Member Spotlight
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Member Spotlight: the volunteer who sorts the entry inbox
Before any wheel gets judged, someone has to make sure the entry paperwork matches the wheel. A quality manager on the Awards & Competition Committee on why that…
Read postThe volunteer reading the farm bill
A committee mark-up this week put a new farm bill draft in front of Congress. One member spotlight on the unpaid volunteer who reads every dairy title so…
Read postMember spotlight: the clerk who just got her own login
A counter clerk who joined the federation only weeks ago told us what the first month of membership actually looks like from behind the case, not from the…
Read postMember spotlight: the creamery she agreed to keep
When her father was ready to stop making cheese, she almost let the creamery close with him. A member spotlight on the succession conversations more farms are having…
Read postMember spotlight: the apprentice who stayed
A composite look at a member archetype we're seeing more of this winter: the longtime apprentice who's quietly becoming the next owner, one small decision at a time.
Read postMember spotlight: the cave she inherited
Renata Castillo took over her father's aging room last spring instead of watching it get sold off with the rest of the farm. A year later, she told…
Read postMember spotlight: the make that doesn't take a holiday
A farmstead cheesemaker in the northern Plains told us why December 31 looks like any other make day, and what an arctic cold snap has meant for keeping…
Read postMember spotlight: the books she closes before the tree comes down
A farmstead cheesemaker in the upper Midwest told us how she runs her books the week after Christmas, and why this year's numbers changed how she's thinking about…
Read postMember spotlight: the line item nobody budgeted for
A quality manager at a small Midwest creamery added a metal detector to her packaging line this year, on a budget that had no room for it. She…
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