Dollars and Sense: Nutrition & Forages
Follow the links below to read the extended versions of Dollars and Sense from Dairy Today.
Tough Times for Forage in the Southwest
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.
$7 Corn Brings a New Focus
Lambert VanderMade
Sherwood, Ohio
VanderMade Dairy LLC is a family-owned and operated dairy
milking 1,400 cows in northern Ohio.
Forage takes Know-How, Hard Work
Jon Patterson
Auburn, N.Y.
Jon Patterson’s dairy milks 1,100 cows on a farm that’s been in the family since 1832.
We’ve Learned from our Forage Mistakes
Nick Vande Weerd
Brookings, S.D.
The Vande Weerd family is majority owner and manager of Pleasant Dutch Dairy, which milks 1,400 Holsteins.