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PREACHER LARRY Larry Fossum, pictured with his horse Skeeter, leads The Cowboy Way Church near Hartford.

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OUR PHILOSOPHY There was a farmer who grew excellent quality corn. Every year, he won the award for the best grown corn. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors. “How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?” the reporter asked.

“Why sir,” said the farmer, “Didn’t you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn.

If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn.”

So is with our lives... Those who want to live meaningfully and well must help enrich the lives of others, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must help others find happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all.

-Author Unknown

Call it power of collectivity.

Call it a principle of success.

Call it a law of life.

The fact is, none of us truly wins, until we all win!

One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.

Proverbs 11:24-25

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The best part of producing The Farming Families is the people we have met over the past five years.

Sometimes people stop and see us at local fairs and farm shows and tell us how they enjoy the magazines, while other times we get phone calls and emails from readers with comments of thanks, story suggestions and sometimes corrections or points of clarity that need to be made.

There are times when people share very personal comments on how our stories and photos have impacted them. About three years ago at the Turner County Fair, a gentleman in his late fifties stopped by our booth and said that several months earlier we’d published a photo of his father from the 1930s which he’d never seen before. It was rather emotional for him to see the photo and his comment of gratitude to us was a moment that we really appreciated.

In the February '22 issue, we ran a story on one of my personal favorite topics, vintage Indian Motorcycles. After the story was published, several additional images of vintage Indian Motorcycles from the early 1900s surfaced. One image was from 1913 at a race taking place at Clark G. Coats Race Track in Sioux Falls at what was the old State Fairgrounds (from 1896 to 1904 the State Fair was in Sioux Falls before moving Huron in 1905). The fair was located at what is now the Riverdale Park area, which is about 2 blocks north of the I-229 and 26th St. interchange on the west bank of the Big Sioux River (See "Exposition Grounds" highlighted on 1920 Sioux Falls map).

Freeman area mail carrier Jacob W. Gross with his Indian motorcycle.

Indian motorcycles racing at the Clark G. Coats Race Track in Sioux Falls.

Another great find from the Heritage Hall Museum was an image of Jacob W. Gross. The image was taken in 1915 and is as crisp and clear as any photo taken today. It shows Jacob W. Gross, who was about 22 at the time. He is the father of current Freeman residents Jacob and Gordon Gross. I had the opportunity to give a copy of the image to Gordie. He had never seen the photo before. I didn't get Gordie to shed a tear, but his thank you was good enough.

Motorcycle races were held in the early 1900s at the Clark G. Coats Race Track (Exposition Grounds highlighted on this map).

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HUTCHINSON COUNTY FAMILY

Drew and Bridget Muntefering with their children, Hayden, Wren and Finn.

WAGYU BEEF IS THE NEWEST PRODUCT ON THE PLATE FROM THE MUNTEFERING FAMILY

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A farm in rural South Dakota likely wasn’t the place Bridget Muntefering envisioned living and raising a family. However, growing up with a father in the Air Force and calling several places home during her childhood, she was open minded to living in any number of locations.

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Bridget and her husband, Drew, found their home right where Drew started out. He is a Dimock native and a graduate of Parkston High School. After high school, he attended the University of Minnesota where he majored in construction management. Following graduation, Drew lived and worked based in the Twin Cities for a commercial construction company. He helped oversee and facilitate the conversion of Target stores to SuperTargets.

That was the career plan until he met Bridget, who was living in Rochester at the time. After dating for two years, the couple got married and moved to Dimock where Drew started to farm with his parents, Mike and Denise.

Drew and Mike, along with a group of other Dimock and Parkston area residents, purchased Dimock Dairy in 2016. Since that time, they’ve grown the company and completed the build out of a new location on Highway 37 in Dimock.

Drew’s background in construction management helped facilitate this process and the support of local customers and community has made the new location a success.

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Wren Muntefering is active in competitive gymnastics and is coached by her mom, Bridget.

