“Efficient production from a healthy herd.” This slogan and business model of Seagull Bay and Andersen Dairy has established the operation not only in southern Idaho but on a global scale.

“I always wanted to be a farmer,” says Brice Mosekian of BnB Farms in Cambridge. “I didn’t want to do it in California.”

“This was a worn-out dairy when I came 10 years ago,” says Eric Evans of Evans Dairy near Castleford. “It originally had a double-four parlor with grain feeder but was built for Holsteins.” Eric wanted to milk Jerseys, and the cow size difference required some remodeling anyway, so he remodeled the parlor to work as a double-nine.

Summer weekends mean rodeos for Idaho’s urban and rural dwellers alike. As two- and four-legged athletes test their skills in a sandy arena, there’s a lot going on behind the chutes. And that’s just where the Pinz family likes to be.