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Neil Peck of Welcome Stock Farm in upstate New York recently hosted writer Tim McDonald for a very hands-on farm tour. McDonald wanted to milk a cow as part of a fund-raising event for No Kid Hungry.
The visit resulted in both an article in the Huffington Post and a video of McDonald’s experience. We caught up with Neil to ask him about hosting the writer on his farm.
Dairy producers in New Mexico recently ended a nearly decade-long off-and-on negotiation process over nutrient management regulations with the New Mexico Environmental Department and environmental advocacy groups.
Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) has announced Perryhill Farm’s Dwayne and Becky Perry (New Brunswick), Ferme Bois Mou’s Mario Lefebvre and Denise Joyal (Quebec), and UBC Dairy Education and Research Centre’s management (British Colombia) as finalists of this year’s edition of the Dairy Farm Sustainability Award.
Randy Sowers, owner of South Mountain Creamery in Maryland, was recently featured in a Washington Post article titled “Uncle Sam may have picked the wrong cash cow.”
James Leick New Day Dairy Clarksville, Iowa
“We dragline our manure instead of hauling it on roads in tankers, which keeps down the dust and controls odor. We have a custom operator who comes in, and he lays down hose, just a big hose that goes from the manure pit.
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