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From left, Justin, Louisa, Jacob, Joshua, Joseph and Johanna Peterson call Creamery Creek Farms home.
La Crosse County’s “Fairest of the Fair,” Grace Giraud, 17, of Sparta, Wisconsin, left, and Zoe Mlsna, 14, of Cashton, Wisconsin, greet visitors to the La Crosse County Dairy Breakfast.
Darrel and Laura Dwyer of Onalaska, Wisconsin, sell breakfast tickets. They’re members of the St. Joseph’s Ridge Lions Club, which helped host the event.
Visitors enjoy a breakfast of pancakes, eggs, sausages, yogurt, cheese curds, apple slices and cookies.
Breakfast attendees enjoy an opportunity to take a close look at cows.
Audrey Menn of Wilton, Wisconsin, cradles a pygmy goat – part of a petting zoo at the breakfast. Her grandmother Jackie Menn owns an organic dairy near Norwalk, Wisconsin; she provided the animals for the zoo.
Mary McEldowney, 12, left, and Johanna Peterson, 11, hold blocks of Creamery Creek Farms cheese.
Daryl Wermedal, right, former Agri-View sales representative, now retired, talks to Tim Cavadini, the author's husband, as event visitors make their way past him to the food line at the breakfast. Besides showcasing books from various authors, Wermedal talks about his podcast – 'Farm Tales and Cow Pies.'
A Creamery Creek herdsman monitors cows as they’re being milked in a double-10 milking parlor; about 550 cows are milked. The families also own a robotic dairy located a mile from the home farm, where they milk 1,000 cows.
Creamery Creek Farms cows appear content.
BANGOR, Wis. – “The weather keeps us on our toes, but our main goal remains – growing high-quality feed for our dairy herd,” said Louisa Peterson of Creamery Creek Farms.
Sarah Pfaff-Cavadini
Sarah Pfaff-Cavadini and her husband, Tim Cavadini, enjoy their 175-acre farm near Mindoro, Wisconsin, where they raise registered-Angus and Simmental beef cattle as well as horses and other small animals.
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Editor's note: The first part of this two-part story was published in the July 2 issue of Agri-View.
Daryl Wermedal, right, former Agri-View sales representative, now retired, talks to Tim Cavadini, the author's husband, as event visitors make their way past him to the food line at the breakfast. Besides showcasing books from various authors, Wermedal talks about his podcast – 'Farm Tales and Cow Pies.'
A Creamery Creek herdsman monitors cows as they’re being milked in a double-10 milking parlor; about 550 cows are milked. The families also own a robotic dairy located a mile from the home farm, where they milk 1,000 cows.
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