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Articles by Melissa Hart

HERd Management: Across the road

December 31, 2020
Melissa Hart
As I was doing some much-needed purging from my office, I came across a piece I wrote 10 years ago. It was about the busy schedule of two parents with four kids, milking cows and keeping up with life’s challenges.
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HERd Management: Faith over fear

June 11, 2020
Melissa Hart
The dairy industry is no stranger to struggle. If you’re in this business for any length of time, it’s because you were created with the constitution and passion to survive it. Today, your constitution is being stretched and, if you let it, your faith will be strengthened.
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More crop per drop where water is scarce

March 31, 2020
Melissa Hart
“More crop per drop.” This is the mantra of De Jager Farms in Chowchilla, California where water is scarce and conservation is king.
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Cows at the bunk

Cocktails for the win: Creative ways to stretch your dairy forages

March 17, 2020
Melissa Hart
In the wake of difficult growing conditions that plagued the Midwest in 2019, stretching feed with creative forage solutions was the topic discussed by dairy producer and forage consultant Daniel Olson of Lena, Wisconsin, and dairy producer David Johnson of the Western Upper Peninsula at the recent Great Lakes Regional Dairy Conference in Frankenmuth, Michigan.
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It’s 11 p.m. Do you know where your cows are?

March 13, 2020
Melissa Hart
Looking at the possibilities of latest technology on the dairy farm, Kyle O’Brien of Michigan Dairy Technology provided a glimpse into the future with automation in mind at the recent Great Lakes Regional Dairy Conference held in Frankenmuth, Michigan.
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Corn planted where manure and water are pumped in

More crop per drop where water is scarce

October 30, 2019
Melissa Hart
“More crop per drop.” This is the mantra of De Jager Farms in Chowchilla, California where water is scarce and conservation is king.
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High-desert dairy farming: How the Van Dams do it

September 11, 2019
Melissa Hart
The high desert of Clovis, New Mexico, where rainfall is rare and wide-open spaces are plentiful, is also where Joel and Jaimie Van Dam call home on Route 77 Dairy.
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HERd Management: Count dairy trials as pure joy

June 11, 2019
Melissa Hart
Have you ever noticed that when you have to break some seemingly bad news to your young children, they aren’t nearly as bothered by it as you anticipated? A friend from school moves away, one of their show calves catches some strange disease and dies, or the water park plans get canceled because the hay is ready to bale.
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Learn from the aggregate to expand your margins

May 24, 2019
Melissa Hart
Dairy farms are similar to the aggregate industry in that they spend a significant amount of time handling materials, from feed and manure to sand and livestock. Ross Veltema and Allen Bonthuis took their farming backgrounds and dovetailed them into their aggregate businesses.
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‘Marginal’ milk can drive profitability

May 17, 2019
Melissa Hart
Dairy farmers struggling to remain profitable face a dilemma: What’s good for an individual operation may not be beneficial for the industry as a whole.
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