Wagyu beef is distinctive because it is highly marbled, Due to the unique genetics of the cows, the meat contains a higher percentage of fatty acids than ordinary beef, giving it a higher marbling score. Typically, the higher the marbling score, the more flavorsome, tender and juicy the meat is. Full-blooded Wagyu cattle have the highest marble levels of any beef in the world, according to ribsandburgers.com. The American Wagyu Association says the cows in the United States are bred for their superior meat quality traits and calving ease ability.

They are also used in terminal meat programs with breeds such as Angus and Holstein to increase the meat quality grade of the first cross progeny.

As for Drew and Bridget’s non-work related activities, everything revolves around their three children: Wren, 7, Finn, 6, and Hayden, 4. Wren is a competitive gymnast and competes year-round at meets around the region. She is following in her mother’s footsteps as Bridget competed at a high level nationally as a young girl. Currently, Bridget is the head coach at Parkston High School plus coaches the younger girls like Wren in the community. Finn spends most of his days “farming” with his dad and grandpa, although if a game of baseball breaks out, he quickly will take off his work boots and put on his spikes. As for Hayden, he has plenty to do just keeping up with the older kids for now.

The Muntefering plan is to continue to sell Monument Wagyu beef at Dimock Dairy, but also be the source for Sioux Falls restaurants and others in the region.

The long-term strategy includes selling products online and shipping the beef in sizes ranging from small packages to full quarters of beef and more.

Even though Bridget didn’t see rural Dimock as a place she’d raise her own family, it's home and there’s plenty to do with all their family activities and business activities.

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MINNEHAHA COUNTY FAMILY

Larry and Freida Fossum.

NO POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE AT THE COWBOY WAY CHURCH

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“I tell people when they come to cowboy church, don’t be coming here for pomp and circumstance – because you ain’t going to get it,” said Larry Fossum of Hartford.

Larry leads “The Cowboy Way,” a non-traditional, come-as-you-are church held in a barn on the Fossum acreage south of Hartford.

“Preacher Larry” has a long-time passion for rodeo, but it always bothered him when “the cowboys and cowgirls would be sitting there drinkin’ and cussin’.” He wished for a rodeo event with a greater family atmosphere.

Friends at Sioux Falls First Assembly of God Church connected him with Jack and Carol Garr of Texas. Carol asked him if he’d ever done a “He paid your fees” rodeo. Rather than the competitors having to pay their normal entrance fees, the organizer raises money and the riders participate for free – because He (God) paid your fees. But there was one caveat: “You had to come to a church service we were having in the morning out on the lawn,” Larry said.

Larry and his wife, Freida, first hosted the “He paid your fees” rodeo at their arena south of Hartford in 2007. Jack and Carol Garr came up from Texas to conduct the service at the Fossum acreage. At the altar call,

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96 people out of about 175 in attendance gave their lives to Christ that day. Carol asked Larry, “What are you going to do about it? God just opened a door for you.”

Larry said, “I started praying about it and, sure enough, cowboys need to hear about Jesus, too. We started a ministry called ‘The Cowboy Way.’ I’d go to rodeos and conduct church services if I was asked.”

After a few years of his traveling rodeo ministry, Larry decided it was time to conduct services at home. When his 86-year-old parents died in 2006, he put his small inheritance to work.

“They didn’t have much, but they had a little bit of money left.

I wasn’t going to take the money that came from my parents and do something stupid with it, like buy a car. I wanted to do something I could look back at and say ‘That was because of my mom and dad.’” He used the inheritance as seed money, re-financed the mortgage on the acreage, and borrowed enough money to build a barn in which to hold services.

It just so happened that their friend Jack Garr of Texas was a contractor. Jack came to South Dakota and helped them put up the basic structure and then gave Larry and his family lessons in how to put the steel on the roof and the steel on the sides and how to put in windows – so they could finish the building’s construction. Another friend, Terry Buttemeier, helped gather the materials and do design and construction work on the interior which has an Old West feel to it.

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A worship service at The Cowboy Way. Note the interior walls modeled on an Old West town.

