor on the whole farm.” The Bernings nd success in working with their industry partners, and always create a new goal once one is achieved. “We have a lot on our wish list – some materialize really fast, some take a while, and some don’t materialize at all,” Mark said. “For this goal (of automation), it has come together nicely.”
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ConƟnued from WEISENBECK | Page 5 ters a negotiation process. Use of eminent domain and condemnation of the land is a last resort in their minds, and requires a very scripted court process to complete. “Our plans haven’t been nalized,” Evans said. “We could learn something tomorrow that would change our minds as to what is the least costly, environmentally acceptable avenue to take.” Weisenbeck feels there are more questions than answers about the plan and the compensation to land-owners. He said funding has not yet been approved by Congress, which leaves the project budget uncertain. In addition, the overall budget of the ACE has been cut nearly 25 percent by the Trump ad-
“We could learn something tomorrow that would change our minds as to what is the least costly, environmentally acceptable avenue to take.” CRAIG EVANS, CHIEF OF PLAN FORMATION SECTION, ACE
ministration, and the use of eminent domain also appears to be somewhat on hold. The terms “fair market value or less” and “just compensation” have been used, but with the questions regarding funding, these terms remain unclear. The ACE has indicated there will be no place for good-will negotiations on the part of the land-owners. Regard-
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A dredging barge on the Mississippi River digs up sand from the boƩom of the river just downstream from Wabasha, Minn. less of the price paid for the land, it is unlikely the Weisenbecks will be able to source more land in their area. “This is a high-livestock area, and because of that, land is at a premium here,” Weisenbeck said. Weisenbeck acknowledges the need to maintain the navigation channel in the Mississippi, but he questions the need for a 40-year plan. The ACE estimates that sand will be removed from the river at the rate of 270,000 cubic yards per year, and said nearly 95 percent of the sediment dredged from the channel comes directly from the Chippewa River, which empties into the Mississippi River at the south end of Lake Pepin, just north of Nelson. At one public hearing, Weisenbeck
questioned why the issues on the Chippewa River couldn’t be xed to help alleviate future sediment accumulation. The answer he was given was that the Chippewa River is a relatively young river in geological terms, and is still working to “bed” itself, and in that process, is eroding banks and pushing sediment downstream, where it eventually dumps into the Mississippi. Weisenbeck’s request for information on independent studies that support that theory have not been answered. Weisenbeck has praise for the elected ofcials from the area, and has cultivated a good working relationship with the U.S. Senators from both Wisconsin and Minnesota. “I have them on speed dial, and I
am talking with them two or three times a week,” he said. Weisenbeck recently learned of a tool that works as a form of checks and balances, requiring all federal agencies to coordinate with local governments so that all parties can have a consistent belief in the system. Weisenbeck said none of the affected farmers have obtained specic legal counsel for the problem, and is hopeful the issues can be resolved with the help of elected ofcials. “You just lay in bed at night and try to get your arms around it … it makes you lose trust in your government … we’re doing everything we can to protect our livelihood and our rights,” Weisenbeck said.
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Traditionally, there was a three or four cent normal spread between block and barrel cheese. That’s not the case today with a large disparity between the value of blocks and barrels. Robin Schmahl, commodity broker and owner of AgDairy, LLC, said those two cheese categories are trading their own fundamentals. “Sometimes we’ve seen barrels above blocks for periods of time and now we’re seeing a wide spread between blocks and barrels. I don’t think the three-to-four cent rule, if you want to call it that, is an issue anymore. Barrels are in a long position. There is plenty available and sellers want to keep moving it out. We’ve seen a phenomenal amount of trades being done this year in the barrel market.” Corn and soybean prices have moved higher in a volatile weather market, but Schmahl doesn’t believe feed costs will be a signicant issue in the short-term. “I don’t think the milk-to-feed ratio or the income-overfeed costs will turn south fairly quickly.”
Canadian trade policies challenged An international coalition of dairy industry groups from the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Argentina and the European Union is focused on Canada and its trade practices. In a joint letter, these groups are asking their respective governments to challenge the recently implemented dairy pricing rules in Canada. In February, Canada launched a pricing policy that lowers the ingredient prices for Canadian dairy processors and selling Canadian dairy proteins in world markets at below-market prices. These groups, which include the National Milk Producers Federation, U.S. Dairy Export Council and International Dairy Foods Association, indicate the World Trade Organization may need to resolve this dispute. WOTUS rule withdrawn The Environmental Protection Agency’s controversial Waters of the United States rule is being withdrawn. “Once the WOTUS rule is withdrawn, EPA will revert
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owned and controlled by member customers. Our functions are similar, and both are directly linked to producers,” Keller said. Accelerated Genetics cooperative members will become members of their regional Select Sires Cooperative, and will have full voting memberships of those cooperatives. Keller said the merger will combine resources to continue to strive for the best genetics, outstanding eld representative service and more advanced research, all to the benet of cooperative members. While positions have been eliminated, most Accelerated Genetics employees will retain positions that are very similar to those currently held, Keller said. Production at the Westby facility will continue, and will likely see an increased volume, with more semen being produced at greater efciencies. Many current 14-stud code bulls will continue to be marketed through Select Sires, and the code will be retained Turn to MERGER | Page 11
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ConƟnued from MERGER | Page 10 for future use to access a more diverse group of genetics. Long-time Accelerated Genetics customer and former board member Paul Klinkner of Cashton, Wis., is pleased with the move. He feels it will make it a stronger business, using a lot of the base that was already established. Paul and his son, Ben, milk approximately 60 cows on their organic dairy farm, on which they use 100 percent Accelerated Genetics sires. Ben believes Jered the services will Hemmersbach remain the same MDS Dairy without abrupt change. “All A.I. studs pretty much have the same genetics, so the bulls available will probably not change a lot,” he said. Ben sites milk production as his top criteria in sire selection, followed closely by reproductive health traits and components, as well as low somatic cell count, and good foot and legs. “Futuristically, it’s a possibility that we would look into the A2A2 casein thing with the potential niche market to be in,” Ben said. Although Paul is optimistic for the merge, he is sad to see the company lose its name. “It’s kind of sad, when a company goes out with 75 years of history, but it’s better than them going out of business completely. Select and Accelerated already had a marriage with World Wide Sires, it’s not like a foreign company coming in.” Ben said, “If they invest in the fa-
cilities at Westby, they are going to still maintain a little bit of the legacy of Accelerated.” Jered Hemmersbach works as the herdsman at MDS Dairy near Leon, Wis. He manages the 2,000-cow dairy herd in a parlor, which is nearing its fourth year in operation. At MDS, they use primarily Select Sires bulls, with a sprinkling of bulls from other studs, including Accelerated Genetics. In the breeding program at MDS, Hemmersbach is primarily concerned about health traits when selecting for sires, followed closely by high components and milk production. “I don’t know if it (the merger) will change anything on a day-to-day basis here on the farm. I do think a negative factor is taking competition out of the area, that we might see cost increases,” Hemmersbach said. He feels the level of genetics offered will remain consistent. “Select still has to sell products the producers want. They’ll only stay in business as long as people buy semen from them,” Hemmersbach said. While he said he hasn’t heard much of Select’s actual plans, most of his concerns come for the impact on the local community and the employees of both companies. “These are people I’ve known forever,” said Hemmersbach, listing the long-standing relationships with the route salesmen and technicians of both companies in his area. “Accelerated has meant a lot to the local communities as well, always supporting the FFA Alumni and what not, and I wonder if Select will take the same interest in the local community, being a company based in Ohio.”
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by Jennifer Coyne
Pagel recalls heat exhaustion episode, stresses awareness EYOTA, Minn. – June 13 began as a normal Tuesday for Chandra Pagel, doing calf chores on her family’s dairy near Eyota, Minn. The day continued as planned with a tour of a food processing plant, but as evening fell and chores began, Pagel was left in a dangerous situation. “It was really humid and hot that week, but I didn’t feel like I was exerting myself more than I usually would,” Pagel said. “As I fed the calves in the morning I felt light-headed and then was ne the rest of the day. But once chores time came again, I started to feel off.” Despite feeling uneasy, Pagel continued helping her in-laws on their 75cow dairy. But when it came time to bring the cows in for milking, Pagel became nauseous. “It all hit me really quickly,” Pagel said. “I knew something wasn’t right and I had to get inside.” Pagel had fallen victim to heat exhaustion. Every summer, farmers go to all
lengths to ensure their animals are in a cool and shaded environment, protected from the dangers of the sun and heat. However, their own safety and those of their employees are often left forgotten. More than a dozen people who work outside die from extreme heat or humid conditions each year, and thousands more become ill, according to the United States Department of Labor-Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). “Summer weather can have a range of effects on people, from relatively mild symptoms, like clumsiness, to more serious problems such as stroke,” said Bruce AlexanChandra Pagel der, director of UpDairy farmer per Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center (UMASH). Excessive sweating and an increased pulse rate may be rst signs of heat exhaustion, followed by cramps and dizziness. “Exhaustion is more common than realized,” Alexander said. “You’ll notice yourself getting light-headed and distracted; you’re not quite focused.” If left untreated, heat exhaustion can lead to heat stroke. “When your body cannot cope with
the heat, it becomes physically affected,” Alexander said. As heat stroke sets in, a body’s core temperature continues to rise and becomes life threatening. While heat stroke can cause death if not tended to, it is also a precursor to the onset of chronic illnesses, such as acute kidney injury, said Alexander. Troubles with summer weather often occur when the humidity index is beyond 90. At that point, individuals, especially elderly and children, are at moderate risk; as the index rises above 100, the risk becomes greater. While all individuals are at risk of heat exhaustion, the illness affects everyone differently. “When the weather is hot and the humidity is high and you’re in the sun, anyone is at risk of overheating,” Alexander said. “You have to know your body – maybe you’re sweating a lot but you don’t seem hot, or maybe you feel like you’re working harder than usual. If you’re not able to do your job, you need to take a break.” Pagel knew the day posed dangerous risks, so she made sure to stay hydrated and have frequent breaks in between tasks. However, that was not enough. After Pagel became nauseous, she realized what was happening and did not nish chores. Instead, she went inside her home and began consuming liquids high in electrolytes.
