Randy and Peggy Norman Cass County, Minnesota The Crookston Times ran a short article about a court case that awarded $6.3 million to a couple whose milk cows were injured or killed by stray voltage on their dairy farm from a Brainerd utility company. The judge awarded the damages to Randy and Peggy Norman of Pine River after finding Crow Wing Power was negligent in the delivery of electricity to the farm. Click here to read the Crookston Times article.
Cottonwood Ridge Dairy
Garretson, South Dakota
KSFY Television covered an 11-member Japanese trade team’s visit to South Dakota agriculture businesses. One stop on their tour was Cottonwood Ridge Dairy in Garretson. Monica Nussbaum, the dairy’s co-owner, said she loves having groups tour the farm. She likes the feedback and suggestions given by the groups.
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Richman Farms
Medina County, Ohio
The Medina County Gazette gave a nod to the Indoe family’s Richman Farms, a 700-acre dairy and grain farm near Lodi, for hosting a fall foliage tour.
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Michael B. Kiechle and Ronald C. Robbins
Jefferson County, New York
Local dairy producers were interviewed for a lengthy story in the Watertown Daily Times titled “Dairy industry losing ‘war’ as milk consumption falls.”
Town of Philadelphia dairy farmer Michael B. Kiechle, who operates a 200-cow farm, said he would consider contributing more money toward checkoff programs, with the goal of increasing milk consumption.
In contrast, Sackets Harbor dairy farmer Ronald C. Robbins opposes contributing more toward checkoff programs. Robbins, who owns a 900-cow operation, contends the decline in fluid milk consumption cannot be reversed and told the reporter that “the train has left the station as far as fluid milk goes, and I don’t know that we’ll ever regain the market share we’ve had.”
