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Winners of a 2020 Outstanding Dairy Farm Sustainability Award, Rosy-Lane Holsteins is a partnership involving Lloyd and Daphne Holterman, Jordan Matthews and Tim Strobel.
Veterinarian is the name of the hat Kohtz is donning today as she does a routine herd health check for one of her Idaho dairy clients, though her hat rack is full of many.
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.
The McClay family of Cottonwood Dairy knows all the buzzwords around sustainability, and they know it is their responsibility to dairy using as few resources and as little land as possible.
Shrinking is generally not your friend. Whether you’re talking about your favorite pair of work pants or feed, it’s not something that benefits you or your operation.
“It’s almost become fun to us,” says Frank Cardoza, farm manager at Verwey Dairy in central California. “Being sustainable started out as an improvement, but it’s really become kind of like a game. What else can we do?
Dennis Koolstra’s father instilled in him at an early age that hard things are just part of life. But he stressed that enjoying what you do and the people you do it with are what keep us going.
Dairyman Evan Hillan farms with his parents, Eric and Carol Hillan, in northwest Wisconsin. Their farm, Rusk Rose Holsteins, is in expansion mode – but like many other dairies, they are also facing a labor shortage.
Ah, vacation. The comfort of a warm bed, no alarms to wake you, the reassurance that your plans today are to relax. Your email is sending automatic replies, your phone is set to “do not disturb.” Just you, clean sheets and the background noise of cows lowing.
Wait a minute…
Bells Udder Farm, owned by Tim and Karyn Bell and James and Marcy Bell, has a herd that averages 102 pounds of milk per cow per day with 3X milking and has a bulk tank somatic cell count (SCC) of 70,000.
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