Owning a business is hard. There are a ton of balls in the air and it pretty much always feels like if you drop even one ball, it will be the end of your business. Most businesses simply can't do it ...
My Life
Meet Ben.
Now when we go out to dinner, (somewhere other than the bar down the road that knows us all on a first name basis) when they call us for a table they will say "Mess, party of four." On May 16th, the ...
Living on a prayer and an extra gallon of milk.
It's rare that I find myself without words. However for the past few weeks, I've tried to write this post several times only to eventually walk away from a blank screen. I'm going to try again, ...
Have you met my friend Dairy?
I know it's May but we are going to flip the calendar back a couple months and talk about March for a minute, OK? March was a big month for me, in a 5 day stretch- I was named the Wisconsin Ag ...
Dear Speaker Paul Ryan,
Dear Speaker Paul Ryan, The families and farms in these photos have been forgotten. On Monday, 75 Wisconsin family farms received a letter from Grassland Dairy Products Inc, informing them ...
Germany, Bayer and Patents.
In early September Hubs and I kissed Silas and the cows goodbye and headed to Dusseldorf, Germany for 5 days. I had been invited by Bayer CropScience to attend "The Future of Farming Dialog" at ...