By Sadie Frericks

I can vividly remember the conversation. We had recently left good jobs, sold our house in the city and moved to the farm to give dairy farming a try. I was on the phone with our new insurance agent. He was asking all the typical questions found on an application: name, birthdate, address and son on. And then asked, “Occupation?” I immediately said, “Dairy farmer.”

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