Pasture Walk with Dr. Guy Jodarski at Moore Farms

Pasture Walk with Dr. Guy Jodarski at Moore Farms Dr. Guy Jodarski (B.S. Biology, University of Wisconsin-River Falls D.V.M. University of Wisconsin-Madison)

In practice since 1987, Dr. Jodarski was an owner/partner in a central Wisconsin large animal practice for 12 years. He then was a consultant for an international cattle breeding company and later worked as a staff veterinarian for two companies that supply nutritional supplements and livestock health aids for organic and sustainable farmers. He joined CROPP Cooperative in 2007, where in addition to consulting with Organic Valley's

1,300 livestock member farmers across the United States, Jodarski trains field personnel, attends regional educational meetings and gives presentations on how to keep food animals healthy without the use of antibiotics, synthetic hormones and chemicals. 

Moore Farms / Rob & Pam Moore

Certified organic and no-grain since 1996, this seasonal dairy outwinters, mob grazes, and has been raising dairy replacements on cows for 11 years. Cattle are milked in a New Zealand style swing 10 parlor housed in an open-sided greenhouse-style building. The breeding program focuses on bringing New Zealand Friesan, Jersey and polled genetics into the crossbred herd.

Rob began grazing in 1986 with his previous herd of fancy registered Holsteins.  He started practicing Holistic Management Planned Grazing in 2006, and will share changes to his pasture and cattle management influenced by HM farmer/educators Abe Collins of Vermont and Ian Mitchell-Innes of South Africa.