“I also took pain medication for a fever that was not going away, and all I wanted to do was sleep,” said Pagel, who slept for 15 hours. In the middle of the night, Pagel awoke with a cold chill running through her body, despite being wrapped in blankets; her fever had returned. It took Pagel ve days to reach a full recovery. “Now, I’m making a conscience effort to stay out of the heat and pay attention to my water intake and other signs that my body may not be doing well,” Pagel said. Alexander agreed. “Prevention is the best way to Bruce Alexander treat heat exhaustion,” he said. “It’s Director, UMASH important to keep your body hydrated and cooled.” Those working outside should wear a hat and lightweight, loose tting clothes that allow sweat to evaporate from the body. Also, alcohol consumption should be minimal. “Alcohol contributes to dehydration. Even though you might have a drink the night prior, you could be borderline dehydrated heading into the work day and that could become Turn to HEAT | Page 13
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How do you lessen heat stress on your herd?
Brad Ridl Renville, Minn. Renville County 400 cows
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Describe your facilities for your milking herd. We have a conventional four-row freestall barn.
Describe your facilities for your milking herd. We have a 4-row and a 3-row freestall barn that houses our milking herd. Both have mattresses and or mats that are bedded with sawdust. Both are curtain sided buildings with drive through feeding. Pens are scraped to a barn cleaner, which takes it to a manure pump and lagoon.
What are the top three methods you use to lessen heat stress on your milking herd? We have fans throughout the barn and sidewall curtains that we can open during the warmer months. We also have soakers over the feed line. We have added fans over the years, so that the cows now feel a constant breeze. Our soakers over the feed line come on every 10-15 minutes, depending on the temperature. The combination of good ventilation and evaporative cooling has helped keep our cows comfortable during hot weather. Our nutritionist also recommends that we use a feed supplement called Rally when the cows are experiencing heat stress. How do you treat animals that are experiencing heat stress? If they are in the holding pen, we try to get them to spread out. If the herd seems really warm, we will put them in the headlocks and turn the soaker on. If a particular cow is experiencing extreme heat stress, we will put her into a bedding pack pen where there’s more room and she can get more rest. What precautions do you take to prevent heat stress on the other dairy animals you have? All of our dry cow and heifer barns have a bedding pack and lots of fans. The animals also have access to outdoor pens so they can go outside and cool off at night. Describe a past challenge with heat and managing your herd. How did you overcome it? In the past, we didn’t have enough fans in our barns to provide proper ventilation during hot weather. We kept adding fans over the years and installed the feed line soaker. We now have enough fans that are big enough to cool the cows when it’s hot. What has been the hottest summer you have experienced in your dairy career? What kind of effect did it have on your milking herd? I lived in Phoenix, Ariz. for three years and worked on my inlaws’ 2,100 cow dairy operation. One day, it got up to 118 degrees in the shade. They ran their fans and misters constantly, but it didn’t seem to help much. From June through September, they lost at least 20 percent of their milk production. The cows would just stand around in the shade all day and would only eat at night. Tell us about your farm. I farm with my father, Dave, my uncle, Jason, and my cousin, Joel. My wife, Lana, and I have three sons, Jake, 8, Ethan, 7, and Lucas, 5. This farm was listed as a century farm a few years ago. We farm about 280 acres that we plant to corn, soybeans and alfalfa. We milk twice a day in a double-8 parlor and bed our cows with manure solids that we purchase from a nearby dairy. Our parlor was built in 1991, so we are looking at building something new.
What are the top three methods you use to lessen heat stress on your milking herd? The cooling system in the 3-row barn is controlled by a single controller. Three rows of fans are controlled individually based on temperature 1 degree apart so they do not all start at the same time. The feed lane is equipped with a sprinkler system, which is also started and stopped by a controller based on temperature. In the 4-row barn we have 52-inch fans on the feed lane and 36inch fans over the stalls. In this barn, we have a mechanical thermostat for every two fans throughout the barn. Some days a few fans run and other days they all run based on temperature and wind direction. This barn also has a sprinkler system on the feed lane. It is controlled by a single controller in four zones, one for each pen in the barn. Running time in each pen is dependent on how warm it is.
Describe your facilities for your milking herd. We have 330 freestalls and one bedded pack pen for the fresh cows. The freestall barn is tunnel ventilated with soakers and bafes to improve air ow. The parlor and holding pen have fans, and we use soakers in the holding pen. What are the top three methods you use to lessen heat stress on your milking herd? Ventilation, soakers, an insulated roof and minimizing cow activity during the heat of the day. When it is hot all shots are done in the morning. How do you treat animals that are experiencing heat stress? For animals experiencing heat stress we have found it works best to get them wet and put a fan on them to cool them down. What precautions do you take to prevent heat stress on the other dairy animals you have? Our calves our housed in the old tiestall barn, which is also tunnel ventilated. Heifers are housed in a curtain barn and dry cows have access to a pole shed with fans in it. Describe a past challenge with heat and managing your herd. How did you overcome it? Our dry cow barn isn’t big enough for all the dry cows so when it is hot they crowd up in it. To help, we installed fans that pull outside air into the barn instead of recirculating the hot air in the building. What has been the hottest summer you have experienced in your dairy career? What kind of effect did it have on your milking herd? I would say one of the hottest was 2011. If I remember right, we lost about 20 pounds of milk that week.
How do you treat animals that are experiencing heat stress? The only place we experience real heat Tell us about your farm. We have 400 cows, raise stress is in the special needs barn, which only has 52- all of our replacements and raise all of our feed inch fans. The best treatment for those cows is a gar- along with some cash crops. den hose to soak them and let the fans do the rest of the work. Turn to FROM OUR SIDE OF THE FENCE | Page 16 What precautions do you take to prevent heat stress on the other dairy animals you have? We only have 200 to 700 pound heifers on the dairy. They are in open front and vented rear pack barns and that seems to be enough. Our calf domes are placed on the east side of a grove where the afternoon sun does not get at them.
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Describe a past challenge with heat and managing your herd. How did you overcome it? Over the year, we have made improvements to our cooling system. We have changed the direction of the fans, added fans, added controllers and the latest was increasing water pressure to the sprinklers to get more water on the cows faster. What has been the hottest summer you have experienced in your dairy career? What kind of effect did it have on your milking herd? The last two years seem to be as bad as it gets. When the dew point gets in the 70 to 80 degree range, keeping cows comfortable is nearly impossible. Intakes will drop and so will milk. Tell us about your farm. We have a smaller land base on which we grow our own corn silage, earlage, haylage and a little wheat of which we feed the straw. We buy forages we are short of as needed. The baby heifer calves and the larger heifers are raised by others off site.
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Doug and Barb Story Kenyon, Minn. Rice County 285 cows
Tasha and Dan Shea, with their children, (front, from left) Bryce and Leah; (back, from left) Lilli, Larissa and Lybie St. Charles, Minn. Olmsted County 80 cows Describe your facilities for your milking herd. We milk in a 38-cow tiestall barn with mats and tunnel ventilation. We switch another 42 cows that are on pasture. They eat TMR out of wooden bunks on a cement slab. What are the top three methods you use to lessen heat stress on your milking herd? Water access is our rst priority. We have newer drinking cups in the barn and the outside cows have a good drinker with a huge water tank that collects all our plate cooler water for the cows to drink. Fresh feed is second on our list. We try to keep clean, fresh feed in front of the cows by using baleage and not haylage because we have less feed exposed to the elements. For corn silage, we try to keep a clean face, and for our grains we use dry and not high moisture. When it gets really hot, we use a feed additive that is a probiotic to help keep them eating. The third method is keeping the cow areas clean, which means fewer ies. Our barn stays very comfortable and keeps the cows nice and cool. We struggle with our outside cows, but we are working on fencing off a large wooded area this summer, which will hopefully help. We spray their backs for ies about every three to four days, or as needed. How do you treat animals that are experiencing heat stress? Normally we don’t have too many cows that are too stressed from heat. If we would have a cow that is struggling, we would keep her in the barn and maybe give her an I.V. of dextrose. What precautions do you take to prevent heat stress on the other dairy animals you have? We try to let them have shade under sheds or trees, make sure they are clean, and have fresh feed and water. Describe a past challenge with heat and managing your herd. How did you overcome it? We rotationally grazed our cows and loved it for the months of May and June, but once July and August came, the heat drove the cows’ appetites down dramatically. The production would drop until they calved in again. Now we just feed them TMR and it seems like as soon as it cools down again, we can regain intakes and production. What has been the hottest summer you have experienced in your dairy career? What kind of effect did it have on your milking herd? I think it was the summer of 2006. It was so hot and humid that no matter where the cows were, they were stressed. It was 90 degrees with high humidity for about two weeks. It was really tough on the cows. We had a lot of breeding issues for the rest of the fall. Tell us about your farm. Along with our herd, we farm about 240 acres of corn, hay, oats and peas. Our ve children help us on the farm. Our daughters, Lilli, 17, and Lybie, 14, do a lot of the milking. Our other two daughters, Leah, 10, and Larissa, 12, help with calf chores and switch cows. Our son, Bryce, 9, feeds the larger heifers and steers, and helps us ll the TMR, hold gates and scrape.
