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    DAIRY FARM DIARIES

    Mar 05, 2018 5 minutes
    BY CATHERINE AGAR

    grew up on a dairy farm and was cow crazy from a really young age. I remember going to the barn with my favourite stuffed animal and Mom having to wash it before bedtime because I dropped it in the poop. In my teen years, summers were filled with getting my 4-H calf ready for the fall fairs, and at the end of those long days I could be found curled up in the straw, resting with my calf. Naturally, I attended the University of Guelph to study agriculture, and on an agriculture bus tour I met my future husband, who was also from a dairy farm. We’ve worked together for 20 years, taking over his family dairy farm and making it our own, along with raising our four

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