Derrick Josi @tdf_honest_farming         Instagram: 63k    YouTube: 13.1k     Twitter: 19.9k 

• Catch Up
• Where are they from, what do they farm, how did they get into farming
• How’s the family - do they farm with family?
• Kids? - 3 girls and 1 boy (5th generation); married 
• Met his wife on a blind date? In 2011
• What are they up to today?
• What they see that excites them?
• What do they want to make sure they see before they leave 
• Oregon Dairy Farmer 
• Farms the same land as his great grandfather - Alfred
• All-Jersey dairy herd, produced nearly 35,000 lbs (3,000 gallons) of milk per day
• 450 acre farm: double-12 herringbone parlor, a free stall barn, grows 500 acres of corn and grass silage, and includes open pasture for grazing 
• What methods do you use to farm with Derrick’s parents, Don and Desi?
• Past 15 years - extensive renovations (infrastructure, reduce labor, and relocate the milking parlor out of the flood plain)
• What benefits have you seen from this? Any other big projects coming?
• Derrick and Kaycee were knighted with the 2020 Young Jersey Breeder Award
• What helped you get to this position/spot? 
• Author - An Industry Worth Fighting For
• Offers readers a glimpse behind the curtain of a working dairy farm 
• Does not shy away from sensitive topics
• He presents reality in terms that are stark but sensitive…a balance as delicate as the lives for which he is responsible 
• What inspired you to share your story?
• What are your goals? How do you want to impact the readers? 
• TDH Honest Farming
• Tillamook Dairy Farmer 
• Keynote Speaker
• Where have you spoken? Most powerful time? 
• How did you get started?
• How has social media changed his life?
• Why do it?
• How would he start it over differently?
• Which is their favorite platform?
• How do you deal with negative comments? 
• If you were an animal, what do you think you would be?
• Right now, who inspires you?
• If you could make anything bigger on your body what would it be?

Would you rather

• Have a pause or rewind button in your life
• Live in a treehouse or in a cave
• Give up coffee or soda forever 
• Have your own theme park for your kids or your own zoo for your kids
• Forget your partner’s birthday or your anniversary every year
• Be the funniest person in a room or the smartest person in a room 

• What’s next for them?
• What can our listeners do to help?
• What can we do to help?

Knowing what you know now, what advice would you give yourself or others at 18?