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Do you contract your milk? Has it been successful for you? We contract milk and it is helpful through the low milk prices at times. It is a very challenging area to manage. We started contracting milk off and on in the early 2000s. Then we started using it more consistently in 2010. Margins are so
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“Comfort matters … gets fresh cows off to a great start.” — Mitch Breunig
MYSTIC VALLEY DAIRY LLC, Home of JENNY-LOU HOLSTEINS, SAUK CITY, WI The Breunig Family: Mitch, Jacquie, Allie, Lauren and Brayden 440 Registered Holsteins, BAA 106.6 (20 EX 153 VG) SSI Supersire Miri 8679-ET VG-88 EX-MS RHA 33,326M 3.82 1274 F 3.01 1002P, SCC 98-113,000
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and is very nice for cows and people to be in. All cows are in freestall barns with sand bedding. One farm has a double-6 herringbone parlor while the other farm has a double-8 herringbone parlor.
in your herd average? We switched from mats with straw and sawdust to sand bedding in 2001. We saw a gradual increase in milk production after that. But it is hard on the equipment.
What is the composition of your ration? What has been one of your most recent changes that has been successful for you? The ration consists of corn silage, haylage, straw, high moisture shelled corn, cottonseed, distillers, canola pellets and mineral. Corn silage and haylage is split about 50/50. This year, we are on a trial for a mold toxin binder in our ration.
What is your herd health program? We are on a full vaccination program to keep all cows and calves healthy, including vaccinating the whole herd for mastitis.
Through the years you’ve been farming, what change has created the biggest jump
What does your dry cow and transition program consist of? We use dry off tubes, dry cow sealant and a vaccine to keep cows healthy. Cows are in sand bedded freestalls. Dry cows are fed two rations – one for cows that have been recently dried up and another for the cows that are 21 days and closer to calving.
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The raƟon at D&D Dairy consists of corn silage, haylage, straw, high moisture shelled corn, coƩonseed, disƟllers, canola pellets and minerals.
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Fans line one side of the barn on the main farm. The cross-venƟlated barn has helped keep cows cooler in the summer. What role does genetics play in your production level and what is your breeding program? For breeding, we use a series of prostaglandin shots, but mainly we have an activity monitoring system and breed off natural heats. We have used a mating program for 20 years. We focus on improving our herd through genetics and bull selection. We look at milk, components, somatic cell count, feet and legs and udders. None of these traits should have a negative composite score. After the third breeding, a cow is bred to a beef bull. What type of improvements would you like to make that would increase your rolling herd average even higher? Further increase in milk production will come from genetics, cow comfort and feed qual-
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ity. I’m intrigued by BMR corn so we might try that. We’re also thinking about using sexed semen on mature cows. Our SCR program with activity monitoring and rumination helps. What would you say are the three most important factors for you that helped you attain your current herd average? The rst factor is having quality employees. It is important to have good people who buy into your management style. We have 22 employees. Our herdsman, Cayetano Avila, has been here 11 years. We never hire for a management role. We train and hire from within. The second is quality feed. You must focus on feed quality to insure your cows are ingesting the best possible feed. Sometimes it means working few long days to get
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the crop harvested. Recently, we stayed up until 2:30 a.m. to get our second crop done and the bunker covered before it rained a few inches the next day. If you don’t push when the opportunity is there, you’ll miss it. The third factor is cow comfort. Cows need to be kept clean and comfortable in the best way possible. Tell us about your farm. Our farm consists of three brothers as owners. I manage the dairy portion and my two brothers, Greg and Randy, manage the crops and pigs. Our family has farmed at this site since 1973. My family consists of: my wife, Elisabeth, son, Gavin, 16, daughters, Tearnee, 3, and Brinley, 1, and a new baby due in July.
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Con�nued from WATER TOUR | Page 22 “When I started working here, wastewater was dumped into the nearby Isabelle Creek and no one thought anything of it then,” Hines said. After pollution in Isabelle Creek, a tributary of the Mississippi River, became a larger issue, the creamery got to work on containing its wastewater by constructing a series of tanks on site. Since then, the creamery has signicantly lowered its discharge levels of phosphorus, nitrogen, biochemical oxygen
demand and chemical oxygen demand. The rst tank is an equalization tank that stabilizes pH and holds up to 80,000 gallons of water. From there, the water travels to a recirculating tank before being hauled to the bio tower. “We also have a spill tank in case the pH gets too high or low in the rst tank. We can use the spill tank to bleed the water off and haul it out of there,” Hines said. After the water has been suf-
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Stormwater reten�on ponds are part of a program by the city of River Falls, Wis., to keep rainwater and other illicit discharges out of the Kinnickinnic River. Ponds and other facets of the program are funded through a small fee in residen�al u�lity bills.
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This ume, located at the end of a waterway, collects runoff data at a UW Discovery Farms site at Ter-Rae Farms, a dairy and cash crop farm in the Dry Run watershed north of Baldwin, Wis. The Dry Run, which is a seasonal body of water, ows into the Willow River when full.
ciently treated, it goes into a clarier before its nal discharge into the creek, and the resulting sludge is spread on an 80-acre eld across the road that the creamery owns. “We have more sludge in the winter because the microbes aren’t as active,” Hines said. “The warmer, the better.” For the last stop, the tour made its way north to a UW Discovery Farms site in the Dry Run watershed at Ter-Rae Farms, a dairy and grain farm operated by the Mitchell family north of Baldwin, Wis. The group discussed farmer-led watershed
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TOP SPRINGER $1,925
TOP 10% SPRINGERS ......... $1,725 TO 20% SPRINGERS ........... $1,655 TOP 30% SPRINGERS ......... $1,615
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South Kinni councils have grown in recent years in light of increasing government regulations on groundwater. Pierce County land conservationist Dan Sitz said part of it had to do with changing mindsets and where the information was coming from. “As far as changing mindsets, peer-to-peer research from things like watershed groups is much more valuable to farmers,” Sitz said. “They’re more likely to listen to another farmer than someone from the government with blanket regulations who doesn’t know their situation.”
SPECIAL HOLSTEIN STEER SALE Friday, July 28 11 a.m.
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NOTE: Our “Special Dairy Sale” is now on the 3rd Wednesday of each month. Dairy Cattle can also be sold the first Friday of every month at noon.
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‘14 Gehl R260, T-bar ctrls, D, 2600 lift cap., both standard and Hi Flow Aux. hyd., C/H/A, 2680 hrs., 2 spd..................... $24,500 ‘15 Gehl RT250, JS ctrls, D, 2500 lift cap., C/H/A, 2 spd., full warranty 2 yrs or 2000 hrs., 75 hrs .......................... $54,500 ‘16 gehl R220, dual T-bar ctrls, D, 2500 lift cap., C/H, 2 spd., 2560 hrs . $27,500 ‘15 Gehl R220, dual T-bar ctrls, D, 2500 lift cap., C&H, 2 spd, 1475 hrs ............... $29,700 ‘15 Gehl R220, T-bar ctrls, D, 2500 lift cap., C&H, 2 spd., 2515 hrs ...................... $26,800 ‘14 Gehl R220, T-bar, H ctrls, D, 2200 lift, C&H, 2 spd., 1230 hrs. ..................... $30,400 ‘14 Gehl R220, H ctrls, D, 2400 lift cap, C/H/A, 2 spd, 1230 hrs................................... $32,000 ‘13 Gehl R190, T-bar ctrls, D, 2150 lift cap, SS, 2100 hrs ..................................... $24,950 ‘15 Gehl R190, dual T-bar self leveling ctrls, D, 2100 lift cap., C&H, 2 spd., 2300 hrs ........................................... $24,900 ‘14 Gehl R190, dual T-bar ctrls, D, 1900 lift cap., C&H, 2 spd., 1865 hrs. ............. $26,900 ‘13 Gehl R190, T-bar ctrls, D, C&H, 2 spd., 2110 lift cap, 700 hrs. ........... $30,900 ‘14 Gehl R190, hand ctrls, D, 2100 lift cap, C&H, radio, 2 spd, 2190 hrs ...... $26,250 ‘14 Gehl R190, pilot ctrls, D, C&H, 2 spd, 2103 hrs................................. $28,500 ‘13 Gehl R190, JS, D, 2150 lift cap., 2 spd., C&H, 1300 hrs ...................... $33,900 ‘11 Gehl V270, JS ctrls, D, C/H/A, 2 spd., 2700 lift cap., 1094 hrs. ........ $29,900 ‘10 Gehl 7810, JS ctrls, D, 3800 lift cap, C/H, 2 spd, 958 hrs .................... Call for price ‘04 Gehl 7810, t-bar ctrls, D, C&H, 2 spd., 3800 lift cap., 3597 hrs ..................... $21,900 ‘07 Gehl 7810, t-bar ctrls, D, C&H, 2 spd, 2650 hrs................................. $19,900 ‘06 Gehl 6640E, t-bar ctrls, D, C&H, 2 spd, 2600 lift cap., 2682 hrs .......... $19,900 ‘11 Gehl 5640E, T-bar H-ctrls, D, 2200 lift cap., SS, 2600 hrs .............. $20,500 ‘04 Gehl 5640, T-bar ctrls, D, 2200 lift cap., SS, 3905 hrs ..................................... $16,500 ‘11 Gehl 5640, T-bar ctrls, D, 2200 lift cap., C&H, 2 spd., 1370 hrs ...................... $27,300 Gehl 5625SX, H ctrls, D, 1700 lift cap., C&H, 3832 hrs .................................. $12,500 ‘12 Gehl 5240 P2, T-bar ctrls, D, 1900 lift cap, C&H, 2 spd., 850 hrs. ................ $27,500 ‘12 Gehl 5240 P2, T-bar ctrls, SS, 1900 lift cap., wt. kit, 2526 hrs .................. $20,900 ‘13 Gehl 5240E P2, T-bar ctrls., D, 2100 lift cap., counter wts., SS, 2050 hrs .. $25,900
USED SKIDSTEERS
