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Dairy checkoff makes important impact

Janet Clark
Jun 15, 2023
Jun 15, 2023

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Janet Clark

I didn’t always pay much attention to the role promotion plays in advancing our industry. My expertise as a dairy farmer is focused on caring for our animals and managing our business operations. Thinking about how the cheese made from our cows’ milk is marketed or what our promotion group was working on wasn’t at the top of my ever-growing to-do list.

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Janet Clark is a dairy farmer from Rosendale, Wisconsin, where she and her family own and operate Vision Aire Farms. She is the vice-president of the PDPW board and a board member of Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin, a mission sponsor of PDPW. Email hello@WisconsinDairy.org to contact her.