Albright Brothers, LLC
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Farm Story
Albright Brothers, LLC is operated by brothers Jamie and Casey Albright, along with their Uncle David and their father James. In 1940 Eugene Albright, father of David and James, started a dairy farm near Omro, Wisconsin and by 1960 the farm was milking 120 cows. The farm stopped milking in 1978 and began raising steers. Today the farm has around 900 head of cattle and grows a variety of crops including corn, soybeans, winter wheat, alfalfa and oats on 560 acres of cropland. As James and David prepare to retire, Jamie and Casey returned to the farm to keep the operation going.
Steps Towards Conservation and Benefits
Jamie and Casey see farming as a good way of life, a way to make an honest living. Their hope is to sustain the farm with animals and healthy soil, striving to one day be able to grow their crops without commercial fertilizer. The farm practices no-till on many acres and has seen benefits to the soil and has allowed them to make applications when they would have risked getting stuck on conventional tilled ground. They also use some cover crops, which helps take up moisture on wetter ground, allowing them to get in the fields quicker in the spring. These cover crops also help reduce weed pressure.
