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Zwalds Chosen as NDA's Distinguished Dairy Breeders
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 06/23/2021
A Wisconsin couple will be honored as National Dairy Shrine's Distinguished Dairy Cattle Breeders of 2021 this fall. Bob and Kay Zwald, a husband and wife team from Bomaz, Inc. of Hammond, will be recognized during a special ceremony at World Dairy
Expo in September. This annual award goes to an active, progressive dairy breeder who excels in the management of a dairy herd based on sound genetic and business principles.
Three generations of the Zwald family have been involved in this farm since it was established by Bob's parents and later taken over by Bob and his brother Greg in the 1970s. From a herd of 25, and then 100 cows, in a tie-stall barn, the herd expanded in 1996
to 400 cows in a free-stall barn and parlor set-up. Bob and Kay took over the farm about ten years ago and today operate it with two of their five children and their spouses, including Annette and Steve Schalla, and Tom and Ashley Zwald.
Bob is the farm manager and in charge of the genetics program, while Kay is the calf manager. A recent expansion at the farm has added two more sand bedded free-stall barns and a 40-stall rotary parlor enabling the Zwalds to now milk a total of 1,500 cows,
in addition to raising 1,200 heifers.
The Zwalds have bred 121 Gold Medal Dams, 80 Dams of Merit, 11 Gold Medal sires, and 1,415 cows with over 100,000 pounds of milk lifetime, all with the Bomaz prefix. They have earned Holstein Association USA’s Progressive Genetics Herd Award
for 30 straight years and won the Herd of Excellence Award three times.
Their portrait will be displayed in National Dairy Shrine's Dairy Hall of Fame and Museum in Fort Atkinson.
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