 Hello, this is Karen Johnson. I'm a livestock extension educator with the University of Minnesota Extension based out of Wright-McLeod in Meeker Counties. Kind of late last winter, I had been in conversation with a number of dairy producers in the area and we were really trying to figure out kind of what was the best number of cows to have, especially when we're considering our heifer inventory and how that will affect our future herd size on our farm. And so