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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1978
Page
3
The Country Today continues its Cream of the Crop series with reports on repeaters in milk and butterfat production. This week profiles three farmers who produced at least 20,000 pounds of milk in the last year and led their counties both this year and last, per the state DHIA directory.
Centuria dairy family Gene and Earlene Peper, once highlighted as Polk County's top butterfat producer with Bob Behling, now target 800 pounds of butterfat per cow and have joined west central Wisconsin's 20 000 pound club with a 1978 DHIA production of 20 215 pounds.
The Back and Peper families, noted for pushing past 20 000 pounds of milk, share strategies and changes in feed, housing, and management. Fred Back rejects costly feeds in favor of homegrown bulls and high quality forage while the Peper operation trims baled hay and tests new barn setups and hormones to improve milk yield and fat. The twins and spouses run diversified income streams, including grain, custom work, and breeding stock, aiming for higher all registered herd output.
Bud and Betty Karastes sold their 39 year dairy herd near New Richmond after reaching a 20,756 pounds milk mean and 792 pounds fat, ranking second in west central Wisconsin and top in St. Croix County. They plan to switch to beef cattle while evaluating their 30 young stock and 17 feeder pigs, hoping replacements sustain the farm.
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