Edward Janus - 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
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The story of dairying in Wisconsin is the story of how our very landscape and way of life were created. By making cows the center of our farm life and learning how to care for them, our ancestors launched a revolution that changed much more than the way farmers earned their living it changed us.In Creating Dairyland, journalist, oral historian, and former dairyman Ed Janus opens the pages of the fascinating story of Wisconsin dairy farming. He explores the profound idea that led to the remarkable big bang of dairying here a century and a half ago. He helps us understand why there are cows in Wisconsin, how farmers became responsible stewards of our resources, and how cows have paid them back for their efforts. And he introduces us to dairy farmers and cheesemakers of today: men and women who want to tell us why they love what they do. Ed Janus offers a sort of field guide to Dairyland, showing us how to read our landscape with fresh eyes, explaining what we see today by describing how and why it came to be. Creating Dairyland pays tribute to the many thousands of Wisconsin farmers who have found a way to stay on their land with their cows. Their remarkable effort of labor, intelligence, and faith is one of the great stories of Wisconsin.
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GROWING UP NEAR WASHINGTON, DC, Ed Janus knew the front end of a cow from the backand that was it. But after getting his degree in anthropology and working as a community organizer and bus driver in Chicago, he became a dairy farmer in Crawford County, Wisconsin. There he fell in love with cows, fields, barns, and dairy farmers.
After two years of milking, plowing, hefting, scraping, and spreading, Ed left farming, but not his love of it. He started the Madison Muskies, a minor league baseball team, and Capital Brewery, now one of the countrys top-ranked breweries. He has spent the last twenty years interviewing hundreds of people as an audio journalist, writer, and oral historian and has created radio programs for public radio, the Voice of America, and publishers in the United States and Germany. His first-person audio book on surviving breast cancer won top honors from the Audio Publishers Association in 1999.
In 2007 Ed created a series of audio profiles of todays dairy farmers and cheesemakers for the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board. While preparing these stories, he realized that it is impossible to understand the present without examining the deeper soil of the past from which it has grown.
Today Ed is working to preserve that deeper soil through his oral history organization, the Wisconsin Dairy History Project. By recording the older voices of dairying before they disappear, he hopes to leave future historians a trove of authentic first-person accounts of the people who created Dairyland, so that we can understand the present by understanding our past.
LIKE ANY BOOK OF HISTORY and nonfiction, this one is mostly a report of the lives and ideas of others. Without the countless men and women who milked our cows, made our cheese, and created our landscape, I would have no story to tell. I first and foremost want you to know that this book was really written by those who lived the lives and thought the thoughts I only report here. Although most of their voices have been quieted, I hope this book will remind us that they prepared the soil from which we grow today. They, not this book, deserve praise.
Naturally I want to thank the people who so generously sat down and talked with me at length about their work and lives. Alas, there were just not enough pages to include all of you here, but what you told me has been as important to this story as those voices Ive been able to include. My sessions with you gave me insights that I could never have gotten from books. Thank you all! My life is richer for my having talked with you.
I wish to acknowledge my debt to Eric Lampard, the author of what is no doubt the most important work on the dairy history of our state, The Rise of the Dairy Industry in Wisconsin. Thank you.
Like many journalists, I start a project with only a dangerously limited understanding of my subject. But Ive been very lucky indeed to have extremely tolerant people to disabuse me of my ignorance. Id especially like to thank my friend Laura Daniels, the epitome of Wisconsin progressive dairying. Laura still accepts my calls for help when I need to know about cows stomachs or their feed or any number of questions. Thanks again, Laura. Likewise to Bob Cropp, ag agent in Pepin County, and my friend the dairy journalist John Oncken, the man who knows more dairy history than anyone. These folks, I want you to know, are not responsible for the things I have gotten wrong in this book. They all tried to educate me. It just may not be possible.
I want to thank Patrick Geoghegan, vice president of the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board, for believing that I had something important to say about dairying. Patrick and the WMMB understand as well as anyone that explaining our wonderful dairy industry to people outside of dairying is important, because otherwise they would be missing one of the great stories in Wisconsin history. For your belief in the wonderfulness of the dairy story and your faith in me that I could help tell it, thanks! And thanks too to Heather Porter Engwall at the WMMB for your help in getting to know todays dairy folks and for your enthusiasm for this story.
Now to the saint disguised as my editor Kate Thompson. I have decided to never open my mouth again without checking with you first. Everyone in life needs a good editor, and I got one. Thank you for keeping my sometimes quirky voice, and thank you especially for making this book better. I trust that is the highest thing an author can say of his editor.
And finally, to Mary: I bet you think youve heard the last of ancient silos and cows as avatars. Maybe! But thanks for listening all these years.
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