Brad Tollefson

Professional Photojournalist

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You can check out the full magazine and Anissa Anderson Orr’s cover story about the dairy worker research in the Pioneers Magazine.

Milk Processing

A work attaches the milking machine to the cow's teets while going around a rotary milking parlor Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
A work attaches the milking machine to the cow’s teets while going around a rotary milking parlor Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
Milk flows from a cow while going around a rotary milking parlor Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
Milk flows from a cow while going around a rotary milking parlor Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
Cows wait inside a pen before being milked Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
Cows wait inside a pen before being milked Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
Cattle go around a rotary milking parlor while being milked Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
Cattle go around a rotary milking parlor while being milked Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
Milk flows from a cow while going around a rotary milking parlor Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
Milk flows from a cow while going around a rotary milking parlor Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
David Douphrate talks with Harry DeWit about the uses for a teet scrubber Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
David Douphrate talks with Harry DeWit about the uses for a teet scrubber Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
Harry DeWit reaches out to pet a cow after it was milked Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
Harry DeWit reaches out to pet a cow after it was milked Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
Cows wait inside a pen before being milked Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
Cows wait inside a pen before being milked Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)

Out in the field

Robert Hagevoort, Harry DeWit and Davide Douphrate, Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
Robert Hagevoort, Harry DeWit and Davide Douphrate, Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
Davide Douphrate, with the UTHealth School of Public Health, walks up to a grazing cow in the field Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
Davide Douphrate, with the UTHealth School of Public Health, walks up to a grazing cow in the field Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
Davide Douphrate, with the UTHealth School of Public Health, walks up to a grazing cow in the field Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
Davide Douphrate, with the UTHealth School of Public Health, walks up to a grazing cow in the field Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
Robert Hagevoort, Harry DeWit and Davide Douphrate, Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
Robert Hagevoort, Harry DeWit and Davide Douphrate, Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
Cows gather in a pasture, Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
Cows gather in a pasture, Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
Cows gather in a pasture, Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
Cows gather in a pasture, Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
Cows eat in the feed lanes, Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)
Cows eat in the feed lanes, Monday, March 5, 2018, at Blue Sky Farms High Plains Dairy near Friona, Texas. (Brad Tollefson)