Spencer Tregilgas

Spencer Tregilgas is a first generation dairy farmer. He and his wife Melissa decided to pursue farming as a career after the birth of their second daughter, with the goal of being able to work together as a family. Through a steep learning curve and with very limited access to land, machinery, inputs or capital, they built a successful small pasture-based dairy business, and later a separate targeted grazing business. Spencer is a Savory Accredited Field Professional with experience thinking outside the box and planning for long term goals. He currently manages a 1600 acre dairy, milking 900 head for the Alexandre family in Del Norte County, California. There he is helping to rebuild soils that were previously used for commercial lily bulb production, as well as helping to monitor land health on the Alexandre family’s other dairy farms, which are the first dairies to be certified regenerative in the United States. He is excited to share his experiences in both small scale and large scale regenerative dairying.