New Livestock
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ly the size of our current bull
barn,” he said. “Not to mention
the 100 feet by 200 feet gravel
lots with mounds.
“Relatively speaking, these
pens could hold a lot more beef
cattle than the 30 bulls we are
projecting for each pen.”
Bull test capability will in
crease from 76 to approximately
150 bulls, boars from 60 to 144
boars, and rams from 80 to 300
rams.
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The new $6.4 million center is 10 times larger than the current facility
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from California, about six hours
away. “Experts think of us as a
part of California,” Thompson
said.
The Stotz vision: “Holsteins
between the cacti,” Thompson
noted.
This past week, the tempera
ture stood at 86 degrees. “For
eight months out of the year, we
have gorgeous weather,” he said.
But in the summertime, tempera
tures can rise to 125 degrees.
Average rainfall in Arizona is
six inches per year. The state has
experienced a four-year drought.
“We had five inches in February
this year,” he said. One storm re
corded 2.25 inches of rainfall in
February.
Arizona has 13S dairy opera
tions with an average herd size of
1,030 cows. That qualifies them
as number one in the nation in
herd size, noted Thompson.
In 2001, Arizona was sixth in
the nation in production per cow,
with an average of 20,679 pounds
of milk per cow per year. Ninety
percent of the dairy producers
are members of the United
Dairymen of Arizona. The coop
erative, growing at rate of 5 per
cent each year, operates a quota
program, which encourages
members to adjust production to
market needs.
The operations produce more
than 3 billion pounds of milk per
year, the majority of Arizona’s
fresh milk and dairy product
needs, including much of the
hard cheese and butter demands,
and some cultured dairy prod
ucts. Holsteins make up 91 per
cent of the state herds, with the
rest predominately Jerseys. The
remainder are Brown Swiss,
Guernseys, and Milking Short
horn. Eight percent of the cows
in the state are registered.
Also at the conference, Tom
Shephard,
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about the role the business plays
in economic development.
Shephard noted that the
“2-In-10” Rule applies to busi
nesses such as dairying. He noted
that out of 10 years, two will have
significant profits, two will have
some growth, four will hold their
own, and two have potential
losses.
He explained ways in which
farmers can work together in
ways to secure capital needs for
expansion. Even a brand-new
dairy, looking at a 600-cow herd
size, will invest about $l.l million
in cattle and equipment and $2.2
in a facility. That $3.3 million
will require equity of about $1.4
million to get started. “It’s a
tough nut to crack,” said Shep
hard.
Jim Vincent, president of L-
Brooke Farms, Inc., Byron, N.Y.,
spoke about his 7,000-acre west
ern New York operation, includ
ing 450 fields and 12 full-time
employees, a business with four
partners.
Vincent spoke about the
strengths to be found in part
nering and working together to
ensure the viability of agriculture.
The farm includes 2,500 acres of
process beets, carrots, sweet corn,
and other crops. In addition, they
grow 800 acres of wheat, 2,200
acres of corn, 1,000 acres of alfal
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Vincent spoke about the need
for proper formal buyer-seller ar
rangements in the partnering,
limited liability corporations, and
how he helped devise “unconven
tional, creative ways to finance a
2,500-cow dairy using our model
ing techniques,” he said.
Also, when forming a business
arrangement, have an exit strate
gy prepared from the beginning.
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