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Schock’s Mission View Dairy was established in 1956 by Walt and Louise Schock.  The dairy is currently being operated as a partnership between Walt and his eldest son Greg and his wife Paula.

Aerial photo of the dairy.

The dairy is located in western Montana approximately 8 miles from the small town of St. Ignatius.

A view of the Mission Valley from the National Bison Range.

The nearest city, Missoula, is an hour south, and Glacier National Park is two hours to the north.

The dairy sits on 350 acres, with nearly all of the acreage covered with gravity-flow irrigation.

Ralph

Crops:  Alfalfa hay, grass hay, and corn silage.

Animals:  100 Milking cows
31 Dry cows
50 Heifers bred
50 Breeding age animals
52 animals under 1 year old
2 Bulls
2 Dogs: Henry and Anna. Ralph and Jet RIP.

Milk produced daily:  5,800 lbs.
Milk produced annually:  2 million pounds (1000 tons)

Greg

Then.

Now.

Thanksgiving 2008.

Kyle, Emily, Bryan, Kris, Greg and Paula Schock

Emily, Henry, Bryan, Todd and Kyle, Christmas 2007.

Grizzly Bears

Here are some bear pictures captured by a trail camera placed in one of our fields:

August 17, 2016 at 8:46 pm

August 17, 2016 at 8:48 pm

August 18, 2016 at 11:57 pm.

August 19, 2016 at 12:23 am

 

Calves

Calves come in all different sizes and colors at Schock’s Dairy:

Holstein

Jersey x holstein

Angus x jersey

Holstein x jersey

Spots x spots x spots

Red holstein

Happy 2016!

Todd, Kris, Greg & Emily

Mail call?

We found an interesting “package” in front of our mailbox…

Corn silage 2015

Another successful year of chopping corn silage is in the pit:

There were numerous grizzly bears spotted in the corn field this year and as in years past, they did a considerable amount of damage to the crop:

For more pictures of chopping silage, please go here.

Twins!

Summer 2015

Juli

A fox has been living somewhere near the dairy.

Greg unloading second cutting hay

Moo!

Irrigating the corn crop

The pivot moving into the hay field

Elk passing through

Hobbes, Juli & Anna

A bear a little too close at the neighbors

A lightening-strike fire started on August 14, 2015.

A helicopter getting water from McDonald Lake to fight the fire

Another shot of the helicopter

Here’s a video of that same helicopter getting water from McDonald Lake:

A grizzly bear seen on August 19, 2015

Another grizzly

2015

I’m a little embarrassed to admit that the last post on this site was 2005. I know. Where has the time gone?

Well, here’s a little pictorial update.

The dairy farm is still going strong. We had a set of twins born this year that didn’t exactly match.

Greg with the newly born twins. February 17, 2015.

Yes, they are in fact siblings!

Walt, the patriarch of the family dairy, still helps out as much as he can.

Walt vaccinating cattle. March 20, 2015.

Walt and Greg, owners of Schock’s Dairy.

We are still chopping corn silage to feed the cows through the long Montana winters.

September 17, 2014.

And we still have grizzly bears that frequent the dairy.

These two were spotted April 13, 2015.

October 5, 2014

August 23, 2014

We LOVE to have visitors and give a very laid-back tour of the dairy. Please drop us a line if you are in Western Montana. Unfortunately, we can’t promise that you will see the bears… 🙂

McDonald Lake

Black bear

McDonald Lake, July 17, 2010.