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Nice work… if you can get it Photo courtesy of Shamrock Farms ThE girls All rave ABout thE shoWErs and thE Food, too. By JoE gIumette Imagine NOT HAVING TO COMMUTE TO WORK, BEING CAREFULLY bathed at least twice a day, enjoying free medical care, eating three nutritious meals a day at no cost to you, spending your free time outdoors in cooler weather, or indoors with the proper shade, mist and circulating air, and spending only 11 minutes or so actually working each day. Dream job? You bet — if you’re a cow living on Shamrock Farms just south of Maricopa. About 17,000 of these black and white beauties (Holsteins, with a few brown-and-white Guernseys thrown in) live their lives in relative luxury, away from the traffic and pressures of city life, surrounded by farms and open space. Only about 10,000 of the herd are actively producing milk at one time; there are an additional 4,500 heifers and about 2,500 calves who live separately on the same farm, waiting for their day in the milking barns. A staff of 88 works with General Manager Frank Boyce to make sure the animals maintain the lifestyle they’re accustomed to. They get some help — if that’s the right word — from the county, the state and the federal government, all of whom have a serious interest in seeing to it that milk produced in this country meets the standards regulators established. “Our product exceeds those guidelines,” Boyce says proudly. No growth hormones are used in Shamrock milk products. 28 InMaricopa.com | Vol. 5 Issue 3
Left: Frank Boyce, the farm’s general manager, has been with the company 30 years. Photo by Jake Johnson Below: Hybrid vehicle provides feed to cattle by slowly passing through each barn while spreading the proper amount of nutrients for the Holsteins. Photo by Jake Johnson Bottom: One of the farm’s 88 employees prepares to attach the milking machine to a cow’s udders. Photo by Jake Johnson Below left: Operating south of Maricopa since 2003, Shamrock Farms uses about half of its 1,000 acres to raise crops for feed and to handle the recycling of animal waste. Photo courtesy of Shamrock Farms Vol. 5 Issue 3 | InMaricopa.com 29
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