Young Farming Champion

This week we were very lucky to receive a visit from Jessica Monteith our young farming champion.  We spent an enjoyable afternoon hearing all about Jessica's passion for the dairy industry and munching on her favourite dairy food CHOCOLATE.

 

Jess taught us lots of great things about cow breeds and the importance of raising happy healthy dairy cattle.
Some quotes from some of our team about Jessica's visit.

I really enjoyed the pictures of Jessica with the calves (Porsha).
It was great to see how dairy farmers use computers in the dairy to keep track of how much milk cows are making (Jessica).
I liked that Jess gave us a few ideas of what we could add to our cow (Jorja).
We learnt about the different dairy farming areas in Australia ( Tenielle).
I liked how Jessica's job was to take care of the baby calves (Phebie).
I liked that Jessica works in a bank and on a farm (Lance).
Jessica asked of lots of questions which helped us understand her presentation (Tori).

It was really great to meet such a passionate young dairy farmer who has inspired us with some great new ideas for our Archibull.
As we were able to put a face to the dairy industry we feel even more passionate about buying locally produced dairy products.  For information on what we have already done about this please see our blog post about 'Supporting local farmers'.