Off-farm Income

SHOW NOTES INTRODUCING WHITNEY YERINA! It's funny how warm a feeling so many people get when they think about farming and the lifestyle that goes along with that.  Most of the time when we get that warm feeling we are thinking back to a time when farms were smaller, they were producing food for the family first, producing commodities to sell second and were run exclusively by the family. For the most part, when we see that vision, we are looking back into the early 20th Century.  A lot has changed in agriculture and farming since the middle 1900's, and that vision that we like so much has been altered significantly right along with farming. In today's episode we get a chance to look back.  Our guest, Whitney Yerina, is going to tell us about her families dairy farm in Missouri.  Currently there are three generations of her family, including her, working on the dairy.  Her grandfather actually moved the dairy from Maryland to Missouri in 2001 for a number of reasons, but one of the things this moved allowed