Corn in Greenville
It's not like you've never seen this before. Probably by the time you see this picture, it's all chopped up and sitting in a silo somewhere, ready to feed the cows this winter.
Saturday September 23, 2006 — Farming
Got sweet corn 🌽 at Price’s Dairy
I have followed his YouTube channel for a long time, and stopped on way back from the Finger Lakes at his dairy farm to get sweet corn. https://youtube.com/c/mikep7810
Sunday August 1, 2021 — Dairy Farming
Why We Separate Baby Calves from their Mother — Derrick Josi | TDF Honest Farming
Taking calves away from their mama cow is a common practice on dairy farms. Why do we do this? Here’s why:
First of all, let me remind you that cows and people are very different. Cows don’t exist in a family unit like most people do. Cows are herd animals which means they are most comfortable with other cows their size and age. Being without their herd-mates can cause a lot of anxiety for the cows, which is part of why they aren’t very naturally maternal.
Next up, calf safety.
After a calf is born, the mama cow will lick off the calf to clean it up and to help stimulate the calf to get up. However, this can be a safety issue. Sometimes cows will step on, lay on or crush their calf. Dairy cows generally aren’t very maternal. So if the cow abandons the calf, we step in and dry it off ourselves.
We also separate the calf to ensure its health.
Dairy farmers devastated after cows ingested wire leftover from telecom project – VTDigger
TUNBRIDGE — On the first Friday of July, Amber Hoyt stood in the dairy barn she owns with her husband, Scott. She held a plastic ziplock bag with small, mangled pieces of stainless steel wire in her hand.?
Since December, the Hoyts have pulled the wire from the bodies of three cows that recently died after showing symptoms the farmers hadn’t seen before: sudden bloody noses, a high number of aborted calves, obvious signs of discomfort, a decline in milk production.?
Last fall, the Hoyts found the wire scattered throughout the cows’ feed, which they grew on their land and other fields they rent in the rolling hills of Tunbridge. As the weather cooled and the Hoyts transitioned the cows out of pasture, they began feeding the animals silage, which they make by layering chopped hay from several different fields in a bunker.