Farm News:
Johnston Dairy Farm is now bottling its own milk. We are now offering true whole milk. In the near future we plan to offer not only whole milk but 2%, skim, buttermilk, cream, and chocolate milk. Our prices will be very competitive to your local grocery store. Our products will be available through our farm store, Hunker Downs in Madison, Ripe Thing in Greensboro, Ramsey's Produce in Covington, and other local markets.

The following information is about our farm and our production
methods in the hopes that you might be interested in using our dairy
products in your home.

We produce all natural milk:
• Hormones- No added hormones. We never use rBST or any
other growth hormones. We feel the cows produce all of the
hormones that they were intended to.

• Antibiotics- We also only use antibiotics in cases where the
cow's life is in danger. Then the milk from that cow is dumped until no trace of the antibiotic can be found in the milk. We test the milk from any treated cow with a test that can detect antibiotics down to 10 parts per billion.  Only after the milk passes that test, do we put that milk back into the tank.  

• Feed- Cows were designed to eat grass. We let them. We let our cows graze as much as possible and in times of drought or tight forage supplies we supplement with Rye grass silage. We have a nutritionist, Holly T. Ballantine, PhD., that comes out to our farm once a month and samples our forages and formulates a grain mix that complements the forages to make sure their diet is balanced. She balances for 43 different nutrients in their diet. How many of us can say we have a personal
nutritionist?

• Cow comfort- Our cows live in the pasture except for one and a half hours each morning and night when they are being milked. Just as they were designed to eat grass, they were not designed to live in a confined environment 24 hours a day.

We invite you to come out to our farm and see how our beautiful girls live and work. We think you will be surprised to learn how they live and what is involved in producing milk.