“...prize winning Holstein and Brown Swiss...”
I love Brown Swiss! Lots of long hours = so true and they have a 4 year old and just had identical twin boys in July. Lots of fun though - we were just there yesterday to babysit the twins and granddaughter for a few hours; it is great for them to grow up on a farm.
Our son-in-law’s family is a Dutch family that has been farming there for a few generations and our daughter is learning quickly since neither my husband or I had a farming background, although I grew up in the country and was around farms.
Lol - our son-in-law is from Dutch farmers as well. He and my daughter purchased two of the properties shortly after they married in 2008. They sold one a few years later and are just working the one to make a living. We never lived on a farm, but were surrounded by them as we lived in the country as well.
When my daughter was 5 years old, I remember asking her one day, just to see what she’d say, “Honey, what would you like to be when you grow up?” Well, she answered without missing a beat, “A farmer’s wife.” I was quite surprised....I wondered where THAT came from lol. In any case, she knew what she wanted and that’s what she’s doing!
Ten German Families settled the ten miles between our hills and Seymour in the early 1840s. Their families still farm the land. When I moved here in 70s they were still speaking German in church and small school a mile from home. There are still numerous dairy farm scattered among them.
That’s why I recommend the book THE LAST FARMER a to anyone from an agriculture background.