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Andy Birch and his wife, Sarah, own Maple Grove Farm in Derby, Vermont. They milk 50 registered Holsteins, Jerseys and Brown Swiss, and farm 45 acres of corn and 70 acres of pasture.
“I just love the Christmas season,” says Kristen Phillips, the Progressive Publishing graphic designer behind the creation of this year’s Progressive Dairyman Christmas cover. “Growing up, we didn’t get toys or a lot of new things throughout the year, so Christmastime was where we got new toys. I was the child who was up at 4 a.m. on Christmas morning. I love the excitement.”
Snow, ice and blustery temperatures make for a long winter in western Canada.
Gull Lake Farm Ltd., located in Lacombe, Alberta, deals with average daily digits in the low teens (12ºF to 14ºF) throughout the winter months.
Tubing helps clear the air
The calf hutches at Emmerich Dairy in Wheeler, Illinois, had a ventilation problem. A machine shed and a freestall barn upwind of the hutches prevented them from getting the breezes needed to keep the calves cool and the hutches ventilated on the 70-cow dairy.
When it comes to raising calves, Meadow Brook Dairy Farms is known as one of the best, and with the recent addition of a new calf barn and automated feeding, the best just got better.
How milk and dairy products are made is an important topic for consumers today. More and more, they are taking their questions directly to the stores and restaurants. They want to know: Are your ingredients locally produced? Do you recycle? How are the animals treated? Do the farmers use sustainable practices to grow their crops?
Last winter, I had the great honor to deliver the keynote address at the New York State Agricultural Society Forum. In this article, I share what I told that audience of agricultural leaders of New York state.
The majority of milk produced in the U.S. is paid for based on the Federal Milk Marketing Order formulas. Within the federal order system, there are four classes of milk – defined below – and two payment systems: the “Advanced” system and the “Class and Component” system.
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