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Decisive shift from Wisconsin to dairy cows
The popular identity of Wisconsin owes a great deal to cows, their milk and their culinary products like cheese and cheese. ice cream. But how has the dairy industry influenced the culture of the state more in terms of agricultural and environmental values?
In the early years of Wisconsin, farmers worked directly on the soil, growing enough wheat. civil war. The work of the first dairy farmers was fundamentally different because they were concerned about living creatures.
The responsibilities badociated with breeding are the very reason for the success of the dairy industry, says author Ed Janus in his 2011 book Dairy Land Creation: How Cows did Wisconsin . In other words, the success of a dairy farm depended and still depends on how cows are treated. He discussed this and other factors that contributed to the state's contemporary dairy industry in a lecture recorded on August 17, 2011 for the Wisconsin Public Television Public Square ]. contentment, "said Janus." They were trying to get the farmers … to sell the cow to give a sort of spiritual aspect to life. "
Once the Wisconsin farmers have began to embrace the dairy at the end of the 19th century, they began to improve their lives, says Janus.The nature of the dairy industry required the farmers to take care of their animals, but it also allowed scientific measures to How and why some cows were healthy and producing well Dairy farmers measured the productivity of each cow using the Babbad test, which allowed them to better control their success, Janus said. this control has allowed farmers to improve their own lives and well-being.
"I like to say that it's a revolution in rural history," Janus said. … "The expensive dairy movement Chait to grow farmers In the early days of the state dairy industry in the late nineteenth century, farmers began to badume greater moral responsibility – a way of thinking that many farmers continue d & # 39; incarnate.
"Our farmers in Wisconsin are dedicated to providing protein to the world and I want to say that compbadion has become the new moral for farmers," said Janus, noting that many people around the world have struggled to feed himself
. Farmers in Wisconsin have begun to take on this larger mission; advocates have sought to regulate the dairy industry in terms of health and safety for milk consumers. At the same time, the leaders of the progressive movement have sought to improve the lives of those who produce food. For them, it is precisely the rhythms of dairy farming that make the case.
"A comfortable cow was good for business, a comfortable cow was good for the soul."
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Highlights
- The Wisconsin dairy industry quickly emerged between 1880 and 1920. By 1927, milk accounted for half of Wisconsin's farm income
- . In the late nineteenth century, milk was one of the most dangerous. food on land due to lack of refrigeration and the cost of having clean and certified milk. With the increasing adoption of pasteurization in the 20th century, milk spoiled more slowly and became less likely to make people sick.
- The invention of the silo was transformational in the first dairy industry, because it allowed the cows to be fed. produce milk all year round, instead of only in the spring, summer and autumn. Silos extended the supply and production of cows throughout the winter and created the cycle of the dairy industry all year
- William Dempster Hoard, who was governor of Wisconsin from 1889-1893, was often called the "governor of cows". It sought to educate dairy farmers and encouraged them to use new technologies and rigorous measures in their industry, rather than simply relying on their instincts and habits.
- In 1900, a cow produced about 4,000 pounds of milk a year. At the beginning of the 21st century, a cow can produce up to 30,000 pounds of milk a year.
Key Quotes
- On the origins of the dairy industry based on the idea of looking towards the future: "She repudiates a European past and He created an American agriculture and, at In some ways, he has created a predominantly Wisconsinan agriculture. "
- On Soil Exploitation of the First Wheat Cultivation:" What Happens With Wheat? We Ship It in England we send all the nutrients there, nothing is put back in the ground, and people soon realize that we are exploiting the soil, they call it, we exploit it. "
- learn how to Take care of a dairy cow: "I like to say that calves are the spiritual and economic foundation of milk production, and that it falls on all dairy farms in Wisconsin, probably on all dairy farms in the world." world.And this is really the foundati on.This support, learn to care very young of another living being depended on the dairy program.
- About dairy cows: "In the 160 years since dairy cows began to reshape the landscape, the economy, moral ethics and way of life, many thousands of men and women women were introduced to a kind of faith, the faith that the care of the cow and the soil would bring them prosperity, even happiness. "
- On the development of the cheese industry because of the use of silos and the dairy nature all year round:" Having a cheese industry made all the difference. to put money in the pockets of the farmers, turning them completely into dairies. "
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