Dairy Leadership, FFA History From a World Dairy Expo Time Capsule and Forage Opportunities

First, we visit with Jonathan Lamb about the honor of having his family's operation, Oakfield Corners Dairy, named the 2026 World Dairy Expo Producers of the Year.

He discusses leadership, balancing responsibilities on and off the farm, and the lessons he has learned along the way.

Well, no matter where you are in the United States, dairy producers have that same passion for cows and the love of people.

And that's none other like this year's World Dairy Expo Producer of the Year.

Tell us about who you are and the team that's being recognized.

Yeah, my name is Jonathan Lamb.

We're proud to be recognized as Producer of the Year.

And my brother, Matthew Lamb, and his wife, Kendra, and his daughters, Chloe and Claire, and my wife, Alicia, and my son and daughter, Griffin and Kira.

Talk to us about your history of dairy farming and the love of cows.

Yeah, so my brother and I are 12th generation dairy farmers.

So we have farming in our background for many, many generations.

Yeah, cows is something, breeding cows, genetics is something that we're really passionate about.

Both show and genomic index and probably more of our program revolves around genetics.

genomic index and then the show stuff.

But we still love seeing pretty cows and we love to show cows as well.

And talk to us about how it started.

It only started with a few cows.

Yeah, I think when I came back from college after I worked in Florida for three years, I met my wife Alicia down there.

We both had a background in working with show cows when we were in 4-H and that kind of ignited our passion for it.

So when I came back to the dairy, we started a small program back up and We really were proud when we brought one or two show cows here to the show.

Of course, now it's grown to a much bigger show string than that.

So we started from humble beginnings and grew kind of organically over the years.

So at Florida to New York, tell us more about a few of the states that you've been in and seen dairy in.

Yeah, we are a multi-state operation.

Three milking facilities in New York and one in the state of Ohio.