A Chat with the New Mexico Milk Maid

Field Work

Documentary, Society & Culture

5 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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The “New Mexico Milk Maid,” Tara Vander Dussen, reaches people around the world with her social media posts shedding light on the dairy industry. She’s even had the chance to speak before the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Committee on World Food Security. Tara tells Zach and Mitchell about the challenges of farming in the dry southwest, the latest sustainable technologies on dairy farms, and what it’s like to be an international ambassador for American dairy farmers

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0:00.0	Support for fieldwork is provided by Manitou Fund.
0:03.4	Hey everyone, Zach Johnson here.
0:05.3	We hope everyone staying healthy during this coronavirus outbreak, and we wanted to let you know that we recorded this episode well before things started to go haywire.
0:13.5	We hope you'll still find the information interesting and entertaining, even if you have a lot of stuff going on in your mind right now.
0:19.3	Also, we're thinking about doing an episode sometime soon on how this pandemic may affect the egg world.
0:24.9	If you have particular questions about that, please shoot us a note on Twitter at Fieldwork Talk
0:29.4	or on our voicemail at 651-228-4810.
0:42.9	Music 10. Welcome back once again to the fieldwork podcast.
0:45.9	I'm Zach Johnson.
0:46.8	I'm Mitchell Hora.
0:47.9	Thanks for joining us here today as we talk about sustainable agriculture from the voice of
0:53.1	farmers, two farmers.
0:54.6	Today we are speaking with Tara von der Ducen.
0:58.1	You may have seen her on social media where she goes by the name the New Mexico milkmaid.
1:02.5	She's like super famous.
1:04.4	She's going to show you up, Zach.
1:05.8	Insta famous.
1:06.5	Insta famous.
1:07.4	Yeah.
1:07.9	That is fancy.
1:08.8	When Tara's not online, she's working as an environmental scientist and a dairy farmer in New Mexico,
1:14.2	hence the New Mexico milk made. Makes sense?
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