When Victor Palato arrived in the U.S. at the age of 18, he was very much a city boy who had little experience with agriculture. More than 22 years later he’s now an experienced herdsman and manager of 11 employees at Circle H Dairy, a 1,700-cow herd in Turlock, California.
“I had never worked with cows, horses or animals back in Mexico,” Palato says.
Manuel Castellanos had been working in the U.S. for just over a year at a lumber yard in Oregon before getting homesick. He came to the U.S. for work without his wife and 3-year-old son, who were living in his hometown of Colima, Mexico. After deciding to head south for home, he stopped in Utah to see his brothers Oswaldo and German, who were working at Mountain View Dairy in Delta, Utah. They asked if he would fill in one shift as a milker.
