How did you get started in photography? DEWITZ: I’m sure I have the same answer as most photographers about picking up our first camera as a kid and never putting it down. What really kept me interested with photography through the early years was railroad photography.

Every dairy youth project member who steps in a show ring has the opportunity to excel at showmanship. Unlike type classes, where winners can be purchased or raised by others, in showmanship it is all up to the exhibitor.

Getting the most out of grazing your dairy herd means going beyond the basics of pasture management. Putting the right nutrition into the herd from pasture forages requires intensive management of the grass and the cows.

Editor’s note: This year’s “Dairy Grazing Your Way” panel at the annual GrassWorks Inc. Grazing Conference held in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, featured three operations. Hubert and Suzanne Nelson Karreman of Reverence Farms in Saxapahaw, North Carolina, will be featured in a separate article later this year. Below, learn about grazing practices from the Paul Tillotson and Roman Stoltzfoos.

Ethan and Jade Proksch’s farm is proof grazing dairy goats is possible and feasible. The Proksches have been commercially selling milk from their goat herd for more than six years.

Settling for “good enough” is not in Andy Fischer’s nature. This goal-oriented dairyman sets high standards for Riverside Dairy in Reedsville, Wisconsin, and the numbers prove it.

Progressive Dairyman recently introduced readers to our group of editorial advisers for 2018 (See “Meet Progressive Dairyman’s 2018 reader advisers,” Jan. 19, 2018 issue. 

Giving up the warmer weather of Tulare, California, dairy farmer JJ Nunes and Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Stefon Diggs tackled a five-part challenge course to win the Land O’Lakes Farm Bowl trophy on Feb. 1, 2018. Before the final challenge, these two teammates felt they had a good shot at the title. 

The criteria for building goat dairies are not well established. Oftentimes, producers take the information they can find and then develop their own design to meet their needs.

Hidden Pastures Dairy, a dairy goat farm, recently received top honors in the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 2018 Rural Entrepreneurship Challenge.