Steve Couture

Steve grew up in Vermont and got started in agriculture while in college at the University of Kentucky. He worked on a 3,500-acre farm that produced tobacco, seed corn, soybeans, and small grains in addition to managing 3000 sheep. He spent five years in Wisconsin working as a herdsman on a 200-cow dairy farm before he moved to New York’s North Country in 1986. He worked on several progressive dairy farms in Clinton County, and managed his own herd for two years, before coming to Miner in 2005. Steve’s responsibilities at Miner Institute include managing the Institute’s herd of registered Holstein cows, managing dairy and field crops staff, supervising students, working with the research team, benchmarking Miner Institute dairy performance indicators, and expanding overall herd performance.