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Ellerton View Farm Recognized for 75-Year Membership with MDVA
Maynard Grossnickle can remember when his father bought Ellerton View Farm when he was six years old. Now, he’s a member of the second generation joining the third and fourth generations in celebrating the farm’s 75th year as a member at Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative.
“I’m pleased to see any farm stay in the family,” he says. “I feel good about that,” as he watches his son, Donald and his wife Dolly, manage many of the day-to-day operations of the farm.
The Grossnickle's have always had an eye toward sustainability. Maynard was an award-winning soil maintainer, and the family has been doing no-till and cover cropping for decades now. Today, they milk about 150 cows and farm on 500 acres in Myersville, Maryland.
The family recognizes the hard work required to run a farm for 75 years.
“The commitment and the pride that goes into running a beautiful farm, in a beautiful valley, is important,” said Dolly. “When you do it together as a family, there are so many rewards.”
Donald and Dolly have four children, including two who return to the farm regularly. Their youngest son Luke is poised to take over the full farming operation, while youngest daughter Ellie returns some weekends to care for the calves with Dolly.
“75 years is a long time to do anything,” Luke says. “It’s something to be proud of and I hope we can keep going for future years.”
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Burk-Lea Farms Named 2024 MDVA Producer of the Year
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Burk-Lea Farms is the 2024 Maryland & Virginia Producer of the Year. Located in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Burk-Lea Farms is owned and operated by Clint and Kara Burkholder. The family milks 860 cows on 1,300 acres with the help of more than a dozen employees. The family is well-recognized for having a strong farm succession plan in place to allow a gradual transition over multiple years. Clin...
Burdette Family Celebrates 50 Years of Membership with MDVA
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The Burdette family is celebrating 50 years of membership with Maryland & Virginia in 2024. The family owns and operates Windy Knoll View Farm in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. James and Nina Burdette began the farm in October 1974, just months after getting married. The couple now have two sons and six grandchildren, with one of the sons, Justin, handling much of the operation with his wife, Clair...
2024 Annual Meeting Opener
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As we navigate the dynamic landscape of the dairy industry, it is imperative that we continuously reassess our values and practices to ensure the sustainable growth of our cooperative. The Maryland & Virginia of today is fundamentally different than it was even five years ago. This intentional shift to a brick-and-mortar cooperative with a known brand founded upon on-farm sustainability can all...
Maola Local Dairies Expands Processing to Philadelphia
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Maola Local Dairies, proudly owned by Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association (MDVA), has purchased a dairy processing plant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The plant, previously owned by HP Hood, will generate new opportunities to bring sustainable milk products into Pennsylvania. The announcement came during a press conference with Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro highligh...
How One Dairy Farm Family Overcame Odds After Premature Birth
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For Steven and Kira Wetmore, there was an expectation that they'd have nearly four more months to get ready. But an unexpected turn brought the early birth of their son, Tate. Born 16 weeks early and weighing only one pound, 14 ounces, Tate's arrival challenged the Wetmores to adapt quickly and face the unknown with unwavering strength. During this tough time, the community came together to sup...
District 1 Producer of the Year - Burk-Lea Farms
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Burk-Lea Farms is the 2023 District 1 Producer of the Year. Located in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Burk-Lea Farms is owned and operated by Clint and Kara Burkholder. The family milks 860 cows on 1,300 acres with the help of more than a dozen employees. The family had a strong farm succession plan in place to allow a gradual transition over multiple years. Clint and Kara are the third generation...
District 3 Producer of the Year -- Galliher Dairy
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Galliher Dairy in Harmony, North Carolina is the 2023 District 3 Producer of the Year. The farm is owned and operated by Larry and Charlie Galliher who milk around 450 cows in a 32-stall rotary parlor with the help of family and six employees. The family also farms on about 2,500 acres, which provides corn and small grain silage to the dairy as well as other crops for the family to sell to dive...
2023 District 2 Producer of the Year -- Wea-Frog Holsteins
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Wea-Frog Holsteins of East Earl, Pennsylvania, is the 2023 District 2 Producer of the Year. The farm is owned and operated by Marvin Lee and Robert Zimmerman, who decided to combine their separate operations into one a few years ago. The families work together to milk 100 Holsteins in a tie-stall facility. The Zimmermans have multiple best management practices in place, including a conservation...
Partnerships Help MDVA Members Bring Sustainable Solutions To Chesapeake Bay Watershed
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Around 90% of Maryland & Virginia's member farms are within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Alongside our partners at the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, we've earned more than $46 million to put sustainable practices into place on member farms, which helps ensure that the local waterways that empty into the Chesapeake Bay stay as healthy as possible, assisting the Bay down the line. All of this...
Maryland & Virginia Celebrates World Milk Day 2023
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Our members have a passion and a vision of what producing high quality dairy products mean to their community, their farms, and our cooperative. On this World Milk Day 2023, hear from them on what Milk means to them.
How MDVA's Route Sales Team Delivers Quality Products and Quality Service
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Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative has a route sales team of nearly 150 people that deliver fresh dairy products and Maola milk throughout our service area. Customer service is critical to our business and we work to maintain only the highest quality service and products to those we serve. Our route sales team is the group that makes sure that those needs are addressed and questions...
Maryland & Virginia Names Valley Ho Farm of Middletown, Maryland 2023 Producer of the Year
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Valley Ho Farm, owned by Chris and Jamie Derr, has earned the title of 2023 Producer of the Year. Chris and Jamie are second and fourth generation farmers, with Valley Ho sitting on land in Middletown, Maryland once owned by Chris’s grandfather. The family milks 70 cows on 200 acres. In 2013, Chris and Jamie updated the facilities on their farm. With cow comfort in mind, they built a freestall ...
Benedict Family Honored For 50 Years Of Membership With Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers
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At Ben-Akers farm, the Benedict family has been farming with Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative for 50 years in 2023. What was once a single farm owned and operated by Abram Benedict in the 1940s has morphed into three Benedict family farms in a single mile stretch in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. While all three farms still ship to Maryland & Virginia, Amos and his wife Ellen operate...
French Brothers Dairy Honored For 50 Years With Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers
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French Brothers Dairy in Woodstock, Virginia celebrated its 50th year as members of the Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative (MDVA) at the cooperative’s 103rd Annual Meeting held last week. The farm is currently owned and operated by Billy, Martin, and Timmy French and their children. A Virginia century farm, the land the French Brothers own has been in the family since 1872. The dair...
Sustainable Dairy Helping Reduce Carbon Footprint In Chesapeake Bay Watershed
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Sustainable Dairy Helping Reduce Carbon Footprint In Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Grayhouse Farms Earns 2022 Dairy Sustainability Award for Outstanding Dairy Farm Sustainability
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Grayhouse Farms Earns 2022 Dairy Sustainability Award for Outstanding Dairy Farm Sustainability
Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Awarded 2022 Dairy Sustainability Award for Community Impact
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Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Awarded 2022 Dairy Sustainability Award for Community Impact
Pivotal In The Community
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Pivotal In The Community
A Different Kind Of Daiy
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A Different Kind Of Daiy
Looking Toward The Future
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Looking Toward The Future
A Student Focus First
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A Student Focus First
How One MDVA Member Is Motivated To Work For The Underserved
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How One MDVA Member Is Motivated To Work For The Underserved
MDVA Member Stands As Beacon Of Service To Others
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MDVA Member Stands As Beacon Of Service To Others
Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Announces 2022 District 2 Producer of the Year
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Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Announces 2022 District 2 Producer of the Year
Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Announces 2022 District 3 Producer of the Year
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Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Announces 2022 District 3 Producer of the Year
Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Announces 2022 District 1 Producer of the Year
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Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Announces 2022 District 1 Producer of the Year
The Ghosts of Waverly Farm Jerseys
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The Ghosts of Waverly Farm Jerseys
Perfect Pairing: The Link Between Compost and Milk Part II
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Perfect Pairing: The Link Between Compost and Milk Part II
Perfect Pairing: The Link Between Compost and Milk Part I
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Perfect Pairing: The Link Between Compost and Milk Part I

