Country Acres Saturday, October 1, 2022
Focusing on Today’s Rural Environment
Volume 9, Edition 46
Humble
beginnings
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mily wer fa pasture lo F e h T ir es ver the look o ows and calvlloway. o H of c r 2 nea uality Sept. 2are raising q sed u They while foc y cattle ing a famil on raisassion for with p re of the u the fut stock live ry. indust
Flowers raise cattle with family in mind BY GRACE JEURISSEN | STAFF WRITER
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A OLLOWAY – Farm kids often look n newbor up to their mentors and grow passion rd fo Here from watching the success of those s in calf rest asture close to them. This was exactly the case for the p t the fronrm. From Flower family. t the fa nings, the a Jared and Makayla Flower, along with their begin humble mily has grown kids, Jaelyn, Tayton, Ty and Emerson, own a Flower fattle operation 100-head cow/calf beef operation, JMF Hertheir ca modate the efords and SimAngus. JMF raises Hereford to accomrcial livestock and SimAngus cattle which started because of comme ducers. the lovebirds’ passion for quality cattle in the pro beef industry. the cattle inBoth Jared and Makayla grew up on beef cattle dustry. After we got married, withfarms. Their deep roots in the industry are what drove in a year, we saved enough to make a their passion to start their own seedstock operation down payment on a farm.” shortly after saying “I do.” In 2013, Jared and Makayla purchased the farm “I was ready to get myself established in the seed- site they call the “west farm.” And, just last year, they stock industry from right out of high school,” Jared purchased their new place which they call the “east said. “I never went to college, and gained experience farm.” Though growing and implementing a new site by finding places to work that had great mentors in is fun and exciting for their family, they won’t soon
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Publications bli ti The newspaper of today is the history of tomorrow.
This month in the
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forget their humble beginnings on the west farm. The west farm was a bull test station previous to the Flowers’ purchase of the site. The buildings and loading zones show many years of hardworking ranchers and well-fed cattle in rural Swift County. The site was built in the 1970s and came with a few
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Two left feet Grace Jeurissen column
10 All part of the Honer herd Rockville
22 Gumshoes Nancy Packard-Leaseman
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Fence posts on Boot Hill Glenwood
16 Growing futures Randall
24 Cherished memories Farwell
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FFA Albany
21 Country cooking Albany