Senior Citizens Center. There were times when keeping their Wednesday night services going felt like they were swimming against the tide. However, at a funeral service led by Larry, there were so many people touched and crying – moved by his approach to the Gospel – it proved to be a tipping point for them to add Sunday services.

The couple stays connected to Sioux Falls First Assembly of God Church and both were ordained by River of Life Revival Ministries, a national organization. But “Preacher Larry” isn’t a universitytrained theologian. “My feeling is everyone is supposed to be able to tell about the good Lord,” he said, perhaps reflecting his Lutheran upbringing on a farm near Canton. Martin Luther and John Calvin elaborated the “priesthood of all believers” concept based on 1 Peter 2:9 (“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.”). This scripture is a prominent tenet in most Protestant Christian churches.

The parallel message that all believers are exhorted to be fishers of men (Mark 1:16-20 and Luke 5:1-11) is also reflected at The Cowboy Way where the opening song is always “Keep Your Lure in the Water” by Randy Travis. The chorus of the song reads:

The altar area at The Cowboy Way.

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Keep your lure in the water, don't just sit by the shore There are souls to be caught everywhere in this old world Go where hearts are plenty, don't just drift with the tide Keep your lure in the water, in the waters of life

After the completion of the barn worship center, Larry mounted the church’s sign with help from his late son-in-law, Donavon Lambertus, and his grandson, Mason Travis.

The story-telling country gospel music used at the church reflects Larry’s approach during services which is informal and conversational. “When I pray, I might be walking back and forth, I might be looking up, I might be looking down, it doesn’t matter – I’m just talking to God when I start off ‘Lord, we’ve got a few things on our heart.’ Even if I mess it up, the Lord knows what I mean.” The conversational tone includes praise reports where those in attendance are asked to share where they saw God at work in their lives in the past week.

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Larry’s journey to become a preacher followed a roundabout trail. He grew up on a farm near Canton and attended a oneroom country school through the eighth grade. After graduating from Canton High School, he briefly attended college and then enlisted in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War era.

He became an aviation electrician. “I went to Vietnam with a squadron on the carrier, USS Ticonderoga. I was over there for six or nine months. You look back and you think ‘That wasn’t the safest place to be.’ We were just kids, for crying out loud.” After Vietnam, he was stationed in Hawaii for three years.

He worked for the U.S. Postal Service for four years after exiting the navy. Some co-workers convinced him to join the Air National Guard. He enlisted in the guard and was back in his role as an aviation electrician, this time able to focus on the instruments of the planes. Larry was in the South Dakota Air National Guard for 30 years.

Larry and Freida were married in 1995. Freida has four daughters and a son; and Larry has a son and a daughter.

Between the two of them, they have 15 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

Freida was born in Kansas, grew up in Colorado, and lived in Colorado and South Dakota. She has worked in the nursing field, as head of cleaning at several hotels, at Good Samaritan in Sioux Falls, and at Leisure Living in Hartford. Even after hip replacement and knee replacement in recent years, she continues to drive school bus for the West Central School District and also works for the U.S. Census Bureau.

In addition to The Cowboy Way ministry, Larry continues to enjoy the rodeo. “I’m in the team penning event which is

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Riders and ropers loosen up before a “He paid your way” rodeo at The Cowboy Way arena.

more conducive for us older guys who can’t otherwise compete. We ride our own horses, three on a team. You go in on one end of the arena. There’s 30 cattle on the other end, all numbered. They draw the numbers of three head and then the three of you have a minute and 15 seconds to sort out those three head and get them into the pen. An adrenaline rush doesn’t come around very often when you’re 74 years old. But, I tell you what, when you bring those cattle around the corner and stick them in that pen, you get an adrenaline rush then!”

He and his teammates are in competition for the enjoyment of it.

“There’s a few younger guys who are in it for the money. But us guys are just happy we can still get on a horse, still chase a cow and still go to someplace to have these events and compete. And, once in a while, you win a few bucks, and you get to the finals.”

After competing in a rodeo in October, Covid knocked Larry out of the saddle. He was sick at home before ending up in the hospital on Nov. 15th.

