{"id":605,"date":"2007-10-31T11:25:38","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T18:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=605"},"modified":"2007-10-31T11:25:38","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T18:25:38","slug":"heartland-chicago-nama-tour-kasbergen-dairy-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"Heartland &#038; Chicago NAMA Tour Kasbergen Dairy Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/hrt21017.jpg\" \/>Thirty members from the  Heartland and Chicago NAMA chapters attended the October 17 tour of Kasbergen  Dairy Farm, a 3,100 cow operation near Bellflower, Illinois.  The dairy is the largest in central  Illinois and  has been in operation since 2002.  George Kasbergen, owner, migrated from  southern California to open the dairy in  addition to family dairies in California and  Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>There are 35 people  working on the farm in 8-hour shifts and Kasbergen also employs a veterinarian  and nutritionist.  There are 10 tankers of milk delivered daily to Stone Ridge  Dairy in Wisconsin.  All milk is made into cheese.  The  dairy is a 5-star dairy, a rating awarded by a private firm based on  environmental and humane practices.<\/p>\n<p>Seven members of the  Illinois State University Student NAMA chapter also attended the tour.  It was a  great educational fall event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty members from the Heartland and Chicago NAMA chapters attended the October 17 tour of Kasbergen Dairy Farm, a 3,100 cow operation near Bellflower, Illinois. The dairy is the largest in central Illinois and has been in operation since 2002. George Kasbergen, owner, migrated from southern California to open the dairy in addition to family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[280,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-activities","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}