Derrick Josi @tdf_honest_farming Instagram: 63k YouTube: 13.1k Twitter: 19.9k
- Catch Up
- Where are they from, what do they farm, how did they get into farming
- How’s the family - do they farm with family?
- Kids? - 3 girls and 1 boy (5th generation); married
- Met his wife on a blind date? In 2011
- What are they up to today?
- What they see that excites them?
- What do they want to make sure they see before they leave
- Oregon Dairy Farmer
- Farms the same land as his great grandfather - Alfred
- All-Jersey dairy herd, produced nearly 35,000 lbs (3,000 gallons) of milk per day
- 450 acre farm: double-12 herringbone parlor, a free stall barn, grows 500 acres of corn and grass silage, and includes open pasture for grazing
- What methods do you use to farm with Derrick’s parents, Don and Desi?
- Past 15 years - extensive renovations (infrastructure, reduce labor, and relocate the milking parlor out of the flood plain)
- What benefits have you seen from this? Any other big projects coming?
- Derrick and Kaycee were knighted with the 2020 Young Jersey Breeder Award
- What helped you get to this position/spot?
- Author - An Industry Worth Fighting For
- Offers readers a glimpse behind the curtain of a working dairy farm
- Does not shy away from sensitive topics
- He presents reality in terms that are stark but sensitive…a balance as delicate as the lives for which he is responsible
- What inspired you to share your story?
- What are your goals? How do you want to impact the readers?
- TDH Honest Farming
- Tillamook Dairy Farmer
- Keynote Speaker
- Where have you spoken? Most powerful time?
- How did you get started?
- How has social media changed his life?
- Why do it?
- How would he start it over differently?
- Which is their favorite platform?
- How do you deal with negative comments?
- If you were an animal, what do you think you would be?
- Right now, who inspires you?
- If you could make anything bigger on your body what would it be?
Would you rather
- Have a pause or rewind button in your life
- Live in a treehouse or in a cave
- Give up coffee or soda forever
- Have your own theme park for your kids or your own zoo for your kids
- Forget your partner’s birthday or your anniversary every year
- Be the funniest person in a room or the smartest person in a room
- What’s next for them?
- What can our listeners do to help?
- What can we do to help?
Knowing what you know now, what advice would you give yourself or others at 18?