There’s nothing easy about running a dairy in remote Alaska. To do it means growing your own grain, troubleshooting veterinary problems, fixing broken equipment yourself, and bottling and distributing your own milk. Never mind the expense of keeping cows warm when it’s minus 30, and shooing bears out of the fields.
Scott Plagerman says he likes the challenge of going it alone.
“And the reward, if it works,” he says. “Sometimes it doesn’t.”