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No “Off Season” for Farmers

Source: Morning Ag Clips

Source: Morning Ag Clips

Here in Wisconsin it is easy to drive through the countryside during the winter and not think too much about the busy days that are whirling by on the many farms dotting the landscape. Perhaps because everything is covered in a seemingly peaceful, uniform blanket of white, or maybe because you’re simply too busy praying to make it through another white-knuckled ride across slippery roads and highways, one can tend to be focused on other things.

The fact of the matter though, is that underneath the peaceful veil of winter lives a flurry (pun completely intended) of activity on the farm, ensuring that there is always food waiting at our next stop on our journey, or waiting for us when we get back home. Though crops may not be in the ground or herds out in the fields munching on fresh grass, farming is an all-seasons activity.

With this in mind, Nelson-Jameson will be putting a few miles on the roads this winter, getting to a variety of farm-related shows, meetings, and conferences in the coming months. If we are in your neck of the woods, please be sure to stop by and see us to discuss your farm-related needs…for all seasons! Or be in touch and let us know what we can do for you!

February 13 & 14     FarmFirst Annual Meeting – Appleton, WI
February 18 & 19     Central Wisconsin Farm Show – Marshfield, WI
March 16 – 18     DFA Annual Meeting – Kansas City, MO (DSM booth)
March 18 & 19     Professional Dairy Producers of WI (PDPW) – Madison, WI
March 25 & 26     Central Plains Dairy Expo – Sioux Falls, SD

For more information all events, see our Events page.

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In Support of Animal Well-Being

Source: National Milk Producers Federation

Source: National Milk Producers Federation

Instances of animal abuse that have recently surfaced in the media and online are of concern for the general public and the food industry alike. Nelson-Jameson whole-heartedly believes in protecting and ensuring the proper care of animals on the farm. For this reason, we want to express our support and provide information for our customers, suppliers, and other interested parties on programs like the National Milk Producers Federation’s National Dairy “FARM Program.”

To learn more about the FARM program, please click here to see the “Overview and FAQs.”
Like you, our valued customer, Nelson-Jameson’s commitment to a safe, ethically-sound food industry, from the farm to the table, is an on-going one that is a core tenet of how we do business.
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Wisconsin Farm Technology Days

portage_county_event_imgThe Wisconsin Farm Technology Days is the largest agricultural show in Wisconsin and one of the largest in the nation. The three-day outdoor event showcases the latest improvements in production agriculture, including many practical applications of recent research findings and technological developments. Each year, it is held in a different Wisconsin county – on a different host family farm.

 

Portage County is excited to be hosting the 2014 Farm Technology Days! Portage County has diverse agriculture which provides 5,600 jobs, about thirteen percent of the county’s workforce and contributes $1.11 billion in economic activity, more than eighteen percent of the county’s economic activity.

 

For more information: https://portagecountyfarmtech.com/

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Product Focus: UDY Protein Analyzer

calfOn the blog, we have dealt with the topic of protein numerous times. Why? Well, protein is on our customers’ minds. This nutritional focal point is not only about our diets; it is also about the food production processes that bring these products to our plates.

For example, farmers want to make sure that their livestock is getting the best nutrition available. The proper nutrition of animals not only assists in their well-being, but also helps to create quality food end-products. Protein, as it is for humans, is an essential in animal diets and in the growth and maintenance of livestock, including in the feeding/raising of calves.

That is one of the reasons that our Lab area features the UDY Protein Analyzer, a tool used by many feed operations and farms. The UDY measures protein using Acid Orange Dye.   It also differentiates between non-protein nitrogen, vestigial pieces of intact protein molecules, and functional proteins. Instead of measuring via digestion methods based on nitrogen, the technology is based on functional binding sites of amino acids lysine, histidine, and arginine, considered essential amino acids in the diet of the non-ruminant calf.

An exclusive to Nelson-Jameson, the UDY is aimed at farmers and small businesses where on-site testing is ideal. Are you interested in getting your hands on this “hands-on approach”? You can check out the UDY Protein Analyzer on our website.  For further information, contact our Laboratory Products Department at 800-826-8302.

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A Labor of Love

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Source: ABC News

One of my favorite parts of my job is when I get to either talk to customers face to face or on the phone. I like to find out who they are and what they do. Farmers, for example, are just a rare bunch of people that amaze me.

Do you all remember one of the most memorable commercials of the 2013 Super Bowl? The Dodge Ram Truck commercial with the voice of Paul Harvey, a speech that was delivered to the National Future Farmers of America Convention in 1978, he says:

“And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, ‘I need a caretaker.’ So God made a Farmer. God said, ‘I need somebody will to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper and then go to town and stay past midnight to a meeting of the school board.’ So God made a farmer.”

Farmers and traditions, they go hand in hand. Many farms are handed down from generation to generation. I’m sure Nelson-Jameson, Inc. has seen that throughout the years. Farmers…..dairy, nut, sheep, goat farmers, take your pick. It’s possible that we here at Nelson-Jameson, Inc. have done business with just about all the different types of farmers you can think of. We’d probably starve without our beloved farmers.

Farming is seven days a week with little time to rest. They work hard, harder than most people in the world. In fact, they feed the world. They work harder to make our lives easier. Farmers help to create jobs for our world. Without farmers, there wouldn’t be processing plants to take what the farmers have produced and to package them. There wouldn’t be truck drivers to deliver the food to the supermarkets. No checkers or bag boys to sell or help carry your food to your car. So why do they do it? Why work so hard for people they don’t know? I think Paul Harvey said it best:

“Somebody who’d bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh and then sigh, and then reply, with smiling eyes, when his son says he wants to spend his life ‘doing what dad does.’” So God made a farmer. “To the Farmer in all of us.”

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