LeeAnne Bulman
For Agri-View
COLFAX, Wis. – John Richmond’s journey as a dairy grazier started in junior high school watching grazing videos. His dream of owning a grazing dairy is now being realized with the purchase of 150 cows and a lease of 500 acres of mostly-permanent pasture. He recently showed it at a pasture walk sponsored by the River Country Resource Conservation and Development Council.
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