Dollars and Sense: Cow Comfort

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Where We Concentrate

Art Schaap

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.

 


The Win-Win Principle

Lambert VanderMade

Lambert VanderMade

Sherwood, Ohio

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

 


Keep Your Eyes—and Air Vents—Open

Nick Vande Weerd

Nick Vande Weerd

Brookings, S.D.

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

 


Keep the Girls Happy

Jon Patterson

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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