The Neal and Sharlee Hochstein family of Wynot, Neb., knows how to work together. This family dairy, which goes back four generations to Neal’s great-grandfather — who bought the land in 1894 and milked cows by hand — is now a modern dairy, milking between 120 and 140 cows.
The Hochstein daughters, including Shelby, who is married to Connor Wuebben and lives in nearby Bow Valley; Sonya, who is the family and consumer sciences instructor at Wynot High School; Whitney, who is a freshman at Wayne State College and a Nebraska Dairy Ambassador; and Joslyn, who is an eighth grader at Wynot, all pitch in for the family operation.
Over the course of their young lives, they have learned many life lessons, and they call their time in the milk barn, feeding calves and in the fields a time of learning and fun. They also take their role as dairy producers seriously, working hard to promote the real story about dairy farmers and dairy products to consumers.
Click through our slideshow of the recent Nebraska Farmer visit to Hochstein Dairy, and learn more about the family and its operation.
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