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“Let’s milk A devastating ood for NE Iowa cows”
Fink takes leap into dairying despite limited experience By Cassie Olson
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TOMAH, Wis. – When Samantha Fink initially purchased her farm in 2012 with her father, Dale, and brother, Cody, her plan was never to milk cows. Despite her limited experience in dairy, Fink took a leap of faith in September 2015 when she began lling her Tomah, Wis., farm with the 100 dairy cows she milks today. Having grown up on her family’s beef and crop farm in Trempealeau, Wis., Fink and her family purchased the Tomah farm primarily for the land. With 250 acres, nearly all of which are tillable, the purchase allowed them to expand as Fink approached college graduation. “I was going to school for animal science for the rst two years that we owned the farm. We bought it in 2012, when land prices had skyrocketed; both my brother and I knew we wanted to farm, and this farm was more affordable than the land near Trempealeau. It was the only option,” Fink said. Following her graduation in May 2014, Fink moved 70 miles from her home farm to begin farming in Tomah. She began by raising a fraction of her family’s beef steers and heifers for the rst year. The farm’s previous owners, however, had milked cows until the farm was sold. As she put more time and effort into the farm, Fink realized she was putting the existing equipment and facilities to waste. “The parlor and equipment was here, all in good condition,” Fink said. “So, one day I just said to my dad, ‘Let’s milk cows.’” Turn to FINK | Page 6
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A hay shed on the Dietzenbachs’ farm stands in water from the ooded Turkey River on Aug. 24. The Dietzenbach family lost round bales of hay and corn stalks, and had numerous acres under water because of ooding on their farm near Fort Atkinson, Iowa.
Dietzenbach one of many farmers to have numerous acres under water By Krista Kuzma
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FORT ATKINSON, Iowa – Many northeast Iowa dairy farmers were anxiously watching as rain kept falling the night of Aug. 23 into the morning of Aug. 24. Unfortunately for many, the large amount of rain received in a short period of time – some areas had over 10 inches in about four to ve hours – resulted in ooded elds and farmsites. This included Dan Dietzenbach,
who milks 70 cows near Fort Atkinson, Iowa. His farm received about ve inches of rain overnight. “I knew it was going to be bad, possibly like [the ood we had in] ’08, but I didn’t think it would be worse,” Dietzenbach said. Dietzenbach farms together with his wife, Michelle, and parents, Vern and Bernice, on their farmsites along the Turkey River. A large amount of their farmland is at river bottom. Normally, the section of the river that is near their dairy is about 60 to 80 feet Turn to FLOODING | Page 5
Milk solids a key component to prot Butterfat, protein, whey hot commodities for buyers By Brittany Olson
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Samantha Fink milks 100 cows on her dairy farm in Tomah, Wis. Fink purchased the farm with her father and brother in 2012 before she began milking cows in 2015.
TAYLORS FALLS, Minn. – “What is milk?” That was the question posed by Dr. Normand StPierre at a dairy management seminar on Aug. 24 in Taylors Falls, Minn. St-Pierre, the director of research and technical services at Perdue AgriBusiness, spoke about the composition of milk. “In 100 pounds of milk, there are 3.8 pounds of butterfat, 3.0 pounds of protein, 5.7 pounds of other solids and the rest – 87.5 pounds – is water,” St-Pierre said. “Buyers are not paying you the same for each pound of those milk solids.” St-Pierre went on to explain the factors that deter-
mine component prices. “The USDA does not determine component prices, the federal government does not determine component prices and neither does your cooperative,” StPierre said. “What does determine your component pay prices are wholesale prices and unregulated sales of butter, cheese blocks and barrels, dry whey, and nonfat dry milk.” Given component prices per hundredweight (cwt) as of July 2016, butterfat sold for $2.44 per pound, while protein rang up at $2.84 per pound and other milk solids raked in $0.10 per pound. “Those are the gross revenues per pound, but how much does it cost you to produce each pound?” StPierre said. For example, St-Pierre explained that it takes 26.6 pounds of dry matter intake to make 5.36 pounds of fat and 2.5 pounds of other milk solids. Meanwhile, 10.71 pounds of net energy for lactation creates 4.25 Turn to MILK SOLIDS | Page 9
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Fall harvest can be a hectic time. As things get busy, farmers need to stay vigilant to avoid accidents. Two stories this issue share how dairy farmers Dan Bragger and Dan Kruschke suffered their own on-farm accidents. Bragger now uses a prosthetic leg after losing his as a result of getting it caught in an auger on his farm near Independence, Wis. Read more about Bragger on pages 35 and 37 in the rst section. Kruschke inhaled nitrogen dioxide while leveling a silo on his farm near Eagle Bend, Minn. Read about how this has affected him on pages 12 and 13 By Mark Klaphake in rst section. But so many good things can come during harvest Editor time, including a church group that offers its services to dairy farmers who need help covering silage piles. Members of Bethel Christian Reformed Church in Sioux Center, Iowa, volunteer their time to cover the piles for area dairy farmers as a way to raise money for the church. Read about their story “One tire at a time” on pages 2, 3 and 5 in third section. If building a new maternity area or improving calving procedures for your dairy is on your to-do list, check out this issue’s “From our side of the fence” feature on pages 15 and 16 in rst section. Dairy farmers from across our coverage area explain the logistics of where cows calve on their farm and what steps they take during that process. Following harvest, dairy farmers will have to be aware of a change that will be put in place Jan. 1. That’s when a Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD) will be required for medications in animal feeds. Read more about how you can be prepared for the change on page 9 in second section. Dan and Debbie Takes made a big change on their farm when they decided to start making and marketing their own dairy products. They turned an 8,100-square foot building into a dairy plant to process cheese curds, ice cream and uid milk in the small town of Ely, Iowa. Read more about their new venture on pages 23 and 25 in rst section. As October approaches, so does World Dairy Expo. This year is a big milestone for the internationally known dairy show as it celebrates its 50th anniversary Oct. 4-8 in Madison, Wis. The special section about World Dairy Expo inserted into this issue previews many of the seminars and events going on throughout the ve-day event.
Favorite quotes from this issue: “…going in with milk price at a low, I quickly learned to understand the importance of money management.” - Samantha Fink, First Section Pages 1, 6-7
“We’re 40 miles from Canada, right on the edge of the country with islands all around us.”
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Water from the Turkey River spilled out of its banks and into surrounding farm elds near Fort Atkinson, Iowa. wide and 2 feet deep; however, after the excessive rain, the river swelled to over one-fourth of a mile wide and about 20 feet deep, Dietzenbach said. “The water started trickling through [two sheds] and three to four hours later it was three feet deep. We got out what equipment we could and moved it to higher ground,” he said. While one of the sheds housed equipment, the other stored large round bales of hay and corn stalks. “We’ll probably have to take out the whole bottom row. They’re all wet,” Dietzenbach said. However, the biggest loss is in the eld. Just the week before the ooding, Dietzenbach had done yield checks on his corn. The estimates came in between 240 and 260 bushels per acres. But Dietzenbach’s 170 acres sat under water up to the ears for a day. When the water subsided and the insurance adjustor came out to look at the damage, Dietzenbach was told he may need to destroy his ooded crop. “It’s just really discouraging and disgusting. I thought, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me. You’re out of your mind. There’s no way. It’s by far the best crop I’ve ever had,’” Dietzenbach said. “Now he tells us we have to plow it under.” Dietzenbach hopes there’s another answer. Although he knows the corn won’t be the highest quality, he hopes he can salvage some of his crop. “I’m trying to gure out what we can do,” he said. “I’m hoping if its not bad in a few weeks we can take it out and harvest it, and take it to the ethanol plants as long as there’s no mold that would carry over to the feed stuffs at the end.”
The corn is normally chopped or combined and fed to their dairy herd, the bull calves they raise or the 1,000 head of hogs they nish on their farm. In addition to his corn, Dietzenbach also had a small amount of soybean and alfalfa acres that ooded. His dad also had about 85 acres of corn under water. “We’ll have enough good feed for the animals,” Dietzenbach said. Although the ooding covered the farm elds, Dietzenbach said this ood didn’t wash out as many roads or erode the banks of the river as much as he thought it would. “The corn was so tall. As the river went through it, it really slowed the water down. Except for the rows right along the river,” Dietzenbach said. “There seems to be less garbage that came in [to the elds than in 2008]. There are more boards and tires and things like that right on the edge of the corn that didn’t necessarily go in. Hopefully when we’re harvesting we won’t nd as much garbage as we did in ‘08. But it’s hard to tell.” When the water went down, the Dietzenbachs started cleaning up their sheds. They couldn’t do much in the elds since it was too muddy. Going forward, the Dietzenbachs hope they can get something out of their elds. “It can stop anytime. It needs to stop,” Dietzenbach said about what he was thinking when he watched the rain come down. “It’s a disappointment seeing the crop get to this point – a record crop for us and seeing it disappear right in front of you. I’m hoping things turn out.”
