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Sugarcreek man oversees care of 1,800 heifers on ocean trip to Morocco DOVER – Before this year, Joe Miller had never been outside North America. He had only left the United States to fish in Canada. But on Feb. 10, the Sugarcreek man took the trip of a lifetime. He was responsible for overseeing the care of 1,800 heifers carried on a ship – the Holstein Express – from Wilmington, Del., to Morocco in the northwestern corner of Africa. Miller, then an employee of Andreas Farms, was hired by the export company responsible for transporting the animals across the Atlantic Ocean to a...

By Matt Reese On Feb. 10, 80 heifers with the quality dairy genetics of Andreas Farms in Tuscarawas County boarded a ship named the Holstein Express — yep, really, Holstein Express is painted right on the side of the ship — bound for Africa. The Andreas heifers were part of a larger group of 1,750 cattle headed to Morocco.   After recently expanding and updating their operation, the challenges of 2020 encouraged the Andreas family to get out of the dairy industry and transition to other agricultural endeavors on the farm. The farm’s 1,200 cows were sold in September of 2020. “We are...