Farmer Survives Double Brain Aneurysm, Back Up and Running at Family Farm, Cruising to a Creamery, It Started With Pansies

A farmer's miracle and how robots provided the family with chore relief to serving ice cream, food and farming with another family, today's episode highlights stories from the latest issue of the Dairy Star. Today's episode starts with the Snodgrass family in Illinois. For the past two years, the Snodgrass family's Jersey herd at Valley-View Dairy has been milked by robots. The family's robotic milking system would become more than convenient when Ron Snodgrass suffered a double brain aneurysm in December of 2024. Another conversation hears how Adam Scapanski returned to farming. It is in his blood to be a dairy farmer, but when his dad passed away from cancer, and the cows were sold, he was not sure that was going to happen. The dream came true when he milked his own cows in his family's farm in November of 2024. The next conversation is with one of the owners of Udder Brothers Creamery, Jason Sparrgrove. His history on the farm and in the Navy helped prepare him to run his small business. He said lessons learned throughout his time have laid the foundation of principles that he and his brother rely on to keep the farm running, maintain another job and spend time with their families. The last conversation in today's episode is with Kay Siewert, a woman with a passion for gardening. Besides flower gardening, vegetable gardening and fruit gardening, Siewert is a mom of four sons - most of whom are grown - and also help spart time on Hyde Park Holsteins, operated by her husband Kevin, and his family. New episodes are released Mondays 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 November 10 - about the dairy community and leave a review! We look forward to bringing you this brand new way to consume the Dairy Star. This is Dairy Delivery. All dairy, all the time. This episode is sponsored by DRMS. Learn more about their HerdHQ program by visiting www.DRMS.org/HerdHQ/What-Is-HerdHQ. TIME STAMPS 5:02-12:54 - Farmer Survives Double Brain Aneuysm 13:52-16:42 - Back Up and Running at Family Farm 17:51-23:23 - Cruising to a Creamery 23:51-28:05 - It Started with Pansies