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A Pacific Northwest dairy farm known for its national award-winning sustainability efforts, especially with vermiculture, launched a skincare line called Nurst which is made from excess colostrum from their dairy cows.
You know how farm life goes. The work never seems to cease, and the thought of finding a spare moment for much of anything else can seem like a distant hope.
Nora Doelman is a Washington native and former diesel mechanic, and if someone would have told her she’d end up as a dairy farmer, “I would have said they were crazy,” laughs Nora.
This episode's guest is Austin Allred of Royal Family Farming. Allred talks about how he was forced to address his manure management practices due to legal action that applied retroactively to the dairy location that he now owns. He's using worms to help filter his manure water, and he's cleaned that water enough that he's personally willing to water-ski on his lagoon now. You may have seen the viral YouTube clip of him doing that. In this episode, he also talks about his beef x dairy crossbreeding program. Each beef animal on his Royal Ranch has a carbon footprint score. You'll hear tips for communicating about regenerative agriculture from someone at the forefront of the discussion.
Rain. This is how many people who are not from the Pacific Northwest describe Washington. However, parts of the state receive less than 5 inches of precipitation each year while the Hoh Rainforest on the Olympia Peninsula receives an average of 127 inches of annual precipitation.
The end of one year and the start of another is often a reflective period. With that in mind, the editors of Progressive Dairy reached out to our editorial advisers and asked them to reflect on the following question:
Progressive Dairyman thanks the following readers for their willingness to serve on its advisory board. Reader advisers provide ongoing feedback about the content in the magazine and generate ideas for future content.
“We really don’t have a nutrient problem; we have a water problem,” states Galen Smith, partner and general manager of Coldstream Farm LLC in Deming, Washington.