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  • @malcolmfraser7939
    @malcolmfraser7939 Місяць тому

    Nice video.

  • @malcolmfraser7939
    @malcolmfraser7939 Місяць тому

    Nice introduction. Looking forward to your videos. Alasdair.

  • @annabkackwell3037
    @annabkackwell3037 2 місяці тому

    I keep searching, if you could PLEASE help me. My parents worked for a family with the last name Gross back in the 1980s, I'm trying so hard to find it. I'll be happy to buy products from you as I shop local now. I know it's a long shot, just need closure. Looking for Roscoes store, we lived close to the farm house. If you know of either of there's please help me locate.

  • @rusumarius5875
    @rusumarius5875 3 місяці тому

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  • @uj3185
    @uj3185 4 місяці тому

    💯 Promo`SM

  • @NonaSchwartzbeck
    @NonaSchwartzbeck 4 місяці тому

    Hard working folks for generations. 3 of those generations working together now to produce great cows and quality milk.

  • @rlandmand
    @rlandmand 7 місяців тому

    I'm a Danish farmer and just happen to watch this movie and I'm just wondering. the Dangers of manure pits are a common knowledge here how ever im thinking why does farming originations in the ÚS courses in safety and first aid here are such courses offered in the winter time for farmers and farm employs they are free and i is kept in the evenings at the locations of the headquarters of the farming origination's where instructors and consultants show up. First aid ( CPR ) are compulsory here when taking a drivers licence, CDL , and at collage.

