A2o>LancMtw Fuming. Saturday, Dacambar 11, 1993
Dairy Princess
(Continued from Pago A 1)
that is made up of five farms. They
milk 117 head of the 260 Holsteins
raised.
Both Jennifer and her 21-year
old brother have strong feelings
about how the farm should be run.
Jonathan, who said that he started
working in the bam as soon as he
could crawl, is a senior at Dela
ware Valley College, where he stu
dies ag business. He comes home
every weekend, and after gradua
tion, plans to return full lime to the
family farm.
“He has quite a few ideas to get
bigger, if he could just come up
with the money,” Ken said of his
Oreo Cookie Dessert Is one of Jennifer's favorite dishes
that she serves to guests to show them how great tasting
dairy products are when used in desserts.
son’s plans.
According to Ken, the older you
get, the more conservative you
become. Over the years, Ken said
that he learned to be cautious when
incorporating new ideas because
not everything worked like it was
expected to work.
On the other hand, Ken believes
in being open to new ideas.
“We don’t jump right on the
band wagon whenever something
new comes down the road, but
neither ait we the last people to try
something different,” he said.
His rule of thumb is to research
and look at an idea at least four
times before implementing it.
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Jennifer serves milk to her parents and brother. She adamantly insists that farmers
should be proud of their product and drink milk at public functions. “It doesn’t cost
anything to set a good example,” she said.
One of the biggest mistakes,
they family said, was putting a
scraper in a freestall bam
“Dad needed to stand on it to
make it run, and we children
turned the switch on and off. If it
went crooked and it always did
it was our fault,” Jennifer said.
Eventually, the Grimes discov
ered that the problem was that
there was more manure built up
than expected. Because baled hay
was fed to the heifers, it clogged up
the system.
After two years of frustration.
Grimes ripped it out and put in a
bedded pack.
About two-thirds of the
260-head herd are registered.
“Registration doesn’t put more
This spot on the Grimes’ farm offers a respite from work
for Jennifer and her St. Bernard.