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HUTCHINSON COUNTY FAMILY

Vicki and Mike Dvorak of Scotland.

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Some might say Mike Dvorak is a self-made man. He started with virtually nothing in 1995; and, slowly but surely, he added crop acres and cows. While hard work and perseverance has paid off, Mike gives credit to family, friends, neighbors and even strangers who have given him opportunities.

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Most importantly, for the past 20 years in Kaylor Township, his wife, Vicki, has worked side-by-side with him caring for the livestock, helping harvest, and raising their daughters, Tori, 18, and Emily, 16; and son, Dylan, 11.

The son of local farmers James and Celestine Dvorak, Mike graduated from Scotland High School in 1993 and Lake Area Technical College in 1995. He had a career in farming in mind, but he didn’t have a plan for making that happen. One day in the spring of ’95, he was hauling a load of corn to the ethanol plant. Larry Schlechter, who worked at the plant,

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asked Mike, “You're graduating from college, aren't you? Are you looking for a farm?”

Larry told Mike to talk to his mom, Clara, who was in her 80s, widowed, and living on the farm alone. “Well, I drove around this mile a couple of times working up the nerve to pull in here. Finally, one day I just decided to do it. I didn't know her, so I introduced myself; next thing you know, we visited for three or four hours and kind of hit it off.” In today’s terms, the amount paid for the 60 acres wasn’t much, but to a 20-year-old in 1995, it sure seemed like a lot. “When I look back to when

I bought this farm – I was scared as heck. But it opened up a lot a lot of opportunities. I was glad I did it.”

Vicki told of another stroke of fortune: “Mike had a landlord who was a bachelor. Before he passed away, he told his family he wanted Mike to be able to buy the ground. The simple reason was Mike would take the time out of his day to sit and listen to him. The old bachelor said, ‘It could have been the same story 10 times. But he sat there and listened to me.’”

Mike told one more tale almost too good to be true. “When I got my first cows, I had an older neighbor who I was helping do chores. He was having health problems and he said, ‘Come on in the house. I want to sell you my cows. My health is not good. I know you're starting out and you don't have no money. You take my cows and take good care of them. Come next year, when you sell the calf crop, we'll talk.’ So, basically, he financed it – he didn’t want any money down.”

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Emily Dvorak

giving us the opportunity. We can't thank them enough,” Mike said. “Our neighbors have looked out for us and given us a break. I couldn't ask for any better neighbors. People are good, you know. Hopefully, down the road, we can do the same thing and give somebody else a chance or a break.”

ROMANCE AT MENNO LIVESTOCK Early on, Ken Wintersteen at Menno Livestock offered Mike a part-time job during the winter to help at the special feeder cattle sales. On occasion, he would get called in to help at an extra busy regular weekly sale. “One morning Ken called and said, ‘Mikey, you need to come in and help. We got a big one.’ I walked in and went to the back and looked around, and thought, ‘There ain't nothing here.’” Well, Ken’s request was just a ploy to get Mike in to meet Vicki who was starting work there.

“She was checking livestock in and I was sorting. After one of the sales, I got up enough nerve to do a little sweet talking, and next thing you

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Tori Dvorak

know, we're going to the movies.”

But Vicki remembers it a little differently. She said Ken told Mike to “get on the stick because if he didn’t get busy and ask me out, there were all kinds of other guys that were in line for me.”

Three years later, they got married.

Then Ken was worried he was going to lose customers because she was off the market. “And there actually was one who quit coming,” Vicki laughed. Mike’s dad and fellow employees of Menno Livestock brought in a stock truck with a cow in it to the wedding. A sign on the truck said, “Menno Livestock: We sell all classes of livestock and we’re in the matchmaking business, too!”

Mike’s part-time job at Menno Livestock lasted more than 25 years and Vicki worked there for more than 20 years. The experience was special to both of them since they worked alongside her dad, who passed away unexpectedly in June 2021.

Vicki is the daughter of Pat and

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the late Virgil Munkvold of Viborg.

“We had a farrow-to-finish hog operation. I was basically Dad’s right-hand person,” Vicki said.

“I let the sows out once in the morning and once at night, made sure all of them were fed; I clipped teeth, docked tails and gave shots. The hogs had their ups and downs, we went through the bad and the good.”

