{"id":36682,"date":"2020-04-08T08:17:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T13:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wfbf.com\/?p=36682"},"modified":"2020-04-07T08:24:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T13:24:10","slug":"meet-darby-sampson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wfbf.com\/member-profiles\/meet-darby-sampson\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Darby Sampson"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cThere is something to be proud of every day.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n That was Jackson County Farm Bureau member Darby Sampson\u2019s response when asked why she is proud to be a farmer.<\/p>\n Sampson added, \u201cSome days I\u2019m proud of the calf we saved. Others, I\u2019m proud of how well we all worked together to accomplish a goal.\u201d<\/p>\n Darby and her husband of 15 years, Clint, farm in Jackson County with Clint\u2019s parents Alan and Kathy. The farm has transitioned from milking dairy cows to raising beef cattle and crops.<\/p>\n Sampson worked off the farm for Dairyland Laboratories, Inc., for five years before the farm was able to sustain her and Clint full-time. Today, the couple make nearly every decision about the daily management and future of the farm together.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s always a list of improvements we would like to make, and even though we cross things off, it never seems to get shorter,\u201d said Sampson.<\/p>\n The couple grows crops on 4,000 acres and cares for 200 Angus and Simmental cow\/calf pairs. The farm also is home to a handful of ewes that have lambs each spring to be shown at the county fair.<\/p>\n