‘99 Gehl 4835SXT, H crtls., D, C&H, 1700 lift cap., 2900 hrs ..................... $12,300 ‘89 Gehl 3310, T-bar ctrls, gas, 750 lift cap w/pallet forks & bkt, 1435 hrs............. $5,500 ‘87 Gehl 3310, T-bar ctrls, 750 lift cap., manure & dirt bkt., 2980 hrs............... $5,700 ‘95 Gehl 3410, H ctrls, D, 900 lift cap., 2680 hrs ............................................. $7,800 ‘14 Mustang 2600R, H&F ctrls., D, C&H, 2 spd., 2600 lift cap., 850 hrs ........... $35,500 ‘13 Mustang 2100RT, switchable ctrls, D, 17� tracks, C/H, 2 spd, 1897 hrs .. $37,900 ‘12 Mustang 2100RT, pilot ctrls, D, 2100 lift cap., C/H/A, 400 hrs ............ $43,900 ‘08 Mustang 2076, D, 2400 lift cap., C/H/A, SS, 912 hrs., dual JS ctrls ................ $29,900 ‘06 Mustang 2066, dual lever/ft ctrls, D, 2000 lift cap., C/H, 1174 hrs......... $21,900 ‘06 Mustang 2066, ISO pilot ctrls/H ctrls, D, 2000 lift cap., C&H, 2 spd., 1864 hrs ........................................... $18,500 ‘11 Mustang 2056, dual L&F ctrls, D, 2100 lift cap, C&H, 2 spd., 988 hrs ............ $24,900 ‘14 Mustang 2054, H/F ctrls, D, 1650 lift cap., C&H, 3450 hrs............ $17,900 ‘08 Mustang 2054, D, SS, H, 1750 lift cap, 6200 hrs. ..................... $10,300 ‘06 Mustang 2054, T-bar ctrls, D, 1650 lift cap., C&H, 2348 hrs.......................... $18,500 ‘99 Mustang 2050, T-bar ctrls, D, 1550 lift cap, SS, 1890 hrs ............... $11,900 ‘99 Mustang 2050, T-bar ctrls, 1650 lift cap., D, 4623 hrs., C&H, SS.............. $11,900 ‘11 Mustang 2044, t-bar ctrls, D, 1550 lift cap., C/H, 1515 hrs ...................... $18,700 Mustang 2042, ‘00, H/F ctrls, 10x16.5 tires ..................................... $13,300 ‘13 Mustang 2041, H/F ctrls, 1350 lift cap, D, 4025 hrs ....................................... $13,900 ‘15 Mustang 1900R, H/pilot ctrls, D, 2100 lift cap., C/H, 2 spd., 2150 hrs .......... $26,550 ‘15 Mustang 1900R, H&F ctrls, D, 2100 lift cap, C&H, 2 spd., 54 hrs ................... $34,900 ‘15 Mustang 1900R, H/F ctrls, D, 1900 lift cap, C&H, 2 spd., 1928 hrs ............... $28,300 ‘15 Mustang 1350R, H/F ctrls, D, C&H, 1450 lift cap., C&H, 1070 hrs............ $27,900 ‘11 JD 326D, H/F ctrls, D, 2550 lift cap, C/H, SS, 5800 hrs ............................. $16,500 ‘13 JD 318E, L/F ctrls, D, 2100 lift cap., C/H/A, 2 spd., 2615 hrs..................... $25,500 ‘00 JD 260, Dual lever/ft ctrls, D, 2400 lift cap, 2 spd, 2120 hrs ......................... $14,900 ‘07 Case 435, H-ctrls., D, 2300 lift cap., C/H, SS, 2750 hrs ............................. $18,850
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‘85 NH L785, H/FT ctrls., D, 2050 lift cap., C, SS, 6935 hrs. .................................. $8,900 ‘14 Bobcat S630, H/F ctrls, D, 2180 lift cap., C&H, 2 spd., 495 hrs. ....................... $31,900 ‘71-’75 Case 1530B, H ctrls, G, 1700 hrs ............................................. $3,700
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‘05 Gehl RS6-42, JD dsl., 6600 lift cap., 4WD, 2884 hrs................................$35,000 ‘06 Mustang 6-34, 6000 lift cap., 2650 hrs .........................................$34,300 ‘00 Genie S-60, 60’ lift height, 6500 hrs .........................................$23,900
USED TMRS/MIXERS ‘13 Penta 8020HD, 1-3/4, 1000 pto $45,500 ‘10 Penta 3020 SD, 540 pto, 320 cu. ft., 4’ RH front/side conveyor, 9â€? rubber ext., scale ....................... $19,900 ‘04 Penta 5600, 600 cu. ft., EZ 2000V scale, corner door .......................... $16,000 ‘05 Penta 4110, 400 cu. ft. .............. $14,500 ‘08 Penta 5620HD, 600 cu. ft., 8â€? rubber ext., right corner door .................... $23,500 ‘08 NDE 2802, EXV 2500 scale, step down oor, rear discharge & front conveyor discharge ........................ $12,500 Knight 3300, 540 PTO, 900X20 tires, new relined ...................................... $7,950 ‘11 Kuhn Knight VTC 1100, LH slide tray, rear commodity door, 2 remote scales, mounted to 2012 Peterbuilt 367 w/40,619 miles, 66,000 GVW, 10 spd., transmission, front mount hyd. drive, 1100 cu. ft.................................... $134,000 Kuhn Knight 3130, 2’ auger discharge, Haymax ............................................. $9,750 ‘99 Supreme 500, LH dog leg conv . $13,000 ‘07 Patz V500, 1-3/8 1000 pto, 500 cu ft., left side at front discharge ............. $9,500
MANURE HANDLING ‘13 Kuhn Knight 8150, 1-3/8, 1000 pto, 668 cu. ft., 5000 gal ........................ $47,500 ‘12 Kuhn Knight 8141, 4100 gal, hyd. lid ............................................ $42,900 ‘99 Knight Mfg. 8024, 500 bu. ......... $12,900 ‘14 Kuhn Knight 8132, 3200 gal., 435 cu. ft......................................... $27,900 Kuhn-Knight 8132, 3200 gal ............. $18,000 ‘08 Kuhn Knight 8132, frt. & rear splash guards ................................. $22,500 Kuhn Knight 8124, 2400 gal ............. $16,500 ‘09 Kuhn Knight 8124, 325 cu. ft., 2400 gal. ......................................... $17,400 ‘05 Kuhn Knight 8118, 1800 gal., 400 bu., auger ighting good cond. .............. $14,900 Kuhn Knight 8118, 1800 gal. ............ $12,000 Kuhn Knight 8118, 1800 gal., 400 bu............................................. $10,900 ‘89 New Idea 3739, 540 pto, 390 bu., end gate ............................................ $6,500 ‘13 NH 195, upper beater, hyd. drive $16,500 ‘11 NH 195, 410 bu., upper beater, hyd. drive ........................................ $12,900 ‘13 H&S 5126 ................................... $14,900 H&S 270, end gate, low use, 2 spd., apron ................................................ $7,950 ‘83 Badger BN326, 2300 gal .............. $4,500
HAY & FORAGE NI 5407, 5 disc, 6’6� cut .................... $3,500 Gehl 980, 16’ w/12 ton tandem gear, H&S 6-12 running gear .................... $6,950 Gehl 980 bu., 16’ box, 12 ton tandem, vari-speed drive ................................ $5,500 Gehl 970, 16’ box, tandem running gear.................................................. $4,300 NH HT154, 12 whl. rake..................... $9,800 NH 144 std. conveyor, no ext., ground driven .................................. $3,900 NH 144, ground driven ...................... $2,900 CIH 600, 60� blower .......................... $5,300 Badger BN2054, 54� forage blower ...... $895 ‘84 Badger 950, 16’, tandem, 12T MN running gear ........................ $4,150 ‘08 JD 568, up to 5’x6’ bales, Mega Wide pick up, cover edge net wrap and twine, 15,536 bales .................................. $18,500 ‘09 JD 468SS, 4’x6’ bales, net wrap and twine, Mega Wide plus P.U., silage special, 14,000 bales ..................... $20,500
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Experiencing the diversity of the dairy community Dairy Star • Saturday, July 8, 2017 • Page 25
June Dairy Month was created in Kelley Farm Dairy Day, the Children’s 1939 to help address the summer ush Museum of Southern Minnesota and of milk production when cows went out waved at folks along parade routes. To to pasture and schools were no longer put this into perspective on how much in session. In other words, I traveled, I had three oil there was a milk surplus changes in three months. On the Road with and farmers needed to I also averaged about ve Princess Kay nd ways to encourage or six servings of dairy people to drink more milk a day instead of just the and consume more dairy recommended three, but foods. Now, almost 80 I’m not here to complain years later, we have the about all the dairy goodsame issue with there beness I consumed. ing a surplus of milk, but Although the food today we want consumwas great, I found there ers to know the awesome is something even more nutritional benets dairy special about June Dairy foods have to offer. Now, Month and the events I more than ever, it is imattended. I found each of portant to celebrate dairy these open houses was By Haley Hinrichs foods and dairy farmers. 63rd Princess Kay of the truly a celebration. I found Isn’t that what June Dairy it incredibly impressive Milky Way Month is all about? when a dairy farm family June Dairy Month has could attract over 1,000 been a busy one. My 16 appearances people to come eat and check out a farm. during this month took me all over I think the communities surrounding Minnesota. I kicked off the month by these farms have some of the most kind meeting with the Minnesota Vikings and humble human beings found in football players at the annual Fuel Up Minnesota. I thought these open houses To Play 60 Playground Build, which were such a neat opportunity for fellow was in Apple Valley, Minn. After read- farmers to support each other and teach ing my favorite cow stories and talk- the local community about where their ing about my farm to 15 classrooms milk comes from. of excited students, I then spoke at the I also learned the dairy community playground ribbon cutting ceremony is very diverse. I visited a farm that about the importance of enjoying dairy milked about 60 cows and then traveled foods to fuel up for 60 minutes of ac- to another farm that milked over 4,000 tivity each day. (This outing made my cows. Some farms were conventional dad and brother slightly jealous, by the while others were organic. Some farms way.) From there, I traveled across the milked in a stanchion barn while othstate to attend dairy open houses such ers had parlors to milk their cows, and as Breakfast on the Farm, Dairy Days, other farms used robots to get the job and Night on the Farm. I gave presenta- done. Some chose to have their cows tions at the Historical Society’s Oliver on pasture, whereas other farms had
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Princess Kay Haley Hinrichs is joined by Vikings Football players, Alex Boone (leŌ) and Brian Robison, at the annual Fuel Up To Play 60 Playground Build June 1 in Apple Valley, Minn. freestall barns. Every farm was different and unique in it’s own way, but the cow care was always top-notch and the way each farm operated worked wonderful for that family. The industry is diverse, but the values and priorities of the farms were all the same. Every farm family wanted their cows to be satised and comfortable. Everyone wanted to serve their
communities in the best way possible. Every farm realized that farming can be extremely challenging, but knew these challenges were well worth it. I appreciate seeing the diversity of the dairy community across the state of Minnesota during June Dairy Month, and as always, I represent Minnesota dairy farmers with much pride.