Preacher Larry sharing the Good News at The Cowboy Way.

“When I got the Covid, my body did what it was supposed to do and attacked the Covid. But for some reason, it turned on me and hit my nerves. When the brain sent the signal from my brain to my feet to move, they wouldn’t move.” However, by Dec. 10th he walked out of the hospital using a walker and started physical therapy. “About the 20th of January, I got on my horse and started chasing cows again. I was not about to let this garbage keep me down.”

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TURNER COUNTY FAMILY

Nine grandkids in six years! Front: Grammy Elaine holding Blake and Taya; Grampy Chuck holding Corbin and Weston; twins Menna and Booker.

Back: Barrett, Brayden and Eli.

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Chuck and Elaine Buus got married and started farming together in the depths of the 1980’s farm crisis. Interest rates were high and the probabilities for success were low.

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This Lennox area couple were among the fortunate ones who survived those hard times. Yet all four of their children are involved in farming at one level or another today. “It’s surprising with all we went through and how much we complained about the struggles,” Chuck said.

Their oldest son, Tucker and his wife, Ashley, farm fulltime near Marion. They have three children, Brayden, Blake and Taya.

Son Colton and his wife, Maria, farm full-time at Canova.

They have three children, Barrett, Eli and Corbin. According to Chuck, “When Colton was in college, he wanted to buy purebred cows at his buddy’s production sale and get in the

The Buus kids back in the square bale days: Amanda, Shelby, Colton and Tucker.

B2Us Cattle Co. and Horizon View Farms held their first production sale in March.

The Buus family: Amanda, Elaine, Chuck, Tucker, Colton, Shelby.

stock business. Instead of one, I bought a trailer load. All of sudden, we were selling bulls and 4-H heifers; and we’ve done that the last 15 years. To be honest, all the kids have got a piece of that. One way or another, they’re all in the cattle business.”

Colton and Maria’s company, Horizon View Farms, teams up with Chuck and Elaine’s B2Us Cattle Co. to focus on Simmental and Sim-Angus cattle. Chuck said B2Us brings its bulls to Horizon View at weaning time and Colton takes care of them from there. Together, they presented their first full-fledged production sale with a professional auctioneer in March. They considered it a success. Elaine said, “After we started going to other people’s sales, it became one of our goals to have our own production sale. Maybe that’s a strange wish for your bucket list.”

Chuck and Elaine’s daughter, Amanda, and her husband, Zach Post, live near Jackson, Minn. They are crop farmers and sell show calves. Amanda also works as a dispatcher for New Fashion Pork. Zach recently became a crop adjuster.

They have twins, Menna and Booker.

Youngest son, Shelby, and his wife, Hannah, also live in the Lennox area and he works with Chuck and Elaine on the farm and with the cattle as much as he can. In addition, Shelby added some of his own farm ground last year and works full-time as an electrician. Hannah is a nurse at Avera Orthopedics in Sioux Falls. Their son, Weston, is about a year old and is the youngest of the nine grandchildren Chuck and Elaine were blessed with in just six years.

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Their children’s determination and hard work on and off the farm may have been a byproduct of a youth spent in the hot sun of a South Dakota summer. “There was a lot of life lessons learned on the hay rack,” Elaine said.

In the early 1990s, they were looking for an additional enterprise to help make ends meet. Elaine suggested baling was something Chuck always liked to do. “So we bought a new square baler when the kids were little and started custom baling. When they were growing up, they spent a lot time in the field,” Chuck said. “Between our farm and the customers, we’d do about 10,000 small square bales a summer.”

Elaine said, “When we were out baling and I was driving the tractor (which didn’t have a cab), I’d slip the youngest one backwards on the seat so they’d be watching the rack. I’d harness them in and my back would be up against them and that’s how we’d go. A couple years later, one of the kids would move up to the driver’s seat and I’d be in charge of running water bottles out to the crew.”

As the kids graduated one-by-one from Lennox High School, Elaine said their “hired hands” all left them. Chuck said, “As the kids got older, we got a round baler. We’re still custom baling; we do 3,000-4,000 stock bales in the fall; and I do it all summer for guys. Not that many bales, but just enough for the two of us to handle. She does all the raking for me.”

