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Access to Land: Clark Ranch Family & Succession Planning
2017-03-17 16:39:35| National Farmers Union
By Lura Roti, South Dakota Farmers Union Middle of Nowhere might be the best way to describe the location of Pat and Barb Clark’s ranch, which is located on native rangeland 40 miles southeast of Lemmon and 30 miles east of Meadow. Homesteaded in 1915 by his grandfather, Avery Clark, and great-uncle, Harry, the Clarks, […]
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Access to Land: Reis Ranch Family & Succession Planning
2017-02-24 17:45:56| National Farmers Union
By Lura Roti, South Dakota Farmers Union While some ranchers are nervous about what will happen to their operation when they are ready to retire, David and Brenda Reis are not too worried. “All of our kids want to take over the ranch. That would not be sustainable, but the one thing about having a […]
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Access to Land: Ficke Farm Legacy Letter
2017-02-23 17:13:51| National Farmers Union
By Del Ficke, Owner and Operator of Ficke Cattle Company This letter was originally published in The Future of Family Farms: Practical Farmers’ Legacy Letter Project To my future generations: In 1860, Johann Ficke made the trip from Germany to settle in the United States. Just nine years later, after first arriving in Wisconsin, he found a […]
Access to Land: Farm Legacy Letters
2017-02-21 18:49:42| National Farmers Union
By Teresa Opheim, Editor of The Future of Family Farms: Practical Farmers Legacy Letter Project About five years ago, a farmer stopped during a farm tour and confided that he worried that his son would not be able to continue farming. The farmers land-owning mother had just died, and her farmland was being divided among her children. […]
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Access to Land: Christensen Farm Family & Succession Planning
2017-02-13 19:21:42| National Farmers Union
By Lura Roti, South Dakota Farmers Union Ask Marlow Christensen and his three sons, Dale, Don and Doug, why they chose farming as a career and their responses are similar. “It’s all we’ve ever known,” explains Dale, who, like his younger brothers, joined the family operation full-time right out of high school. His brother, Don, […]
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