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Why I am quitting agvocacy…

Krista Stauffer
Krista, The Farmer's Wifee

To be completely honest, life just gets you down sometimes. The last few weeks I have dreaded hearing the phone ring as to avoid my mother telling someone else we know is dead. I have dreaded opening up the paper as to avoid seeing another familiar face. I haven’t been able to sleep very well knowing so many people we know are hurting so deeply. The loss of life has been completely overwhelming the past few weeks.

I haven’t been able to completely process one phone call before I get another.

So I made a choice.

I decided that agvocacy needed to go. Even though I spend my time online while my children are napping or in bed for the night. It still needed to go. I needed to focus on things that truly matter in life & agvocacy no longer mattered. I wasn’t making a difference & it took too much of my time.

I finally got some time to sit down to delete my account & respond to some emails.

I caught up on the rancher in Nevada & read the message below. I decided that the page needed to stay even if I was unable to maintain it daily.

So I apologize for the back & forth but there it is. There is why I wanted to quit & main reason I decided to stick it out.

I guess, you are still stuck with me. The message is below, the message that changed my mind.

I am sorry to see that you are deleting your page. I wanted to share with you that I have only been following your page for a short period of time. To be honest, I as well as others were sent to your page by another. We were sent here to share our anti-dairy message. I started to look through your page fully prepared to give you everything I had. I seen your post about how you never wanted your cows to become a paycheck and how you cry over your “girls”. I have to say that I needed to read more. What I found is that you genuinely love what you do but more importantly what you do is care for your cows. I know that this is not true to every dairy farm but I now know that there are farmers that do things the right way. I also wanted you to know that your post about antibiotics & taking the calves away from their mothers helped me. I still do not like removing the calves from their mothers but knowing that they are well taken care of helps. Please reconsider closing your page even if you cannot post often because what you have already on here could help people like myself that are just looking for farmers that care. -Name was asked to be private

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Krista Stauffer

Owner at Stauffer Dairy
Krista didn't grow up on a farm but fell in love with a dairy farmer and now works alongside her husband on their family dairy farm, raising five children. Despite her non-farm upbringing, she embraces farm life, enjoys gardening, and remodeling their farmhouse. She also runs a successful women's boutique, manages social media for local businesses, and serves on the board of a non-profit creamery, showcasing her dedication to entrepreneurship and community service.
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