She didn’t do much machinery work on her dad’s farm, but got behind the wheel of the tractor when Mike was laid up with back surgery a few years ago. “My mom was surprised I was getting on the tractor and feeding the cows. I had no choice, the work had to be done.

I also had to tag the last half of the calves that year. I think I got them all tagged but one.”

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farm on the side. According to Mike, “Dylan’s dilemma is football is during the fall, but so is harvest. So then he thought pro basketball, but that goes into planting season. I just ask him to remember Dad and Mom when he makes his first million.”

Dylan is on the student council and loves playing football, basketball, and baseball.

CREATING STRONG BONDS The entire family is active at St. George Catholic Parish in Scotland.

Emily, Dylan and Tori are altar servers. Vicki teaches Sunday school for kindergarten and first grade and Tori helps her. Mike is a eucharistic minister and has served several terms on the parish council. Both Mike and Dylan serve as ushers.

In addition to the strong bonds Mike and Vicki have created with their children, local school and church, they have a special bond with a group of friends who cut silage together in the summer. In 2012, Dvoraks purchased a silage cutter to chop their own crop. Soon the phone started to ring with people wanting him to cut their silage.

But after cutting 3,500 acres in 100-degree heat and eating dust all day for a month, he decided against a custom cutting business.

Tori, Dylan and Emily Dvorak

calves in the spring, which also doubles as an FFA project. Daughter Tori is a senior at Scotland High School and is president of the FFA chapter. Emily is a sophomore and is the chapter’s secretary. Mike and Vicki are leaders of the FFA chapter’s parent support organization. Emily and Tori are also part of the FFA chapter’s parliamentary procedure team which placed first at the state contest.

Tori serves as president of both the student council and the FCCLA chapter, plus is a cheerleader. She has been accepted to eight colleges, but has narrowed her choices down to three. She hopes to become an

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elementary or agriculture teacher.

Tori has two part-time jobs, one at the Scotland nursing home and the other at the town’s youth center.

Emily is the quiet one in the family, but is also the ultra-competitive one. She loves sports and is active in both volleyball and basketball. Emily thinks her future career may lie in some field of engineering, but her parents think her competitive spirit may mean she’s called to coaching.

Both daughters are also involved in the school play and have A-B grade point averages.

Vicki said fifth-grader Dylan plans to play professional football and

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Now they have the same circle of friends who come together each summer to work together on the silage crop. Vicki said, “Nobody can afford every single piece of equipment you need, so we all help each other out. Mike drives the cutter, I drive a truck, another one drives a truck and his wife drives one of our trucks; and another one pushes the pile. There’s never any money exchanged among us.”

“We’ve really built a good, strong bond of friendship in this cutting crew,” Mike said. “When it's time to quit, we sit around and drink a little bit of beverage. It’s good times.”

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KEEPING LOCAL HISTORY ALIVE

A BASKETBALL EXTRAVAGANZA MEMORIES OF LOCAL BASKETBALL STARS

March means it’s basketball tourney season across the country. Back in the day, high school sports were one of the primary forms of entertainment in a small town. The Farming Families coverage area is home to many historically-competitive high school teams and individual stars.

During South Dakota’s two-class days, most of the towns in the Farming Families coverage area were part of Class B. The “Big B” tournament attracted standing room only crowds from 1936 to 1985.

The late reporter and broadcaster Hod Nielsen called the State Class B Tournament “South Dakota's biggest basketball extravaganza.”

Argus Leader, Dec. 1, 1996.

To spark your memories, here are some of the great basketball names from teams in Hutchinson, Turner, Lincoln and Minnehaha Counties. (Obviously, there were a lot of other great high school players. These names were gathered from the South Dakota Basketball Hall of Fame and the South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame.

Sioux Falls teams/players are not included.)

STEVE ADKINS (Parkston, 1928) Steve Adkins, a 1928 Parkston High and 1934 University of South Dakota grad, was one of the state’s greatest all-around athletes of the 1930s. In addition, he was a high school coach for 20 years, first at Flandreau and then at Vermillion. SD Sports Hall of Fame, 2011.