Chuck and Elaine Buus of Lennox.

Custom baling is Chuck’s most enduring enterprise to keep themselves planted on the family farm, which was homesteaded by his great grandfather. “When Elaine and I got married, my parents moved to Lennox while we were on our honeymoon. When we got back, I moved from the upstairs bedroom to the downstairs bedroom. I’ve been here all my life,” he said.

“I raised hogs already in high school. I was doing pretty good raising purebred Duroc and Spotted boars. Then the high interest rates set me backwards, so I went to work at the Sioux Falls Stockyards.” He was a commission man for both cattle and hog sales during 10 years there.

“While I was doing that, I still had livestock here and was still farming some ground. Then I wanted to work closer to home on a daily basis. There was a guy who had what was left of Lennox Manufacturing. I worked for him for a few years, then I bought the equipment and moved it here.” For a decade, he manufactured bale feeders and gates.

“Although I considered myself a farmer my whole life, I’ve always depended on my customers – from selling boars to selling cattle for customers at the stockyards to my hay customers and my bull customers … I’ve always had people who supported me from neighbors to people from quite far away.”

Dad and the crew: Tucker, Shelby (at the top), Amanda, Colton and Chuck.

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When he was still a teenager selling boars, Chuck said an older gentleman came on the yard asking about pricing.

“This old guy didn’t do anything except pick something bad

to say about them – all he did was run them down. It wasn’t because he didn’t like them, it was because he wanted to get them cheaper. Then I had one of my neighbors come over; he looked at the boars a minute and he said, ‘You’re good at this, you pick out the two I should buy.’ I’ve never forgotten that.

And guess who got the boars at the price they wanted to pay?”

Elaine added, “As a family, a word we’ve tried to instill in our kids is ‘integrity.’ If you say ‘yes,’ you do yes. If you say ‘no,’ you do no. You’re not wishy washy, you don’t go back on your word, you don’t do half a job.” Chuck agreed: “During my career, our kids have seen how it can hurt a person when you back out on a deal. Our customers, our neighbors, our family, our friends – we wouldn’t have made it without them.”

Elaine’s early years were also full of life lessons learned on the Lennox area farm of her parents, Wendell and Merline Kock. Her father also worked at Morrell’s. Elaine had no problem continuing a life on the farm. “I’m the one who always hated Saturdays, having to stay inside and clean. I’d rather have been outside in the barn helping my dad.” Her only stipulation farming with Chuck was they were not going to milk cows. “It’s the one thing I’ve put my foot down. We’ve had pigs, we’ve had sheep, we’ve had cattle. We did have one Brown Swiss cow here. We milked her by hand once, but that’s as close as we got.”

Technology has certainly made farming easier today than when they growing up. According to Chuck, “There’s so many things we take for granted now I wish I could have had when I started farming … little things like battery-powered drills and front-wheel assist when it’s muddy and a shop to work in when it’s cold. I called a couple of my buddies last spring and told them how my dad taught me how to drive a tractor – and now my son is trying to teach me how to drive a tractor without any hands on it.”

That’s a long way from the days Chuck’s dad picked corn by hand. When Chuck was born in 1960, his father was already 45 years old. His parents, George and Menna Buus, were part of a vanishing breed of small farmers. They raised six children farming a quarter of land and milking a few cows – Chuck remembers when his dad still was using cans to carry the milk. George gave up milking in the early 1970s when the inspector came and said he shouldn’t be milking cows on a dirt floor. “He only had eight or 10 cows in the barn, but when you did it the hard way, that was enough.”

Even when it was an uphill battle, George and Meena Buus kept the faith, just as Chuck and Elaine have done. “We were raised going to church and having faith,” Elaine said. “I think often of the story of your dad losing a bunch of hogs on a Saturday. Yet he woke up Sunday morning and went to church and gladly sang ‘It Is Well With My Soul’ or ‘His Eye Is on the Sparrow.’” Whether it was dead hogs or a sick calf or some other calamity, Chuck said his dad kept a positive perspective and would say something along the lines of “It’s in the barn, it’s not in the house” or “At least it’s outside.”