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The calendar has switched to July and I hope you were able to enjoy our nation’s Independence Day on July 4. That also means that our annual deadline to certify acres is upon us. This is your nal call to contact your local FSA ofce and make FSA News & Notes an appointment to certify your acres by the Monday, July 17 deadline. Please call your local ofce to make an appointment today. August 1 is the deadline to enroll into the ARC-CO, ARC-IC, or PLC program. This needs By Ryan Brunn to be completed on an anStearns Co. Exec. Dir. nual basis. The ofce is trying to complete this when you’re in for acreage reporting so make sure you bring in any lease agreements to your appointment. As the crops are still in the eld, it is time to plan on how you are going to store or move the commodity at harvest time. FSA offers loans to help your operation if you have any of these needs. FSA’s Farm Storage Facility Loan (FSFL) program provides low-interest nancing to producers to build or upgrade storage facilities and to purchase portable (new or used) structures, equipment and storage and handling trucks. The low-interest funds can be used to build or upgrade permanent facilities to store commodities. Eligible commodities include corn, grain sorghum, rice, soybeans, oats, peanuts, wheat, barley, minor oilseeds harvested as whole grain, pulse crops (lentils, chickpeas and dry peas), hay, honey, renewable biomass, fruits, nuts and vegetables for cold storage facilities, oriculture, hops, maple sap, rye, milk, cheese, butter, yogurt, meat and poultry (unprocessed), eggs, and aquaculture (excluding systems that maintain live animals through uptake and discharge of water). Qualied facilities include grain bins, hay barns and cold storage facilities for eligible commodities. Loans up to $50,000 can be secured by a promissory note/security agreement and loans between $50,000 and $100,000 may require additional security. Loans exceeding $100,000 require additional security. Producers do not need to demonstrate the lack of commercial credit availability to apply. The loans are designed to assist a diverse range of farming operations, including small and mid-sized businesses, new farmers, operations supplying local food and farmers markets, non-traditional farm products, and underserved producers. If you are interested in an FSFL, I encourage you to begin the process ahead of time. The ofce is required to complete Environmental Reviews and consultations with other organizations, in many cases. This process does take time and no construction or earthwork can happen until it is complete. Therefore, please plan 30-45 days if consultations are needed before any loan actions can be taken by the ofce. To learn more about the FSA Farm Storage Facility Loan, visit www.fsa.usda.gov/pricesupport or contact your local FSA county ofce. Farm Service Agency is an Equal Opportunity Lender. Complaints about discrimination should be sent to: Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 20250. Visit the Farm Service Agency Web site at: www.fsa.usda.gov/ for necessary application forms and updates on USDA programs.
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By Laura & John Rosenhammer Father/Daughter Farming Duo By the time you read this article Laura will be our rst child married. Just after our nal graduation party, apparently having all the details nally gured out – we dive into our rst wedding. The emphasis in today’s world seems to focus way too much on the wedding and not on the commitment together that follows. The wedding is one day, marriage is for a lifetime. There is a ton of information out there on how to build a successful marriage. However, the ideals that I value most are the examples of successful marriages that I have witnessed. Those being that of my parents, grandparents, in-laws, neighbors, and certain couples that I have always looked up to. First and foremost, marriage involves sacrices for the good of each other. Some may think of this as losing independence, but real sacrice gains independence. You are now working as a team towards a common goal, not individual goals. You are now stronger and support each other and thus can accomplish more because you have the full support of one another. I know from experience that many of my dreams became realities because of the support of my wife. At times, you think about an idea and you share it with your loved one. With Patty’s encouragement, a goal was set and achieved often in spite of the milk price or dismal crop futures. She also, slow but sure and with respect, put a stop to some of my other ideas that may not have turned out so well in her eyes. Looking back at our marriage, it seems that the rst 15 years was spent so much on hard work and making things easier and more efcient, so that the next 15 years could be easier. Easier with the goal of having more income, saving money, and more family time. Family time does not necessarily mean the big things. Vacations for some may mean two weeks at the lake. Vacation for us meant four days at the county fair or state fair. A one-day, entire family trip to surprise Laura at Garlin Dairy, really was a small, but lasting memory. Taking everyone to visit my sister in Chateld and attend a rodeo also had lasting impressions. Basically, any time our whole family could be involved together was very rewarding. Sometimes that even means getting everyone involved in rolling a cow with a twisted uterus. I have stopped keeping track of the countless times that I would tell Patty that I would be late for supper because of a cow calving. Instead of being discouraged that I was late again, Patty was always concerned if things turned out well in the end. Many times Patty heard the words, “honey, we are just going to have to wait another year for
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The annual meeting of the American Dairy Science Association (ADSA) was held in late June and for the rst time since the late ‘90s, the meeting was not held in conjunction with the American Society of Animal Science. The attendance reached nearly 2,000 people. Attendees came from 46 states and 43 countries around the world. There were various interesting symposia during the week, and I will include highlights for two of them in this article. One of the symposia was titled “The Future of the Dairy Sector Toward 2030”. Dr. Bruckmaier, Switzerland, indicated that there is no limit of the mammary gland for achieving higher milk production, but there By Marcia Endres are limitations at the animal level, such as the need for ber in the diet for ruminants, limiU of M Extension tations on providing bypass nutrients, and incidence of cattle disease. High quality local forage is a key for high milk production. Concern about industry practices by consumers is a growing challenge. Social housing for calves will be expected in 2030. What about rearing with the dam? Dr. de Koning, Netherlands, showed a Dutch vision on system aspects of dairy farming towards 2030. Aspects of animal welfare, biodiversity, and environment need to be considered. He suggested a model for potential specialization with regional feed centers, focus on innovation, smart barns and robotic milking. He also showed a short animation video to demonstrate a concept called ‘Amazing Grazing’ which could include mobile milking on pasture, feeding machines, and solar panels used for energy generation and shade for the cows. He challenged the audience to use our imagination on what could be done in the future. Dr. Ruegg, Wisconsin, pointed to three major areas that will further impact the dairy industry in the future: export markets, globalization which can inuence milk price volatility, and the changes in social contract which will inuence market access. She suggested that the next market access issue will be pain management during dehorning in dairy calves. Growth and globalization will greatly inuence management practices on dairy farms and more rigorous milk quality standards will also be enforced in the future. Use of antibiotics and hormones will be increasingly restricted. These changes will require innovation to help reduce infectious disease incidence in all age groups of dairy cattle. Dr. Lock, Michigan, shared his thoughts on the future of milk products and human health. He expects that more milk fractionation products that have human health applications will be developed, increasing dairy market share. Dairy products will continue to be an important dietary source of essential nutrients and bioactive components. The latest research has shed a new light on the relationship between milk fat and human health. On the last day there was a symposium titled “Allowing for Natural Behavior in Dairy Cattle.” Social science studies have indicated that consumers are most concerned about the naturalness of dairy production, therefore more research and discussion in this area is needed, which probably prompted this particular symposium.
