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While not technically a blog, Erin Ehnle’s Facebook page, “Keeping it Real: Through the Lens of a Farm Girl” is extremely popular.
Her unique combination of photography and farm facts strikes a chord with the social media savvy farm crowd, and she has more than 10,200 “Likes” on her page.
Willie is a great example of the compassionate cowman. He should be a poster boy for St. Francis of Assisi, except St. Francis is in Kansas and Willie lives in Colorado.
During calving season he observes certain procedures that he has perfected when a heifer needs help.
The calving lot is near the house. He makes regular checks out the window using a spotting scope and binoculars.
Rick and I were discussing the uproar about “pink slime.” He said, “Well, I don’t know much, but I’m sure not gonna buy any of their CDs!”
It’s all in a name – Pink Floyd, Pink Panther, Pink, Pinko Commie, pink in the center (medium rare), pink eye, Pinky Lee and/or pinkie finger.
Pink slime, as you have heard, is a predominately lean beef that has been separated from fat and is added back to hamburger to make it leaner. It is puffed with ammonia gas to eliminate bacteria.
My husband, Lad, and I operate Hastings Dairy, which is located in northeast Ohio approximately 40 miles east of Cleveland and 20 miles south of Lake Erie.
Our farm is in Geauga County, which is a rural agricultural county known for the fourth-largest Amish population in the world. Lad and I are third-generation dairy producers who started this farm in 2004.
Managing Salmonella disease is all about reducing risk. No dairy will ever be exempt from disease exposure, because Salmonella is sneaky and can enter a dairy herd through a number of ways.
Recent cattle purchases or heifers that have returned from a grower can carry disease. The boots or clothing of visitors or workers from a neighboring farm also presents a risk.
Even rodents and birds nesting throughout the barn or hovering around feed bring the possibility of the spread of Salmonella bacteria to an operation.
Shelley Colson didn’t grow up on a farm, but when her now-husband, Matt, took her to his family’s 65-cow operation on their first date, she knew she was in for an education.
“I had never been around cows – or even on a four-wheeler – before,” she laughs. “I’ve learned a lot over the past few years.”
The farm, located in Dry Ridge, Kentucky, is run entirely by family members. Matt’s parents, Dean and Debbie, took over the farm from Dean’s father, Joe. Matt’s brother, Daniel, is taking an off-the-farm job but will continue to help out when he can.
Last year, Progressive Dairyman sent out a call to our readers to learn more about how you celebrate June Dairy Month in your communities.
Since then we received notice of 80 different events held throughout the country, not all of them necessarily in June.
Unfortunately we are unable to recognize each of them individually, but we have categorized them below to give you an idea of the many ways the dairy industry is being promoted.
Building leadership skills and networking were front and center as more than 360 attended the 2012 Wisconsin Ag Women’s Summit April 27-28 at the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells.
The summit’s full agenda included topics such as health and wellness, building social capital, practical time management, farm safety, social media and financial and tax tips.
“It was apparent that the hundreds ofagriculturally passionate womenin attendance lefton a positive note,” said Deb Raemisch, Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation (WFBF) director of member relations.
The Balchem Corporation has announced its decision to voluntarily suspend the manufacturing and marketing of AminoShure-L (52% lysine), a highly concentrated, encapsulated source of lysine for dairy cow rations.
Recent research indicates that the lysine bioavailability of AminoShure-L is lower than originally projected, and the company has determined that it does not meet internal standards.
