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Follow organic dairy farmer Jonathan Gates as he reports weekly from his Vermont family farm. Howmars Farm is a certified organic dairy farm, one of many Organic Valley/CROPP Cooperative farmer members who supply the milk that goes into making Stonyfield's yogurts and smoothies. The entire family pitches in on this third-generation farm. Check out some of the happenings on his farm and post your comments. Jonathan loves to get feedback from readers. welcome to
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This video is Part II of "Girls Gone Wild," farmer Jonathan's video of the day recently where his pastures were finally ready and the herd was let out to graze.
Like little kids, the cows at Howmars Farm like to play in the dirt, especially after a winter of being confined to the barnyard. Once they got let out onto the pastures they all discovered the dirt pile---even using it to provide a little snack. One wonders if they had little plastic pails and shovels they wouldn't start building sand castles or something!
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I have an idea about cow gas. If you had the herd in a domed building when most of the gas occured you should be able to capture the methane and use it for fuel or elecricity? Let me know what you think. Perhaps a covered football field type thing.JS
Posted by: jshaw | June 21, 2009 at 09:09 AM