New Mexico Milkmaid Shines in Field Work Debut

Field Work

Documentary, Society & Culture

5 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Tara Vander Dussen makes her Field Work debut at Zach Johnson’s Minnesota farm. In this episode, Tara tells Zach and Mitchell about the wonders of New Mexico: sand dunes, square roads, fainting goats, and how she encourages dairy farmers to be more sustainable. She also seems genuinely surprised at the concept of rain.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Mitchell here. Before we get started, we want to say a big thank you to the Walton Family Foundation for their support this season.
0:15.5	We are back. Welcome back to the Fieldwork podcast. This is the podcast by Farmers for Farmers. I'm Zach Johnson, a farmer in West Central Minnesota. I am Mitch O'Hara. I'm a farmer in Iowa, and we have a new farmer that's joining us now so that we have more farms from around the world, around the country. I don't know.
0:37.8	Tara.
0:39.4	Hello, everyone.
0:41.1	Thanks for having me.
0:42.8	Thanks for letting me join season four.
0:45.3	And you farm down in New Mexico.
0:46.2	Yeah.
0:47.6	So my name's Tara Vanerducent.
0:49.2	I'm a dairy farmer in New Mexico.
0:51.2	She's our new host.
0:53.0	And I'm the new host. We had to bring somebody that would actually bring something to the table besides just Mitchell.
0:57.6	Somebody that knows what they're talking about.
0:59.4	Right.
0:59.7	And like, we'll read the script and like do everything that's in the job description that like I, yeah, we don't do.
1:07.2	Unlike Mitchell, who doesn't realize we have scripts.
1:10.9	Yeah. Or no, show notes. realize we have scripts. Yeah.
1:11.7	Or show notes.
1:13.4	I'll do better.
1:14.5	Tara, tell us about your farm down there.
1:16.4	So a little bit different than, you know, row crop farmers up here.
1:20.0	We obviously have livestock.
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