  • @alishahatiq9407
    @alishahatiq9407 Рік тому

    Beautiful farm

  • @alextercisio
    @alextercisio Рік тому

    I like dairy cows ..if I can get an opportunity to work with your farm I can prove my ability in your job...am from Kenya

  • @hamidahlouch7727
    @hamidahlouch7727 Рік тому

    Who do not appreciate the farmer .only a silly person does not .

  • @first100k3
    @first100k3 Рік тому

    As many people are asking job in farms if get together can have own farm. 😂

  • @lidetendrias8920
    @lidetendrias8920 Рік тому

    Really good work I always think of this job but it is definitely impossible to me because I have no enough money even to buy one cow.you are too lucky person

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    @hadiyamollatube6921 Рік тому

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  • @howtodriveatruckwithmiloud

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  • @jorgesansaet6804
    @jorgesansaet6804 Рік тому

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    @jorgesansaet6804 Рік тому

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    @jorgesansaet6804 Рік тому

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  • @ab-td7gq
    @ab-td7gq Рік тому

    Greenwashing.

  • @animalori
    @animalori Рік тому

    Nice..

  • @sandib4234
    @sandib4234 Рік тому

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  • @emmanuelkwadwoafrane3526
    @emmanuelkwadwoafrane3526 Рік тому

    Pls I need a job

  • @emmanuelkwadwoafrane3526
    @emmanuelkwadwoafrane3526 Рік тому

    Pls I need a job

  • @abdonramirez7178
    @abdonramirez7178 Рік тому

    No Mexicans working on the farm, I’m looking for a job.

  • @phole1100
    @phole1100 Рік тому

    North Carolina has some of the most severe water pollution in the country from large scale farms. I hope you're neighbors are also farming with sustainability in mind, otherwise one person cannot make a difference in the entire industry. We need more advocating around the pollution caused by agriculture

  • @rosemaya111
    @rosemaya111 Рік тому

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  • @rosemaya111
    @rosemaya111 Рік тому

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  • @rosemaya111
    @rosemaya111 Рік тому

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  • @yendorstephen1690
    @yendorstephen1690 Рік тому

    I want your contact number, I'm from Africa living in Dubai

  • @yendorstephen1690
    @yendorstephen1690 Рік тому

    My passion for farming made me followed you day and night

  • @melissamartin8208
    @melissamartin8208 2 роки тому

    ........Why is Bill Gates, a member of the World Economic Forum, waging a war on livestock? Why is he against cows? Why is red meat being demonized as harmful to humans and the earth? Gates is pushing the “artificial meat” agenda along with eating plants and bugs which is part of his fear-mongering tactics because he owns a fake food manufacturing business.

  • @melissamartin8208
    @melissamartin8208 2 роки тому

    ...........Why is Bill Gates, a member of the World Economic Forum, waging a war on livestock? Why is he against cows? Why is red meat being demonized as harmful to humans and the earth? Gates is pushing the “artificial meat” agenda along with eating plants and bugs which is part of his fear-mongering tactics because he owns a fake food manufacturing business.

  • @orion9779
    @orion9779 2 роки тому

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  • @pashupalonschool
    @pashupalonschool 2 роки тому

    Mr. I want to work in a firm. I am trained in artificial insemination training and first aid. If you give me a little opportunity.

  • @ivormcc1
    @ivormcc1 2 роки тому

    2.30am jesus

  • @jimjenkins1445
    @jimjenkins1445 2 роки тому

    I’m

  • @hichamkomha8359
    @hichamkomha8359 2 роки тому

    Hello sir. Do you sell cows to Morocco

  • @hichamkomha8359
    @hichamkomha8359 2 роки тому

    Hello sir. Do you sell cows to Morocco

  • @katateo328
    @katateo328 2 роки тому

    ag visa??

  • @hichamkomha8359
    @hichamkomha8359 2 роки тому

    Hello sir. Do you sell cows to Morocco

  • @michaelkahlert9043
    @michaelkahlert9043 2 роки тому

    Sehr gut

  • @elamnissley4099
    @elamnissley4099 4 роки тому

    And..... Here we are ! I am pleased to be part of this team. It's fun to pull up to your dairy's and pick your milk and go home n care for our cows. It's part of our lives.

  • @jamievandermolen9311
    @jamievandermolen9311 4 роки тому

    Amazing story of how partnerships can provide powerful environmental solutions!

  • @tinagrove8764
    @tinagrove8764 6 років тому

    Congratulations to the Hardesty Family!