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Bob Harris
Why do you attend Expo?
Harris Dairy Inc. Sandstone, Minn. Pine County 250 cows How many times have you attended Midwest Dairy Expo? Ten years or more. What is the main reason you attend? To get new ideas and to look at machinery. How has attending MDE benefitted you and your dairy farm? I have gotten a lot of new ideas. When we built our new barn, we saved a lot of money on our freestalls and milking system because we talked to dealers directly at the Expo. We looked at new machinery and got new ideas from feed guys. We always come back with a lot of literature. Who has been the best speaker you have heard at MDE? We haven't been able to
make it on time for the speakers. But we hope to get to some this year.
Tell us about your farm. I farm with my son, Nick. We milk cows in a parallel, double-12 parlor. We farm 500 acres and raise corn and alfalfa for the cows. I've been farming for 42 years.
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we are paid on the federal order of components system. The prediction of Money Corrected Milk differs, though, based on how you’re paid for your milk. This index adjusts cow production to the economic value of milk that cow produces, not just total milk per cow. As most dairy producers know, components are hugely valuable. Looking at raw milk per cow is a bit deceiving as to how good, or bad, a cow may be. “If we just use raw milk, we could be making a huge mistake. Money corrected milk is the perfect answer to perfecting this,” Bethard said. Applying the principles of Money Corrected Milk can pertain to any dairy. “It doesn’t matter what color the cow or size of the dairy,” Bethard said. “It can apply to every dairy; most dairies are “If we just use raw milk, we could interested in ranking their cows and nding be making a huge ge mistake mistake. which cows are most ed milk is the productive, in order to Money corrected cull the poor and keep perfect answer to perfecting this.” the better ones. This is a better expression – GREG BETHARD of productivity of the cow.”
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More on Bethard A native of New Jersey, Bethard received his BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees from Virginia Tech in dairy nutrition and management. Following graduate school, he worked on the faculty at New Mexico State University and then as a technical services specialist for Monsanto Dairy Business. From 2009 through 2014, Greg worked at DRMS at North Carolina State University in dairy software development. Since 2000, Greg, along with wife, Rachel, has operated G&R Dairy Consulting, Inc., an international dairy consulting rm focusing on nutrition, facilities, management, business and nancial services. In 2014, Greg became CFO for Pagel’s Ponderosa Dairy, LLC, in Kewaunee, Wis., Dairy Dreams, LLC in Casco, Wis., and Ron’s Wisconsin Cheese in Luxemburg, Wis. Greg has published articles in the Journal of Dairy Science and written articles for various dairy industry magazines. He has also given presentations to dairy producers and allied industry around the globe.
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