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Dr. von Keyserlingk, British Columbia, emphasized aspects that are important to consumers when they think of dairy cows having a good life, i.e. good welfare. One of their studies showed that participants on the survey liked to see good cattle care at their freestall facility but were very concerned about calf and cow separation and the lack of pasture/outdoor access. Animal welfare denition is difcult because people have different values and care about different things. A nipple feeding study from 1939 showed the benets of this practice, but many farms still use bucket feeding for their calves. Pasture access is expected by consumers, but what about the cow? Their research comparing freestall barn and pasture preference showed that the cows prefer pasture about 50 percent of the time, but especially at night. She indicated that although science plays an important role in developing guidelines for production practices, societal values will most likely prevail and dene market access. Dr. Johnsen, Norway, discussed natural behavior of calves. She suggested that welfare should focus both on minimizing negative experiences and providing opportunity for positive experiences. How can we promote natural calf behavior in the modern dairy? She showed a prototype barn design where calves would be group housed in a creep area and fed with automated milk feeders during the day, then be allowed to join their dams during the night in the barn. Research has shown that social learning is important for calf cognition development and stimulation of starter intake. Some of her recent research also showed that allowing cow and calf to interact reduced the risk for mastitis in cows, and for scours in calves. More contact is needed during the rst 2 weeks of life. Drs. Proudfoot, Ohio, and Krawczel, Tennessee, focused on the design of maternity pens to allow for natural maternal behavior in dairy cattle. Research has shown that cows prefer a secluded area to calve. Their preliminary results showed that heifers and cows responded differently in terms of their preference for the barn or the pasture. In mixed groups, heifers went to the pasture, but in heifer-only groups, they stayed in the barn to calve. Other studies showed that cows preferred to use a sheltered area in the barn during the day but not during the night. Stocking density in group maternity pens will most likely inuence this response. Dr. Bewley, Kentucky, focused his talk on natural housing but indicated that system success depends on management and producer preference. He listed some challenges with the 2017 sand-based freestall systems: lameness prevalence, time on concrete, manure handling costs, public perception, and natural behavior limitations (certain lying positions are not possible. He shared that since their research herd moved from a freestall barn to a compost bedded pack barn, yearly milk production has increased 3,000 pounds per cow. However, bedding management and availability are limitations of the bedded pack system. Can we think of alternatives? He showed a Dutch concept of a large pack area with a drainable articial surface and a robotic vacuum system to remove solid manure. What is the dairy industry going to look like in 10 to 30 years? These researchers suggested that we open our minds to new possibilities and management practices.
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Performance of reduced lignin alfalfa By Amanda M. Grev , M. Scott Wells , Deb Samac , Krishona L. Martinson1, and Craig C. Sheaffer2 1
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Alfalfa is widely used as forage for livestock due to its high nutrient content. However, the digestibility and utilization of alfalfa by these animals is hampered by its lignin content. Lignin is a complex structural polymer that makes up part of the brous portion of plants. While it provides the strength and rigidity necessary for a plant to stand upright, lignin is an indigestible component of plants and therefore reduces the ber digestibility of forages such as alfalfa. In recent years, researchers have developed new alfalfa varieties with reduced lignin concentrations. These varieties have potential to increase the feeding value of alfalfa through increased forage digestibility. In addition, improvements in forage nutritive value may lengthen the time period when alfalfa has a forage nutritive value suitable for high-producing cows. This could allow for a wider optimal harvest window, making it possible for alfalfa growers to achieve greater yields by delaying alfalfa harvest while still maintaining acceptable forage nutritive value. We conducted a study to evaluate forage yield and nutritive values for reduced lignin and reference alfalfa varieties when subject to diverse cutting treatments during the establishment and rst production year. Research was completed at the University of Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Stations at St. Paul, Becker, Rosemount, and Rochester during the 2015 and 2016 growing seasons. All sites were planted the last week of April in 2015. Treatments included four cutting treatments with varying harvest frequencies; four alfalfa varieties, three reference cultivars, and one reduced lignin variety. Prior to harvest, hand samples were taken to determine plant maturity and forage nutritive value. Alfalfa yields were then determined by mechanically harvesting plots using a ail harvester. Cumulative forage yields ranged from 2.6 to 4.4 tons per acre during the seeding year (2015) and from 6.6 to 9.8 tons per acre during the rst production year (2016). Yield differences among varieties were minimal, although yields for reduced lignin cultivar were reduced compared to reference cultivars at some locations. During the seeding year, yields were improved with the addition of a fall cut. During the rst production year, yields were greater under wider harvest intervals compared to the 30-day cutting treatment. Compared to the reference alfalfa cultivars, the reduced lignin alfalfa cultivar generally had reduced acid detergent lignin (ADL) concentrations, increased neutral detergent ber digestibility (NDFD) predictions, and similar crude protein (CP) and neutral detergent ber (NDF) concentrations. On average, the reduced lignin alfalfa cultivar demonstrated an 8 percent reduction in ADL and a 10 percent increase in NDFD. Cutting treatments with shorter harvest intervals generally resulted in higher forage nutritive values, including increased CP concentrations, decreased NDF and ADL concentrations, and increased NDFD predictions. While these results are promising, much of the variability in the digestibility and intake of alfalfa can be associated with variations in cell wall concentrations. To assess this, the University of Minnesota is conducting additional research designed to further characterize changes in morphological development and to compare the forage nutritive value of stem and leaf fractions for reduced lignin and reference alfalfa varieties. Department of Animal Science, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 2 Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 3 Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 1
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There was a time when NASA hoped to make was light years ahead of its time. (The X stood for exspace travel widely available with a eet of orbital perimental and B was for boy-plane and 57 was just a space planes. The OSP, as it was called, would be number that I liked.) Even the manufacturing process hurled into orbit atop of a rocket and would later land was revolutionary. I was able to assemble the XB-57 at an airport like a commerin less than an hour using cial airliner. Thousands of totally off the shelf compocivilians would thus be giv- If everything hi went as planned, l d nents. Once the XB-57 en a new and exciting way the prop would loft the XB-57 was completed, I proudly to lose their luggage. I hope NASA will ex- to an unspecified altitude. showed it to my sister, Di. I cuse me while I yawn. Why explained to her that it was am I so unimpressed? It’s the newest and nest prodjust that I personally develuct of our nation’s aerooped (and successfully ew) exactly such a vehicle space industry. several decades ago, when I was but 12. At an age “Funny,” she said sarcastically. “It looks a lot like when most boys are busily expanding their repertoire a balsa airplane with a couple of leftover Fourth of of armpit noises, I was bitten by the aerospace engi- July skyrockets glued to its wings.” neering bug. I had to admit that to the untrained eye, what she I hate to brag, but my model XB-57 rocket plane said was true. But to an aeronautical engineer, what
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I held in my hands was nothing less than pure genius. The clean lines, the light weight, the Dear County Agent Guy expendable rocket engines – genius. Besides, what would a dairy farm girl know about aerodynamics? I told Di that I was giving her a once-ina-lifetime chance to witness history by assisting with the launch. She agreed only after I promised that she By Jerry Nelson could put in the 911 call in the event of a Columnist catastrophic launch explosion. The launch cycle itself was rather complicated. The plan was to energize the XB-57’s rubber band motor by rotating its propeller backwards. I would hold the space plane over my shoulder and give the command to ignite the solid rocket engines. Di would light the fuses and I would quickly toss the XB-57 heavenward, giving it some critical initial momentum. If everything went as planned, the prop would loft the XB-57 to an unspecied altitude. The solid rocket boosters would then ignite. Speed would increase dramatically and the space plane would achieve orbit in a matter of seconds. For safety purposes, (my parents would kill me if they knew what I was up to) we walked out to a nearby hay eld to conduct the maiden ight of the XB-57. There were several tense moments when an argument broke out among the launch crew over the proper order in which to light the solid rocket boosters. At last, the countdown began; the moment of truth had arrived. At the proper moment, I ung the space plane skyward with all my might. Miraculously, everything went more or less as planned. The plane clawed its way upward, slowly gaining precious altitude. Just when the rubber band engine ran out of oomph, rst one then the other solid rocket engine roared to life. The XB-57 rose swiftly on a wisp of smoke and was soon out of sight. Di and I whooped and danced as we celebrated our stupendous achievement. The next day I wrote a scholarly letter to NASA that detailed my ground-breaking accomplishment. I recommended that they stock up on balsa wood. I also warned them of a certain object that was orbiting the earth at an unknown altitude and trajectory. They never replied. I guess they were too busy at the time what with a project they called Apollo 11, some pifing little thing about putting a man on the moon. Thanks to a uke of bad timing, my report was probably lost in the shufe. But if NASA ever wants to come crawling back, I’m willing to let bygones be bygones. And what of the XB-57? Later that summer, I stumbled across its charred carcass while raking alfalfa. I picked it up and ran back to the farmstead to show Di. “Look!” I said excitedly, “My rocket plane survived reentry! And it landed right in our hay eld.” Di made a skeptical remark about the odds of such an occurrence. I told her there was no luck involved, that you simply had to calculate the correct perihelion. “You know what I think?” she said, “I think you watch too much of that NASA stuff on TV.” Jerry is a recovering dairy farmer from Volga, S.D. He and his wife, Julie, have two grown sons and live on the farm where Jerry’s great-grandfather homesteaded over 110 years ago. Jerry currently works full time for the Dairy Star as a staff writer/ ad salesman. Feel free to E-mail him at: jerry.n@dairystar.com.
