Dollars and Sense: New Technology

Dollars and Sense contributors describe how they use technology in improve productivity and profitability.

Follow the links below to read the extended versions of Dollars and Sense from Dairy Today.


Technology Helps Us Succeed

Art Schaap


Clovis and Portales, N.M.

The Schaaps manage four dairies, including an organic operation, and milk 5,500 cows. They’re also partners in a cheese factory.


Technology Changes How We Do Business

Nick Vande Weerd


Brookings, S.D.
The Vande Weerd family is majority owner and manager of Pleasant Dutch Dairy, which milks 1,400 Holsteins.



What Works for Us

Lambert VanderMade


Sherwood, Ohio
VanderMade Dairy LLC is a family-owned and -operated dairy
milking 1,400 cows in northern Ohio.


Connected—and Smelling Sweet

Jon Patterson


Auburn, N.Y.
Jon Patterson’s dairy milks 1,100 cows on a farm that’s been in the family since 1832.

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