Derrick Josi: Media Coverage
Headlines featuring your favorite Oregon dairy farmer.
South Dakota to host First Ever Midwest Collegiate Farm Bureau Conference
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.
[podcast] Large Scale Dairy Farmer, Derrick Josi
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.
Western Innovator: Dairyman tells ag's story through blog, social media
The life of an internet celebrity isn’t all glitz and glamour. For Derrick Josi, it’s a lot of hard work and manure.
TDF Farmer handles negative reviews about his dairy operation
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.
Josi Awarded Certificate of Recognition by Jersey Canada
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.
Tillamook Chamber: Celebrating our Chamber Award Nominees
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.
Dairy farming, Tillamook Cheese and consumer education
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
Cow tipping is bull, say scientists, Tillamook dairy farmer
If you live anywhere near cows, and many of us do, you've likely heard stories about cow tipping.
But is it even possible?
Progressive Dairyman: Flooding perils push Wilsonview Dairy to seek higher ground
They say “when it rains, it pours,” but at Wilsonview Dairy in Tillamook, Oregon, when it rains, it floods.
Off the coast of India sits a small country that’s currently serving as the testing ground for the Columbo Declaration, a UN global campaign on Sustainable Nitrogen Management. In fact, that small country, Sri Lanka, is leading the world effort, with aims to reduce their nitrogen waste by half by 2030.
If you work in any industry about which the public isn’t well-educated, you know that in the absence of facts, people will try to find patterns or fill-in-the-blank themselves where they have knowledge gaps. Rarely does this end in any kind of positivity.
What these billionaire investors want you to believe is that they are being incredibly benevolent in their investments. They market their support of a sustainable and climate friendly agriculture as their gift to the world at large. They share stories of how innovation in agriculture will help eliminate world hunger and safeguard the planet for future generations. They speak of the building a better future by harnessing the technology and innovation of the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.” Their marketing game is on point.
An issue dating back to the 1970s, the Klamath Basin Crisis continues to be a hot mess. For those of you who are not familiar with the area, the Klamath River is about 250 miles long, and stretches from southern Oregon and on into northern California. For years, this area has been in extreme distress as all those who depend upon it for its water are scrambling to decide how best to address this crisis. Farmers, Klamath Tribes members, conservationists, and many others are fighting to preserve the basin, but not everyone can agree on what issue takes priority.
You guys. I made the vegans real mad. I was just doing my thing, posting my videos on Facebook and YouTube, continuing to further my goal of educating humans about animal agriculture. As I usually say, I respect people’s choice to eat how they want to eat, live how they want to live, etc. I do not, nor do I wish to, actively seek out conflict with anyone who makes different choices than I do. However, that’s not always how everyone else chooses to go about life.
You just thought supply chain issues and vaccine shortages were for humans. Turns out my girls could be at risk due to a lack of vaccine supply, too. Lets say a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak took place while supply chain shortages are still in place, we could be looking at some serious issues for all livestock.
Some folks down in Arizona seem to really have a lack of understanding in regard to the law of unintended consequences.
Initiative Petition 13, a ballot initiative filed for the 2022 Oregon general election, would remove many of the current exemptions from Oregon’s animal cruelty laws against animal abuse, animal neglect, and animal sexual assault.
It’s been a minute, all right only four years, since we tackled the topic of CAFOs. Since the media and many influencers are quick to share how factory farms are detrimental to society, and in these same articles, they sometimes mention CAFOs, I believe it makes sense to dive a little deeper on the subject.
There are three types of milk pasteurization: high temp short time (HTST), which is the standard form of pasteurization for milk; ultra (UP); and ultra-high temperature (UHT).
There is a vast difference between your local humane society and the Humane Society of the United States, which you may know as HSUS.
Innovation is a common denominator in dairy farming regardless of herd size, farm-owner demographics, or geography. From a principle standpoint, perpetual innovation is one of the few consistencies in farming at all.
So a dairy farm’s purpose is to produce milk, right? And milk comes from female cows, right? So you might be wondering what we do with bulls that are born on our farm.
There’s a lot of controversy about cows giving “consent” to be bred. I don’t know about you, but last I knew, cattle can’t speak English. So their way of giving “consent” is to provide nonverbal cues to show when they want to be bred.
No longer are the days of sitting on a stool with a bucket and milking each cow by hand. The milk parlor has optimized the milking process; making it more efficient and a vital tool in keeping up with the dairy demands of the world.
Taking calves away from their mama cow is a common practice on dairy farms. Why do we do this?
I get a lot of questions about what we feed our cows. The answer to that question is a Total Mixed Ration (TMR). A TMR is a combination of feed ingredients to make up a balanced meal to feed the cows. A TMR helps a dairy cow achieve maximum performance and health.
So I heard Epicurious isn’t going to post beef recipes anymore. I think that’s crap. So I did my own recipe round up. Join me in enjoying these 10 beef recipes from farmers and ranchers themselves.
There are people who wake up and see the world through a realistic lens, who trust scientists and their years of experience, who trust animal welfare experts like the renowned scientist Temple Grandin, and then there are people who wake up every day like Allstate’s Mayhem Commercial Guy and are ready to pounce upon the world like the F1 offspring of a category 7 hurricane and F5 tornado.
As a fourth generation dairy farmer who has dedicated my career - and therefore life - to raising and caring for dairy cattle and ensuring high-quality, reasonably priced, delicious dairy products are available in grocery stores, the thought of defending an industry that shows generation after generation we can become more-sustainable while continually improving how we care for our farm animals is exhausting.