Farm Tour

Holmes County, where we live, hosted a Farm Tour on Saturday, August 23, 2008. There were 10 stops throughout the southwestern part of the county. They included in part a nursery, bee hives, llamas and alpacas, a vineyard, FFA displays at the high school, and one of the most interesting was a dairy farm. Some of the scenes of this Jersey cow dairy are shown in the subsequent pictures. The dairy farm is currently milking 360 cows, twice each day. Because of the higher butter fat from Jersey cows, a pound of their milk produces about 30% more cheese than a pound of milk from Holstein cows.