CLIFF ANDERSON (Dell Rapids, 1969) Cliff Anderson was one of the last great four-sport college athletes in South Dakota, excelling in basketball, football, baseball and track at Dakota State University. The 6-foot-5 Anderson was a first-team all-stater in basketball and football. SD Sports Hall of Fame, 2011.

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Argus Leader, Feb. 17, 1970.

SHERRI BRENDE (Baltic, 1997) Miss Basketball and USA Today Player of the Year in South Dakota as a senior, Brende led Baltic to Class B state titles in 1995 and 1996 while scoring 1,886 career points. The Bulldogs were 24-1 during each of those seasons. Brende was an all-NCC pick at SDSU. SD Basketball Hall of Fame, 2022.

GERHARDT “G.E.” BUENNING (Parkston, 1966). G.E. Buenning gained recognition for his role in helping Parkston win its first state tournament in 1966.

He received MVP Honors to go with his All-State status. At Wartburg College, he became the college’s career leading scorer with 1,932 points. SD Basketball Hall of Fame, 2014.

JOHN EIDSNESS (Canton, 1966) John Eidsness’ trademark was extreme versatility during his athletic career at Canton and SDSU. A four-sport star in high school, he was a rare three-sport athlete in college (basketball, football and baseball). At Canton, the 6-foot guard scored 1,567 points, averaging 25.6 as a senior. SD Basketball Hall of Fame, 2015.

MIKE FREIER (Tripp, 1967) In terms of both accuracy and range, South Dakota has rarely produced a shooter the equal of Mike Freier. During three days at the Sioux Falls Arena in March 1967, Tripp’s star senior guard scored a total of 103 points. He made 62 percent of his field goal attempts and was on target with 93 percent of his free throws, converting 25 of 27. Tripp went 28-0 under Coach Jim Flevares that season. He played collegiately at both USD and Yankton College.

SD Basketball Hall of Fame, 2015.

GREG HANSEN (Hurley, 1970) In his senior year, Greg Hansen averaged 24 points and 21 rebounds per game. The Bulldogs finished 24-5. Hansen finished his career with 1,989 points and 1,663 rebounds. He played college ball at Dakota Wesleyan University where his career averages were 23.3 points, 11.4 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game. SD Basketball Hall of Fame, 2012.

LAURIE (BRUNS) KRUSE (Lennox, 1987) When she graduated in 1997, Kruse held Lennox career records of 1,073 points and 633 rebounds. She shot 54 percent from the field for her career. Kruse scored 1,370 points at SDSU. She led the NCC in scoring with 23.5 points per game in 1991 and was chosen league MVP. SD Basketball Hall of Fame, 2022.

JOSH MUELLER (West Central, 2001) Josh Mueller led the West Central Trojans to three straight championship games in Class A, winning back-to-back titles in 2000 and 2001. As a senior, he had a Des Moines Register, Oct. 26, 1999. record 147 points in the state tournament. During their two title seasons, the Trojans went 49-1 under the coaching of Mueller’s father, Kent.

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professionally for the Sioux Falls Skyforce and for European teams. SD Basketball Hall of Fame, 2016.

JARED REINER (Tripp-Delmont, 2000) Reiner powered Tripp-Delmont to the Class B state championship during his senior season in 2000. Then he became a valuable player for the University of Iowa.

After four years with the Hawkeyes, he embarked on a professional career that included time with the Sioux Falls Skyforce, Chicago Bulls and Milwaukee Bucks. SD Basketball Hall of Fame, 2018.

TOM ROPS (Lennox, 1992) Tom Rops and the Orioles won the Class A state title in 1991 and finished with an unbeaten record of 24-0. He scored 30 points in the 1992 championship game when the Orioles were state runners-up and finished 22-2.

Rops was an all-NCC player at SDSU and totaled 1,147 points. SD Basketball Hall of Fame, 2022.

Centerville boys basketball team, 1909. Photo from South Dakota State Historical Society.

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JIM SCHMIDT (Dell Rapids St. Mary’s, 1939) James “Sunny Jim” Schmidt was a star athlete for St. Mary’s. He earned Cath-

LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL 2,000-POINT CAREER SCORERS (w/graduating year listed)

Hurley girls basketball team, 1906. Standing: Unknown, Harry King, unknown, Prof. Stevers and unknown. Seated: Della Johnson, Ruth Patrick, Bernice Cotton, Florence Fallgater, Clara Hackett, Marjorie Moody. Seated on floor: Lulu Johnson and unknown. From Hurley Centennial publication.

olic League all-tournament team honors four times.