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ConƟnued from FINK | Page 6 Fink said despite the distance between farms, her family is very actively involved with the dairy’s operation. In addition to running the family’s farm back home, Dale and Cody are also responsible for all the crop work between both farms. “Sharing equipment between the farms with the distance can be a pain,” Fink said. “But either my brother or dad are down here at least once or twice a week on average.” In the last year, a lot of updates have been made to the farm. Built in the late 1960s, much of the farm was outdated and in need of repairs. Two silos were torn down and headlocks were replaced with a feed rail in the heifer shed. Inside the 200-stall freestall barn, an outdated conveyor system was removed and a cement pad with a feed rail is currently being added outside for feeding. Making changes to the farm was challenging upfront, but Fink said she hopes it makes her a better dairy farmer in the long run. “With the milk price where it has been, we had a lot of overhead costs upfront, and scraping to get by was hard,” she said. “But, going in with milk price at a low, I quickly learned to understand the importance of money management.” Eventually, Fink and her family hope to update the rest of the buildings to make things easier and more efcient. She said her goal is to soon build an up-close maternity pen and to make updates to the freestall barn as they are able. With a very limited knowledge of dairy jumping into her farming venture, Fink admits the last year has been nothing short of challenging. Despite
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National Milk Producers Federation Senior Vice-Presi- An assessment of the hay market dent of Communications Chris Galen said his organization Rock Valley Hay Auction owner/manager Paul McGill wants Congress to take a fresh look at the Margin Protection said a big hay crop was produced this year, but the quality varProgram. “It has never done before and so I think there were ies. “The main difference is on the demand side,” McGill said. a number of economic assumptions that were made about the “The demand is as not as good as it was last year. As we get structure of the program and some of those things need to closer to fall, we usually see decent rallies with be corrected going forward.” The formula for a panic that winter is almost here. There’s been a Ag Insider calculating feed costs and premium rates are little relief that milk prices have come up, which among the aspects of MPP that may need to be will help dairy farmers.” Looking ahead into changed. The Red River Farm Network asked next year, McGill said it will continue to be a Galen what he considered the biggest challenge challenging market. “There is a lot of silage bein the upcoming Farm Bill discussion. “Ming chopped. The yields look to be really good. O-N-E-Y,” was the response. “There is only a That will be a factor. Farmers are buying lower, limited amount of money that Congress has to cheaper quality hay than they would normally.” work with and when you break it down between the different commodities and the feeding proFeed industry groups petition for VFD grams, that is the big issue hanging over this.” change The American Feed Industry Association USDA to purchase surplus cheese and the National Grain and Feed Association USDA plans to purchase 11 million pounds have asked the Food and Drug Administration By Don Wick of cheese for food banks. The $20 million purto ease the regulatory burden from the Veterichase is designed to reduce a cheese surplus, nary Feed Directive. The feed industry groups Columnist which is at a 30-year high. USDA has also exwant to see an exemption from some of the electended the deadline for dairy farmers to enroll in tronic recordkeeping rules. The cost of developthe Margin Protection Program to December 16. The previous ing a computerized electronic records and signature system is deadline was September 30. In a statement, the National Milk estimated at $225,000 for each facility. The FDA has 180 days Producers Federation said it will continue to assess the eco- to respond to this request, but with the Jan. 1 implementation nomic situation facing dairy farmers, and suggest ways to help date, the organizations are asking the agency to make changes farmers endure this lengthy period of low prices. sooner. Lawmakers upset with Canadian dairy pricing plan New York Senator Chuck Schumer and Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin have asked the Obama Administration to investigate Canada’s new dairy pricing policy. The lawmakers contend these policies encourage Canadian dairy processors to use domestic milk, penalizing them for the use of imported dairy products. The National Milk Producers Federation and U.S. Dairy Export Council are praising Schumer and Baldwin in their efforts.
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NFDM inventories decline from last year The U.S. inventory of nonfat dairy milk and dry whey declined in June. The NFDM stocks increased 9 percent from the previous month, but were up 7 percent from 2015. Dry whey stocks are down 5 percent from May and down 11 percent from June of last year.
New dairy major at UW-Platteville The University of Wisconsin-Platteville is offering a new dairy science major. The dairy science program will feature hands-on learning, including the new Adopt-a-Heifer program. In this effort, students will be assigned an animal that they will follow throughout their college education.
WMMB hopes to ll CEO post in early 2017 The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board is accepting applications for its vacant CEO position. The WMMB search committee plans to conduct interviews in November and make a decision in early 2017. A recruiting rm has been contracted to assist with the national search. James Robson was the WMMB chief executive ofce for 16 years before his exit in April. Iowa feed plant upgraded The Purina Animal Nutrition Plant in Mason City, Iowa has gone through a modernization effort. A $2.4 million capital investment will increase production capacity. This facility makes feed for dairy and beef cattle, hogs, sheep and poultry. Dean Foods names new CEO Ralph Scozzafava will take over as the chief executive ofcer of Dean Foods on January 1, succeeding Gregg Tanner. Tanner is stepping down after ten years as CEO. Scozzafava is now the company’s chief operating ofcer. Dykes to succeed Tipton at IDFA Michael Dykes has been named the new president and CEO of the International Dairy Foods Association. Dykes will join the IDFA staff in October and take over the CEO job in January. Previously, Dykes was the vice president of government affairs for Monsanto. Connie Tipton, who has been at the helm of IDFA for 35 years, is retiring. Dairy foundation recaps 2016 fundraising effort The Professional Dairy Producers Foundation raised over $260,000 during the past year. This money will be used to fund dairy promotion and educational programs. The largest PDPF fundraiser is the Two Cents campaign. In this program, dairy farmers designate two cents per hundredweight of their milk production for PDPF. Trivia challenge There are four sticks of butter in a typical pound package. That answers our last trivia question. In the cheese making process, a coagulant is added to curdled milk. For this week’s trivia, what is it? We’ll have the answer in the next edition of Dairy Star. Don Wick is a partner and broadcaster for the Red River Farm Network, based in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Wick has been recognized as the National Farm Broadcaster of the Year and served as president of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting. Don and his wife, Kolleen, have two adult sons, Tony and Sam, and ve grandchildren, Aiden, Piper, Adrienne, Aurora and Sterling.
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ConƟnued from MILK SOLIDS | Page 1 pounds of fat, 2.55 pounds of protein and 1.54 pounds of other milk solids. One pound of metabolizable protein makes 0.17 pounds of fat and 0.08 pounds of other milk solids, but slightly multiplies itself inside the cow to produce 1.49 pounds of milk protein. Regarding the nancial implications of producing each nutrient, StPierre explained that one pound of net energy costs $0.083, with effective neutral detergent ber costing $0.052 per pound. Metabolizable protein was by far the most expensive nutrient at a price of $0.518 per Dr. Normand pound. St-Pierre Fat and protein led the charge with income over feed costs at $1.98 and $1.85 per pound, respectively. Other solids sat at a loss after feed expenses, with eight cents per pound being lost. The remainder of that 100 pounds of milk – water – gets ushed down the drain, as it holds zero value in the wholesale market. “Processors do not want water,” StPierre said. “The lesson here is that you make money on seven pounds and lose money on the other 93 pounds. The rst three-quarters of a pound of butterfat or protein pay for the maintenance costs.” St-Pierre went on to compare two hypothetical herds of equal size. One herd averaged 90 pounds of milk per cow with 3.5 percent butterfat and 2.9 percent of protein, while the other herd averaged 85 pounds of milk per cow with 3.8 percent butterfat and 3.1 percent protein. Given current pay prices for milk solids, the rst herd received $15.63 per cwt., and with feed costs of $6.45 per cwt. their net income was $9.18 per cwt. On the other hand, the second herd’s feed costs were slightly higher at $7.17 per cwt. because they were feeding a touch more energy and protein, but a pay price of $17.37 lessened the blow and netted them a higher income over feed costs at $10.20. In summary, milk solids have a major impact on pay prices. St-Pierre said, “You make all your money on around seven pounds per cwt. and lose money
on what you produce the most, such as water and other milk solids.” “Milk prices are not xed, and they vary across time and across herds based on milk components,” St-Pierre said. As far as the future of component pay prices, St-Pierre spoke of the difculty of creating price forecasts beyond six months into the future. Even though the United States has more cheese in storage compared to even 10 years ago, there are also more people. In addition, the average American consumes 35 pounds of cheese per year – a fact that wholesale buyers of milk solids are aware of. “A lot of buyers still remember 2014 when prices reached record highs,” St-Pierre said. “They’re buying cheese now while it’s still cheap.” To build on that momentum, American dairy exports are slowly rising after plateauing earlier this year despite a strong U.S. dollar in part because, as St-Pierre explained, international buyers can count on American dairies to deliver a quality product on time, making them more tolerant of higher prices. In addition, European production is slowing down as a result of the end of their long-standing production quota, and low pay prices in Oceania (Australia, New Zealand and other Pacic Island nations) are causing many dairy producers in those countries to either rein in their production or leave the dairy business. Also, whey milk powder prices at Global Dairy Trade are up 18.6 percent as developing nations begin to use more animal protein in their diets. Stateside, class III futures from August through November this year are closed above $17 per cwt. and protein prices are stronger than they have been the last six months. Whey prices and nonfat dry milk prices continue to improve. Even though fat prices are uncertain due to downward pressure, all the factors at play at home and abroad are creating a silver lining for milk prices that American dairy farmers have been longing to see – thus making milk solids all the more crucial to a dairy farm’s bottom line. “You’re making your money on seven pounds of milk,” St-Pierre said. “Instead of making more water, make more solids.”
