Off-farm Income

SHOW NOTES INTRODUCING TAYLOR WHITEHEAD! The amount of responsibilities that farm kids have heaped upon them always amazes me.  What amazes me more is how they step up to the challenge so well.  We all know that the legal age you become an adult is 18.  But for farm kids I'm sure the average age of actually being capable of being an adult is much younger than that. In today's interview I am going to be speaking with one of these "farm kids".  Taylor Whitehead is only sixteen years old and just beginning her junior year of high school.  However, the responsibilities that she has been given throughout her life really make it seem like she is a completely independent adult already. For the bulk of Taylor's life she has been milking cattle before and after school.  Her family just sold their milking string, so now they are raising dairy heifers and she works on the farm in that capacity.  All of those years of working with the dairy cattle and having that responsibility helped her develop the ability to take ca