During his senior year, the Cardinals went 31-2. He was all-conference at SDSU; then as a Marine played at both Northwestern University and Penn State. He coached the Marines Quantico team to the all-Marine championship in 1952. Finally, he played with the Minneapolis Lakers in the NBA. SD Basketball Hall of Fame, 2017.

2,731

Connor Libis, Dell Rapids St. Mary, 2021

2,563

Josh Mueller, West Central, 2001

2,294

Colby Fitzgerald, Dell Rapids St. Mary, 2004

2,120

Cory Jacobsen, Viborg, 2011

2,046

Brian Goertz, Freeman, 1995

2,038

Jerry Even, Dell Rapids St. Mary, 1964

LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL 2,000-POINT CAREER SCORERS (w/graduating year listed)

2,599

Kieran O’Malley, Centerville, 2013

2,154

Shannon O’Malley, Centerville & Irene-Wakonda, 2018

2,134

Abby Hora, Viborg-Hurley, 2016

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Morgan Edelman, Menno, 2021

• South Dakota Basketball Hall of Fame, www.sdbbhof.com

2,030

Brooke Hermsen, Freeman, 2004

2,017

Rachel Dick, Marion, 1993

• South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame, www.sdshof.com • Sioux Falls Argus Leader via newspapers.com • Yankton Press & Dakotan, yankton.net • Des Moines Register via newspapers.com

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LINCOLN COUNTY FAMILY

LIFE REVOLVES AROUND THE FARM AND THE KIDS

By Bob Fitch

Cain Gannon has big plans for the future. “I’m going to have 30,000 acres and 200,000 head of cattle. I’ll have multiple farms.”

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The Gannon family of Canton: Grace, Jason, Jewel, Dayton, Cain and Daneen.

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For now, 10-year-old Cain is happy to spend snow days helping to move bales. That’s good because his dad is glad for the help. “There's never a day off from the cattle. It's a struggle to find anyone to do chores if we want to be gone even for a day. The ones who are probably good at working are already working. The ones who aren't working, I probably don't want them here anyway,” said Jason Gannon, who farms and feeds cattle north of Canton with his wife, Daneen.

“Our life revolves around our farm and our kids. That is 100 percent our life,” said Daneen. “We're at our kids’ sporting events all the time. I mean, between basketball, wrestling, cross country, track and football, we are always going to a sport. And if we're not at the sport, we might be working in the concession stand.”

Cain stays busy with football, basketball and baseball. His sister, Jewel, 14, runs track and cross country, plus is in her third year on the Canton C-Hawks girls wrestling team, which finished second at the state tournament last year. Sister Grace, 17, runs track and cross country plus is a cheerleader.

Oldest sister, Dayton, graduated from South Dakota State University in 2022 with a degree in a human services and life development. She lives on her own in Canton.

In addition to the cattle Jason owns and custom feeds, Grace, Jewel and Cain also own and care for 17 calves. The three are in 4-H; and the girls are in FFA as well. Jewel also participates in the South Dakota Cattlemen’s Foundation “Youth Fed Steer Challenge,” wherein she owns 2.33 percent of a pen of cattle at Winner Circle Feedyard. As part of the program, participants watch videos about how to read a female, how rations are done, implant strategies and other topics. The youth take quizzes along the way and, at the end, each young cattle co-owner puts a presentation together on what he or she has learned. The top three win a scholarship.

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Jewel and Cain with the pen of calves they share with their sister Grace.

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pigs for the kids. “We stayed up at the State Fair when the kids showed pigs – and I think I asked nine people before I finally found someone to help with the cattle while we were gone,” he said.

Daneen added, “We try to plan a family vacation around him having the yard empty, so there is less going on here. Sometimes it works out for us. And sometimes we can't make it work.”

SWITCHING FROM CALVES TO COFFEE Daneen has worked at Laura’s Lattes on the west side of Canton for six years and has been the manager for five years. “Prior to me working at Laura's, I was a stay-at-home mom. I also had the job to raise baby Holstein calves in huts for five years. The kids helped when they could.” The town job gave her a chance to see what she could do besides farm work and child-rearing. “Not that I didn't love being home with my kids, because I did. I was lucky.”

