The Evening Tribune
Growing up without siblings on a family farm that hugged the New York-Pennsylvania border near Wellsville, Jessica Hoffman would find comfort in the animal barn with her bovine buddies.
“Ever since I was a little kid and I had a bad day, I would just hang out with the cows,” said Hoffman, a 2007 Wellsville Central School District graduate who went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in dairy science at Cornell University.
“I was an only child. They were like my friends. Cows are like giant dogs, they really are,” Hoffman said. “They all have their unique personalities, and you learn them. Like a dog some are great, and some are jerks.”
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