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unusual facts about dairy farm



Isaac Balsam

Isaac Balsam (1880–1945) started the first Chalav Yisrael dairy farm on the East Coast, and possibly in the United States.

The Moo Man

The Moo Man is a 2012 British documentary film, directed by Andy Heathcote, about an organic dairy farm in Sussex, England.


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1900 College Football All-America Team

William Fincke, a quarterback for Yale who later became a pacifist minister and educator and founded the Manumit School on his dairy farm in Pawling, New York.

David Kent Winder

Winder was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to a locally prominent family, whose main business was a large dairy farm (Winder Farms).

Don Valley, Victoria

A well known farm on Don Valley is Haining Farm, a 65-hectare cattle and dairy farm with Jersey and Friesian cows and other farm animals, located at the entrance of Don River into the Yarra River.

Earl Schmidt

Earl Schmidt was born November 27, 1929 to Phillip and Emma Schmidt on a dairy farm in Cologne, Minnesota.

Edge Hill State School

"In the dry weather a lone Jabiru came yearly to stand motionless for hours in the lower paddock. Snakes including death adders were plentiful. A dairy farm adjoined the school. The cows in search of pasture, made tracks along the school's fence. At certain times of the year the areas where cows had been, produced enormous crops of delicious mushrooms"

Eileen Naseby

The biography tells the compelling story of her escape from the Nazi regime, her closseted upbringing in Palestine, her love affairs with the adventurer and writer Laurens van der Post and others, and her eventual emigration with the baby Eileen and her new husband Nigel - a gentle idealist - to an outback Queensland dairy farm.

Giovanni Bonventre

That same year, Bonanno and Bonventre purchased a dairy farm near Middletown, New York in the Catskill Mountains.

Heide Circle

The Heide Circle was a loose grouping of Australian artists who lived and worked at "Heide", a former dairy farm on the Yarra River floodplain at Bulleen, a suburb of Melbourne, counting amongst their number many of Australia's best-known modernist painters.

Howard Gimbel

The son of Jacob and Ruth Gimbel, he grew up along with five siblings on a grain and dairy farm east of Calgary near the small town of Beiseker.

Jason Eaton

Though born in Palmerston North he grew up on a dairy farm near the small community of Colyton.

Lady Eve Balfour

She then started a series of lectures and talks based around farmers markets and cattle sales, often joined in Wales by Dinah Williams, who founded the first organic dairy farm that today is the feed farm for Rachel's Organic dairy produce.

Liz Pike

Liz Pike was born on January 7, 1960, and raised on a Brush Prairie, Washington dairy farm as one of 13 children.

Mike Greenberg

Greenberg received advice about milking a cow from ESPN baseball analyst Buster Olney, who grew up on a dairy farm.

Philip Hodgins

Philip Hodgins was born in Shepparton, Victoria, in 1959 and spent his childhood on his parents' dairy farm at nearby Katandra West.

Santa Fe, Texas

Country music star Johnny Lee, best known for his 1980 hit "Lookin' for Love," was raised on a dairy farm in Santa Fe (then part of the unincorporated town of Alta Loma) and graduated from Santa Fe High School in 1964.

Sunday Reed

In 1934, the Reeds purchased a former dairy farm on the Yarra River at Bulleen, a suburb of Melbourne, which became known as Heide.