Dollars and Sense: Meet Our 2013 Team
Follow the links below to read the extended versions of Dollars and Sense from Dairy Today.
New Mexico Perspective
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.
South Dakota Salutations
Nick 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 VanderMade
Sherwood, Ohio
VanderMade Dairy LLC is a family-owned and -operated dairy milking 1,400 cows in northern Ohio.
New York Greetings
Jon Patterson
Auburn, N.Y.
Jon Patterson’s dairy milks 1,100 cows on a farm that’s been in the family since 1832.