NORTH LAWRENCE — The St. Lawrence County Farm Bureau will host it's annual "Day at the Farm" on Saturday, Sept. 23 from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. at Stauffer's Farms, 925 County Route 54.

More than 1,000 people visited the 2018 Day at the Farm at the North Lawrence farm in 2018 and organizers anticipate similar numbers this year at the free event.

Stauffer Farms is a second generation family dairy farm owned and operated by Sanford, Ruth, Aaron, Renee, Ben and Karen Stauffer.

The farm currently milks 3,300 cows three times a day utilizing two double twenty-four parallel parlors. Daily production is roughly 88 pounds per cow. The majority of the milk is shipped to Dairy Farmers of America.

According to an article in Hoard’s Dairyman much of the milk goes to the Great Lakes Cheese plants in Adams, N.Y., and Cuba, N.Y., and also the Kraft Lowville cream cheese plant.

The Day at the Farm event will showcase the farm’s operation

Visitors will be able to take a wagon ride tour around the working dairy farm to learn how milk is produced, and how one of the few anaerobic digesters in the county operates. There will be stops along the tour with expert informational demonstrations and talks, including dairy nutritionist, the farm’s anaerobic digester, crop management and farm veterinarian.

St. Lawrence County Dairy Ambassadors will provide fun educational games for the day.

A variety of local food trucks will be onsite preparing food for purchase.

“A Day at the Farm is a St. Lawrence County Farm Bureau sponsored event. We rely on farmers and ag professional volunteers to work that day,” said organizer Patti Fisher. “They are very generous with their time during the busy harvest season. SLC and Franklin county CCE are partners in this event.”

“We hold the event annually at a different dairy farm in the county. We want the public to learn about how farmers produce a safe healthy dairy product,” Fisher said. “It is an informative event for the public.”