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A good cowboy should have three things; a good horse, a good dog and ————————.
I left the last one blank so you could fill in your own. Some might choose a good woman, others a good banker, a job in town, a silver bit, a full can of Copenhagen or Saturday off.
Editor’s note: This is the second part of a two-part series.
I wrote my first column for Progressive Dairyman in July of 1993. This is my final one. During the space of 23 years, I have written several hundred articles.
Location: Fallon, Nevada
Your agricultural background, in a nutshell: My great-grandfather started our dairy in Sparks, Nevada, in 1915. Our family has been sustainably producing high-quality milk for northern Nevadans for 99 years.
Location: Sulligent, Alabama
Your agricultural background, in a nutshell: My grandfather converted his parents’ corn and cotton farm into a dairy in the early 1950s. Over time, it has grown into the 225-cow farm my father and I now operate. We also raise our own replacement heifers and manage 600 acres of pasture and forage production.
Location: Conway, Missouri
Your agricultural background: My wife, Courtney, and I are partners with my parents on our dairy. We milk 70 registered Brown Swiss and Holsteins as well as raise all of our forages on 500 acres.
The owners of a Pepin County dairy, Roland and Diana Reed, have agreed to penalties stemming from a food-borne illness outbreak in September that sickened 32 students and coaches at a high school in Durand, Wisconsin.
Dairy milk often contains two types of beta-casein protein, A1 and A2. The a2 Milk Company (a2MC), a New Zealand-based business, believes type A1 is guilty for the digestive discomfort experienced by some dairy consumers.
Carissa Itle Westrick is the director of business development at Vale Wood Farms, a family-owned dairy and milk processor in Loretto, Pennsylvania. She became the international face of the farm when a picture of a calf with a face marking shaped like the number 7 went viral on the Internet.
Where there’s a will for small-scale dairy producers to market nutrient-dense raw milk direct to consumers, there’s usually a way; whether that “way” lands those farmers in the heartland of Wisconsin or in God’s country in Colorado may depend on the pendulum swing of legislation of the respective states.
Every dairy farmer wants a good hoof trimmer to put his dairy as the top priority when scheduling service. As with any other business, a hoof trimmer will likely place those dairies that have shown some loyalty at the top of the list.