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GRATIOT, Wis. – Ever since he was a child, Adam Moore had dreamed of farming alongside his father, Jeff. Soon after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2014, his dream came to fruition as he joined his father as the farm’s co-owner. In the last two years, the father-son duo has expanded their Gratiot, Wis., farm to 165 cows with the addition of a parlor and freestall barn, which was largely designed by Adam, himself. The result was a 102- by 217-foot, four-row freestall barn. The barn is naturally ventilated with 148 sand-bedded stalls and has 180 headlocks with a sprinkler system. Additionally, the barn contains a 40-foot fresh cow and hospital pen. Manure is held in a manure pit with a 35-day holding capacity, which was also constructed during the building process. To say the Moores are satisďƒžed with their investment would be an understatement. “The cows are extremely comfortable, and therefore, production is as good as we could hope for,â€? Jeff said. In the two years following the completion of the
building, the Moores say they have seen production increase an average of eight pounds to a herd average of 88.5 pounds per day. As a whole, the rolling herd average improved by 3,000 pounds to 28,000. The barn’s impact does not stop with production. Cow longevity continues to improve, with the herd’s average age of calving now at 4 years and 3 months of age – one of the highest in Lafayette County. “Cows are lasting longer here,â€? Adam said. “We have been sustaining the herd off of 70 replacement heifers for the last two years.â€? Although they are enjoying the success they are seeing in the barn, the Moores admit their design was not exactly ďƒ&#x;awless. Six months ago, they made the decision to groove the parlor decks after seeing the original, broom-swept cement decks beginning to smooth. “We grooved the parlor decks because they were getting extremely slippery. That’s the one thing we really wish we would have done at construction,â€? Jeff said. Both Adam and Jeff recognized the need for new facilities well before Adam had returned from school. If the cows were to continue being proďƒžtable for the family, they needed to create a more comfortable enTurn to MOORES | Page 11
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Con�nued from MOORES | Page 10 ward. The result was a double-8 her- for more ways to be efcient, and are ringbone parlor with rapid exits. exploring the possibility of diversifying “Rapid exits are a bit uncommon with crops and steers in the near future. in herringbone parlors,” Adam said. In addition to Jeff and Adam, the “It was someMoore family thing that I saw consists of Jeff’s on a farm visit and wife, Mary; son, knew I wanted to Connor; daughter, have that in our Brooke; and Adparlor.” am’s ancé, AshAlthough they ley Martin. Conconsidered a vanor and Brooke riety of options are both underwhile visiting graduate students other farms, the and Ashley is curADAM MOORE, DAIRY FARMER Moores said the rently attending planning process pharmacy school, was fairly quick for them. Plans began all at UW-Madison. Jeff and Adam said in December 2013, during which time each member of their family contribthey made nancing and contractor de- utes to the work among the farm, which cisions. By the following April, they makes the success they have experiwere breaking ground on their dream. enced since building the new barn that “It wasn’t hard to plan it out once much sweeter. we had made the decision we were goAdam said, “I enjoy being able to ing to build it,” Adam said. work with my family, share in our own Since completing the facility, the success and that we all enjoy the same Moores plan to continue at their current things.” herd size in the future. They are looking
“I enjoy being able to work with my family, share in our own success and that we all enjoy the same things.”
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Adam Moore pushes up feed in the freestall barn. He returned to the farm a�er gradua�ng college in 2014 and now co-owns the farm with his father, Jeff. vironment for the cows to reach their full potential. “The old barn was small; it was a 58-stall barn,” Adam said. “It was very undersized and had long outgrew the farm. When I was ready to come home and farm, we agreed we were ready to make the change.” Despite its size, Jeff said they had gotten themselves by because of one addition they had made 10 years prior. “We had been bedding with sand in the tiestall for 10 years,” Jeff said. “That helped us to get by a little longer by keeping the cows more comfortable and productive.” After making the decision to build new facilities, Adam had many ideas to make cow comfort a focal point of the new barn. “I had been thinking about it over the years, so I knew what I wanted in regards to design, layout and cow
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EAGLE BEND, Minn. – Farming is one of the most dangerous occupations in the United States, and currently has the highest rate of occupational fatalities, ahead of mining and construction, with 22.2 farm-related deaths per 100,000 workers, or 480 lives lost each year, according to the Agricultural Safety and Health Council of America. Dan Kruschke could have been a part of that statistic. On Sept. 26, 2011, Kruschke was exposed to nitrogen dioxide while leveling a small silo on the 40-cow dairy farm he operates with his wife, Susan, near Eagle Bend, Minn. That day still haunts Kruschke. “I remember diving towards the door to catch my
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Dan Kruschke milks 40 Jerseys with his wife, Susan, near Eagle Bend, Minn. Four years ago, Kruschke inhaled silo gas in the midst of fall harvest. breath,” said Kruschke, goosebumps covering his arms. “Unless I got myself out of there, I was going to be dead.” The tower silo had three loads of silage at the bottom
from two days prior. Before Kruschke could continue harvesting, he had to adjust the chute, which had unevenly distributed the feed. Entering the silo from a
side door, Kruschke dropped his wrench and began the trek down towards the bottom to fetch the tool. “I started feeling dizzy and it was hard to breathe,”
Kruschke said. “That’s when I knew it was silo gas. I had walked right into it.” Nitrogen dioxide is the dangerous result of the ensiling process; a yellow-tinted, heavy gas that lingers in the vicinity for up to three weeks after silage is properly stored. With all his might, the dairy farmer managed to reach the opening of the silo towards fresh air. “I was able to nish lling the silos, but felt like I had the u or pneumonia,” Kruschke said. “After going to the doctor, I was treated with steroids and realized what had happened.” Kruschke suffered from pulmonary edema, where his lungs lled with liquid. In relation to other fatal farm accidents, asphyxiation or toxic effects from gases is acute in comparison, but the effects are equally hazardous and can occur days after the initial contact. The effects of inhaling the toxic gas would be long lasting for Kruschke, who was diagnosed with hypersensitivity Turn to SILO GAS | Page 13
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ConƟnued from SILO GAS | Page 12 and whose conditions worsened after the farm accident. “You can look at a tractor and see it’s lacking rollover protection and has a narrow front end, and know it’s dangerous,” Dr. John Shutske said. “Unless you see the cloudy yellow tint of nitrogen dioxide against sunlight, gases are difcult to detect until it is too late.” Shutske is an agriculture engineering specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has 31 years of experience in farm safety. While tower silos are the most common storage facility where silo gas is detected due to the conned space, any storage facility, including bags and bunkers, retains the dangers of nitrogen dioxide exposure for up to three weeks after initial storage. “In other storage systems, there’s generally a lot more ambient air movement and less risk,” Shutske said. “Although realistically, levels can go from zero to deadly in a matter of minutes.” Hydrogen sulde, developed in manure, is highly toxic, and is most commonly the cause of death near a pit or lagoon. At low levels, the deadly gas smells like rotten eggs, but as concentrations increase, a person’s olfactory nerves go into temporary paralysis, and at 600 to 1,000 parts per million (ppm), a person will stop breathing, Shutske said. “Pits are extremely dangerous and are classical conned spaces,” said Shutske. “Unless a dairy farmer or employee has to work in it, they should know this area is off limits. When work inside of a pit is needed, it’s always best to work with a qualied ag service provider who has the right safety equipment.” For the majority of the U.S. work-
force, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulates conned spaces to ensure worker safety. However, OSHA has not focused regulatory efforts on smaller farms with family member employees in most states; as a result, many smaller dairy farms with fewer than 11 hired workers are generally not subject to OSHA actions, Shutske said. “On all types of farmers, the dangers of conned spaces are the same, or even greater as compared to other industries or large farms,” Shutske said. If a farmer must work in a conned space, they need to take the proper safety precautions – wearing a self-contained breathing apparatus and other appropriate safety gear, monitoring the air for adequate oxygen levels and toxic gases, using ventilation fans, and being supervised by one or two other individuals. An effective conned space entry program also includes training, record keeping, and insuring that people using respiratory protection equipment are doing so correctly and safely. “Manure and silage storage systems pose the same threats as conned spaces, such as petroleum storage tanks,” Shutske said. Kruschke, now realizing the danger he was in, takes every precaution when working around the farm, especially during harvest season, from wearing protective gear to creating extra air movement throughout the silo. “I made a mistake. I went in when no one was around and it could have been worse,” Kruschke said. “Now, no one goes near the silage or silo room until it’s safe. If something goes in the silo, it will come out eventually. The risk [of retrieving it] is not worth it.” Shutske agreed.
