The year 2025 has come to a close and I find myself reflecting on it with humility and gratitude. Like many of you, I wondered at times how we would overcome the challenges of unpredictable weather, shifting markets, and the constant tug between farm responsibilities and personal life. Yet here we stand. We endured, adapted and made it through another year of rollercoaster rides and speed bumps.
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Shelly Mayer
Shelly Mayer is the executive director of Professional Dairy Producers. It’s been called the nation's largest dairy-producer-led organization of its kind, focusing on producer professionalism, stakeholder engagement and unified outreach to share ideas, solutions, resources and experiences to help dairy producers succeed. Professional Dairy Producers also reaches outside the scope of dairy to strengthen ties with neighborhoods and communities, to work with and learn from one another, with the aim of securing a better tomorrow for one and all. Visit pdpw.org for more information.
