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  • Mike Rowe. Dirty Jobs. Dairy Farm

    From Dean Hoffman@deanhofman@clod.com to misc.rural on Tue Jan 5 12:00:11 2021
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    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc515TyVG-g>
    S4, E11. Inseminating cows, birthing, and C section.
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  • From hubops@hubops@ccanoemail.ca to misc.rural on Tue Jan 5 13:32:47 2021
    From Newsgroup: misc.rural

    On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 12:00:11 -0600, Dean Hoffman <deanhofman@clod.com>
    wrote:

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc515TyVG-g>
    S4, E11. Inseminating cows, birthing, and C section.


    Fair Oaks Farms < possibly >

    https://fofarms.com/things-to-explore/dairy-adventure/

    80 - 100 calves born each day ..

    Not exactly my father-in-laws farm !
    .. nor my son-in-law 's ..
    John T.

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  • From Dean Hoffman@deanhofman@clod.com to misc.rural on Wed Jan 6 13:28:40 2021
    From Newsgroup: misc.rural

    On 1/5/21 12:32 PM, hubops@ccanoemail.ca wrote:
    On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 12:00:11 -0600, Dean Hoffman <deanhofman@clod.com>
    wrote:

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc515TyVG-g>
    S4, E11. Inseminating cows, birthing, and C section.


    Fair Oaks Farms < possibly >

    https://fofarms.com/things-to-explore/dairy-adventure/

    80 - 100 calves born each day ..

    Not exactly my father-in-laws farm !
    .. nor my son-in-law 's ..
    John T.

    It tickled my funny bone when Mike asked the woman in the TV version what her title is. She said midwife.
    I grew up on a farm in the 60s and 70s. Dad had maybe 20
    cattle. One was a milk cow. He fed a few for market and one was
    going in our freezer. Mom raised chickens. Fresh eggs and homegrown
    meat for our table. That was pretty common in our area.
    Costco put in a chicken processing plant near Fremont, NE. It's contracting
    with farmers to raise chickens for it. <https://www.abc4.com/news/digital-exclusives/costco-builds-giant-poultry-complex-to-keep-its-rotisserie-chickens-at-4-99/>
    There's an installation going in a few miles
    from me that I think will be part of that supply chain.
    There's another one nearby that will produce chickens. <https://yorknewstimes.com/news/perdue-family-a-new-link-in-the-chicken-egg-chain/article_f2242f12-d30f-11e6-bb2b-bff646e3aec2.html>
    Chickens on this scale is something new. This area has been mainly
    corn and
    soybeans. Livestock raising has been mainly cattle with a few hogs.

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  • From YK@youkidding@yahoo.com to misc.rural on Mon Jan 25 19:12:49 2021
    From Newsgroup: misc.rural

    On 1/5/21 1:32 PM, hubops@ccanoemail.ca wrote:
    On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 12:00:11 -0600, Dean Hoffman <deanhofman@clod.com>
    wrote:

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc515TyVG-g>
    S4, E11. Inseminating cows, birthing, and C section.


    Fair Oaks Farms < possibly >

    https://fofarms.com/things-to-explore/dairy-adventure/

    80 - 100 calves born each day ..

    Not exactly my father-in-laws farm !
    .. nor my son-in-law 's ..
    John T.


    Raised on a dairy/sheep (150 head of dairy and about 200 sheep, on 250
    plus acres) farm in Ohio and it was sold in 1971. But, after that I
    worked on dairy and beef farms off and on until I got into the forest
    products business. I have always gotten a kick out listening to others
    in the grocery stores talk about ag products. When I was at an ag event
    in 1968 a woman asked why I was in Dairy Sciences at Ohio State. She
    declared we'd all be out of business in 10 years because everything
    would be made from soybeans. Guess she didn't know who grew the soybean
    crops. She was also an expert on the draft horses I was grooming and harnessing at the time, because she went to the horse race track near Columbus.

    My father was incapacitated when I was a child and I ran the farm, with
    help from my mother (an elementary teacher), from the time I was 12. No brothers, but some sisters that did help some. When it came time for me
    to take over, I encouraged my father to sell the farm. It was a
    stressful childhood, but it did make me a fairly successful person. I
    wouldn't have traded the lessons I learned for anything.

    YK
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