Guest Blog

Ever since I was a little girl, I have been around dairy cows, and I have worked with my dad, Brian, on our dairy in Shafter, California. Every Saturday morning, I loved going out with him on the dairy in the golf cart to check cows.

Who doesn’t love a good snack? It doesn’t matter if you’re my 4-year-old daughter literally trying to climb into the refrigerator to forage, or you’re somebody like my husband who’s topping off the gas tank at the local Mini Mart on his way home from the sale barn and is browsing the shelves for a treat.

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.