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The ninth annual Robert “Whitey” McKown Master Breeder Award will be awarded to Wendon Holsteins of Innisfail, Alberta, Canada. This honor will be presented at the 51st World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin.
With an average milking time of 3.9 minutes per cow, 87,000 somatic cell count (SCC) and 89-pound herd average, Tom McClellan of McClellan Farms Inc. has found a successful formula to producing extremely superior milk.
Road View Dairy LLC is a first-generation farm started in 1992 by Mike and Sherri Yager. They had been farming with his family for six years when they decided to go out on their own and operate a separate farm on a cash rent basis in Mineral Point, Wisconsin.
From thousand-dollar stilettos to million-dollar cows, George Malkemus and Anthony Yurgaitis have built an empire in the busy streets of New York City and the quaint town of Litchfield, Connecticut.
How did you get started in photography?
MOORE: I always loved a good photograph, but when I had kids and the desire to have nice pictures of them without taking them to J.C. Penney’s every month made me start using my camera every day.
For Charles and Ellen Coblentz and their sons, there is no such thing as too many irons in the fire. Milking 500 cows, farming more than 8,000 acres, raising 1,000 head of beef and running a fertilizer business means everyone is all hands on deck all the time.
Three years ago, Indiana dairyman Brian Houin walked by all the colorful milking robots on display at World Dairy Expo and thought to himself, “They’re for smaller dairies, not larger ones.”
Often the decision to grow or transform a dairy farm revolves around adding family or improving profitability. The same is often true for the dairy equipment industry.
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