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“Any contract is only as good as the two parties involved,” Denis Turner, owner of Turner’s Heifer Haven, says.
The operation, located in Hartville, Missouri, is a pasture-based 540-head heifer-raising facility. Turner has raised heifers for both confinement and grazing dairies.
If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me about the horrible “factory farms” that dominate modern agriculture today, I’d be retiring next year. This is especially true anytime I go home to visit my family in Connecticut.
Crisis: A time of intense difficulty, trouble or danger; a time when a difficult or important decision must be made.
Crisis situations are not fun. No one looks forward to them or wishes they would happen, but they always do. It always seems to be at the worst possible time, too.
When we think of home, food is often one of the first things that comes to mind. We think of Saturday morning breakfasts of pancakes, cheese-laden eggs and a big, tall glass of milk to wash it down.
Raising calves is a challenge. Raising healthy calves is an even bigger challenge. At the Dairy Calf and Heifer Association’s annual conference held March 31 through April 1 in Madison, Wisconsin, three dairy producers shared their calf-raising protocols.
Make 1,000 pounds of cheese per week. Age it for two months. Sell it to restaurants and grocery stores in the Chicago area. Sounds like a simple, effective plan, right? Wrong. Or at least that is what dairyman Mike Bandstra quickly learned when he started his Gouda cheese business, Frisian Farms, in Leighton, Iowa.
Baseball. In my family we have two seasons, baseball season and not baseball season. And just because it’s not baseball season doesn’t mean the baseball stops, it just means you need to keep training for baseball season.
When Bobby Jacquier’s grandfather Robert Jacquier first established Laurelbrook Farm in 1948 in East Canaan, Connecticut, the area was an excellent place for a budding dairy farm.
Over the years, however, the operation has not only faced the challenges of an expanding business but an expanding local population and increased regulations as well. To meet these challenges, the Jacquiers have taken a somewhat unusual route: compost.
With 362 attendees representing 23 states, six countries and more than 500,000 head of calves and heifers, the 2015 annual Dairy Calf and Heifer Conference (DCHA) was one of the better-attended conferences in the past several years. This year, DCHA hosted the event in Madison, Wisconsin, on March 31 and April 1.
Almost seven years ago, Progressive Dairyman told its readers about a new, biodegradable pot being produced by Freund’s Farm in East Canaan, Connecticut. They called them CowPots.