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One call, two calves
Last Saturday, I had a call from my brother, Chuck, who we call, Chopper. A cow was calving on his 110-cow dairy he runs with our nephew, Jarrett Borgerding. So, he invited me and my three children over to help with the delivery. I thought it was a great idea. First of all because my children, April, Mason and Jasper, were just lounging around the house because it was a cold day, and secondly, because they have never seen a live birth before. We’ve seen the end of the life cycle with chickens, rabbits and a dog, but never the excitement of the beginning. On the Mark It was a great opportunity, so off we went to the farm, just ve minutes away. We hurried over to nd the cow standing outside in an openbay shed locked in the headlocks. This wasn’t going to be an ordinary delivery. My brother had everything prepared: We had soap water, an OB chain and a calf jack in case of difculty. After my brother washed up, I helped him double hook the chain and got the calf jack ready to go. My three kids were propped on the steel gate about 10 feet away with no idea what to expect. Neither did I. I have helped with C-section births, births that took a lot of By Mark Klaphake time because a foot was caught and births where the Editor calf born didn’t make it. I was hoping for a good outcome, but obviously had no idea. Once Chopper was able to pull the feet out, the birth had the complete attention of the kids. Chopper had me tighten the chain on the calf jack and start applying pressure. In a matter of 15 seconds, a calf was out. A few eews and stunning looks came from my kids. There was blood, afterbirth, water and a uniquely looking white heifer calf with a black eye patch laying right behind the cow. The calf came so easily though that it struck the curiosity of Chopper. “That doesn’t make any sense. She shouldn’t have any trouble with delivering that calf. We better check if there is another one there,” he said. Right away, I nearly bounced out of my boots. Could my children be lucky enough to see twins born? I took the lead and washed up quickly because I needed to know. Sure enough the next thing I’m doing is pulling out another set of feet. By this point, I wasn’t the only one excited. My kids were, We needed W d d a volunteer l to h hold ld too. Much like the rst birth, the tail that was wet with many the second one came quite different fluids. April and Jasper easily. We connected the chains and tugged for a short both quickly said no way, but time, and another calf was Mason said sure. laying on the ground behind the cow. It was a spitting image of the rst calf a heifer with a predominantly white body but with two black eye patches. Both calves were good size and needed names. Although Jasper wanted to call one, Blood, that name was vetoed. The three rst-time viewers chose Cookies and Cream and Spots. Once we nished the deliveries, we wiped the calves down, cleaned out their mouths and put them in front of the cow. Chopper and I decided we would milk the cow by hand quick so we could pasteurize the milk and then let the cow clean off the twins. We needed a volunteer to hold the tail that was wet with many different uids. April and Jasper both quickly said no way, but Mason said sure. It took us about ve minutes and we were done. We turned the cow loose to be with its calf, and a short time later we went home. I let the whole process settle with the kids and brought up the event with Mason right before he went to bed. I asked him what he thought and he said it was a great day because he got to see a live birth for the rst time in his life. Jasper and April both said it was kind of gross. Even a couple days after the event, Jasper keeps talking about the blood and two calves. It wasn’t exactly what I wanted him to remember about this special experience, but I was very grateful they got to be part of it.
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I am sure by now many of you have heard that that we had room for cows if needed. on June 11, a windstorm/ tornado ripped through Yes, we had four empty pens ready for cows, Carlson Dairy near Pennock, Minn., and caused water in the waterers, sand in the freestalls, and the severe damage to all their manure ume was workdairy barns. This is truly ing. Now let me tell you one of every dairy farmer’s Th the rest of the story. The new cows adapted d d worst nightmares because We had no gates on dairy cows require con- immediately to our dairy. You the pens – back ordered. stant care 24/7. I can’t even could almost hear them say, It was hot all week and imagine the work and deciour well was not keepsions the Carlsons are go- ‘Thank you, we are safe again.’ ing up with the demands ing through. I had talked to of our existing 1,700 dry Chad Carlson at the Cenand milking cows. The tral Plains Dairy Expo this year in Sioux Falls, so creamery was already complaining, and rightly I knew him a little bit, and Joe and Rita knew the so, about our bulk tank milk temps being too high. Carlsons better than I did from other events. Our double-24 parlor with two people milking was We had just completed a freestall expansion at barely nishing on time with our 1,400 cow milkour dairy, so when we heard about the damage at ing string. The corn silage pile looked adequate, but the Carlsons’, we immediately reached out to them 300 more cows changes everything.
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We were planning to x all these issues over the next few months as our herd slowly increased in size. The denition of “slowly” changed from we got out of church at 11 a.m. to that night at 10:30 p.m. when the last of 310 cows got unloaded Making Cents of Dairy into our new barn. The gate problem was simple as son-inlaw Aaron had plenty of cattle panels to use. He also had an unloading chute only a mile away. Corey mixed up some fresh feed for the incoming cows while Vince and By Dave Vander Kooi I scrubbed the waterers and checked the oors Columnist one more time for construction debris. I also thumbed through my small le of job applicants and talked to our existing employees trying to nd an extra milker for each shift. I hired two people that Sunday night, one worked out well, the other not so much and has since been replaced. Our existing help agreed to temporarily work a little more until I could hire a third person. Cooler weather temporarily solved our water and cooling issues, but we knew we had to address those issues – and quickly. We brought in two milk equipment people for ideas, and they both said a $70,000 chiller was in our future, but they need to be planned for and ordered way ahead of time. So, we all agreed to put a larger water return line on the plate cooler which would allow the plate cooler to be more efcient cooling the milk before it reaches the tank. This one change took 10 degrees off the milk from 67 degrees to 57 degrees. That allowed our compressors to keep up with each 6,000 gallon tank getting lled every eight hours. Now the hauler could pick up cold milk if only we had enough water from the wells to feed the plate cooler. This past Monday, the well driller came and drilled another 25-foot deep well beside our existing well. This new well replaced a 60 year-old augered well that was in bad repair. The wells are in an awesome aquifer on my home farm a mile from the dairy. Now we have all the water we need for everything, even on a hot day. Fortunately, two neighbors sold us some extra rst and second cutting haylage and Dean Christopherson even gave us four loads of corn silage from the end of a covered pile. Because we have had good haylage yields and can feed a little more haylage, it stretches our corn silage pile and we will be ne. The Carlson cows are mostly 3-5 years old that are producing very well and also eat a lot. The new cows adapted immediately to our dairy. They came off the trucks, took a long drink of water, went and ate fresh feed for a few minutes, and went and laid down in the new sand. You could almost hear them say, “Thank you, we are safe again.” Later they walked into our milking parlor like it was grandma’s house – familiar, but we need to smell everything. The bigger adjustment was on us, because our cow computer system did not match the ID system of the Carlson cows. Kia and Rita spent the next two days getting that all working. I was quite proud of our family and crew that night as we unloaded those cows. Each person involved showed they cared deeply about helping friends in time of need and caring for animals. A big thank you to Bryan, who climbed up in all 10 cattle pots and gently encouraged those cows down the loading chute; to Corey, who helped every trucker back up safely to the chute in the dark; to my very pregnant daughter, Kia, who quietly herded the new cows into their pens; to Joe and Rita, who orchestrated everything; and to deb, who kept all the little kids corralled in the chaos. Vander Kooi operates a 1,200-cow, 3,000 acre farm with his son, Joe, and daughter-in-law, Rita, near Worthington, Minn. Send him feedback at davevkooi@hotmail.com. Follow him on Instagram, @ davevanderkooi.
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Sometimes you nd the best things in life when you’re not even looking. That’s certainly true for Murky – our family’s new dog. A couple weeks ago, my sister-in-law asked if we wanted another dog. A friend of hers was looking for a new home for their Australian Shepherd. The 10-month-old dog needed more space to work off his energy and the owners thought a farm would be perfect. We weren’t looking for another dog. We still have Ozzy, our 9-year-old Australian Shepherd, but he is slowing down and showing his age. Dairy Good Life After some careful thought and discussion, we decided to go ahead with adopting another Aussie. I’ve never adopted a dog without rst meeting it, but Murky’s previous owners lived a couple hours away. Plus, we’ve had great experiences with our other Aussies, so, despite a few concerns, I decided it was a safe bet. One thing I was concerned about was how Ozzy would react. Ozzy is the best dog we’ve ever had, but he’s an only-dog dog. As in, he does best in a family where he’s the only canine. His previous owners put him up for adoption because he was bullying the puppies they were raising. He’s been with us four years now, and I still consider adopting him one of the best decisions we’ve By Sadie Frericks ever made. I was worried Ozzy would either bully Murky Columnist or be permanently mad at me. The funny part of adopting Murky, is that it wasn’t until after we decided to adopt him that we gured out he was actually a mini-Australian Shepherd. I couldn’t tell how big he was from the pictures that were sent. Truth be told, I didn’t know there was such a thing as a mini-Aussie. So when a 16-pound red merle bundle of energy showed up at our farm, there was only one word to describe Murky: adorable. After we got over gushing about how cute he is, we also realized that Murky is incredibly smart, gentle and playful. Needless to say, everyone was super excited. Except Ozzy. Ozzy was seriously peeved. We have other dogs visit our farm from time to time and Ozzy doesn’t pay much attention to them. With Murky, it was like Ozzy knew right away that this dog wouldn’t be going home anytime soon. But after a few days of establishing rank, Ozzy now seems to accept Murky and the two will actually play together when Ozzy feels up to it. It can be rather entertaining to watch them play. Ozzy is an extra-large Aussie and Murky is an extra-small Aussie, so it’s like watching a freightliner and a sailboat. And, like I had hoped, Ozzy seems to be teaching Murky how to be a well-behaved farm dog. When Murky gets a little too excited about barking at a cat, Ozzy swoops in and separates Murky from the cat. Murky was scared to death to go in the barn when he rst got here, but he loves to follow Ozzy around. Eventually his desire to follow Ozzy must have helped him overcome his fear of the cows. It might have helped, too, that I started taking Murky out to the pasture with me to get cows. Ozzy was never trained to use his herding instinct, so he doesn’t herd. But I gured it might not be too late for Murky – if he had any instinct at all. It turns out Murky has pretty