A Million Variables Ensure Farming Will Never Be Easy

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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It’s easy to look at the numbers on paper and declare what yields should be or what livestock production should look like.

Reality is different, though. Some days you find yourself straddling one of the ladies, I mean dairy cows, so you can administer IV fluids while Kiera, another favorite dairy cow, keeps you awake with her sandpaper tongue. Not sure where that shows up on the piece of paper.

Every day farmers deal with a thousand variables that will never show up on paper.

Derrick Josi

Derrick Josi is a 4th generation dairy farmer from Tillamook, Oregon, where he milks Jersey dairy cows and farms corn and grass silage.

Wilsonview Dairy, a family farm established in 1918 by Derrick’s great grandfather, Alfred, after arriving from Switzerland as an indentured servant in 1912, is located near the Pacific Ocean where dairy cows enjoy a relatively mild climate on their centennial farm.

The Josi family is proud to play a part in making delicious cheese by providing quality milk to the Tillamook County Creamery Association.

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