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Josh Lingen Balaton, Minn. Murray County 250 cows Describe your maternity pen or calving area. Our maternity pen is about 600 square feet. It’s bedded with straw and ventilated with fans. It also has a big overhead door that we can open to give the cows light and air during the warmer months. Our maternity pen is equipped with multiple video cameras and is located right next to our milking parlor. What is the timeline for cows/heifers entering/exiting the pen? About ten days prior to her due date, we will place a Medria remote calving sensor in the cow’s birth canal. The sensor sends the cow’s temperature information to my smart phone. At about 48 hours prior to calving the cow’s temperature will drop, which means that it’s time to put her into the maternity pen and begin to watch her closely. Thanks to the monitoring system, our calving rate is currently 101 percent. We have lost a few calves at birth, but have also been able to save all of the calves from eight sets of twins. On average, how many cows are in the pen at a time? We usually have 2-3 cows in the maternity pen. What is your procedure for delivering calves? When the cow pushes the calving monitor out, it sends me a signal so I know exactly when labor has begun. We give heifers up to three hours after dilating before we look into assisting them and give cows 30- 45 minutes. Over the past ve years, I have called the vet just once to help with calving. I can handle about any situation by myself. What steps do you take to maintain proper sanitation? We clean the pen regularly and re-bed it with lots of fresh straw. After delivery, how do you assist the calf and cow? As soon as a cow goes into labor, I begin to thaw out the colostrum that I will feed to the calf immediately after birth. We drench all of our fresh cows with Start Strong For Fresh Cows, but drench the heifers on a case-by-case basis. We make sure that all of our fresh animals are given yeast boluses. Tell us about the most unique calving you’ve ever had. We once had a cow that seemed to calve normally. We put her into the freestall barn with the rest of the milk herd and three days later she gave birth to a second live calf. She was claiming it and it had to be hers, because there was no other cow in the barn who could have had that calf. Tell us about your farm. We have been milking in our robot barn for four years. We milk 130 head with our robots and 120 head in our milking parlor. We are planning on expanding our robot milking facility and adding another two robots. We are always looking for ways to be more efcient and feel that the robots have greatly increased our efciency. My wife, Andrea, and I got married on June 4. My parents, Randy and Denice, moved to an acreage on the lake this summer, so Andrea and I now live here. We farm about 700 acres and do custom silage chopping for 15 local farmers.
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Beth Nelson Blair, Wis. Trempealeau County 160 cows Describe your maternity pen or calving area. The maternity pen is on lime screenings with a straw bedded pack. There is a section of headlocks at the end of the feed rail that is on concrete. It can be separated into four big pens if we need it to. It is naturally ventilated with two fans. What is the timeline for cows/heifers entering/exiting the pen? They come in two weeks before they are due. They leave within 8 to 10 hours after they calve to move into the fresh cow pen. On average, how many cows are in the pen at a time? On average, there is probably six in the pen year round. What is your procedure for delivering calves? After they start calving and the sack is out, we give them about a half hour. Then we check them to see if they are pushing and the calf is headrst. If they are not headrst, I make sure they are dilated enough and then we will pull them out. If they are pushing, we don’t let them go more than an hour before we assist. What steps do you take to maintain proper sanitation? We hand pitch out manure and urine spots usually three times a day onto the concrete. Every day or at least every other day, we clear out the concrete. Once the calve is out, I move it to a dry spot because that is pretty important. After delivery, how do you assist the calf and cow? Get the calf going, make sure it is breathing by pushing on its chest or sticking some straw in its nose. If we have trouble getting it going, we use a calf respirator. We usually get the cow up. If there are any problems, we will dry the calf off and put it in another pen. We kind of let them be for a while, but try to pull the calf away before it starts sucking. If they are overly aggressive, we take the calf right away. Tell us about the most unique calving you’ve ever had. We had a pair of twin heifer calves. One was coming out headrst and the other was on top of it. They were trying to come out at the same time, which was really strange. Unfortunately, they both ended up dying. Tell us about your farm. We milk 160 cows twice a day. We milk Holsteins, Swiss and some crossbreds. Our barn is a sand-bedded freestall with natural ventilation. We feed a TMR mix twice a day. We milk in a double-10 herringbone parlor. My dad started milking here when he was 16 in a 20-stall tiestall barn. We moved to the other side of town and milked in a different tiestall barn before we moved back and built the freestall 15-16 years ago. In the winter months, the dry cows are in a lean-to barn with a concrete lot to go out on. In the summer they are out on pasture.
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Brian Schilling Darlington, Wis. Lafayette County 500 cows Describe your maternity pen or calving area. We have two straw-bedded pens that are 24- by 17-foot. The pens are on concrete ooring and are cleaned out every fourth calving. The barn is naturally ventilated with
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What is the timeline for cows/heifers entering/exiting the pen? Cows are walked up on every hour to see where they are at. We bring cows into the pen depending on their stage of labor. Cows exit the pen a half hour after calving to be milked and calves are fed within 15 minutes of birth with stored colostrum. On average, how many cows are in the pen at a time? On average, we will have one cow in each pen. What is your procedure for delivering calves? It depends on the cow. We usually let them calve on their own if everything goes right. If they have been struggling for 30 to 45 minutes with no progression, we will vaginally check them to determine from there what needs to be done. What steps do you take to maintain proper sanitation? All of our equipment is cleaned and sanitized after every calving. The pen is cleaned after every fourth calving as well as sanitized. The calves are towel dried right after birth to ensure they are cleaned and we also dip their navels. After delivery, how do you assist the calf and cow? The calves are dried, dipped and then fed colostrum. We usually have enough pooled colostrum stored, but we will use a replacer if we are low. The cow’s stomach is pumped with a custom cow drench and milked for colostrum right after delivery. Tell us about the most unique calving you’ve ever had. The most unique situation I came across was the one time I had four feet and a tail coming out. It was a twin calving and one had its head backwards. So, I had to reach in and try to decipher which calf was which and get them switched around. Tell us about your farm. We milk 500 cows. The farm is owned by myself, my brother Andy and our dad, Bill. We run 1,500 acres of corn and hay. We are milking three times a day in a double-12 herringbone parlor and our cows are housed in a sand-bedded, naturally ventilated freestall barn. We have a current rolling herd average of 32,000 with 3.9 fat and 3.12 protein and currently have a somatic cell count of about 55,000.
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Tony Malven Cresco, Iowa Howard County 48 cows Describe your maternity pen or calving area. Our maternity barn is an insulated 24- by 48-foot building that is connected onto our tiestall barn. It has a cement oor and consists of two pens. We use cornstalks (small squares stored in the haymow) for bedding and lime when necessary. The building has two exhaust fans and in the summer, we open the overhead door and run a large barn fan. What is the timeline for cows/heifers entering/exiting the pen? During the winter months, I’ll move heifers in as early as three weeks before their due date to prevent frostbite and cows seven to 10 days. With our heifers and dry cows on pasture during the summer, I’ll wait until ve to seven days before they’re due. I don’t mind calves being born out on pasture. I’ll keep cows in the pen up to one week if they’re older, and need the extra space and comfort provided by the bedded pack. Depending on how quick a heifer adjusts to a tiestall barn, (learning to operate the water cup and lie down) I’ll keep them in the pen from three days up to two weeks if I don’t need the pen. Being in a pen alone, I’m able to closely monitor their feed intake. On average how many cows are in the pen at a time? Our two pens are 16- by 24-feet in size, so I’ll put two in a pen. I keep the springers separate from the post-fresh cows/heifers due to their feeding differences, so one pen will have a springer in it and the other pen will have a post fresh cow in it. What is your procedure for delivering calves? I’m not as aggressive at intervention at calving as I use to be. Twenty-ve years ago, I’d help as soon as I saw feet. Now, I let Mother Nature take its course, and I just monitor progress, her contractions and any fatigue the cow or heifer may have. During the summer, I’ll assist much quicker due to the heat and extra stress. I’ll call for help when I’ve examined the animal due to slow progress and found a uterine twist or I’m not able to get two legs to pull. We ultrasound, so cows with twins are always checked at delivery to identify any possible complications. I always have my OB lube, A.I. sleeves and chains nearby. If an animal is getting close, I will get up several times during the night to check on them. What steps do you take to maintain proper sanitation? Keeping the pens bedded with cornstalks, using A.I. sleeves and lube. After delivery, how do you assist the calf and cow? I make sure the calf is alert, breathing well and in a comfortable position. If the cow/heifer has not gotten up, I’ll move the calf away from her and assist them in getting up to take care of the calf. Tell us about the most unique calving you’ve ever had. When we rst started dairying, I was delivering a calf coming backwards. Once the hips were out, I thought it was clear sailing. I had the calf half out and it just stopped and was stuck. I nally called the vet. He performed a c-section and found that the calf had a tumor on its neck the size of a basketball. Things didn’t turn out good for the cow either, but I did learn from the experience. Tell us about your farm. My wife, Bonnie, and I milk 40 registered Holsteins twice a day in a tiestall barn and own 180 acres, of which 165 are tillable. We have ve children, Jason, 20, Trevor, 19, Nate, 16, Kayla, 11, and Aaron, 7. Besides helping with morning milking, Bonnie also cooks lunch for a small private school. Jason takes care of the calves and heifers while also working for two other dairy farmers. Trevor is a freshman at Iowa State and Nate helps with evening milking and other chores. We raise corn, soybeans and alfalfa and have 12 acres of pasture.
