Tag: dairy
Field Notes: Dairy farming, small grains
In this week's episode of Field Notes, online content producer Katie Woods gives us a look at Raygor Farms in Dalton, Ohio, plus the recent small grains field day held in Wooster, Ohio.
Raygor Farms takes practical, but innovative approach to dairy farming
Robotic milkers helped keep the growing Sprunger family on the farm.
Ohio prison system buying milk after selling cows
With cows sold, Ohio prison system begins buying milk from Ohio dairy suppliers.
Five things to consider when looking into robotic milkers
Dairy producers and dealers recommend producers do their research before investing in a robotic milking system.
Robotic milkers benefit small family dairies
Robotic milkers are changing the way small family dairies manage their farms with labor savings and production increases being the leading reason to install
Manure management needs to be nutrient management
A question that is becoming increasingly important is: how are the nutrients contained in manure accounted for and managed as that manure is applied back to the land?
If you give a cow a name…
A British study from a few years ago found that if you name your cows, they’ll give more milk.
Expanding the herd: Pfeifer Dairy prepares for the next generation
Pfeifer Dairy, in Crawford County, has been a family-run operation since 1902 and is now seeing its fourth and fifth generations on the farm.
Butter making traditions span six generations at Minerva Dairy
At Minerva Dairy in Minerva, Ohio, the fifth and sixth generations of the Mueller family are making butter the same way the generations before them did.
Building a compost empire
Bull Country Compost started out as a concrete slab in the early '90s and has become a successful 3 acre composting operation in Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
