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Age: 26
Location: Watertown, Wisconsin
History of your dairy, in a nutshell: Lloyd and Daphne Holterman started farming with Lloyd’s parents in 1981. Then, after a two-year stint of farming on their own, they returned to the family farm in 1989. They purchased the cattle and equipment that year, then bought farmland in 1995.
It was the way-early 1930s, and the Great Depression was hitting the country very hard. My grandparents, George and Augusta Elbert, were struggling to hang onto the family farm with their three young children. With a double mortgage on the farm, things looked pretty bleak.
In 2010, Thomas Grip, Jens Nilsson and Mikael Hedberg created a survival video game called “Amnesia: The Dark Descent,” based on a story of a person named Daniel who wakes up in a haunted castle.
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“I think the checkoff program can do a better job of advertising and selling milk based on its health benefits. I think we need to be doing a better job of reaching the younger generation through hip commercials. We need to make milk cool instead of something Mom makes you drink.”
In June, the National Dairy Shrine honored David Schingoethe, Robert Rowe, Lowell Lindsay and Jim Borchering for their service as industry pioneers. Each recipient was selected by an anonymous committee, and their portraits will be on display at the National Dairy Hall of Fame and Museum in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin.
I was admittedly intrigued when an Icelandic farmer told me his town was owned by the mafia. I could imagine The Godfather playing out much differently in the north, where a horse head is more likely to be dinner rather than a threat, and the gangsters would be hard to tell apart because they would all be wearing wool sweaters.
Most college students majoring in agriculture have many opportunities for internships in the industry through ag companies, but that isn’t for everyone.
It’s a pairing I never thought I’d see. Chip and Al. Al was a cowboy I worked with for 10 years. He was an example to lots of the young buckaroos. He was 25 years older than me. We met one spring when he was in a cow camp on the Brown Place in North Fork, Nevada.
