Equal partners between crops and dairy For dairies that need more feed than their land can provide, relationships with local crop growers are paramount. That is certainly the case for Silverstreak Dairy, with four farm sites in Minnesota and South Dakota. Matt Kaschmitter, a managing partner for the dairy, shared his experience in building connections between livestock producers and crop farmers at the Midwest Forage Association’s virtual annual symposium. “On our operation, and on a lot of operations that work with livestock, there is a short amount of time to deal with a lot of crop work, because on a lot of these sites, it takes a lot of production to make this thing work,” he said.