Guest Blog

No one could foresee a crippling global pandemic.

We are witnessing the decimation of the dairy industry. The crisis playing out before our eyes is staggering.

If you were to look the word “happy” up in the dictionary, you would find a few different definitions. They include:

The major challenges of the past several years for dairy farmers have brought an intense focus on solutions. Where do we go from here?

Here in Castleford, Idaho, we have freezing weather most of November through February. We always seem to have problems with our water troughs freezing up. It is a neverending battle breaking up the ice on the water trough, just for it to freeze back up again within hours.

“I think your son may have sensory processing disorder,” the doctor said to me. Meanwhile, said son is literally bouncing off the walls, grabbing random objects and throwing them, putting every godforsaken thing in his mouth, and I have my foot on the door so he can’t run away.

In our culture today, so many people complain about hard work. By the way they talk about it, you would think it’s something that should be avoided if at all possible. But wise people know better. It always makes me think back to an incident that happened years ago on our farm here.