Building our Future...

The Moreland family has had a Registered Holstein operation since 1949 when Charles Moreland (then 16) bought a registered heifer as a 4-H project.  Today, the farm is operated in partnership by Charles and Marilyn’s sons, Jay and Mike, under the name Moreland Farms.  In 2008, Mike’s son, Matt, joined the operation after graduating from the University of Missouri with a degree in Agricultural Systems Management.

As many of you have already heard, we are planning to build a new milking facility just to the north of our current location.   We plan to build a tunnel ventilated free stall barn to accommodate 300 cows, with the ability to expand to 600 cows. The layout includes waterbeds, a cable scraper system and a viewing room in the parlor into to accommodate future tourism possibilities. The plans are drawn up and we are ready to start – that is once banks start lending money to dairy farmers again.  Hopefully the new facility will be done in time for visitors when Missouri hosts the National Convention in 2012.  Until then, we keep trying to improve cow comfort in our current facilities with the addition this summer of a new sprinkler system in the holding pen and new fans in the free stall barn.  We also plan to build a new commodity barn this fall.

Foundation Cow...

We believe in cow families and longevity. The majority of the current herd can be traced back to purchases Charles made in 1967 when he started the current herd -- 12 cows from Kansas and a group of Canadian heifers. 

The cow that has had the greatest impact on our herd is Char-Land Sexation Glitter, EX-91 3E, a great-granddaughter of one of those original Canadian heifers.  Glitter produced an amazing 9 natural daughters.  Her first 2 generations of descendants include 5 Excellents and 14 Very Goods.  Glitter had over 160,000 pounds lifetime.  Two of her daughters had over 200,000 pounds lifetime, two other daughters had over 150,000 pounds lifetime and two others had over 100,000 pounds lifetime.  Four of her granddaughters already have over 100,000 pounds lifetime.  To date she has had 73 descendants in the milking herd!

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Char-Land Tesk Glint
? a grand daughter of Glitter
?milk record, etc

Another Great Cow Family...

Another favorite family started with Char-land Blizzard Sent a VG - 85 with 200,636 pounds milk. Sent’s most prominent daughter was Char-land Silverado Sena, 2 E - 92 with 262,511 pounds milk. Sena had two daughters: Char-land Emperor Solo 3 E - 91 with 193,383 pounds milk and still going and Char-land Mathie Sonic EX - 90. The 4th generation already has several VG that will hopefully go excellent next classification.

The Next Generation...

We have to increase the size of the herd because as you can see the size of the Moreland family just keeps growing!  This family portrait was taken this past summer at Leslie’s wedding (Jay and Brenda’s youngest daughter).

The Moreland Familyanna leah
Can you name everyone?

We are proud of the next generation of Morelands and their continuation of our family's involvement with the Holstein breed. We were well represented at this summer's National Holstein Convention.

Our Kids Competing

Blake Moreland
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Blake Moreland (Mike and Heather’s son)
competed in the Jeopardy contest and the folding display contest.


Austin Moreland & Jacob Peters
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Sherri Moreland Peters dairy bowl coach, Austin Moreland (Mike and Heather’s son)
and Jacob Peters (Sherri and Jim’s son) were on Missouri’s Dairy
Bowl team along with Steven Nelson & Jake Lenz

Karlin Peters
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Karlin Peters (Sherri and Jim’s daughter) placed
4th in the Junior Public Speaking contest.

The kids also showed their cattle this summer at several local and district shows and the State Fair. Jay and Brenda's grandchildren participated in some Pee Wee classes, which makes them the fifth generation of Morelands to show Registered Holstein cattle.

Adeline Dickerson
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Gretchen Dickerson, age 3,
showing at the West Central District Show

Case Melzer
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Case Melzer is 4 and was showing at the Cass County Fair.