The aim of two South Dakota brothers is not to have the biggest dairy, but to milk the best cows possible and to shed light on dairy farming for the public. Doug and Greg Ode developed their passion for dairying from the generations that preceded them, giving attention to public outreach. Doug Ode tells Brownfield the risks of spreading covid-19 prevented them from hosting their usual June Month breakfasts this year.
“The number of people that we’re getting every year, the new faces all the time that come out, this might be like the first time that they’ve been on a farm, and literally a dairy farm,” Doug Ode told Brownfield Ag News, “so it’s quite educational for them.”
Greg Ode says he’s satisfied milking 400 cows instead of growing his milking herd to 1,200 or 1,500 head, and is particularly thrilled to raise dairy animals from birth.
