hanks for visiting our site. We welcome your visit to our farm anytime. We established our herd and new barn in 1999 after working on a grade dairy for several years. Neither Dwight or Anita
grew up on a dairy farm, but loved farming in general. Dwight raised club calves and was active in 4H and FFA all his teenage years, and then worked as a vet assistant for several years, which has been an asset here on our own farm. Anita worked for a very well managed grade herd for about 10 years and learned to love cows while there. We acquired some registered Holsteins that were of really good quality and from there we really got the Holstein Bug! We mostly have just been trying to build our herd since then and trying to tap into some great cow families that we think highly of. We hope to be able to be merchandising more once we get our foundation animals with heifers in our herd.   We had a very successful spring show having best bred and owned cow, reserve intermediate champion, and many other show winnings.
 
ur focus here is Faith and Family, and it's a great joy to work together and have fun together. We do have some bad days, and lots of work along with it, but we believe the scripture --"In the
sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread..." Gen. 3:19 KJV. Nothing in life comes easy and without much perseverance and integrity. Low milk prices, sick cows, drought, ect... all come along with it and make for a total relying on our Heavenly Father. We have found much comfort during those times to "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths." Prov.3, 5-6 KJV.
 
 
elcome to the Sumac-Valley Farm website. Sumac-Valley was established in 2004 when Jason and Kendra Rokey moved from the town of Bern Kansas to a location in the country nestled in
the gently rolling hills of Northeast Kansas near Sabetha. Jason and Kendra both grew up on small farms, and although our parents did not dairy we both had dairy heifers for 4-H projects. In his last year of high school Jason got a job with Rokeyroad Holsteins milking cows and doing calf chores. He later left to become an electrician and Kendra became employed there. While working there, she developed an interest in Red and White Holsteins, and thus made her first purchase of an R & W animal, Edeal Tia Maria-Red.
ow started the legacy of Sumac-Valley! With the help of Dwight and Anita Rokey, Kendra began flushing her to Rubens, which resulted in a number of offspring for Kendra as well as for
Rokeyroad Holsteins. A couple of years later Jason and Kendra were united in marriage. We continued flushing Maria to bulls such as Jordan and Talent. Since then, we have a host of daughters and granddaughters that we have been privileged to sale, show, and care for. In the fall of 2006 we purchased a heifer out of the Scientific Cherry Rae family, which goes back to the great Queen of the Breed II cow, Glenridge Citation Roxy! We are excited of the potential that she brings to our farm!
ur goal here at Sumac-Valley is to improve the genetics in the Red and White Holstein breed. In our breeding program we select bulls that complement or help the traits in our heifers, not
necessarily what is currently hot at the moment. While we ourselves do not have a dairy, we thank Dwight and Anita for allowing us to have a few milking head at their farm and for the help that they have given us. But, most of all, we give God the thanks, and credit for where we are today.

Jason, Kendra, and Family
 
RHA: 27,787M  3.8% 1051F 3.1% 865P 3/07

Dwight and Anita Rokey ∙ 2021 T Road ∙ Sabetha, KS 66534
 (785) 284-2669 ∙ Cell: (785) 285-8142 ∙ darokey@rokeyroad.com