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August 1, 2011

Picking up the pieces

Lending a helping hand

In mid-June, 18 volunteers spent the day gathering debris and removing dead trees from Janine Cronk’s 334-acre farm and home in Henning, Minn. A year had finally passed since an EF4 tornado — stretching just shy of a mile and a half wide — touched down...

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August 1, 2011

The spirit of cooperation

Bruce Zundel finds inspiration at fellow DFA member’s farm

Bruce Zundel was stumped. He had tried everything he could think of. Nothing was working.

Little did he know that 136 miles south of his farm in Garland, Utah, he would find the answers.

Seven years ago, Zundel left his job as county...

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August 1, 2011

Picking up the pieces

Taking the good with the bad

Buster Goff, DFA Board member and owner of two dairies milking 8,000 cows total — Goff Dairy and Rocky Top Dairy — in Hobbs, N.M., says he never thought twice about building his dairies in wildfire country. A native New Mexican, Goff says he knew the...

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June 1, 2011

Timing is everything

By paying attention to the dairy environment, Ted Van Raay seizes opportunity for expansion

Ted Van Raay is worried about the rain. There is a photographer scheduled to take photos of his farm, but it has been raining all week and it is not supposed to stop. He is not sure the timing is right. And Van Raay knows about timing. His farm’s success...

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