SUNY Cobleskill Dairy Farm

What an amazing girl to be producing that much milk! The power of genetics, great feed and even better management make powerhouse cows. And she's over 9 years old! Congrats to Gogi and her owners, the Behnke family of Bur-Wall Holsteins in Brooklyn, Wisconsin. Check out the article on this historic event from Farm and Dairy. http://www.farmanddairy.com//holstein-sets-new/311308.html

Today, we celebrate! Steve Wilson, Market Manager for Market 11 of Dairy One presented Randy Meka and the SUNY Cobleskill Dairy Team with a plaque for 1st place in Fat Production for New York State in 2014. Congratulations to our herd girls and our wonderful workers who make this possible!

Very proud for two of our cows to receive Elite Performer Honors! They must classify 85 points or better, complete 3 lactations and have milk production in the top 1% of cows. Scoop, VG87 is a nationally recognized and Afon VG86 is a regional designee. Scoop has averaged 104.4 pounds of milk per day in her 3 complete lactations and Afon has averaged 105.8 pounds in her 3 lactations. It's a pleasure having these cows in our herd and amazing to have them perform at this level considering that they are milked and cared for by our many students every day.

An update on our first lactation Montbeliarde X Holstein cross. At 104 days in milk she gave 95 pounds of milk that tested 3.4%f and 2.8%p with a SCC of 47,000. Her projected ME lactation is over 28,000. Plus she bred right back and is confirmed pregnant to a Swedish Red service sire.

Twins Question Mark and Exclamation Point enjoying the beautiful weather during finals week.

Pleased to also report another New York State production leader record completed by one of our Holstein cows. Cobleskill Carson Mia 1309 has been recognized as First Place Fat record for Junior 3 year old cows that are milked 3X. Her record is 3-4 305 days 33,060 lbs milk 5.7%fat 1874 lbs fat 3.0%protein 977 lbs protein. congratulations to Herd Manager Randy Meka, the entire farm staff and students that work with and care for our herd!

A couple new March calves. First a Colt-P-Red from a Paxton 2 yr old and a Maui from a Rebellion (and a granddaughter of Rose)

This polled Golden PP summer yearling from a Barbwire from Cherry Coke is our consignment to the 2015 Dairy Fashions Sale. Bid last of her to add some polled red genetics to your herd.

One more New York production record to post; Cobleskill Bebe's record of 4-3 3X 365d 37,190 5.3%f 1973f 3.3%p 1214p ranks her Second fat in NY as a Jr 4 year old. Bebe is a Bolton daughter.

Also looking forward to calves from a Brown Swiss and an Ayrshire that are due soon that will accompany these nice Apple Crisp twin heifer calves.

So we didn't get a heifer calf but this Swedish Red bull calf is huge and looks cool :)

This should be interesting...our Montbeliard x Holstein cross in the freshening pen, due in 2 days to a Swedish Red sire

We've gone quite a while without getting any Ayrshire heifer calves; so we are very pleased with this January Bradock calf from Jayla. Jayla was a second place yearling at the NY Spring show. Hopefully Jayla and her calf can get out to the shows this summer!