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USED SKIDSTEERS
‘13 Mustang 2200R, H crls, C&H, 2 spd. D, 2200 lift cap., 250 hrs. .................. $32,500 ‘05 Mustang 2109, h/ft ctrls, C&H/Air, 2 spd, 1401 hrs............................. $28,900 ‘06 Mustang 2076, H/F ctrls, D, 2200 lift cap., C&H, SS, 2100 hrs . $22,900 ‘10 Mustang 2076, pilot ctrls, D, 2200 lift cap., C&H, 1600 hrs., 2 spd. ......... $26,800 ‘08 Mustang 2076, D, 2400 lift cap., C/H/A, SS, 912 hrs., dual JS ctrls ............ $29,900 ‘10 Mustang 2066, H/F pedal ctrls, D, 2000 lift cap., C&H, SS, 750 hrs $21,500 ‘10 Mustang 2066, H&F ctrls., D, C&H, 2 spd., 1083 hrs., 2000 lb. lift. cap. .... $26,900 ‘07 Mustang 2066, H/F ctrls, D, 2000 lift cap, C&H, 1725 hrs......... $20,900 ‘13 Mustang 2056, H/F ctrls, D, 1900 lift cap., C&H, 2 spd., 1401 hrs .......... $28,900 ‘08 Mustang 2054, D, SS, H, 1750 lift cap, 6200 hrs. ................. $10,300 ‘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 ‘08 Mustang 2041, Gehl ctrls., D, C&H, 1350 lift cap., 2550 hrs ................. $15,750 ‘15 Mustang 1900R, H&F ctrls, D, 2100 lift cap, C&H, 2 spd., 54 hrs ............... $34,900 ‘11 JD 326D, H/F ctrls, D, 2550 lift cap, C/H, SS, 5800 hrs ......................... $24,200 ‘85 Case 1845B, dual H ctrls., D, 1700 lift cap., 6961 hrs ................... $8,500 ‘07 Case 435, H-ctrls., D, 2300 lift cap., C/H, SS, 2750 hrs ......................... $18,850 ‘85 NH L785, H/FT ctrls., D, 2050 lift cap., C, SS, 6935 hrs. .............................. $8,900
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‘72 International 666, 2 whl., 69 hp G, 7823 hrs ......................................... $7,900 ‘45 International H, 26 hp, 540 pto.. $1,995
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‘14 Manitou MLT625, JS ctrls, 75 hp D, 4WD, 5500 lift cap, 19’3” reach, C/H/A, 2 spd., 1800 hrs............................... $59,500 ‘05 Mustang ML68, D, cab, 10’8” load ht., 5732 lift cap., pallet forks, 78” bkt., 692 hrs ............................................ $35,000
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‘10 Penta 3020 SD, 540 pto, 320 cu. ft., 4’ RH front/side conveyor, 9” rubber ext., scale ......................$21,000 ‘07 Penta 6720HD, 725 cu. ft., 8” rubber ext., front right corner door, Digi-Star scale, Tornado augers ...................$26,500 ‘04 Penta 5600, 600 cu. ft., EZ 2000V scale, corner door .........................$17,500 ‘05 Penta 4110, 400 cu. ft. .............$14,500 ‘06 Penta 4110, 450 cu. ft., 8” rubber ext., 4’ RH stainless Steel conv. ............$16,500 ‘08 Penta 5620HD, 600 cu. ft., 8” rubber ext., right corner door ...................$23,500 ‘08 Roto-Mix VXT865, 860 cu. ft., 21500 lbs., RH conveyor......$18,500 As Is ‘08 NDE 2802, EXV 2500 scale, step down floor, rear discharge & front conveyor discharge .......................$28,500 Knight Mfg. 3030, scale, 3 auger discharge .........................$11,500 Knight Mfg. 2250, 200 cu. ft. ...........$6,500 ‘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 ‘99 Supreme 500, LH dog leg conveyor .......................................$13,000
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‘12 Kuhn Knight 8141, 4100 gal, hyd. lid $42,900 ‘03 Kuhn Knight 8140, 800 bu./4000 gal. ...........................$21,700 ‘04 Kuhn Knight 8140, 4000 gal., 700 bu., hyd. lid, hinged on left, priced as is.....................................$23,500 ‘03 Kuhn Knight 8140, 4000 gal., 700 bu., hyd. lid, hinged on left .....$29,900 Knight Mfg. 8040, 4000 gal./700 bu., hyd. lid, hinged on left, priced as is ....$19,500 ‘99 Knight Mfg. 8024, 500 bu............$12,900 Kuhn-Knight 8132, 3200 gal ............$20,500
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‘08 Kuhn-Knight 8132, front and rear splash guards ................................$23,500 ‘05 Kuhn Knight 8118, 1800 gal., 400 bu., auger flighting good cond. .............. $14,900 Kuhn Knight 8118, 1800 gal. ........... $12,000 ‘10 Kuhn Knight 8118, 400 bu., 1800 gal ............................ $14,900 Kuhn Knight 8118, 1800 gal., 400 bu. $10,900 NH 185, 287 bu. ................................. $4,200 ‘08 Balzer V6, liq. manure pump, 1-3/8 1000 pto, 6” discharge, 8’ depth, agitate option ...................................$6,500 ‘05 Balzer 4200 Magnum, 4200 gal. ........................................$17,500 Balzer 3350, 3350 gal., injectors, hyd. drive .........................................$7,895 H&S 430, 430 bu. ..............................$8,400 ‘09 H&S 175, 175 bu., single beater ....................................$5,100 ‘08 H&S HP550, 550 bu., horiz. beater ...................................$18,900 ‘89 H&S 430, 430 bu., upper beater, T-rod chain.......................................$4,750
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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 Gehl 960, 16’ box .............................$2,500 Gehl 910, 16’ box, MN 12 ton tandem, rear unload......................................$3,500 Gehl CB1250, hay head only .............$3,950 NH 144 std. conveyor, no ext., ground driven .................................$3,900 NH HT154, 12 whl. rake....................$9,800 ‘10 Teagle 8080WB, processes 5’x6’ bales, self loading .........................$23,000 Vermeer Top Gun, processes 5x6’ bales.....................$15,500 CIH 600, 60” blower .........................$5,300 Badger BN2054, 54” forage blower .....$895 ‘84 Badger 950, 16’, tandem, 12T MN running gear .......................$4,150 ‘09 JD 468SS, 4’x6’ bales, net wrap and twine, Mega Wide plus P.U., silage special, 14,000 bales ....................$24,900 JD 640 PT rake, 9’, 5-bar, rubber teeth ....................................$1,800
HAY & FORAGE
‘12 Kuhn GA300GM, 7’3” raking width, 10’6” with windrow, 3 pt. rotary rake .... $5,300 Kuhn GA300, 7’6” raking width .........$3,100 ‘15 Kuhn GF222T, 2 rotor, pull-type, 8’6” working width ..........................$3,150 ‘15 Sitrex RP5, 440 lbs., 138” width, 5-55” wheels .......................................... $1,595 ‘15 Kuhn GMD600GIIHD, 7’10” ........$8,600 H&S Super 7+4, 16’ box ...................$6,300 ‘11 H&S BF1460, 14 whl .................... $13,000 2) Parker 2500, 350 bu., 12” ext. ....$2,400 ea. ‘90 Meyer 500TSS, 16’ box, 12 ton tandem, bunk ext., pintle chain ............................ $6,250 ‘89 Meyer 600, 18’ box, MN 13 ton gear, 20” unload ext........................................ $3,750 ‘07 Meyer 4518, 18’ box, 16T Meyers X1604 running gear, variable spd., cross conv. ext. .................................... $14,750 Gehl 800 chopper w/hay head ..........$2,995 Valmetal H5600, process bales up to 5x5.......................................$18,900 ‘15 Anderson NWX660, wraps 5x5’ bales, Farm King Combo pkg., remote stop and steer, hyd. X tractor ........$26,500 ‘12 Anderson TRB2000, 20 bale cap., elec./hyd. ctrls., self-loading, self-unloading ...............................$29,950 ‘10 Krone SW46T, 540 pto, 15’ ........$6,900 ‘08 Frontier WR1216, 18 whl, 2 whl ext. added on, up to 36’ working width, center kicker whls, 55” whls, inid. rake whls, hyd. lift and fold...................$13,900 Woods S50CD, 20’ width ................$10,500 Flat Rack/Hay Rack, 7-2/2’x11-1/2’, 6 bolt rims .........................................$695
MISCELLANEOUS
Bobcat concrete hammer. .............. $4,200 Berlon BSC, lifts full rd. bales ............ $450 ‘14 Everst 5700 84”, 3 blades, 7 guage deck, 1-1/2” to 4-1/2” cutting height ............................................ $1,985 Agrimetal 525, 25 bu., Honda 160CC motor ..................... $2,500 ‘05 Agrimetal 530, 30 bu., GX160 Honda, hydrostatic, cross conveyor, dual delivery, front steer ............... $2,950 Buhler 6010, 60” width, 2 stage, manual spout ................................ $1,350 Edge 500862, 72” snow blower w/rotation and spout deflector ...... $4,100
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Top Performers
Facility improvements aid in Funks’ herd average Funks Midway Dairy New Munich, Minn. Stearns County 650 cows What is your current herd average, butterfat and protein? Our rolling herd average is 29,900 pounds of milk with 3.65 percent fat and 2.92 percent protein. How many times a day do you milk? We started three times a day in November 2015.
