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2012-01-25 15:16:49.857 By Larry Kershner

This week, Farm News has implemented a plan in hopes to get more timely delivery of our newspaper to readers. more »

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2010 Century Farms

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FEATURED ARTICLE

June 25, 2010 ELLSWORTH — It’s not everywhere in the Midwest, that one finds a farm that has stayed within a family’s ownership for multiple generations, let alone for 100-plus or even 150-plus years or more. » Full Story

POCAHONTAS COUNTY

June 25, 2010 By KEVIN STILLMAN

Farm News staff writer

PALMER — Situated almost exactly half way between Pocahontas and Pomeroy is a grandchild’s dreamland. » Full Story

BOONE COUNTY

June 25, 2010 Hopes 6th generation will continue tradition

BOONE — A Boone County farmwife continues to hold onto her late husband’s century-plus old family farm. » Full Story

BUENA VISTA COUNTY

June 25, 2010 Parts of farm have been rebuilt twice

PETERSON — From a deadly farm accident in 1920 to fires that destroyed the farmhouse and later the barn in the 1940s, generations of th... » Full Story

CALHOUN COUNTY

June 25, 2010 LAKE CITY — Although many Irish families who immigrated to America in the 1800s remained in the large cities, some, including John Dougherty, a native of Cork County, Ireland, sought new... » Full Story

CERRO GORDO COUNTY

June 25, 2010 Egg production was operation’s primary income

CLEAR LAKE — George Koester left his native Germany in 1891 at age 16 for the United States, the first member of his family to... » Full Story

CARROLL COUNTY

June 25, 2010 MANNING — From the Dammann family’s German heritage to its close ties with neighboring farm families, the story of its Century Farm reflects many years of Manning and Carroll County histor. » Full Story

CHEROKEE COUNTY

June 25, 2010 PETERSON — Since Carroll Tigges was born and reared in the same Cherokee County farmhouse where his father was , it’s easy to understand his family’s strong ties to the land. » Full Story

CLAY COUNTY

June 25, 2010 WEBB?—The history of the Bittinger/Smith family farm extends to well before a Bittinger or Smith ever set foot on its soil. » Full Story

CRAWFORD COUNTY

June 25, 2010 CHARTER OAK — For Ervin Kuhlmann, who was born Ja. » Full Story

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