Pfeiffer Family Farms
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“I
don’t know how to put into words how important growing up. She was involved in all aspects of their the family farm is to us,” says Darrell Pfeiffer. “We operation: milking the cows, building fence, baling hay, want to leave it the best we can to pass on to the next and grinding feed. generation.” Similarly, Darrell was also raised on a fifth-generation Husband and wife Fran and Darrell Pfeiffer have been family farm. His family owned a vegetable and grain farming together since they were married in 1966. farm in Forest City, Illinois, and he grew up on the same They have many combined years of experience in the homestead that he and Fran live on today. Darrell can agriculture industry from growing up on farms that remember being outside doing whatever he could to they have been able to use to their advantage to build help his dad, grandpa, and uncle farm as a kid. “I started up their operation to where it is today. driving an International H when I was five years old, and I was hauling ear corn to the farm when I was six,” says Fran grew up on a fifth-generation grain and dairy farm Darrell. He was also involved with raising feeder cattle, in Green Valley, Illinois. The value of hard work was raking and baling hay with an International Harvester instilled in she and her siblings at a young age as they 460, and even running the combine at a young age. were expected to help with daily chores on the farm
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