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Brock Hoskins
Employer: Rory and Carmen Peters
Peters Farms
Chaseburg, Wisconsin
Vernon County
280 cows
Junior at Westby High School
17 years old

Questions for parents or employer:
Tell us your favorite experience of your employee helping with chores. A favorite experience having Brock work for our family is that he enjoys working dairy cows.

What qualities does your employee have that benefit the farm? Brock has an outstanding work ethic and has a willingness to take on new tasks. We appreciate his knowledge and his interest in agriculture.

Questions for the youth:
What are your responsibilities on the farm? I milk, feed calves and do some of the cleaning. I work at the farm about 48 hours per month, mostly on the weekends.

When did you begin helping on the farm? I started working at Peters Farm in October 2020. I had heard that it is a good place to work, and I wanted to work on a dairy farm.

How do you balance school, extracurricular activities and farm chores? I wrestle, am in FFA and show my own small herd of Jerseys. Rory and Carmen are good about working with my schedule and that makes it pretty easy. I mostly work on the farm on weekends, so I am usually caught up with school stuff. I try to prioritize to make sure everything gets done.

How has working on the farm shaped your character? It has taught me responsibility and the importance of taking care of something that cannot take care of itself.

What do you love most about farm life? I enjoy being with the cattle and being on the farm in general. I like that no two days working are ever exactly the same.

What is one thing you have learned from working alongside your employer? They have taught me the importance of doing something right the first time, so that you do not have to waste time or money redoing it.

What are your future plans? I plan to either go to a tech school to study a trade or to enter the workforce. I also plan to continue to own and work with my own cattle.

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