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Jenn and Sam Zimmermann of Ringle, Wisconsin, are the 2018 National Outstanding Young Farmers. They say they're optimistic about farming thanks to positive people they've met in the competition. Their children are, from left, Adelle, Mason, Garrison and Neah.
Sam and Jenn Zimmermann are named 2018 National Outstanding Young Farmers after being chosen as Wisconsin Outstanding Young Farmers in 2017.
The three older Zimmerman children in the family's swing-12 milking parlor are, from left, Neah, 10, Mason, 14, and Adelle, 13.
Neah Zimmermann of Ringle, Wisconsin, holds on to Ms Brandy's Bella ET, a cow scored Excellent 92 that's a foundation cow in her parents' herd.
Seat-belted in a tractor cab, Garrison Zimmermann, 5, thinks he's ready for fieldwork. He's the youngest son of Sam and Jenn Zimmermann of Ringle, Wisconsin.
The main dairy barn at On-Q Holsteins, owned by Sam and Jenn Zimmermann, features three rows of sand-bedded freestalls. The facility was originally a bedded-pack heifer facility and outside lot.
Sam Zimmermann owns a combination baler-wrapper for greater forage-harvest efficiency. He feeds baleage and corn silage to his cows.
Dry cows dine at an outside bunk, part of a bedded-pack facility for heifers at Sam and Jenn Zimmermann's dairy.
Neah, left, and younger brother Garrison Zimmermann feed calves at On-Q Holsteins, operated by their parents, Sam and Jenn Zimmermann.
RINGLE, Wis. – Sam and Jenn Zimmermann of Ringle are the 2018 National Outstanding Young Farmers. Sam Zimmermann said it’s the boost they need to persevere in the present dairy economy.
Daphne Holterman
Jane Fyksen writes about crops, dairy, livestock and many other agricultural topics; she is the crops editor for Agri-View based in Wisconsin. Email Jfyksen@madison.com for more information.
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Jenn and Sam Zimmermann of Ringle, Wisconsin, are the 2018 National Outstanding Young Farmers. They say they're optimistic about farming thanks to positive people they've met in the competition. Their children are, from left, Adelle, Mason, Garrison and Neah.
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