Agriculture All Day

By: Lisa Foust Prater

Driving through the family farm near Ithaca, Michigan, Paige Tuggle points out the extensive system of fencing, gates, and chutes in the lots surrounding the barn and heading down a lane in the middle of the property.

“The way this facility is set up, one person can do everything that needs to be done,” Tuggle says of the property, northeast of Grand Rapids. “Dad has a full-time job. I have a full-time job off the farm. We run about a hundred head of mama cows. So that also requires a lot of time outside of working. We have to make this place doable for one person to sort cows and bring cows up.”