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NMPF’s Chairman Mooney Spotlights Dairy Leadership

The dairy sector has benefited from strong leadership, as farmers work together to meet today’s challenges, National Milk Producers Federation Chairman Randy Mooney said in a Dairy Defined podcast.

A new farm bill, a national hearing on modernizing the Federal Milk Marketing Order system, and ongoing challenges in sustainability and risk management have challenged dairy farmers, Mooney said in the podcast, taken from his remarks at the organization’s annual meeting in Orlando on Tuesday. Farmers have responded with their trademark resilience, uniting to advance their industry, he said.

“This year we came together as an industry to unite around a number of issues that helped build that resiliency.

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We've been using our pigs as little bulldozers in our pasture; letting them root, rip, and till anything in their way. Well they've done the job where they're at and today we're putting them on fresh pasture.

Not only are they moving to the 3rd paddock in our roughly 1 acre pig setup, but we're running them on a completely different fence setup as we've been expanding along into our outer most part of the sheep pasture.

Lastly, we'll be discussing our future thoughts on our AGH/Hampshire cross. Not sure the direction we're headed with them as we love working with them but just aren't quite sure on the end product as we head into the last half of our 2nd season with them.