12-13-13 cow video-local reaction

A Fond du lac County Dairy and Livestock extension agent says a new video that showed workers hitting, kicking, stabbing and whipping cows on a Brown County dairy farm shows the workers were not handling the cows appropriately.  Extension agent Tina Coleman says while she is not sure if  some of the video was taken out of context, what she saw made her cringe.  An animal rights group released the video this week.  The two minute video was shot over a period of about six weeks at Wiese Brothers Farm in Greenleaf, Wisconsin.  Coleman says while cows sometimes need proding to

get up…the video shows the workers "were too aggressive."   Footage has been turned over to the Brown County Sheriff’s office to investigate whether there was animal abuse.