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Rempe Dairy Farm Builds Grade A Milk Thriving After Storm
The 1963 storm toppled the Rempe barn near Leighton Iowa, prompting Jerry Rempe to upgrade to a Grade A milking parlor. The 52 Holstein cows are milked twice daily and milk is machine-pumped to a cooling tank for Mid-America Co-op transport to Sully and then mostly to St. Louis. The family, including seven children, maintains precise records through the Dairy Herd Improvement Association, with a rolling 305 day yield of 14,700 pounds of milk and 533 pounds of butterfat, and culls underperforming cows to stay profitable.
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Jerry Rempe
Jerry
City of
Des Moines
Mid- America
Mr. Rempe
Leighton Area
Pella
Central College
Iowa State
Rempe
Ashton
Iowa
Pella High School
Dairy Herd Improvement Association