Happy 2022! This week we hit the ground running; Tiffany LaMendola, our contract economist with Blimling & Associates brings us our first market update of the year, followed by Labor Attorney Anthony Raimondo, who brings our listeners an update on the slurry of Labor Law changes that took affect this month. 

This week we have Tiffany LaMendola, our economist of Blimling & Assoc. back with your holiday market update, Jennifer Giambroni of the California Milk Advisory Board sits down with Melissa to chat about the recent Real California Milk Excelerator competition finals and gives us a few tips on donation of dairy products this holiday season, and to wrap up this episode and our podcasting year, Darby and Melissa sit down with Maureen Lemos a dairy farmer, photographer and author of Lockwood III Dairy in Waterford, to share a bit about her dairy family, the work she has done in her community to help the food insecure, and her newly published children's book, Clarice The Red Cow. 

For more information about the Real California Milk Excelerator Competition: 

https://info.venturefuel.net/cmab-excelerator

For More Information or to follow Maureen Lemos: 

www.https://www.claricetheredcow.com/book

https://www.facebook.com/maureen.o.lemos

Instagram: @photographer_on_a_dairy_farm