Its Friday, and that means dry cows! After I groggily woke up and did calf chores we scurried across town in the cattle trailer to sort out the dry cows and expecting heifers that we needed. When I was in Nebraska they did some more organizing at the farm which helped with chores significantly. As we were wrapping up, the milk tester came in for his routine collections. The milk tester will come in once a month and we will help collect him collect milk samples and record the milk produced from every lactating cow on our farm. He will then be able to gather information such as protein, butterfat, and somatic cell count estimations from every single cow! Pretty amazing if you ask me.
If you look in the picture below you can see the corn that is starting to grow in the fields that our farmers have planted. This corn will eventually be used to feed our cows as silage in the future.
Today we shipped 5,765 gallons of milk and had one new heifer calf.
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