Edible Michiana

Goshen dairy farm gets helping hand from Iroquois Valley Farmland

• Photo by Gabrielle Sukich

• Photo by Gabrielle Sukich

  To maintain organic certification, the Ramer family dairy farm undergoes a thorough inspection once per year that takes about eight hours to complete. The inspector looks at the feed they use, the type of fertilizer used to grow feed, how they cultivate the land, all their records and more.

• Photo by Gabrielle Sukich

  Stanton Ramer has worked on his family farm in Goshen, IN, since he was a little boy. He says he loves working with the cows and learning more about them every day.

• Photo by Gabrielle Sukich

  Stanton Ramer points to a pipe that filters out impurities from the milk before it goes into the tanks. Every day, twice a day, they milk 150 cows using the equipment in this room.