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The Mark and Lori Loutsch family: Brooke, Adam, Lori, Mark, Jack, Samantha, Nick, Melissa holding Kennedy, and Justin.
“Yes, we have disagreements, but you get over it and move forward,” said Mark. “Just like a marriage, a family partnership has its tough spots, but there’s no use bailing out because there’s a lot of good that comes with the bad. There’s times when we’ve been at each other’s throats, but we’ve never finished a day mad at each other.” Bill said, “When we have a disagreement, we might chase each other around the truck (just once, though, until we get tired). But you just walk away from it and start over again the next day.” The brothers finish iso-wean pigs, feed cattle and lamb out ewes. Mark said, “We never had a lot of acres, so we needed livestock to keep us busy. We’re pretty diversified. At one time I thought I might even want to milk cows when my neighbor was getting out of it. Thank God his daughter came home – although I would have given it a whirl if given the opportunity.” Their grandparents moved to the farm in the 1930s and their dad was born in the house where Mark lives now. “We’ve always had hogs on this farm except one time when cholera wiped them out and then when we eradicated pseudorabies,” Mark said. Bill said, “Dad didn’t care how many sows we had, but he got the first 50 litters every time. We had sows in every little barn around – 10 crates here, eight crates there.” Bill is in charge of the hogs; Mark takes care of the cattle and sheep; and Jerry keeps the equipment in good repair. The brothers built a shop to work on their own equipment,
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