Chase's Organic Dairy - Farm Blog

A group of home-school students recently visited Chase’s Organic Dairy Farm in Mapleton to learn all about dairy cows, milk and organic farming. A great time was had by all!  Click here to view more field trip photos.

Farmers start early and work late many days, but yesterday was an especially late night.  Ice Cream was overdue with her first calf and had been uncomfortable and treading much of the day.  We kept a close eye on her and were disappointed not to see any signs of her labor progressing normally.  Vaughn, knowing [...]

The cold days of January are upon us, and the busiest place on the farms these days is inside the barn.
Click here to view more photos of what’s happening in the barn during the winter months.

Well, the days are getting colder.  Soon we will have to “tie up” but we are trying to keep the cows out as long as the weather permits.  After the record snowfall on October 22nd, we’ve had many decent days with temps in the forties and occasionally even in the fifties.  There’s not much grass [...]

The cows aren’t overly impressed with yesterday’s storm, which left 6 inches of the white stuff at the official weather station in Caribou, breaking a record. There won’t be much grazing happening today, but there is plenty to eat in the hay rings and they will get exercise and fresh air.
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Ready or not, a little snow arrived today.  The cows are still outside for the most part, and we hope to be able to keep them going out for a while longer.  They are feeding mostly from alfalfa haylage in rings in the pasture, but there are still some die-hard grazers who are still feeding [...]

After 19 years of heavy work, the metal in our old gutter chain was wearing dangerously thin in places.  We ordered a new one from Ingraham Equipment over the summer and it recently arrived.   We installed it during harvest break, when our nephews Chase and Hunter were available to help.   It took 3 hours from [...]

I was headed to the barn with coffee this afternoon and took a moment to snap a pic of our haylage bales.   What a lot of work that group of bales represents!   They are stacked two high.   We are feeding them in hay rings outside for now.  When its gets colder, we’ll unroll them in [...]