Grace running cross country. She’s also in track and cheerleading.

Cain plays football, baseball and basketball.

Both Grace and Dayton also work at Laura’s Lattes. Dayton plans to return to college (online) next fall to become a teacher.

Grace’s post-high school plans are undetermined at this time. “Our 17-year-old is more of a free spirit.

She’s smart and beautiful, but isn’t sure what she wants to do yet,” Daneen said.

Jason and Daneen both grew up at Canton, but didn't date in high school. They started dating when they were in their late 20s. She said, “If somebody would have told me in high school I was marrying a farmer, I would have said they were completely crazy, let alone having four kids on top of it. I was planning to have zero kids and move to New York City.”

Jewel wrestles and runs track and cross country.

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In addition to her husband and four children, Daneen said she’s fortunate to have inherited Jason’s

entire family. “Except for my sister in Sioux Falls, my family is pretty much all gone,” she said. “But Jason has a big family. He has a ton of first cousins. And then the second and third cousins, we know all of them and we see them and get together.”

Daneen continued, “Jason has shared his grandparents with me this whole time because my grandparents died years and years ago. So his grandparents are my grandparents. You know, his aunts and uncles are my aunts and uncles. And that's just how it is,” she said. “They’ve been super accepting and loving of me; and I think they would say the exact same thing about me.” The couple married in 2005.

FEEDING CATTLE WAS ALWAYS HIS GOAL Jason grew up on an acreage outside of Canton, where his mother and step-father still reside. “Growing up, I had 4-H calves and I just always really liked that. That's what I wanted to do.” Both sets of his grandparents farmed on the outskirts of Sioux Falls, but the land they owned or rented was by then part of the city. “So there was no land base for me to take up even to rent.”

After attending SDSU for three years, he was able to buy a farm at age 23. “When I bought it, there wasn't a fence or a pen on the place. I started with nothing. It's been a long road.” He tore down a number of buildings on the site and started building the feedlot. To get himself established, he started out feeding sheep since they were relatively easy and inexpensive to get into. Sheep weren’t his animal of choice and it wasn’t long before he switched to cattle.

Daneen and Jason Gannon with their daughter, Dayton Keyman, on her graduation day at SDSU.

Jason also worked at Midwest Livestock Service of Inwood full-time for 17 years. Five years ago, he left the full-time ranks at MLS, but still consults on livestock rations for a base group of MLS clients. Midwest Livestock owners Howard and Wanita Koedam have been good to him. “As far as feeding cattle, I've learned a lot from Howard. He’s been a great mentor,” he said. Right now, Jason is at his all-time peak number of cattle on feed, which makes a hard winter even more difficult. “It's been years since we've had a tough winter like this.”

Farming carries a fear factor with it, Daneen said. “There’s been times when it was struggle, and you didn't know if we could continue to go. When people we knew were going broke, it was scary. You just have to hope and pray during those times.” When one banker would turn him down for an operating loan, Jason would go knock on the next door.

“From what they were, things have drastically improved.

It's just been a long road, but I guess I must have done something right,” he said.

The couple doesn’t have to stress about retirement. Cain plans to manage his 200,000-head, 30,000-acre farm operation from the family home, while building Mom and Dad a new place just across the road.

Jewel, Jason, Daneen and Gannon. Jason and his family feed some of their own cattle and also custom feed.

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MINNEHAHA COUNTY FAMILY

Holly Westly, Mya, Calleigh and David Painter.

ROOTING FOR HIS CUSTOMERS

By Bob Fitch

David Painter is vice president at Reliabank.

He grew up in Montrose, a small farm community in McCook County. He has a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Sioux Falls.

FAVORITE MEMORY FROM GROWING UP My fondest memory of growing up in a small town was going to the swimming pool and playing baseball. I also enjoyed playing pretty much every sport offered. I think my love for sports came from watching my older family members play as a young child.

TELL US ABOUT YOUR FAMILY Holly is a nurse and we have two daughters, Calleigh, 6, and Mya, 2.