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KEEPING LOCAL HISTORY ALIVE

Hutterite migrations in Europe from 1526 to 1874, before their move to North America. Chart usage allowed by Wikipedia Commons, user: Karlis.

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THE SAGA OF RUSSIA’S BROKEN PROMISES IN UKRAINE

By Garrett Gross

Over the years, it’s happened where I’ve put my foot in my mouth a time or two.

My wife can attest to this, even though I try not to deliberately do it, it does happen on occasion. One such example would be at the Walmart near our home in Sioux Falls. I often go there and buy what would appear to be excessively large amounts of items like pork butts, brown sugar, spices and wood chips. To me, it's very normal as we often cater large parties and gatherings with our hobby business, Jekyll & Hyde BBQ, but to others it often draws a lot of looks from people when I shop.

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I go to this Walmart frequently enough to where I see the same staff and clerks during check out. One such employee has a very friendly disposition and she always gives me a good natured ribbing about not inviting her to the “big party.” This always makes me laugh and then I say something smart and quick-witted-back to her.

This routine happens every time I shop at her store. One time, I inadvertently said something along the lines that I didn’t know Russian people enjoy BBQ. To which her tone immediately switched from jovial and pleasant to very stern when she said, “I am not Russian, I am Ukrainian!”

Well, it was not my intention to offend her in any way, nor would I ever do this again as it was quite clear she did not want to be called Russian. This interaction a few years ago really got me thinking about what has been happening in Ukraine the past few weeks. I don’t think I’ll ever fully grasp why Russia would invade a sovereign nation and literally force millions of innocent people from their homes to become refugees searching for a safe place to call home.

This got me thinking, this is the year 2022 and really it's no different than what happened to the ancestors of many in our area who faced a similar situation in the 1870s. The dates are different, the names are different and the technologies of the day are different. However, the geographic location is exactly the same and the core issue is exactly the same. The plight faced by millions of Ukrainians today is no different than the situation faced by thousands of Germans from Russia 150 years ago.

In the 1760s, Russian Tsarina Catherine the Great encouraged Germans to migrate to the area now known as Ukraine. Catherine the Great was of German descent herself and she knew these immigrants would flourish in Ukraine because of their knowledge and experience as farmers.

While living in Ukraine under Russian rule, these Germans were permitted to maintain their language, practice their religion as they wished, do business as they wanted and were not made to serve in the Russian army.

Migrants from various German regions and various Christian denominations were part of the move into Ukraine. Most were Lutheran or Catholic, while a smaller percentage were Mennonites and Hutterian Brethren.

For about a century, this arrangement was successful, until Russian Tsar Alexander II issued a series of proclamations in the early 1870s which closed the open-door policy of migration of Germans to Russia and also mandated these same settlers became Russian which included having to serve in the Russian army.

These changes were not welcomed by the Germans living in the Ukraine region. They did not want to serve in the Russian military, as many were pacifists and others simply did not want to fight for a country they didn’t identify with. During these years, the Homestead Act of 1862 allowed for vast tracts of land to be settled in what is now Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas. Specifically, in the areas of Hutchinson and Turner counties, it is believed that all the Germans from Russia who immigrated to the area between 1873 and 1879 were from the area now known as Ukraine.

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did they have humanitarian organizations to help them in their journey. All they really had was their faith, family and desire to live in a place that provided them religious and economic freedom.

German determination was needed in the early days to shovel out of problems such as this snowed-in locomotive at Tripp.

Those same dreams and desires are exactly what the average Ukrainian family wants today as well.

The next time I’m at Walmart, I am going to find that checkout clerk and apologize to her and let her know that I now understand why she was so adamant about defining herself as Ukrainian.

After all, the challenge faced and decision made by her family within the last decade is exactly the same scenario faced by many of our greatgrandparents 150 years ago.

