"The Wisconsin Farm They Built" debuts on May 15.
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How to buy 'The Wisconsin Farm They Built' "I own dairy cows on three Wisconsin dairy farms and grow alfalfa, corn, soybeans and wheat on our 376-acre, six generation family farm," Geiger said. Geiger lives in Beaver Dam, and runs a farm in Reedsville. He also has served as the president of the Wisconsin Holstein Association and Holstein Association USA. Today, Geiger is the managing editor of Hoard's Dairyman, which publishes in English, Chinese and Spanish and is distributed in 100 countries across the world. "Here I've been able to pair my dairy and economics background into story telling." "I've been on the staff for 28 years," Geiger said. Geiger was offered a job with the industry titan 15 months before he graduated from UW-Madison. Dickson, who recommended Geiger for an opening on the editorial staff of Hoard's Dairyman. Geiger and his writing ability caught the attention of a respected UW-Madison professor, scientist and cattle judge, David P. He aimed for a career in the industry, but an internship at an Ohio dairy cooperative led him onto a writing path. Geiger grew up on his family's dairy farm, and when he went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison he pursued degrees in dairy science and agricultural economics. "So Elmer, born a city boy, transformed his life and began a love affair with a Wisconsin family farm," according to the book's back-cover description. But he fell in love with a farmer's daughter, Julia Burich, and when her father died a half year after their marriage, Julia's mother asked Elmer to take over the farm. By the time he was 18, he was a foreman supervising men double and triple his age during the Great Depression. After his mother Anna was killed by a train, Elmer went to work at a local foundry when he was a young teenager. When he was a young man, Elmer was not on the path to become a farmer. The stories were told not only in the house, but also while making firewood, hay, lumber and doing a host of other farm chores." Geiger was a "sponge," he said, "soaking up the recollections as Grandpa Elmer and Grandma Julie came to the farm four, five, six and even seven times a week some summers. They began to talk about their lives and their farm in 1981, when their daughter, Rosalie, and her husband, Randy Geiger, Corey Geiger's parents, became the fifth generation to operate the farm, Geiger said. Geiger's grandparents, Elmer and Julia Pritzl, are the main characters. He used actual events and people to narrate the stories, and delves into the reasons behind the decisions real people made.
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The book is organized as a series of stories "carefully knit together," Geiger said. It's a dairy story, it's a food story, and ultimately, it's a story about creating America's Dairyland." "While this book is my family's story," said Geiger in an email interview with USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin, "(it's) also a Wisconsin story. Geiger, managing editor of Hoard's Dairyman.Ībout the book, 'The Wisconsin Farm They Built' Today we open the cover of "The Wisconsin Farm They Built: Tales of Family and Fortitude," a nonfiction book about the history of a family farm, written by Corey A. USA Today network statewide coverage of the release of The Wisconsin Farm They Built by Corey Geiger.
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