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Northeast Youth Show Calf Summit has another banner year
Lee Newspapers 
Posted on April 19, 2013
On April 5 and 6, 170 youth from New England, New York and Pennsylvania gathered at Cowtown Holsteins in Derby Line, VT to take part in this year’s Northeast Youth Show Calf Summit. Seventy-five adults also attended. The Vermont Holstein Association puts together a program that instructs the youth i...
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In Memoriam: Janice Streed Handy, long time Country Folks Editor
Lee Newspapers 
Posted on April 15, 2013
Janice Handy, former editor of Country Folks Farm Weekly newspapers, passed away on Saturday April 13, 2013 at her residence surrounded by her loving family. Back in 1972, Mrs. Handy, began working for Lee Publications as editor of Country Folks, a weekly farm newspaper, to help her family’s busines...
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Using technology to improve cow quality
Sally Colby 
Posted on April 12, 2013
When Roland and Noella Hemond purchased a 150-acre dairy farm in 1945 in Minot, Maine, they milked 25 cows. Today, the R.E. Hemond Farm is home to 600 registered Holsteins and the family farms 800 acres. Family members play an active role in the daily operation of the farm: Noella is president and o...
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New Hampshire Dairy Farmer Panel — sharing expertise and ideas for the future
Lee Newspapers 
Posted on April 12, 2013
by the UNH CREAM Class, Becca Standish and Professor Drew Conroy At the University of New Hampshire, the CREAM students spend an academic year managing a small herd of 20+ cows located at the Fairchild Dairy and Teaching Center in Durham, NH. This course is considered student centered, as students b...
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Vermont dairy farmers testify about their current economic conditions
Bethany M. Dunbar 
Posted on April 12, 2013
MONTPELIER, VT — Dairy farmers told the Vermont Senate Agriculture Committee about their lives and farms at a hearing Friday, April 5. Legislators heard that the Current Use program is critical, and that a methane digester on every farm would be good. Current Use taxes farm and forest land at its wo...
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Bread and Butter Farm
Lee Newspapers, Jane Primerano 
Posted on April 8, 2013
At one time, most young farmers were the children of farmers and probably farmed land that had been in the family for generations. Corie Pierce and Adam Wilson don’t fit that mold. Pierce grew up in New Hampshire down the road from a vegetable farm. At 14, she went there for a summer job and stayed ...
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Farm safety — people, animals and health
Sanne Kure-Jensen 
Posted on April 8, 2013
Farm visits can be life-changing experiences for families and students. By taking a few important steps around safety on the farm, farmers can help ensure that these are successful experiences for everyone. At a recent ABCs of Farm-Based Education Workshop at Shelburne Farms in Shelburne, VT, 20 far...
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2013 Winter Traveling Dairy Tour
Lee Newspapers 
Posted on April 8, 2013
by Sabryn Whitman, University of Massachusetts Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Every January, students from different New England universities spend a week touring dairy farms on a trip known as the Winter Traveling Dairy Tour. This year, students from the University of Massachusetts, t...
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Indiana Dairy Finds Way to Let Cows Power Trucks
Lee Newspapers 
Posted on April 3, 2013
By STEVEN YACCINO FAIR OAKS, Ind. — Here at one of the largest dairy farms in the country, electricity generated using an endless supply of manure runs the equipment to milk around 30,000 cows three times a day. For years, the farm has used livestock waste to create enough natural gas to power 10 ba...
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