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LINCOLN COUNTY FAMILY

Chuck Boyer and John Haverhals have worked together feeding cattle for 50 years. The round barn in the background is built of clay tile and is still used daily for working cattle. The barn has a silo in the center.

HARD WORK AND RESPECT DURING 50 YEARS OF FEEDING CATTLE

By Bob Fitch

Even though his name is on the sign on at the end of the road, John Haverhals steers the conversation away from himself and puts the spotlight on long-time employee Chuck Boyer.

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John and Chuck have worked together feeding cattle for more than 50 years. “That’s a long time – especially working for me,” he said.

“Wherever I go, whenever I run into a former employee, the first question all of them ask me without fail is: ‘How’s Chuck?’ It just about brings tears to my eyes,” John said.

“The respect our former co-workers have for Chuck is just phenomenal.

I’ve never had any of them say ‘I

didn’t like working for him.’ Chuck was always the key guy. He made it happen. It just says volumes about Chuck and his demeanor; and what they learned from him. I’ve had people describe him to me as ‘an absolute artist at feeding cattle.’ The amount of feed he’d deliver to the feedbunks and when and how and where, he’s an artist.”

What’s Chuck’s secret? “It’s just a knack, it’s practice makes

perfect, I guess. It’s hard to explain,” he said.

“The procedure for feeding cattle over the years has changed so much. It used to be if the bunks weren’t full up, you weren’t feeding them enough.

They had to have feed in front of them all the time.

Now you want the bunks cleaned up when you come to give them feed, which actually makes it easier. You see how hard they come to the bunks and how many hang back. Believe me, I’ve made mistakes feeding cattle, but that’s how you learn.

Take pride in what you do, and don’t cut corners.”

Chuck is mostly retired today and Lorna’s son, Tyler Rus, fills that key role in daily operations.

Lorna said, “Tyler is a natural with cattle. Chuck trained him, and he is an excellent feeder. He’s also our mechanical guy and operations manager.”

John added, “Tyler is talented at anything and everything farm or feedlot related. He covers for me when I’m not around. We couldn't do it without him.” Tyler lives a half mile south of the feedlot and has a daughter, Selena.

A LOT OF MEMORIES For John and Chuck, there’s a lot to reminisce about when you’ve worked together 50 years.

Lorna Haverhals’ son, Tyler Rus, is the operations manager at Haverhals feedlot.

They remembered the drought year of 1976 when the dust stirred up from the corn picker made it impossible to see each other. “Being a livestock guy in those days, we could salvage a crop. You could chop and shock and whatever you could to make feed. That was different than the guy who had to bring a meager amount to town. It was the value-added thing before anybody called it that,” John said. “We made it through because of the Good Lord and a good banker.”

There were any number of blizzards they faced in five decades. During one, the cattle walked over the fences and became scattered for miles – some buried in the snow, alive or otherwise.

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Feeding cattle is lot more comfortable today than it was 50 years ago. According to Chuck, “I used to feed cattle on an open tractor when it was 20 below zero, maybe a heat houser and that was it. We used to work from daylight to dark. There wasn’t no eight-hour day. A typical day was 12 hours – and more time when you were busy.”

Equipment advances, mechanization and other technologies have made farming and feeding cattle easier today. “But the part that’s still the same is it’s about the care of the animals, to keep them comfortable and well taken care of so they grow,” John said.

John grew up on a farm at Lebanon, Iowa, a speck in the road in Sioux County. His childhood home was six miles east of Hudson and today’s home is six miles west of Hudson. “Like I tell people, I haven’t gone very far in my life.”

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Chuck also started out across the river in Sioux County before his family moved to the Hudson area. Today Chuck and his wife, Sherry, live a mile west of Haverhals. They have seven daughters – Tiffany, Stephanie, Debra, Charly, Ashley, Haley and Rachel – and 13 grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren.

After John graduated from high school, his dad (also named John) told him and his siblings that one of them needed to move to South Dakota because there wasn’t room for all of them at Lebanon. John and his dad fed cattle in partnership in Lincoln County until his father passed away in 1982. “Every time your dad would buy another place, we’d have to add some cattle there. We just kept expanding,” Chuck said.

