Dollars and Sense: Meet Our 2013 Team

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


New Mexico Perspective

Art SchaapArt 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.

 

 


South Dakota Salutations

Nick Vande WeerdNick Vande Weerd


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

 

 


Hello from the Buckeye State

Lambert VanderMadeLambert VanderMade
 

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

 


 


New York Greetings

Jon PattersonJon 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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