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Joanna Lidback is a dairy farmer in Vermont. She’s also a CFO and a business consultant. She has the unique perspective of being involved in both a small dairy, and a larger one. But across the dairy industry, she notices the shared values of taking care of the cows. Lidback is a member of the Global Farmer Network.

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joanna Lidback

Joanna Lidback volunteers as a board member for the Global Farmer Network, and has been recognized by the GFN as a 2021 Kleckner Award for Global Farm Leadership award recipient. She is a dairy farmer, in Chief Financial Officer, a business consultant, a mom, and a wife. Joanna and her husband own and operate the Farm at Wheeler Mountain in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, Feriene Steaten. It's an 80-cow herd of Holsteins and Jerseys, where they also raise their own replacements and have a small beef cattle herd. Joanna is CFO by ADK Farms, wÃªr't se soargje foar oer 7,500 melkkij en steward oer 8,000 hektare lÃ¢n. She is also the principal consultant at Adirondack Management Services, coaching 10 other dairy farms toward reaching their own goals.