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Articles by Raechel Kilgore Sattazahn

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Mastering time: Your most valuable resource

February 5, 2025
Raechel Kilgore Sattazahn

Time is an invaluable resource that, once lost, can never be regained. Whether you’re a farm manager trying to complete all your tasks in a day, or a busy mom juggling kids, cows, and an off-farm job, mastering time management can significantly enhance your productivity, reduce stress, and improve your overall quality of life.


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Building a future workforce: Excite, educate and encourage

October 9, 2023
Raechel Kilgore Sattazahn

I’m grateful for my life in agriculture and can’t imagine a career not connected to this industry. But I’ve come to realize the journey for others into today’s agriculture industry is much more diverse than the fairytale story that I’ve experienced.



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Des leçons apprises en maternelle à retenir pour la ferme

May 17, 2023
Raechel Kilgore Sattazahn

Une classe de maternelle est un endroit magique. Au début de l’année scolaire, un groupe d’enfants naïfs et enthousiastes entre dans la classe et ils en ressortent avec certaines des aptitudes essentielles à la vie.


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Herd Management: Farm life lessons learned in kindergarten

February 7, 2023
Raechel Kilgore Sattazahn

A kindergarten classroom is a magical place. A group of naïve, eager preschoolers enter the classroom at the beginning of the schoolyear, and over the course of a year, they learn some of the most important skills needed in life.


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HERd Management: How to embrace a growth mindset

March 30, 2022
Raechel Kilgore Sattazahn
It’s easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of our day-to-day lives. Many women in agriculture juggle numerous responsibilities from farm work or an off-farm job to children, extracurricular activities, household responsibilities and more.
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HERd Management: 10 simple ways to practice kindness

October 19, 2021
Raechel Kilgore Sattazahn
We all know we are supposed to treat others with kindness. However, with the stresses of daily life, especially when it comes to living and working in agriculture, it can be overlooked more often than many of us would like to admit.
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HERd Management: Finding hope during uncertain times

June 30, 2020
Raechel Kilgore Sattazahn
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.
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An attitude of gratitude

August 6, 2019
Raechel Kilgore Sattazahn
There’s no doubt the dairy industry is in challenging times. Low milk prices, changing consumer preferences, devastating weather conditions and an ever-changing political environment has resulted in much uncertainty throughout the industry.
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HERd Management: Let’s embrace our differences

August 24, 2018
Raechel Kilgore Sattazahn
Too often in life, we divide ourselves into two sides on an issue. A quick browse on my Facebook newsfeed, and this definitely seems to be the case. Even in the dairy industry, we polarize ourselves – sometimes without trying.
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HERd Management: There is life after cows

November 23, 2016
Raechel Kilgore Sattazahn
It was March 2003, and I had just returned home from a dairy promotion as the Pennsylvania Dairy Princess. “We are selling the cows,” my dad said to me as I sat across the kitchen table from him.
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