Chapter Closes for Equipment Owner, Celebrating FFA Wins, Hunting Traditions, Employee Success

Five stories are heard on today's episode from the latest issue of the Dairy Star. From an equipment owner selling his business, to FFA wins at the national and state levels and more success stories. First, a conversation with Jon Stein, who in the last 40 years has had three focal points in his life: family, faith and Centre Dairy Equipment and Supply Inc. Stein said he has devoted a lot of time and energy to his business and now it is time to spend more time with his family as he sells to Leedstone Inc. based out of Melrose, Minnesota. Today's second conversation continues in Minnesota when three Brogan siblings and Avery DeCook competed and won top honors. We hear from the coach, who is the Brogans' uncle Keith Brogan, who has been coaching dairy judging for 4-H and FFA for 35 years. To round off time spent in Minnesota, we hear a day in the life of the Marshiks. For Kevin Marshik, the tradition of deer hunting is more than getting a trophy buck; it is about spending time in nature with his children. To make milking cows and deer hunting work with his schedule, Kevin keeps the cows on daylight saving time until after deer hunting season. In Iowa, we hear from Travis Ties, who recently earned the Milk Business Awards Employee Excellence Award. Ties is the head of feed operations at Holdgrafer Dairy Inc. and assists with crop production, while taking on the role as the farm's mechanic during the winter. Over the past quarter century, the farm has come to depend on Ties thanks to his dependability, consistency and accountability. Finally, for today's fifth conversation, we head to Wisconsin, hearing from the 2025 dairy production-placement proficiency award winner at the state level. Since 2019, Kaydence Hodorff has been documenting her work experiences as part of her FFA Supervised Agriculture Experience at Second Look Holsteins LLC, the farm on which she grew up. New episodes are released every Monday after the newspaper is published, sharing the many conversations from the dairy community! Send story ideas and your comments to [email protected]. Subscribe to the podcast for reminders of episodes - next episode is released December 8 - about the dairy community and leave a review! We look forward to bringing you this brand new way to consume Dairy Star. This is Dairy Delivery. All dairy, all the time. This episode is sponsored by DRMS. Learn more about HerdHQ from DRMS at www.DRMS.com/HerdHQ/What-is-HerdHQ. Stay connected with Dairy Star: - dairystar.com - Get the Milk Break Newsletter: www.dairystar.com/milk-break-newsletter-signup/ - Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/DairyStar - Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/dairy_star_newspaper - Follow us on X: www.x.com/dairystar_ - Follow us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/dairy-star/ TIME STAMPS Jon Stein - 5:52-15:22 Keith Brogan - 16:22-21:54 Kevin Marshik - 23:00-27:31 Travis Ties - 27:54-32:10 Kaydence Hodorff - 32:56-38:14