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John Hess takes a couple half-gallons of ice cream he has
made from the storage freezer to stock the freezer in the Pine
View Acres dairy store.
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concentrate and high moisture
ground ear corn, according to the
individual cow’s requirements.
Installed and maintained by West
Willow Farmers Association, daily
rations can be adjusted on the
system at a computer terminal in
the farm office. Adjustments are
made weekly for level of
production and stage of lactation.
For roughage individuals in the
milking string receive an average
of 55 pounds of corn silage and
ryelage daily and five pounds of
hay.
All this good feeding provides
John, who specializes in
processing, With plenty of work.
“I do most of the processing,”
John said. “Larry does most of the
herd work, and we both do the field
work. I really like the variety.
Your not always working at the
same thing.”
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To keep overhead low, used
processing equipment was pur
chased when possible, and family
labor is relied on to get the
majority of the work done. At fink
John, Larry and his wife, Janet did
all the work. Janet did all the
record keeping and worked in the
store. Due to increased patronage,
Janet now has help m the store and
Larry has a hired herdsman.
With the capability to process 400
gallons of milk per hour, John is
still able to do all the processing
himself. John processes milk four
times a week in order to give
customers the freshest farm milk
around.
A fresh approach is also taken in
packaging. Pine View Acres milk
is marketed in a pitcher-pack. The
milk is sealed in half-gallon plastic
bags, which fit neatly in a plastic
pitcher. The pitcher costs 79 cents
and can be used repeatedly by the
customer. When John and Larry
decided on the pitcher-pack, they
were sure if there would be a
problem of consumer acceptence.
But goods sales proved their fears
unfounded. The ingenious system
helps guards the quality of the milk
better than some conventional
packages because it allows air to
be excluded from the opened bag
and resealed.
John makes whole milk, skim
milk, low tat milk and chocolate
milk. The milkfat removed to
make low tat and skim milk is
added to the whole milk to give it a
richer flavor. In the summer John
also makes 300 gallons of ice
cream, in the winter he makes
about half that amount. Fruit
drinks are made year, and
Christmas and Easter he makes
eggnog. Yum!
Everyone puts their heads
together when it comes to,sales
and promotion. A slump in sales
after the Christmas holidays
resulted in a rather inventive sales
scheme. Pine View Acres offered
customers a January White Sale,
that gave them 10 cents off the
price of a gallon of milk.
Calfs housed in hutches near the
store are a big hit with kids of all
ages, says Larry. Picnic tables for
the customers are located along
side of the store. Large glass
This computerized feeder mixes two concentrates ac
cording to the individual cow's nutrient requirements.
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windows on the front of the milking
parlor and the side of the
processing room allow customers
to see how the milk goes from cow
to consumer. This good layout and
customer relations heightens the
farm fresh flavor of their products
and enables the Hesses to draw
customers who may have to drive
past one or two convenience
markets to get to Pine View Acres.
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