Follow the links below to read the extended versions of Dollars and Sense from Dairy Today.

Technology Helps Us Succeed

Art Schaap

Clovis and Portales, N.M.

The Schaaps manage four dairies, including an organic operation, and milk 5,500 cows. They’re also partners in a cheese factory.

Technology Changes How We Do Business

Nick Vande Weerd

Brookings, S.D.

The Vande Weerd family is majority owner and manager of Pleasant Dutch Dairy, which milks 1,400 Holsteins.

What Works for Us

Lambert VanderMade

Sherwood, Ohio

VanderMade Dairy LLC is a family-owned and -operated dairy

milking 1,400 cows in northern Ohio.

Connected—and Smelling Sweet

Jon Patterson

Auburn, N.Y.

Jon Patterson’s dairy milks 1,100 cows on a farm that’s been in the family since 1832.

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