Do you use BST? Yes, we start the cows at 80-90 days in milk. Do you contract your milk? No. Describe your housing and milking facility. We have a double-12 parallel parlor. Our freestall barn’s stalls have mattresses and water beds and a bedded pack that house close up dry cows and fresh cows. What is the composition
MARK KLAPHAKE/DAIRY STAR
MARK KLAPHAKE/DAIRY STAR
A couple major adjustments the Funks made on their dairy was raising the neck rails 8 inches and installing new ma�resses to improve cow comfort.
Funks Midway Dairy, owned by Dorothy and John Funk with their sons – (back row, from le�) Karl, Greg and Jeff – have a 29,900 pound herd average. They are pictured with general maintenance and feed manager Ma� Hellermann (front, right). of your ration? It includes Through the years you’ve What is your herd health 62 pounds of corn silage, 22 been farming, what change program? We do a herd health pounds of haylage, one pound has created the biggest jump check every two weeks using of straw, 10 pounds of high in your herd average? We did ultrasound. If the vet says a moisture corn, 2.5 pounds three things in a three-month cow is carrying twins we will of dry corn, 10 pounds of window that increased milk per dry her off two weeks early. wet distillers, 13 pounds of a cow by 10 pounds: installed We only pregnancy check our protein blend with minerals new mattresses, raised the neck cows one time between 30and three pounds of sugar rails on the freestalls 8 inches 44 days bred. We breed cows from visual signs and our A.I. blend 55. and started using BST. 24 system. Turn to FUNKS | Page 20
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Con�nued from FUNKS | Page 18
What does your dry cow and transition program consist of? Two weeks before dry off the cows get J-5 and SRP, and have their hooves trimmed. We dry them off at 53-60 days before their due date. At dry off we use Tomorrow tubes and orbeseal, and the cows are given J-5 and Scour Guard 4KC. At 18-24 days before their due date, cows are moved to the close up dry cow pen and are vaccinated with J-5. Heifers are brought to the dairy 30-40 days before their due date. At that time, we hoof trim them and give them SRP and 4KC. At 18-24 days before their due date they are moved to the close up pen and receive SRP and 4KC. What role does genetics play in your production level, and what is your breeding program? We breed for a stronger, well-balanced cow that has capacity to eat a lot of forage with good feet and legs, and udders. We use almost all young sires that Bob Klassen and
MARK KLAPHAKE/DAIRY STAR
Herd manager Ernesto Milla Ayala works with Karl and Jeff in managing the herd. The Funks milk 650 cows near New Munich, Minn. Kyle Pundsack recommend. In the past we have not used high milk bulls, just bulls with good pedigrees. We have three of us that do all the A.I. breeding. We will give cows Lutalyse if they have not shown heat by 70 DIM and will start the double ovsync program about 90 to 100 DIM if they are not bred. I will use a CIDR on a cystic or static cow. What improvements would you like to make that would increase your rolling herd average? We would like to have a bigger bedded pack for our older cows to increase their longevity and productivity. MARK KLAPHAKE/DAIRY STAR
Side bunks are wrapped with plas�c to protect the silage and haylage from moisture.
What would you say are the three most important factors that helped you attain your current herd average? The rst is the effort to provide cow comfort. The second is dedicated and quality people working
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with the cows. The third most important factor is consistent high-quality forage at the right moisture. Tell us about your farm. John, Dorothy, Greg, Jeff and Karl Funk own the farm, which also employs 11 full-time and some part time employees. We have key part-time people who help us chop and haul manure when they get off school, work or take vacation days to help us get the work done through out the year. We have 650 cows and raise all our forage on 1,400 acres of land. Generally, we have 800 acres of corn, 400 acres of alfalfa and 200 acres of soybeans. We do our own chopping and a little custom work. We also inject our manure mainly in the fall using semis and a drag hose system. Our heifers are raised for the rst three months by our neighbor, and then we raise the heifers on different farms until they are ready to calve.
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Takes family turns milk from cows into curds
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ELY, Iowa - Dan and Debbie Takes know how to produce milk. Now they’re learning how to process and market it. In a real-life, hands-on course of their own devising, Dan and Debbie are taking their farm’s milk from cow to curd, and to cone and jug. Their aptly named Dan and Debbie Creamery, in the small town of Ely, Iowa, is teaching the Linn County couple that making products like cheese curds and ice cream, and getting milk into a jug, isn’t necessarily simple. Dan said he has been surprised by “the amount of time it takes to do everything – cheesemaking for one. It takes a long time to make cheese.” It also took a long time for Dan to take a leap of faith and nally launch a milk processing business to complement the 150-cow farm. “It was something I’d been thinking about doing, probably, 10 years,” he said. “You
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Debbie and Dan Takes recently opened a creamery and retail store that sells their farm’s milk and products made from it near Ely, Iowa. Current offerings include chocolate and white milk, plus curds, with ice cream coming soon. keep putting things off, and I kept getting older and older. I just made up my mind that I’ve either got to do it or just stop thinking about it.” Fluctuating milk prices played a role in his decision. “I needed more control over our income. With milk
prices the way they are, it seemed like you’d have a couple of good years and the next year they’d take it all back,” Dan said. So, three years ago, Dan and Debbie bought a building that once was part of a lumberyard. They and ve
of their six children rolled up their sleeves and transformed the 8,100-square-foot structure into a modern dairy plant. The building had sat empty six years. Besides giving it a sweeping and a good airing out, the Takeses xed broken windows, tore out concrete,
installed a larger water line, and put in larger drains. All the while Dan and Debbie rened their business plan. Milk processing equipment was purchased and installed. The creamery’s “make” room could pass as a showroom for stainless steel. Among many other things, there’s a bottle ller, pasteurizer, cheese vat, and ice cream machine – each piece new and gleaming. “Just because it’s new doesn’t mean you’re not going to have problems with it,” Dan said. “We still don’t have all the bugs worked out of our pasteurizer.” The Takes family hauled its rst load of milk to their creamery not quite two months ago. Their truck that holds 2,700 gallons made the vemile trek from the farm and unloaded fresh, frothy milk from the 150 Holsteins and Holstein-Brown Swiss crosses. The rst product to bear the family’s farm-to-factory touch was curds – white cheddar. And, yes, they squeaked, Dan conrmed. Dan said they received valuable help from retired cheesemaker Mike Bee from Decorah, Iowa. Bee guided them through the eight-hour process of pasteurizing the milk, cooking it in a vat, addTurn to TAKES | Page 25
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ConĆ&#x;nued from TAKES | Page 23 ing rennet and salt, stirring the mixture, waiting for it to ďƒžrm up, pressing out the whey and cutting the rubbery mat into curds. Two weeks after turning out their ďƒžrst batch of white cheddar curds, the Takeses jugged their ďƒžrst milk. Soon they hope to offer their ďƒžrst ice cream and down the road, Dan said the family plans to add hard cheese to its list of offerings. Now, the ďƒ&#x;edgling milk processing facility uses maybe ďƒžve percent of the approximately 23,000 pounds of milk each Takes cow produces, Dan estimated. The rest is sold to Swiss Valley Farms. If all goes well, he said he hopes the creamery will one day use all the farm’s milk. Along with fulďƒžlling Dan’s longtime dream, the creamery that bears his name helps employ most of the Takes children. Troy, the oldest, is in business in California. But daughters Josie Rozum and Tori, and sons Dustin and Tyler, work at the creamery or on the farm. Riley, the youngest son, attends the University of Iowa. Dan said Riley might also ďƒžnd employment at the creamery after college. Besides the immediate family, Brian O’Keefe, a nephew of Dan’s, pitches in at the creamery. Dustin is the cheesemaker, while Josie is in charge of marketing and sales. Tori manages the retail store that occupies the front of the creamery building and helps with milk processing. Tyler primarily works on the 500acre farm. The creamery will gradually take more and more of family members’ time. Dan said the retail store’s hours – 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 1 to 4 p.m. on weekends – will expand once ice cream is offered.
