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Episode 5: Kendra Nissley shares about balancing farm & family, harnessing help from heroes, and life lessons learned on the dairy
- 2025/04/01
- 再生時間: 55 分
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In this episode of Cow-Side Conversations, Kendra Nissley of Jubilee Dairy in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania wraps up Women’s History Month by opening up about the journey of trying to find balance between farming and family. While farming and family often go hand in hand, it can be challenging to prioritize your children, your marriage, your home, your own needs, and other relationships when the day-to-day responsibilities on the farm are so demanding. Kendra reflects on some intentional decisions her and her husband, Jeff, have made to invest in employees, navigate the transition process between generations using emotional intelligence, and rely closely on outside experts – or as she says, “heroes” – to help them finetune the details and execute new plans.
From sustainability projects and boosting pounds of butterfat to a value-added cheese business and grants that help them save money, Kendra opens up about lessons they’ve learned along the way. She says it’s all a balancing act and an ongoing process of asking their family: How can we steward this farm so we farm it and it does not farm us?”