Are you ready to partner with Derrick Josi? Yes.

Steve Alexander is joined by Derrick Josi, a fourth generation dairy farmer in the Tillamook, Oregon, area. He has become a social media star with over 400,000 followers who enjoy his daily videos from the barns and pastures on his farm, all featuring his "girls," his herd of Jersey cows.

Welcome to the Human Performance Outliers Podcast with hosts Dr. Shawn Baker and Zach Bitter. For this episode, Derrick Josi joined the show. Derrick is a fourth generation farmer who has been very transparent about sharing and advocating for his dairy operation in Tillamook, Oregon.

Are dairy farmers crazy? Maybe, but it’s because they always put their cows first. It’s National Agriculture Month and we are bringing you a featured farmer (#featuredfarmer) each week. Derrick Josi, an Oregon dairy farmer and founder of TDF Honest Farming, encourages farmers to bridge the gap with consumers – and understand the divide goes both ways.

KNOWN BY MANY AS THE TILLAMOOK DAIRY FARMER ON SOCIAL MEDIA, DERRICK JOSI IS A DAIRY FARMER OPERATING (AND POSTING) OUT OF TILLAMOOK COUNTY, WHERE HE RAISES HIS FAMILY AND A HERD OF JERSEYS. WE HAD A CHANCE TO ASK HIM SOME QUESTIONS AFTER HE RECENTLY JOINED OREGON AGLINK.

When Derrick Josi first ventured into social media, he was in defensive mode, correcting misconceptions about agriculture.

Now, the Tillamook dairy farmer takes a more positive and pro-active approach by reaching out to urban consumers.

Through this new video we produced with Oregon dairy farmer Derrick Josi (aka TDF Honest Farming), we’re answering this relatively common question by serving up a full helping of facts about what cows eat.

Our guest today is Derrick Josi, but you might know him best as tdf_honest_farming on Facebook and Instagram. Derrick is a fourth generation dairy farmer in Tillamook County, Oregon. Derrick is super active on social media showcasing the life of a dairy farmer and constantly fighting misinformation surrounding dairy production.

I chose to interview the Derrik Josi a dairy farmer of 37 years out of Tillamook Oregan, and ask him questions on pressing 'issues' in the dairy industry. He blogs and is very active on Facebook and Instagram where he shows his viewers how his farm functions from the inside out.

Cyberbullying has now moved into agriculture. Modern Farmer recently reported that the latest victims of cyberbullying are farmers. Vegans and animal activists have been using social media to threaten farmers and their families in what looks like an attempt to “shame” them for their profession but also make nonsensical threats that infer meat farmers should be slaughtered like the livestock they raise.

Learn, Grow and Lead is the theme of the first ever Midwest Collegiate Farm Bureau Conference taking place Oct. 11-13, 2019 at South Dakota State University in Brookings, S.D.

The three-day event includes workshops, motivational speakers and networking with collegiate Farm Bureau members from across the midwest.

I grew up around dairy farms and farmers, but the industry has changed quite a bit! Learn about large-scale dairy farming and enter the pasture with a guy whose family has been in it for four generations - Derrick Josi.

The life of an internet celebrity isn’t all glitz and glamour. For Derrick Josi, it’s a lot of hard work and manure.

Many of us have seen Jimmy Kimmel’s famous Mean Tweets. If you haven’t, celebrities read mean tweets about themselves from internet trolls. Often, the celebrities take the criticism in good spirits, because this is not their first time dealing with the haters. The same goes for the TDF Farmer, Derrick Josi. He answers some of the negative reviews he has seen on his social media platforms.

Jersey Canada is proud to present Certificates of Recognition to two dairy farmers who are voluntarily telling agriculture’s story through social media. The certificates recognize the freely given services of Tim May aka Farmer Tim of Mayhaven Farms, Rockwood, Ontario and Derrick Josi, the voice of TDF Honest Farming from Wilsonview (Jersey) Farm in Tillamook, Oregon, USA.

Through his Facebook page Tillamook Dairy Farmer, Derrick Josi is shedding a positive light on the practices of dairy farming. With more than 13,000 followers, he is creating a daily conversation about how our dairy farmers treat their animals and why they are passionate about their work, and casting a regional spotlight on our agriculture community.

Every morning, Derrick Josi gets up at the crack of dawn to run his family’s Wilsonview Dairy near the well-known dairy mecca of Tillamook, Ore. Tending to the Jerseys that call Wilsonview home is not the only job he tackles each day. Derrick takes on the additional task of educating the consuming public about the truth of life on a dairy far

They say “when it rains, it pours,” but at Wilsonview Dairy in Tillamook, Oregon, when it rains, it floods.