Ten ďƒ&#x;avors, including vanilla bean, chocolate and butter pecan, will tickle customers’ taste buds. Josie said additional ďƒ&#x;avors will be offered as the business becomes better established. Along with white cheddar curds, the Takes family makes ďƒ&#x;avored ones, too. Customers can choose from onion and chive, tomato basil, dill and chipotle. Then there’s the milk. Dan and Debbie Creamery offers whole white milk and whole chocolate. It’s in plastic, gallon jugs. The white milk is not homogenized, meaning that the cream rises to the top, Josie said. The Takeses also promote the fact that their milk does not contain any added hormones, like bovine somatotropin (BST). Nor does the family grow or feed any crops that have been genetically modiďƒžed. Those facts are important because the creamery’s customer base is, by far, urban and suburban, the family said. Cedar Rapids, a city of approximately 130,000, lies just eight miles to the northwest. Iowa City, population 72,000, is 12 miles distant. An unexpected bonus to the creamery’s location is the Cedar Valley Nature Trail. More than 65,000 people bicycle, walk and run on the trail during the four warmest months of the year, Josie said. What’s more, the trail passes a mere 20 feet behind the creamery. That should mean booming ice cream sales. “When we bought the building, I had no idea there was a bike trail back there,â€? Dan said, laughing. Cyclists and all the other customers are invited to relax on the spacious, new deck at the front of the creamery. Or, they can choose tables and chairs inside, and learn a bit about dairying’s
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Dan and Debbie Takes have turned this building, which was once a lumberyard, into a creamery and ice cream shop near Ely, Iowa. history by way of the collection of vintage cream separators, signs, milk bottles and ice cream scoops that Debbie has amassed. Besides the Takeses’ dairy products, visitors can sample a veritable smorgasbord of foods from the Hawkeye State. Dan and Debbie sell everything from Iowa-made barbeque sauce to jam, honey, pork and popcorn. The ďƒ&#x;edgling family business recently reached a milestone. It signed an agreement for 14 Hy-Vee supermarkets and drug stores to carry its dairy products. Dan and Debbie have come a long way since entering farming 33 years ago, and starting dairying 18 years ago. Debbie was raised on a dairy farm, but Dan is from a family of carpenters. The farming bug bit him after he met Debbie and began helping her par-
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Hermansen wins Polk County dairy showmanship contest By Brittany Olson
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CUSHING, Wis. – For Autumn Hermansen, winning isn’t everything. “When I take dairy cattle to the fair, I’m not going to win. I’m going to have fun and learn,” said Hermansen. However, this year Hermansen did just that – she won supreme champion showman at the Polk County Fair. Hermansen, who lives on a 68cow dairy farm in Cushing, Wis., with her parents, Jeff and Tina, and younger sister, Haley, began showing dairy cattle as soon as she could. “I started showing in Little Britches when I was about four or ve years old, and then took cattle to the fair when I was a Cloverbud in 4-H,” said Hermansen, who is a senior at Luck High School. “As soon as I could begin showing cattle through 4-H, I started competing in showmanship classes as well.” Hermansen took six Holsteins to the county fair this year – two heifers and four
was a dream for Hermansen to work with all summer in preparation for the fair. That red heifer – not so much. “The black cow was so easy to set up,” Hermansen said. “She carried her head high, and was very well behaved. The heifer was a nightmare to practice with, though.” That behavior pattern for her two showmanship animals continued right up until the junior dairy show, held in St. Croix Falls, Wis. on Saturday, July 30. “I led my heifer into the ring and she was so well-behaved,” Hermansen said in disbelief. “I remember thinking, ‘Wait until you see my black cow.’” When it came time for Hermansen to bring that big black cow into the ring, it was as if her cattle had switched personalities. “The cow was awful,” she said. “She was so naughty the entire time.” Since dairy showmanship
“I really enjoy working with my show animals and managing their diets so they look their very best on show day.” AUTUMN HERMANSEN
cows. “I pick a specic animal that I think will do well in showmanship and then work with her all summer long,” Hermansen said. This year, however, Hermansen wasn’t quite sure who to take. Her favorite cow that she usually led into the ring for showmanship ended up losing a teat, thus ending her career as a show cow. “It ended up coming down to my big, black threeyear-old cow and my Red and White heifer,” Hermansen said. After many hours of practice, Hermansen clipped her own animals in preparation for the fair. The cow
was the very next day, Hermansen became very nervous due to the sudden ip in her animals’ demeanor. She took those jitters and channeled them into making sure that her show heifer was looking her very best. “I got a new show halter just for her, and polished it up real nice,” Hermansen said. “I washed my heifer as best as I could because she’s mostly white, and I like the white to be as bright as it could possibly be for showmanship. I also polished her hooves.” Hermansen showed in the 16-year-old division the next day, a class that is normally packed with anywhere from 15 to 20 showmen. Strangely,
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Hermansen was one of six exhibitors in her age division this year. “I told myself I didn’t care if I won, but I was going to try my best anyhow,” Hermansen said. For the upper age divisions, the showmanship judge had exhibitors trade animals to gauge their abilities with handling an unfamiliar bovine. To Hermansen’s pleasant surprise, the judge picked her to go to the supreme championship round along with the best showmen from all the other age divisions. “I didn’t expect to get into the supreme championship,” said Hermansen. “Like I told myself when I was competing in my age division, I was going to try my very best.” Like he had with the older age divisions, the judge had the nalists switch cattle. Hermansen ended up holding the halter of a large red heifer that didn’t happen to be in the best mood. “She was crabby that day,” Hermansen said. “She was crabby for everyone, and I think the judge noticed that.” After carefully working on her animal’s physical appearance in the show ring, as well as handling a rather
cantankerous heifer with as much patience as she could muster, Hermansen anxiously awaited the judge’s pick for supreme champion. “He told the crowd that he was going to shake the hand of the winner,” said Hermansen. As she watched the judge walk alongside her and the other contestants, and back again, Hermansen – to her shock and delight – saw a hand sticking out in front of her. “My rst thought was, ‘What?’” Hermansen said. “I couldn’t believe it.” Haley, who had shown a Jersey in one of the younger showmanship divisions earlier that day, added that a few people in the audience gasped when her sister was chosen as the supreme champion showman for Polk County. The judge gave his reasons for choosing Hermansen as the winner. “He said he loved the way I handled a cranky animal, and how I set her up perfectly,” Hermansen said. “He was also impressed that I did my own tting.” Even though the fair has only been over for a month or so, Hermansen has already begun working with next
year’s show animals. “I really enjoy working with my show animals and managing their diets so they look their very best on show day,” Hermansen said. “I’m not the kind of person who will randomly pick an animal two days before the fair starts.” Hermansen is set to graduate from high school next spring, and although she isn’t sure what she wants to do right now, a career in dairy herd management appeals to her the most. In addition to her talent with handling cattle, she is also a gifted artist. “Autumn took a drawing of a cow to the fair this year, and someone left a business card next to it. They loved it so much they wanted to buy it,” her dad, Jeff, said. Showmanship has taught Hermansen more than how to set up a dairy animal in the show ring. Importantly, it has taught her that winning isn’t always everything. “Showmanship taught me to always stay positive,” said Hermansen. “Attitude is everything. If you’re going to do something like showing cattle, it has to be something you want to do. Try to go for the fun of it.”
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However, this tractor can also be used in other crops, like soybeans and alfalfa. “Oh, so your one of the farms that sprays chemicals on your corn.” I pause, and collect my thoughts, and mention that all farms conventional or organic, spray to By Tina Hinchley control insects, weeds and even diseases. We all have to Farmer & Columnist use products to protect our crops. This is a visitor that comes to our farm with visions of scare crows in the corn eld to scare away the crows from eating our corn, not realizing that insects such as the corn borer root worms are much more invasive. These insects must be controlled or we would not have a crop to feed our cows, which eventually feed people through the milk they drink, and the lean ground beef and other products that cows give us. As I connected the dots for this person that is many generations removed from the farm, she stared into the corn elds and couldn’t believe that these little bugs could cause so much damage. Then came the question, “This spray kills butteries and honey bees too, right?” I knew I had to get this right, and had to keep it simple. So, I started to get into the benets of why we are choosing to use GMO seeds. I explained there are many great reasons why we choose to do this. First, we can have corn borer protection because of a gene that has been changed so we don’t need to spray for that insect any longer. That saves on fuel, soil compaction and time, not to mention, accidentally killing other insects that we need to have to pollinate other crops. That answered her question about the butteries and honey bees. The second reason is that we have herbicide resistance when we have to spray for weeds. Weeds that grow faster than corn and that will steal water and sunlight from the corn too, so the weeds have to go. When sprayed, the corn will live but the weeds will die. This made her question again about why we have to spray. I think I should have used the word “apply” herbicide. I think she was again doubting what we do and my explanations. I then went on to mention the drought resistance varieties of corn, that will be helping farmers get a cob on every corn plant, even on the high hills where the soil is dry. And to round out the conversation, I mentioned the disease resistance benets of GMOs that saved the Hawaiian papaya industry for those farmers. To conclude, I mentioned that there are nine crops GMOs are approved for; corn, soybeans, alfalfa, canola, cotton, sugar beets, potato, papaya and squash. But, tomatoes, grapes and watermelon are not. This all took maybe 10 minutes of the tour, and I rounded up the rest of her As I connected A d the h d dots ffor this hi family and others that were person who is many generations waiting to get on the hayremoved from the farm, she stared ride to go check out the corn and see for herself. into the corn fields and couldn’t While on the hayride, the believe that these little bugs could other family mentioned that they have a garden, cause so much damage. and this year the weeds have taken over because of all the rain. While I drove they told her about having to pull weeds so their tomatoes could get sunlight, and had splotches on them. The potatoes that were planted in mounds were being eaten by bugs. This family told her in the most simple terms that they went to the hardware store and bought products to save the potatoes, and fungicide to spray on their tomatoes, and were pulling weeds daily from their garden. They talked about what a good thing it is to have a garden, and teaching their kids about how food grows, the hard work and responsibility that their kids were learning all summer, and the benets of being able to eat their own tomatoes, sweet corn and carrots. The kids spoke up, too, and said that they can’t wait to dig up the potatoes. The mom’s face softened and I know that the other families explanation about what they have to do to protect that food in their garden hit home for this mom. I don’t know if it was the size of the tractor or the word spraying that sent this guest to our farm into a worried state of mind. I felt like my whole conversation got very twisted, and I was bumbling through what we do and why we do it. I tried to I keep it simple, but the fact is that the size mattered. The big corn eld, the big tractors, the big farm was too much for her to realize that it is food, too. With the help from the other family, the spray word was softened when she could imagine it being sprayed from a bottle from the hardware store versus at great big spray rig. The idea of food being grown that could be attacked by insects, fungus, and fast growing weeds, is going to be the most important lesson that she learned while on her tour of the farm. Before they left, she said that they will think about growing some vegetables next year in pots, because they live in an apartment. Tina Hinchley, her husband, Duane, and their daughters, Anna and Catherine, milk 120 registered Holsteins and farm 2,500 acres of crops near Cambridge, Wis. They have been hosting farm tours for over 18 years.
