Chairman’s Corner: Don’t Forget the Farmers!

Do you like to eat? Then, thank God and his best partners, Kane County farm families.

Wise advisors counsel that individuals and countries can create wealth in a number of ways. We can grow it. We can mine it. We can make it. Or, these days, we can think it. If you were at the June 15th program, you could milk it.

Dale and Linda Drendel, owners of the Lindal Holstein Farm in Hampshire, hosted a dairy breakfast and farm tour on that Saturday morning. They must have prepared breakfast for 1,500 to 2,000 people as they gently taught us about where our food really comes from.

Not only that, but they and some of their more patient dairy cows were kind enough to provide me with an opportunity to experience my first milking lesson.

Did you know a good dairy produces 50 pounds of milk twice per day.  Mooooooo!

One of the cutest animals I’ve ever seen, lying peacefully on freshly-cut straw, were 7 to 10 day old Holstein calves. Did you know they’re born at 100 pounds each?

Finally, the Drendel’s and many other Kane County farmers host foreign farming experts, to show off our the county’s plentiful bounty and specific expertise.

If you’d like to see some of these things for yourself, please join us at the Kane County Fair at the fairgrounds from July 17 to 21.

So the next time you hoist that breakfast glass of milk, why not take a moment to thank a farmer.