| Johnston Dairy Farm future home of Newborn Milk Company |
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Johnston Dairy Farm is planning to bottle its own milk and dairy products. We plan to offer whole milk, butter milk, cream, and butter. Our prices will be very competitive to your local grocery store. Our products will be available through our farm store, Hunker Downs in Madison, and other local markets. The following information is about our farm and our production methods in the hopes that you might be interested in using our dairy products in your home. We produce all natural milk: • Hormones- No added hormones. We never use rBST or any other growth hormones. We feel the cows produce all of the hormones that they were intended to. • Antibiotics- We also only use antibiotics in cases where the cow's life is in danger. Then the milk from that cow is dumped until no trace of the antibiotic can be found in the milk. We test the milk from any treated cow with a test that can detect antibiotics down to 10 parts per billion. Only after the milk passes that test, do we put that milk back into the tank. • Feed- Cows were designed to eat grass. We let them. We let our cows graze as much as possible and in times of drought or tight forage supplies we supplement with Rye grass silage. We have a nutritionist, Holly T. Ballantine, PhD., that comes out to our farm once a month and samples our forages and formulates a grain mix that complements the forages to make sure their diet is balanced. She balances for 43 different nutrients in their diet. How many of us can say we have a personal nutritionist? • Cow comfort- Our cows live in the pasture except for one and a half hours each morning and night when they are being milked. Just as they were designed to eat grass, they were not designed to live in a confined environment 24 hours a day. We invite you to come out to our farm and see how our beautiful girls live and work. We think you will be surprised to learn how they live and what is involved in producing milk. |
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