Michael Gross

“I am the feeder for all the dairy cows. I work with a nutritionist to work out the feed and all the specs. I put alfalfa, cotton seed, canola, corn and molasses. Then I mix in the forage like haylage, triticale and corn silage. That will be mixed right before I feed, so it doesn’t get hot. I feed twice a day. This big blue mixer has a digital scale so I can put 600 pounds hay and then reset it and put in 2,400 pounds of the batch that I mixed earlier. I reset it each time I add something. That batch is for the milkers, I have different mixes for the fresh cows, dry cows, heifers and steers. So there are 5 different batches. When I am not working I like to hunt coyotes in the winter. One year I sold about 15 pelts. I also archery hunt deer and do a little fishing for bass and walleye.”

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