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ASA Member: Ken Butt, Ackley, Iowa
Photo:
(Center) Ken and
Sandi Butt (with dogs, Annie and Gracie). To the right of Ken and Sandi is
son Kevin Butt and daughter-in-law Honoria Balogh and their daughters
Victoria and Olivia. To the far left is son-in-law Ole Cleveland and
daughter Kristin with their sons Espen, Finn and Soren. And just left of
Ken and Sandi is son-in-law Darren Kube and daughter Carrie with their
children Hailey and Wilken.
Farm Description: The Circle B Century Farm (established 1908) has
grown full-circle. It was bought by our great grandfather, Wm. Bartling, a
German immigrant farmer. He bought it for his daughter, Emma, who passed
it down to our parents, Anna and Roy. Ken and Sandi presently own it and
have raised three children there. Our daughter and her family are now the
fifth and sixth generation to live here. Twenty-one members have lived on
this farm including foreign students and visitors. Our ancestors farmed
with horses, raising corn, soybeans, hay, and livestock. Grandpa always
said that they originally mowed and baled the soybeans as cattle forage.
Today we farm with modern equipment, GPS, and our semi hauls our soybeans
for processing at a local Cargill plant for soybean meal, soyoil and soy
diesel production. Our corn is hauled to one of two local plants for swine
feed, ethanol, and DGD production. Wouldn’t our ancestors be shocked at
all of the changes? What will the future bring?
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