Yankee’s second Farm Credit Fellow of the summer was Cassie Bromley. Cassie visited the White River Junction office the week of May 20th. She grew up on a 65 cow family dairy farm in Wallingford, Vermont. She graduated from Mill River Union High School in 2009 and then went on to Vermont Technical College where she participated in the 2+2 program, majored in Dairy Farm Management and worked on the VTC farm. Cassie graduated from VTC in 2011 before taking a year off to work on a goat dairy farm in Manchester, VT. She returned to the 2+2 program for the fall 2012 semester at UVM and then spent the Spring 2013 semester at the Miner Research Institute in Chazy, NY. While at Miner, Cassie and her peers worked closely with progressive dairy researchers, attended meetings around the Country, heard speakers from throughout the northeast and attended the regional and national Dairy Challenges.
When Cassie was asked to write about her time with us in White River, here is what she had to say: “During this week I was able to see and hear about at least nine different types of businesses within the agricultural industry in Yankee’s territory. Farm Credit reaches out to help a lot of different types of farms and without Farm Credit’s help I believe our industry wouldn’t have the financial stability to continue.”
