Dollars and Sense: Meet Our 2014 Team

Meet our 2014 Dollars and Sense dairy farmer contributors.

Follow the links below to read the extended versions of Dollars and Sense from Dairy Today. Extended comments are highlighted in blue.


Hello from “America’s Dairyland”


Julie Maurer
Newton, Wis.

Family owned and operated, Soaring Eagle Dairy milks 1,100 cows and grows the majority of the herd’s feed on 1,800 acres.


From the South: Hey, Ya’ll!


Mark Rodgers
Dearing, Ga.

Hillcrest Farms is home to four generations of the Rodgers family, plus 420 milking cows and 470 heifers.


Greetings from New Hampshire


Rendell Tullar
Orford, N.H.

Tullando Farm, a 550-cow herd of registered Holsteins in the Connecticut River Valley, is heading toward a robotic milking future.


Inside Idaho


Pete Wiersma
Buhl, Idaho

In addition to helping manage 1,500 cows on his family’s two dairies in Idaho’s Magic Valley, Wiersma serves on the boards of United Dairymen of Idaho and Independent Milk Producers.

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