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Holly, Calleigh and Mya have me outnumbered at home as I’m the only male in the house. Even the dog and cat are female! It keeps me on my toes, that’s for sure.

TELL US ABOUT YOUR JOB I am the vice president of Reliabank and I serve on several management committees. My main job function is to service ag and business loans in the Hartford area. I’ve been in my current role for just under 11 years.

I always looked up to the local banker when I was a kid. It’s a great job to have and it allows you to be involved and give back to the area. I really enjoy helping farmers and small business owners chase their dreams.

It’s an added bonus to get to do that 15 minutes from where I grew up.

I grew up with an interest in business. I didn’t necessarily know what I wanted to do long term, but after starting my career in banking, I knew it was something I had a passion for. The biggest benefit to my job is helping people succeed.

Having a part in the success of others is very gratifying and couldn’t make me prouder.

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Every time you go to the grocery store or fill up with gas, a farmer has a direct hand in providing that product to the consumer. The fact that I have a small part in that chain of events is something I’m thankful for.

I always tell my customers that they’re the best in the world at what they do.

They truly are. No other country in the world is as good at what they do as American farmers and businesses.

As a banker, you wear the success of your customers as a badge of honor.

To be able to root for your customers and watch them do what they do is a tremendous feeling.

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TURNER COUNTY FAMILY

Kent and Roxanne Westerman, Darrel and Karen Westerman, and Stephanie and Duane Smit.

LOTS OF WORK AND LITTLE BIT OF LUCK

By Bob Fitch

Father and son Darrel and Kent Westerman and their crew traditionally gathered for breakfast every Monday morning. While Darrel’s wife, Karen, served a big, delicious breakfast, the crew would hash out their plan for the week ahead. Darrel said, “The plans didn’t always last very long.” Senior crew member Duane Smit agreed.

“Sometimes they didn’t last until we put our boots on.”

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They haven’t revived the tradition since Covid brought a halt to the Monday morning ritual. “Sometimes I miss those breakfasts,” Karen said. “I don’t have stories to tell anymore at the post office.” Duane replied, “That’s why we quit. We didn’t want all our secrets getting out.”

There really aren’t any secrets at Westerman Farms. They live a straight-forward life, growing corn and soybeans on a combination of owned and rented land. Their cows pasture on ground bordering the Vermillion River. Herd numbers are down right now, but the cycle still goes on.

Calving begins in mid-January. “The first two are on the ground. The fun has begun,” Kent said on January 20th.

“Calving continues until the middle of June. Between January and June, you’ll have one nice week of weather in

Front: Kent and Darrel Westerman, Dawson Smit and Darrel Smit. Back: Doug Berens and Duane Smit. Doug started working for Darrel Westerman when he was 18 years old and recently retired after 49 years.

there.” However, Duane noted, “That’s not seven days in a row, that’s one day here and one day there that add up to seven good weather days.”

The daily rhythm used to beat a little differently. Darrel had a farrow-to-finish hog operation for many years on the farm south of Chancellor. “In 1967, I built a finishing house and finished about 2,000 head a year,” Darrel said. He and Karen got married in 1960. The Chancellor High School sweethearts both graduated from General Beadle State College (now known as Dakota State University). Karen taught sixth grade for two years in Lennox, but Darrel went back to farming where his father had started in 1948.

Karen said, “I was a homemaker and did a lot of volunteer work. And I worked on the farm. Once in a while I’d get to do some disking or some dragging. I always hoped nobody would see me when I went back and corrected what I did wrong; and I’d pray I didn’t run into the fence.” She was also the farm’s bookkeeper.

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An aerial view of Westerman Farms. Duane and Stephanie Smit now live in the home where Darrel and Karen lived for years. Kent and Roxanne’s homesite is the nearest farm in the background.

Kent graduated in 1983 from South Dakota State University with a degree in ag business. “Farming was probably the only thing I ever really thought about doing,” he said.

Father and son sent their last hogs to market in 1996. “I remember Dad was on the co-op board and he went to a meeting down in Kansas City for Farmland Industries. He came back and he told me, ‘We have a choice to make. Either we're going to get out or we're going to have to put up some big buildings.’

“One day, we were moving hogs all over the place and I was still pressure washing at 10:30 that night. Dad came out and said, ‘I want to know what you want to do.’

