Farmers' Spearhead New Roadway, Restore Round Barn, Build A2A2 Creamery and Host Halloween Event

From a farmer milking cows in a round barn to starting a creamery, hear many of the conversations found in the latest issue of the Dairy Star in today's episode. Starting today's episode, we hear from Jordan Zirbel, who took action after learning about Wisconsin's Agricultural Roads Improvement Program, and approached his town board to fix a road where his farm is located. When the road in front of Zirbel Dairy Farms in the Town of Rockland was restricted to 8 tons and in dire need of repair, the applications was submitted and took approximately one year until work on the road was completed. Then we tune into a conversation with Mark Rodenwald, who purchased the dairy farm he grew up on, bringing it back into the family after decades of being owned outside of the family. In today's third conversation, we meet with Ethan Johnson, whose family saw a lack of nearby processing facilities and, with an interest in the benefits of A2A2 milk, began the journey of starting their own creamery. Johnson and his parents, Dean and Elizabeth, milk 25 crossbred cows and grow row and cover crops on their dairy farm and will plan to open the creamery in late November. The final story is a festive one, a Halloween story from the Gochnauer family. The family welcomed trick or treaters to their farm for their sixth annual Halloween Hootenanny event. The Gouchnauers stall several cows in the stanchion area of the barn, which normally is used as a flat parlor, and decorate the area for Halloween. They also pen other animals inside the stanchion area and in front of each animal, a buck of candy or small toys allows the kids to trick or treat from each animal. New episodes are released every Monday after the newspaper is published, sharing the many conversations from the dairy community! Send story ideas and your comments to [email protected]. Subscribe to the podcast for reminders of episodes - next episode is released November 24 - about the dairy community and leave a review! We look forward to bringing you this brand new way to consume the Dairy Star. This is Dairy Delivery. All dairy, all the time. This episode is sponsored by FarmFirst Dairy Cooperative.