If you wait for your dad’s shoes, you’ll wait all your life. “That’s a Portuguese saying, or words to that effect,” said Ed Machado at some point as he recalled the hardscrabble but intensely focused way he built his family dairy. The fact his dairy operation is arguably now bigger than all of Manteca’s small family dairies of the last four or five decades combined, and how he managed to stay afloat – become even bigger when practically everyone around him were sinking – is clear testament of his business savvy.