From the Editor

Who could have imagined a June Dairy Month where there weren’t Breakfast on the Farm events? Where farm tours and dairy camps and giant ice cream sundaes were canceled or postponed?

Leading during the COVID-19 pandemic for me has been hard. Leading during any crisis is hard.

As I sit down to write this editorial, many of us are in the middle of changes we never anticipated. COVID-19 has transformed the way we live our lives and run our businesses.

Imprinted on the concrete entryway to my parents’ dairy parlor are my older brother Austin’s toddler handprints and his name. I remember as a child placing my fingers in the tiny prints and imagining the day they were made.

When anti-dairy protesters take off their shirts and dump milk on each other during a presidential candidate’s campaign event, you know we’re dealing with nuts – literally and figuratively.

Kobe Bryant’s accidental death in a helicopter crash earlier this year shocked everyone. For days, the news of his passing consumed media cycles. That scene played out before.