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Chase Pagel

Chase Pagel

Wisconsin dairy farmer and children's author of the Dairy Diaries series, including "Big Farms, Little Farms," Wisconsin Ag in the Classroom Book of the Year.

Sep 16, 2026

8:06
How did you find yourself in this new role?
8:09
Yeah, never a goal.
8:11
I did not ever, ever think that I was going to be a children's author, but One of my roles at the farm used to be tours.
8:21
So I did quite a few years where I was doing all the tours and stuff.
8:25
And I would just tell a lot of random stories about, you know, we had a Jersey steer that ate strawberry Pop-Tarts up in Coleman.
8:34
And he was my daughter's steer.
8:36
And that was his favorite thing to eat.

19 MINS LATER

27:20
some of your best experiences as a your journey or what, you know, as being an author and, and, you know, what's the big thing that's, that's really given you that, as I say, the aha moment, you know?

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