2011 Southeast Dairy Youth Retreat
July 10-14
Sunday, July 10
5:00-7:00 pm: Registration at hotel
7:30 pm: Dinner and Mixer Activities at hotel
11:00 pm: Lights out
Monday, July 11
6:00 am-7:45 am: Continental breakfast at hotel
7:45 am-8:15 am: Load buses, travel to Providence Grove High School
8:45 am-10:45 am: Workshops (2 rotations)
10:45 am-11:00 am: Break
11:00 am-12:00 pm: Workshops (1 rotation)
12:00 pm-12:45 pm: Lunch
12:45 pm-1:30 pm: Load buses, travel to Emerald Pointe Water Park
1:30 pm-7:00pm: Emerald Pointe, dinner at park
7:00 pm: Return to hotel
8:00 pm-10:00 pm: Ice Cream Social; Recreation at YMCA
11:00 pm: Lights out
Tuesday, July 12
6:00 am-7:45 am: Continental breakfast at hotel
7:45 am: Load buses, travel to farms
These are the farms we’ll be touring:
Buttke Dairy Enterprises: Buttke Dairy consists of 2 facilities located near Asheboro. The largest facility houses 1500 milking cows and features a double-24 parallel parlor with direct load milk.
Bowman Dairy and Homeland Creamery: Located in Guilford County, the Bowman family milks 200 cows. They recently constructed a new pack barn to house the herd. They also process their own milk offering fluid milk, ice cream, butter, half and half, whole cream, and eggnog.
Gerringer Dairy and Calico Farmstead Cheese: Also located in Guilford County, the Gerringers milk 200 Jerseys and Holsteins. The family also makes 12 different cheeses and other dairy products on the farm.
Maple View Farm and Maple View Milk: Maple View milks 125 cows 3 times a day while maintaining one of the lowest somatic cell counts in the state. Maple View Milk, the on farm bottling operation, is unique in that they sell their milk in glass bottles. They also offer other products, including butter and ice cream. Their milk and butter is sold in approximately 50 local stores. We will have dinner at the newly constructed Maple View Agriculture Center
8:30 pm: Return to hotel
9:00 pm-10:00 pm: Ag Olympics
11:00 pm: Lights out
Wednesday, July 13
6:00 am-8:30 am: Continental breakfast at hotel
8:45 am-9:00 am: Load buses, travel to NC Zoo
9:00 am-12:00 pm: NC Zoo
12:00 pm-12:30 pm: Load buses, travel to Providence Grove High School
12:30 pm-1:15 pm: Lunch
1:30 pm-3:30 pm: Workshops (2 rotations)
3:30 pm-3:45 pm: Break
3:45 pm-4:45 pm: Workshops (1 rotation)
4:45 pm-5:00 pm: Load buses, travel to Coletrane Dairy
5:00 pm-6:00 pm: Tour Coletrane Dairy
Coltrane Dairy milks 500 registered Holsteins in a double 12 herringbone parlor. The farm has an intense embryo transfer program working with some of the top Holstein cow families in the country.
6:00 pm-8:00 pm: Dinner and Awards
8:00 pm: Travel to hotel
8:30 pm-11:00 pm: Free time at hotel
11:00 pm: Lights out
Thursday, July 14
6:00 am-8:30 am: Continental breakfast at hotel
9:30 am: Check out