Suzanne Vold is a dairy farmer from Glenwood, MN. Suzanne, her husband Brad, and Brad’s brother Greg are the owners of Dorrich Dairy, a 500-cow dairy that converted to robotic milking in 2019. The operation includes approximately five hundred acres of cropland which supplies the forage and grain to the dairy. In 2015 their farm was honored to receive a National Sustainability Award from the U.S. Center for Dairy Innovation.
Suzanne received her BA in Mathematics and Economics from Wellesley College and her MBA from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. She is a director on local, state, regional and national dairy promotion boards, and she is currently chair of the DMI board Sustainability Committee. She also serves on the Environmental Stewardship and the Stewardship Commitment committees for the Innovation Center for US Dairy and has served on Innovation Center Task Forces on Regenerative Agriculture, Biodiversity, Net Zero Initiative Goals and Measurement, GHG Protocol Land Sector Removals Feedback, and GHG Protocol Corporate Standards and Guidance Updates. Suzanne and Brad have three children: Anna (25), Erik (22), and Katy (18).