My wife and I have decides to sell Shaklee products to help us get thrugh these difficult times on the farm. Shaklee is a health and nutrition company, they also have green,nontoxic cleaners. We are looking for people who would be interested in using this kind of product.
We have a small farm with 36 milkers,(jerseys) I have been using Shaklee's basic H in the barn to clean the milking equipment and it works great!!!!!! You don't have to use much and it gets it clean without much scrubbing. So w… Continue

This morning, Marin County 4-H held it's annual Presentation Day at the Glenn barn. All Marin County 4-H clubs were invited and encouraged to participate.

My son, Bryce, is .......read more at www.TheWifeOfADairyman.blogspot.com

My response to Nightline feature has been printed in our local newspaper, check it out ....The Novato Advance

If anybody loves the dairy industry, it would have to be Kipp Hinz.

From Osceola Wisconsin, this hard working student has more on his mind than college-life activities…

Kipp is attending school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences in the Farm and Industry Short Course specializing in Dairy Herd Management.

He started working on the County Line Dairy Farm while in the 6th grade, a farm comprised of 60 cows in tie-stalls. He started at a very young ag… Continue

In addition to the blogs here on Proud to Dairy, there has been some great information posted over the past two weeks in response to Nightline's story about Willet Dairy Farms in New York.

Here are just a few links I have seen. Feel free to comment with others.

Ray-Lin Dairy
http://raylindairy.wordpress.com/

Dino Giacomazzi
http://www.dinogiacomazzi.com/… Continue

I had the opportunity to visit Willet Dairy yesterday. Willet Dairy was attacked by the media and animal rights groups in the last week. They were part of the reason I started my group on Facebook, which by the way is over 13,000 members, but back to Willet and the impression I received during my visit.

First I want to say that Willet dairy was clean, which as dairy folks know can be 3/4 of the battle. The cattle all looked as clean or cleaner than expected here in Upstate, NY in February. I st… Continue