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In the dairy industry, we are used to uncertain times. Variability in milk prices, weather and other factors are challenges in an ordinary year. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has added a new dimension to uncertainty in the dairy industry.

Ronald Reagan said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

What are you listening to right now? What do you listen to while you're in the barn, or in the skid loader or in a tractor doing field work?

Like the parable of the “Blind Men and an Elephant,” any personal statements regarding the first half of 2020 will likely fall short of accurately describing the overall picture.

Have you ever found yourself scrolling through Facebook marketplace and seeing something that catches your eye? That’s the exact way our farm found calf hutches that are now key to our operation. The farm had been tossing around the idea of switching from a modified calf barn to hutches for a while, but finding some for sale within an hour of our farm made the decision to switch fairly easy.

Editor’s note: This article is the latest in a series from Rebecca Shaw about female entrepreneurs.

The year 2020 will go down in history books.