The Albert Lea Business and Professional Women will meet at noon Wednesday at the Ramada Inn. For reservations, call Nancy VanderWaerdt at 377-0227. All working women are invited to hear the speaker and join other women for lunch.  

The speaker is Chris Sukalski, who operates the 300-cow dairy that is part of a family partnership, Reiland Farms, which includes her parents, Alvin and Karilyn Reiland, and her brother Scott Reiland. Sukalski and her husband, Troy, have three children and live on the dairy near LeRoy. In addition to being a key part of the farm operation, Troy also works for the Fillmore County Highway Department in maintenance.

The Reiland Farms families tried for three years to build a new dairy near Spring Valley, where they’d farmed for three generations. After giving up that dream, Chris and Troy purchased the dairy farm near LeRoy in 2001 and moved the partnership’s dairy herd and their young family there. The bulk of the cropland and the youngstock are at Spring Valley. The Reiland Farms’ dairy herd finished 2006 with the third highest production average in the state of Minnesota.