Creating Dairyland : How Caring for Cows Saved Our Soil, Created Our Landscape, Brought Prosperity to Our State, and Still Shapes Our Way of Life in Wisconsin.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Reading Dairyland -- Part 1: The Wisconsin Idea of Dairying: A Brief History -- Part 2: In the Company of Cows: Conversations with Farmers and Cheesemakers -- Finding Themselves on the Farm / Saxon Homestead Farm -- The Business of Progressives / The Crave Brothers -- The Ages of Cheddar / Sam Cook and Sid Cook -- The Cow-Driven Life / Laura Daniels -- Forward to Yesterday / Dan Patenaude and Mike Gingrich -- A Dairy Farm Family / The Mayers -- Beauty in the Barn / Hannah Iverson and Family -- A Place Where a Story Ended / William Seely -- Making It Pay, Again / Bob Molini -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

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