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GRAZING CENTER

Green pastures canvassing rolling hillsides set the scene for the Dairy Foundation’s Grazing Center. Here, a herd of 75 cows rotationally grazes paddocks of grasses to provide the bulk of their diet during warm weather months.

These cows are milked in a renovated barn designed to demonstrate a low-investment modernization for dairy farmers. The facility had formerly been NICC’s tie-stall barn, but it was reinvented as a swing-style milking parlor in 2005.