Article: No more cows left to milk at Roanoke County, Va., dairy operation.

By Lois Caliri, The Roanoke Times, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 17--"He loved to make hay And milk cows every day He loved to tell tales While loading hay bales."

-- from a poem written by then-13-year-old Josh Poage in honor of his grandfather, Bill Poage, who died in March.

David Poage, the younger of Bill Poage's two sons, had worked with his dad since he finished high school. But he never liked milking cows. He preferred to do the other chores on the Old Poage farm, instead.

That didn't make it any less painful for him, his mother, Audrey, and his brother, Bill, to sell their dairy herd of 56 cows.

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