A family with more than 200 years of farming heritage in Northeast Pennsylvania started over in Kansas, and is this year’s World Dairy Expo Dairy Producers of the Year. Ken McCarty tells Brownfield that in the 1990s, his parents recognized their 250-cow operation would probably not be able to support them and the next generation. […]
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