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Earlier this summer, dairy breeders gathered for their respective annual meetings and conventions. See some of the highlights from the Holstein, Jersey, Brown Swiss, Red and White, Guernsey and Milking Shorthorn conventions, including association news, award winners and youth recognized for excellence.

For T&K Red River Dairy in Stanfield, Arizona, raising calves comes with its fair share of challenges. To help mitigate this, farm co-owner Tim Dugan chooses to focus on minimizing stress and maximizing nutrition to raise healthy, productive replacement heifers for the 13,000-cow dairy he owns and manages with his father, Tom Dugan Sr., and brothers, Tom Dugan Jr. and Tony Dugan.

At the same time a new Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) processing facility was being built near the farm, the Perazzo Brothers Dairy in Fallon, Nevada, began expanding its herd and building a new double-30 milking parlor. When the family made the move to their new milking facility, they also decided to add a farm museum that looks down over the parlor.

Daryl and Brenda Sternweis of D&B Sternweis Farms in Marshfield, Wisconsin, are co-hosting Wisconsin Farm Technology Days with their neighbors and long-time friends, the Heiman family.

Reinford Farms in Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, was one of the recipients of the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy’s seventh annual U.S. Dairy Sustainability Awards. (Learn more about the award winners.)