A Dairy Legacy Thrives: Walter Organic Family Farm, Villard, Minnesota Owned and operated by Nate and Angie Walter

Nate and Angie Walter, of Walter Organic Family Farm in Villard, Minnesota, along with their two children, Laureen, 18, and Levi, 14, are the newest generation continuing the Walter family legacy of dairy farming. Nate’s grandparents established the farm in 1935. Nate grew up working on the dairy with his father, and in 2002, he and Angie purchased the farm. Since then, the farm has continued to evolve. It has grown both in herd size and acreage; they’ve invested in a new parlor and manure management system; they are participating in the Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship (DGA) program - both Nate and Angie are Mentor Dairy Graziers; and they’ve become certified organic...

Mentors!

DGA has launched an all new discussion forum just for you!

Join us

On the 2nd Tuesday of the month from 6:30-8pm Central for an informal conversation to build relationships with other grazing farmers and Mentors...and maybe even bring something back to your own farm that can improve efficiencies, profitability and quality of life.

Please watch your email monthly for the Zoom Link.

Next Scheduled discussion is set for 

Tuesday, November 8th from 6:30-8pm Central

DGA MONTHLY WEBINAR OPPORTUNITY:

'IMPROVING MENTORING & COMMUNICATION SKILLS PART 2: FEEDBACK'

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH @ 11:30AM CENTRAL

All Mentors, Journey Graziers, Apprentices & Apprentice Candidates & Interns are welcome to attend!

In our monthly DGA Webinar (every first Monday of the month from 11:30 until 12:30 CST) on November 7^th we will go into more detail following our March discussion on Mentoring and Communication skills. Many of us struggle with giving proper feedback to our employees and Apprentices. How can we use the opportunity to not only have them do a better job, but also walk away from the redirection valued and encouraged?

Dr. Robert Milligan will guide us again in this discussion. He works for the Dairy Business consulting firm “Dairy Strategies”. He is a former Professor of the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. His work focuses on human resource management and leadership development.

The Zoom Link for the monthly webinars comes directly to your email one week prior to the webinar date.

**Got webinar topic ideas??? Send your suggestions to

[email protected] If your topic is selected you will receive a DGA hat!

**Webinars are recorded and available anytime on the DGA website to all our participants. Go to your dashboard and click the “Resource” button to find them.

Tomandl Farms Named as Finalists for Conservation Award

DGA Features New Booth and New Ideas on PaddockTrac at World Dairy Expo with partners University of Missouri Extension