strong herding instincts. He’s starting to get the hang of moving the cows. He won’t ever be an aggressive herder, but dairy cows generally don’t need an aggressive herd dog. His favorite herding exercise right now is herding the show heifers while we walk them around the yard. Murky in the pasture is the most comical sight ever. Due to his small size and the height of the pasture grass, Murky either hops like a fox to see over the grass or – even cuter – stands up on his back legs like a bear. Whatever it was that helped him warm up to the cows, Murky now hangs out in the barn when we’re in the barn. During milking the other night, Murky watched Ozzy lap up the milk that had been stripped onto the oor; it didn’t take long for Murky to catch on. It also didn’t take him long to get pooped on. I guess he’s still got a few things to learn, but that was when I knew Murky had become a full-edged farm dog. Thankfully, due to his petite size, Murky ts in the milk house sink, so it’s easy to wash him up. I’m extremely thankful Murky is easy to clean, because he has also become our house dog. I don’t have enough space here to explain just how Murky came to be in the house, but I’m OK with the development. More than OK. It’s actually quite a bit of fun. The kids were involved in Murky becoming a house dog, so they’re in charge of making sure he’s clean before he comes in the house and taking him out when he needs a potty break. Never in a million years would I have guessed that I’d have a dog that could wear the title of both house dog and barn dog, but I’m delighted to have a dog that thinks he’s one of the kids. Ozzy doesn’t play much anymore and really only wants to be where I am. Murky loves to be where the kids are. The other night after I tucked Dan and Monika into bed, I heard them chatting about Murky. “Having a house dog is the best thing ever,” Dan said. I think having a Murky – and an Ozzy – is the best thing ever. 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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Bitzers dairy farm near Canadian border By Jennifer Coyne jenn@dairystar.com
WARROAD, Minn. – As shermen travel through Warroad, Minn., anticipating their adventures in Lake of the Woods, they might catch an unusual site amongst the water and trees near Minnesota’s most northern point. In Roseau County, only six miles from the Canadian border, Don Bitzer and his father, Gene, milk 120 cows. “Although there used to be more farms in Warroad, there are now just two of us,” Don said. Nestled within a cove of trees, across the road from an airport, is the Bitzers’ home farm, where the cows, breeding-age heifers, and bottle-fed calves are housed. Located only a few miles away is Don’s farm site, where youngstock and a herd of beef cattle are raised. “It’s a lot of work to farm up here, and you somehow have to make due, but we enjoy it,” Don said. Unlike strong dairy pockets across the Midwest, the Bitzers are faced with many challenges, including weather, infrastructure and industry support. On 2,500 acres of land – ranging from sandy to heavy loam – the Bitzers grow corn
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Don and Gene Bitzer milk 120 cows only six miles from the Canadian border near Warroad, Minn. The Bitzers have been a part of the industry since the 1980s. silage, soybeans, wheat and hay. Although, with temperatures falling well below zero and annual precipitation hovering near 30 inches, maintaining the elds is a difcult task. “Last year was probably our hardest year dairy farming with the price, of course, but also because it was so wet up here,” Don said. “We planted our corn twice and didn’t get
anything. Our hay was too wet for the milk cows, so we ended up purchasing it all.” Of the remaining crops that were planted, the harvest yielded poor qualities, causing the Bitzers to supplement the ration with beet pulp from Drayton, N.D., nearly 100 miles west along the state border. In a typical growing sea-
son, Don hopes to have all of his crops planted in May. By September, the wheat is harvested, followed by corn silage and soybeans in October and November. “We always go right to the end of harvest season,” Don said. “There’s been years where we have to wait for the ground to freeze before we can chop. We’ve chopped many
times in the snow.” To improve the elds and rebuild soil structure, the Bitzers planted Italian ryegrass and new-seeding alfalfa on top of established stands. They also began wrapping bales in an attempt to put hay up in a more timely fashion and still retain the quality of the forage. Warroad is a community built around agriculture and industrial work, but the airport near the Bitzers can make managing the farm difcult. “We do have to be cautious where and when we spread manure because the airport across the street does not like it,” Don said. “Some of our land goes right up to the runaway, so we choose not to spread on that piece.” With the area surrounded by agriculture, many implement dealerships are nearby to support the livelihood of those like the Bitzers. Although, when it comes to dairy-specic infrastructure, the options are slim. Often times, when the Bitzers have to order equipment pieces for the milking parlor or dairy barns, it can take several days or weeks to arrive. The closest technician is 80 miles away. “It’s getting harder and harder to get things here, especially if it’s for a unique piece or request,” Don said. “So we don’t have to rely so heavily on Turn to BITZERS | Page 37
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Women In Jeans Randi Wingert Harmony, Minn. Fillmore County 80 cows Family: My husband, Jim, and I have seven kids: Coltin, 17, Morgan, 15, Claytin, 10, Madylan, 9, Maggie, 6, Melony, 6, and Martina, 5. Tell us about your farm (and your role). Twelve years ago, we started farming on our own as Wingert’s Registered Holsteins and 7-AYR-S Farms. We milk 80 head of registered Ayrshires, Brown Swiss and Holsteins three times a day in a double-6 step up parlor and house them in sand-bedded freestalls. The kids are our help here, and the farm wouldn’t run without them. We raise all our own youngstock and run 100 acres of corn and alfalfa. I do all the milking, farm bookwork, cow records and running kids around. Jim does all the feeding and scraping while the kids handle the youngstock and show animals. I also have about 85 laying hens and 20 ducks that supply eggs for a local restaurant. What’s the busiest time of day for you? It’s a toss up between mornings and when everyone is getting home from school. When you get a spare moment what do you do? There aren’t many spare moments, but we try to sit and catch up with the kids. I’m a 4-H leader for our local club, and I’m also involved in other areas of our county 4-H. These things plus church council and showing cows ll up most of my time. I’m also a youth snowmobile safety instructor. Tell us about your most memorable experience working on the farm. There have been a few. Martina was delivered at home just before we went out to milk. We have also chased heifers out of the local cemetery in the wet spring. Every time one of the kids gets to watch or help a calf be born is always memorable. It’s always like the rst time they have ever seen it. What have you enjoyed most about dairy farming or your tie to the dairy industry? I have enjoyed raising and watching my kids grow in the barn.
They have learned life lessons and skills they can’t learn in school. On the really hard days, their love and respect for what we do is all I need to keep pushing forward along with knowing that we are giving them a valuable gift that so many don’t get to experience. How do you stay connected with others in the industry? I use our Facebook page to let everyone know what is going on at our farm. County and state fair are always great times to reconnect with people we don’t see very often. Showing cattle has also introduced us to many great people. In your opinion, what’s the importance of women in today’s dairy industry and how have you seen that change over the years? Women are so important to this industry. We have become more involved in the day-to-day tasks. We are being heard as woman, mothers and leaders. We are seen more as equals than times before – both on the farm and off the farm. If you could give a tour of your farm to a prominent woman in today’s society, who would it be and why? Sarah Palin. I would love to show her how important the small family farms are to this country. I would also like to show her that smaller farmers are trying to compete with larger farms, which is giving so many hard working, good people no choice but to lose their hopes and dreams, and quit what their families have been doing for so many years. What is the best vacation you’ve ever taken? We don’t vacation. We showcation at dairy cattle shows at the county, regional and state levels. We have occasionally shown at the national level. We got the chance to send Morgan to World Dairy Expo in 2016 with her Brown Swiss calf and she earned fourth in class and rst in her class in the junior show. She then went on to be reserve junior champion of the junior show. Thankfully we could watch from home, and she got the experience of a lifetime.
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ConĆ&#x;nued from BITZERS | Page 35 other businesses, we ďƒžx most everything ourselves – all the milking equipment and machinery.â€? Additionally, those who work with the Bitzers, such as their veterinarian and nutritionist, travel from miles away. “It’s getting harder to have people come up and help us,â€? Bitzer said. “For instance, our hoof trimmer comes from southern Minnesota. When he comes up here, it’s a long ways for him.â€? Prior to Sept. 11, 2001, the Bitzers would often travel a short distance north and across the border for dairy services and support.
Despite the distance that separates Don and his father from other dairy sectors, the Bitzers feel fortunate to be able to continue farming. They are one of few farms on a milk hauler’s route that transports the milk to a cooperative in Thief River Falls, Minn. Gene began farming in the 1980s with his wife, Marilyn. Following in his father’s footsteps, Don became a dairyman a decade later with his wife, Juli, and children – Eric, Sasha, Chantel and Ivy; but by 1996, Gene and Don combined their herds. “It seemed like when we
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Don Bitzer explains how the double-10 parallel parlor was built. In 1996 Don and Gene combined their dairy herds and expanded their faciliĆ&#x;es.
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The Bitzers farm across the road from an airport, with some of their land running up against the runway. did it separately, we didn’t get much done,� Don said. “We decided to put everything together.� Gene agreed. “It’s a good deal we combined the herds, because this gets to be more than one person can do by themselves,� he said. Upon combining dairy herds, the Bitzers built a compost barn for the dry cows and began housing the milking herd in the already-established 115-stall freestall barn. “The transition went very well,� Don said. “It was a little hard when we weren’t set up to milk that many at once, but shortly after we added on.� Now, the Bitzers are milking their herd in a double-10 parallel parlor.
Mornings begin at 5, with one employee and Gene milking the cows; at the same time, Don feeds the cattle. Three evenings a week two employ-
“We do have Timberwolves to watch out for where the beef herd is,� Don said. While dairy farming in northern Minnesota differs
“This is where I was born, it’s home, and I enjoy farming here.� DON BITZER, DAIRY FARMER
ees milk by themselves. About 15 years ago, the Bitzers added a 150-cow beef herd to improve efďƒžciencies on the dairy. “Dad has always had beef cows, but we started a larger herd to use up the poor dairy feed,â€? Don said. The herd is housed at Don’s place, in a pasture-based setting.
from that of other regions, the Bitzers are pleased to be a part of a career that has given them so much. “Dad and I get along really well, so this setup has worked really nice for us,� Don said. “This is where I was born, it’s home, and I enjoy farming here.�
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