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out, because why would you come talk to somebody at 10:30 at night who’s been pressure washing for half the day? At that point in time, I was ready to get rid of hogs no matter what.”

Not long afterwards, hog prices plummeted. “We lucked out,” Darrel said. “We even sold our equipment for a pretty good price. It was the best time to get out of it. We were just fortunate. And we remodeled most of the hog buildings into calving barns.”

When the pigs were gone, Kent said they increased the number of acres they farmed plus doubled their number of cows. Duane said, “They didn't stop making fertilizer, they just changed the brand.”

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Just like the hogs, there are days of frustration with the cows. Darrel said, “As Kent was growing up on the farm, when he was in the barn or out feeding the cows, he might have learned some bad language.”

Karen added, “He still uses some of that today. Sometimes ‘Oh fish’ just doesn’t work.”

LESS TRUCKING, MORE FARMING Duane Smit has been a key part of Westerman Farms for more than a decade. Kent said, “His parents and mine have been best friends for a bazillion years.” Duane added, “Darrel has been the big brother to my dad his whole life. They’re both named Darrel – just like ‘Darrel and his other brother Darrel’ in that old

Bob Newhart sitcom.” Duane’s dad is a mostlyretired trucker who also helps on the farm seasonally. “If you ever need to hear a trucking story, I can give you my dad's phone number.

You'll need a full notebook.”

Duane was a partner in a construction company when the financial crisis hit in 2008.

“We were a little overextended and too many of our customers stopped paying their bills.”

He and his wife, Stephanie, faced hard times for a few years. She continued to teach second grade in Lennox while he worked part-time trucking for his dad and went to seminary part-time. He also helped occasionally on the Westerman farm.

“One day, Kent asked me what I thought about being on the farm more and driving the truck less. That's pretty much how the conversation started. Stephanie didn't like me being gone all the time. If I wasn't in class, I might be gone seven days on the road trucking, especially in the summer.”

According to Duane, “I worked a lot in the fall of 2011. One day, Kent asked me to relieve his dad in the combine. It had been a pretty long fall already. I got up in the buddy seat and told him Kent thought he might want a break. Darrel made a round and another round, then he stopped and flipped the steering wheel ahead; we switched seats; and I made a round or two.

He said, ‘I think you got it.’ He climbed out of the cab and left me to run the combine.” Darrel was wanting to slow down a little bit, so Duane officially started full-time on January 1, 2012.

Duane’s 12 years’ experience building houses is a pretty good skill set to have on the farm, too.

“I love working in the shop. There isn’t much I can’t do.” On top of that, his nephew, Dawson Smit, also works on the farm – and he has a degree in diesel mechanics from Southeast Technical College.

Karen and Darrel Westerman. Duane Smit made the “silo sign” from a retired 1000-gallon propane tank.

FAMILY AND FUN Kent and Roxanne got married in 2011. It’s the second marriage for both. A native of Lawton, Iowa, Roxanne worked 35 years at the Farm Service Agency office in Sergeant Bluff, Iowa.

Her oldest son, Kyle, is a physical therapist in Omaha; and his wife, Kathryn, is a nurse. Their children are Elijah, Noah and Abigail, three grandchildren that Kent and Roxanne treasure.

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Nebraska. Kent’s daughter, Sara, is an interior designer in Bradenton, Florida.

Roxanne joked that their social life consists of an occasional date night at the Viborg movie theatre.

Kent said, “On my 60th birthday, she made a big scene over there. ‘Oh, my husband is 60, I want the cheaper rate for him.’ It only costs $4 for me to get in now.” For fun, Kent and Roxanne ride motorcycles and bicycles, plus visit their kids and grandkids.

Darrel and Karen stay close to home these days.

They have two other children. Daughter Lisa lives in Overland Park, Kansas, is married and has two children and one grandchild. Youngest son Mark lives in Yankton, is married and has five children.

Darrel said an important factor in the success of their farm has been to “just treat people fairly.”

Karen added, “Faith, family, farm … on the tough days, those are the things that keep you going.”

On the ground they own and the ground they rent, Kent said being good stewards of the land has been an important value. “I think it’s meant a lot to the people we rent from that I took care of their land as if it were my own.”

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