According to John, “Dad understood livestock and he wasn’t scared to change. That was one of the things I learned from him.” In years when the market was bad, there were livestock feeders who wouldn’t sell at the depressed prices and would just keep feeding – making the cattle bigger and bigger. “My dad would always watch for the price he could sell one in relationship to what he would pay for replacements. When he could buy two at the price of selling one, that’s what he would do. It wasn’t because he necessarily thought it was the top of the market, it was all about the deal.”

The cattle market was volatile then just like it is now. “When it did get good, it got really good. If you could ride through the dip, the hill was pretty tall.”

John and Lorna got married in 1999. The largest expansion of their feedlot operations came in 2001. In recent years, they’ve added more crop ground because of the price of grain.

A SHARED LOVE OF CATTLE AND HORSES

Top: Looking west at the Haverhals Feedlot in 2007. The bottom two photos were taken about 40 years earlier. Middle: This site is middle left on the more modern photo. Bottom: This site is middle right on the modern photo.

John leads grandson Jackson Van Engen on horseback through the snow.

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Lorna also grew up on a farm in Sioux County, Iowa. She’s worked in agriculture most of her life including at sale barns, grain elevators, other livestock feeding operations, and for a redi-mix company. “My dad was a cattle feeder and I always loved cattle. When a mutual friend wanted to set me up with John, that was one of the draws. He likes cattle and I like cattle.

He likes horses and I like horses,” she said. They go trail riding regularly in the Newton Hills and usually go riding in the Black Hills at least once a year.

John also did roping in local rodeos for 30 years. Today, the couple raises and sells colts. They have five mares and about 20 horses total. Their colts have been sold all over the country – from Texas to Idaho to North Carolina to New York.

“It’s fun raising them, training them and then selling them to somebody else who enjoys them for a long time. Occasionally they’ll call you or send you a picture of a horse you sold five years ago,” John said. Lorna added, “When they call, a lot of times they’re looking for the next one. They want to know if there’s a sibling of their first colt.”

John and Lorna’s blended family includes five total children and seven grandchildren. John has two sons. Son John lives in Sioux Falls and is the owner of Reinvented Promo. Luke lives in

John and Lorna Haverhals in front of their office west of Hudson.

Hawarden and works at Waddy’s in both Hudson and Hawarden.

Lorna’s oldest daughter, Katie, and her husband, Jim Pehl, live in Cottage Grove, Minn., with their children, Darra and Tage. Katie has a master’s in nursing and works as a midwife at Woodwinds Health Campus. Her younger daughter, Tiffany, lives in rural Doon, Iowa, with her husband, Chad Van Engen, and their children, Jackson, Emersyn and Marcus. They background cattle for a local farmer and Tiffany is a veterinary technician at Central Vet in Sioux Center. Their farm is a regular "Old MacDonald’s farm" with the kids trying their hand at many different species of livestock.

A PASSION FOR BEEF John is a past president of the South Dakota Cattlemen’s Association and he also served on the National Cattlemen’s Beef Board. “I’m

passionate about the beef industry and the product we present to our consumers on a daily basis.

Whether it’s Shanghai or Sunshine in Sioux Falls, it’s important to have the demand for your products to get a good price.” In addition to serving other beef producers, involvement in associations can help a cattle feeder create a great network of people. “There’s many things you can learn and take home and help you financially. It’s not just an expense, you’re gaining an education,” he said.

“The main reason I can be active in the broader beef industry is because I’ve had operation managers like Chuck and now Tyler. If I had a board meeting or I’m taking care of other off-farm business, I considered it a privilege that I didn’t have to worry about what was happening at home.

Lorna’s always been supportive of the craziness I get myself into, too,”

Lorna with grandchildren, Tage Pehl, Darra Pehl, and Selena Rus.

John said. “Right now we have such a good group of guys, I can honestly say I never wonder whether or not any one of them is going to show up for work. It’s just unbelievable.”

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