My Many Mugs of Moos

I just finished a small brochure for our farm to hand out on our farm tours. I thought you might be interested in a few snipets I included.

Farm Facts for 2011:


Total number of cows:1500

Number of milking cows: 700

Bulk Tanks (milk tank) capacity: 4,000 gallons and 2,000 gallons – picked up daily
A gallon weighs 8.35 pounds.

Number of calves: 953 with 67 sets of twins.


Average # of cows’hooves trimmed a month: 120 cows times 4 = 480 hooves

Number of cows sold:320


Gallons of manure in the slurry store: 1.3 million gallons and 2.3 million

Average pounds of manure created per cow per day: 60 pounds

Acres of corn: 650 – every ear of corn has an even number of rows.
Also, 1 square mile is 640 acres.


Acres of hay: 425

Number of Harvestores (blue silos): 14 – Our three tallest Harvestores are 110 ft. Each weighs 74,000 lbs., has 22 rings, 198 sheets, 17,000 bolts and was constructed by a 7 man crew.

Number of employees: 17 full time, 2 - ? part-time depending on time of year

Number of cats: too many

Number of flies: you don’t want to know

And I wanted to share with you some of my BEBs. Like people we look similar, yet we are unique.

So here are my Many Mugs of My Moos!