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We have had a pretty good summer for growing things in our area; the corn looks amazing, hay crops were all nice, my owers are gigantic, the weeds I haven’t pulled are right there with the owers on size, and then there’s my boys. I think the rain has had an effect on their growing season as well. They all look as though they have grown 2 inches over the summer. It could be the dirt they’ve ingested, the tans that they’re sporting after so many days of sleeveless shirt wearing, the fact that I think it took a half of steer and three whole apple trees to keep them full, or maybe it was just the rain. As tall as they are getting, they are growing and changing in other ways, as well, a credit to having a whole farm’s worth of people to help raise them and shape them into competent adults. Ira will be 10 this fall – this is a milestone that blows my mind. He’s shoulder height on me, has powered through that gangly stage (mostly), and is denitely starting to smell like a boy, fast approaching his teenage years. I marvel when he chases cows in for me and comes back
and asks me what’s wrong with the cow that has droopy ears and sunken eyes. That is a skill I can’t seem to teach adults, so needless to say, this farm mom is a bit proud. He and Thomas spend every spare moment on weekends practicing shooting bow, and his prowess with the bow is improving. Tony taught him how to drive the skid steer the day that no one else was around to help him x something, and his skills are being honed doing little jobs. As long as Ira can nd the one with the window on the door, he’s allowed to use it to clean out the chicken pen, pig pen and clean up small manure messes. He’s cautious, listens closely to directions, and Peter has been impressed with his maturity when driving it. He’s also been a staple xture on the lawn mower this summer. Ira does a good enough job to impress our chief groundskeeper, Don the Milkman. Peter has also granted him access to tools in the shop, and I’ve never witnessed so many bikes ending up in pieces at one time. He took apart three little bikes just to reconstruct one functional one that he could ride around. When we run
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Many of you read my column last fall about my now-husband, Sam, giving me a Jersey calf shortly before he asked me to be his wife. Even though that Jersey is now just two months away from having a calf of her own, I’ve not been known as a patient woman. Shortly after graduating from college, getting married and beginning my writing career here at the Dairy Star, I decided to expand my growing Jersey herd even after promising my groom that I would wait. I begged and pleaded with Sam to let me get just one more Jersey before Heather calves in October, and my persistence paid off. Lo and behold, when the day came to expand my little herd, we led two Jerseys off the trailer when we came home. In keeping with my husband’s Norwegian lineage, I decided to name my two new acquisitions Siri and Signe. After I got them settled into their new home, I loaded up their manger with hay and Signe coughed. It caught me off guard, but since the hay was a little dusty, By Brittany Olson I brushed it off. Two days later, Signe was still coughStaff Writer ing and just didn’t seem quite herself. I mentioned it at lunchtime, and my mother-in-law suggested that she might have shipping fever. I inhaled my food and jumped into their pen with a halter in one hand and a thermometer in the other. I took her temperature, and gulped – hard – as the mercury climbed to a blistering 105.6 degrees. Over the course of the following ve days, I got a crash course in veterinary medicine. Between giving antibiotics, bathing Signe with cold water to help her stay comfortable, and losing quite a bit of sleep, my little heifer recovered from shipping fever. Ironically, I knew she was out of the woods when I went down to check on her and Siri one afternoon and the little jokester was laying completely still on her side. I yelled and she popped right up to look at me as if I’d gone mad. Over the O h course off the h While I wasn’t impressed with her I was glad to see her following five days, I got a shenanigans, spunk returning. crash course in veterinary Signe and I couldn’t have done it without all of the wondermedicine. ful friends I’ve made in this industry. Whether they were Facebook friends I haven’t met in person or experienced farmers or veterinary students, I was able to nd a wealth of experienced counsel in those that I sought advice from. Farming can be a lonely life, and especially so during trying times, but in one Jersey calf’s time of need I had an army of friends to help me be the best dairywoman I could be for little Signe. Whether you milk 40 cows or 4,000, Holsteins or Jerseys or a little of both, we are all in the business of making milk and caring for our cows. We are all in this together no matter how big our differences may seem, and that’s what makes this industry one big dairy family.
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Our practice creates a herd benchmarking spread- age conception rate was 40.5 percent and 41.0 percent sheet every year or so using mostly DC305 data from compared to 33.9 percent and 33 percent in 2007. Bromost of the freestall herds that we service. ken down by lactation group, the average This article will present averages for a Veterinary Wisdom pregnancy rate for rst lactation one cows few of the 85 parameters we measured, was 26.8 percent and 26 percent when and when possible some averages from calculated this year, and was 21.6 percent past surveys. When the term average is and 24 percent for second lactation – and used, we report both the mean and memore cows. Percent stillbirths was 5.9 dian. In this article the mean will be repercent and 6.0 percent. In 2007 the averported rst, followed by the median. age was 7.9 percent and 9.0 percent, so signicant improvement has been made. Herd demographics Replacements The average growth in lactating and Between 5.6 and 4.6 percent of calves dry cow herd size over the last 12 months died between live birth and calving. For was 2 percent and 0 percent. The young2007, comparable statistics were 7.6 perstock average herd size was 97 percent By Jim Bennett cent and 6.1 percent. Calf death in the rst and 92 percent of adult herd size. We have Columnist 30 days of life was 2.8 percent and 1.8 observed a recent trend of decline in this percent for 2016, and 3.0 percent and 3.3 ratio as some producers have begun more aggressively culling their replacement herds. Culling percent for 2007. Average pregnancy rate for young rates for the adult cow herd averaged 39 percent and 37 stock was 30.4 percent and 32 percent in 2016, and percent. This was calculated by dividing the number of 19.7 percent and 19.0 percent in 2007. Average age at total culls by the average 12-month herd size. Culling rst calving was 23.3 and 23 months in 2006, and 24.4 includes all cows sold or died, including animals sold and 24 months in 2007. for dairy purposes. We have noticed a trend of increasing culling rates, going back to at least 2006 when they Udder health The average herd linear score was 2.4 and 2.3, were 32 percent and 29 percent. However, in our data set, culling rates have begun to decline since reaching compared to 3.0 and 2.9 in 2007. The average somatic a peak in 2013 of 40 percent and 41 percent; 5.1 and cell count (SCC), in thousands, (DHI) was 224 and 5.2 percent of cows died, calculated as died divided by 203. DHI somatic cell count average was not deterthe 12-month average herd size. This is somewhat less mined in 2007. By lactation, the average DHI SCC than the 5.6 percent and 6.3 percent reported in 2007. this year was: lactation one: 124 and 116; lactation The 2014 NAHMS report reported an average death two: 208 and 180; and for lactation three or more: 348 loss in U.S. dairy herds to be 4.8 percent, compared and 323. Clearly older cows in our data set have much to 5.7 percent in the 2007 report. NAHMS reports in higher average cell counts. This is not unexpected, but 1996 and 2002 reported death rates of 3.8 percent and it shows we have more work to do to prevent mastitis 4.8 percent. It appears that a trend of increasing dairy as our cows age. The average new infection risk based on SCC was 9.6 percent and 8.0 percent. In 2007, the cow death rates has reversed in the last few years. average was 10.8 percent and 10.1 percent. For chronic infections, based on SCC, the average was 11.4 perReproduction Our herds averaged 7.1 percent and 7.0 percent cent and 10.5 percent, compared to 16.4 percent and twins born last year; comparable statistics for 2007 16.6 percent in 2007. Overall, our clients have made were 6.1 percent and 6.0 percent. The average 21-day signicant gains in udder health in the last 10 years. pregnancy rate was 23.5 percent and 25 percent. This Many of our herds now include mastitis culture recompares very favorably with averages of 17.5 per- sults in DC305, since the vast majority of cows in our cent and 18 percent back in 2007. This year the aver- practice receive a mastitis culture prior to treatment.
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A survivor’s story Bragger loses leg in auger accident, advocates farm safety By Cassie Olson
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ConƟnued from BRAGGER | Page 35 around.” Bragger said being able to get back to the farm was due in part to the support of AgrAbility of Wisconsin, an organization that helps farmers living with injuries, disabilities or limitations through a partnership between UW-Extension and Easter Seals Wisconsin. An agriculture instructor had directed Bragger to the organization he said has made the last six years on the farm possible. “I decided to check AgrAbility out, contacted them, and they sent someone out rather quickly to do a case study to
assess what I needed,” Bragger said. “They help keep a person like me doing what I enjoy most.” AgrAbility equipped Bragger with a skid loader with hand controls, which greatly reduces the wear on his prosthetic leg while increasing his activity on the farm. In addition to the cows, Bragger also raises 50,000 chickens. AgrAbility also has assisted him in this endeavor by providing equipment to make feeding the chickens easier, as well. These days, Bragger is getting around much easier on a
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