MAPLE LAKE, Minn. — Dan Elsenpeter and his wife, Erica, have been making maple syrup together ever since they started dating. Now, more than 20 years later, their maple syrup operation and …
FREEVILLE, N.Y. — It is not every day that 50 film professionals and a former “Saturday Night Live” star from Los Angeles spend a week on a dairy farm in rural New York. However, …
HASTINGS, Minn. — Amelia Miller is not afraid of trying new things, whether it is responding to a local dairy farm’s help wanted ad with no dairy experience or being one of six girls on …
ST. CHARLES, Minn. — For Bill Powel-Smith, growing healthy crops in a sustainable, cost-effective manner comes down to three take-home practices: ditching monoculture for diverse, multi-family …
Cheryl Seibert Sebeka, Minnesota Wadena County 65 cows Tell us about your family and farm. My husband, Ray, and I bought our farm from his parents. We raised our four kids — Roger, Amber, …
EAST DUBUQUE, Ill. — Marrying a dairy farmer was not part of Natalie Berning’s original plan. But, she has embraced farm life, finding creative ways to diversify the business and connect …
BRANDON, Wis. — Passion for registered Holsteins started young in twin brothers Darren and Derrek Kamphuis. Although they did not grow up with a registered herd, the show ring was the place …
DE SOTO, Wis. — In January, William Walleser of Wall-Stone Holsteins earned the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation’s 35 under 35 award as the top individual in the sustainable environment …
STRATFORD, Wis. — Kevin Schmidtke is four years into living his dream of dairy farming — a dream that comes with a hope of watching the farm his family built from scratch carry …
How many times a day do you milk, and what is your current herd average, butterfat and protein? We milk twice per day. Our rolling herd average is 30,214 pounds of milk, 1,313 pounds of butterfat and …
MARSHFIELD, Wis. — Ammonia is a major component of dairy manure susceptible to being lost to the atmosphere during spreading. Injecting manure in the soil versus applying it on top of the soil …
OWATONNA, Minn. — Ninety-six square feet of table-top real estate holds about two-thirds of Scott Krause’s butter box collection. The 8- by 12- foot table space holds about 980 boxes. …
DENNISON, Minn. — Dairy consumption in 2025 is doing well and is also outpacing alternatives in every product group. “In a lot of the categories, we’ve got record highs,” …
BELLINGHAM, Minn. — Matt Rewitzer is living proof that dreams do come true. As of Oct. 1, 2024, Rewitzer is milking cows at his own dairy farm. “I’ve tried many different ways …
NEW RICHMOND, Wis. — The registered Holstein cow has long been the axis Bonnie Van Dyk’s world has turned on. For her dedication to the breed, Van Dyk was honored by the Wisconsin …
BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis. — Luke Wolfisberg and his wife, Lis, always knew they wanted to start a life in agriculture. But land and space to start a dairy was hard to come by in their hometown of …
WEST BEND, Wis. — Last fall, Peter and Gina Muth received news no parent ever wants to hear: their son had cancer. Wade Muth was 18 months old when he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia …
BELLECHESTER, Minn. — The Bartholome family spent three years and visited many farms researching robotic milking setups before signing for robotic milking units in December 2023. Jim and …
BARNEVELD, Wis. — The night of Jan. 23, Izzy Durst accomplished something only seven others in the history of Barneveld High School girls basketball have done. She hit a layup in the first …
160 Members Sparta, Wisconsin Monroe County Tell us about your chapter. Many things make the Sparta area a unique group of students to work with. At one time, this area was very heavy …