Wisconsin native Dan Loper, Sr. became “godfather of dairy nutrition”

An idea gleaned from a beef feedlot prompted Dan Loper St., to devise a system to mix rations for dairy cattle, saving dairy farmers money while incurring the wrath of grain companies.

Few folks notice that the “godfather of contemporary dairy vitamin practices” was born in Wisconsin. In all probability the most important change in dairy vitamin of the final 50 years was originated by Dan Loper.

“It’s so way back no one remembers,” chuckles Dan Loper, Sr. He’s now 82 and nonetheless goes to work daily as a dairy nutritionist. Together with his son Danny, he runs Loper Methods in Clovis, New Mexico.

Loper was born on the kitchen desk in his household’s farmhouse within the City of Roxbury, close to Sauk Metropolis in 1939. Later in his childhood, the Loper household moved to a different household farm with a stone farmhouse in Marxville, just a few miles away. He grew up farming and learning.

“I used to be the valedictorian of my eighth grade class. There have been two boys in my class,” he added with a smile.

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