Janet and Roger Knoblock have eight children and 36 grandchildren.
Roger Knoblock said his family’s farm runs all for one and one for all. “All for one” means if someone in the operation has trouble, everyone in the family will rally to their side. “One for all” outlines that the family and employees of the Knoblock farm are working for the good of all. The Knoblock family has a diversified cattle, hog, corn and soybean operation located between Lester and Alvord. Over the decades Roger and Janet Knoblock’s family has grown to include eight children and their spouses, 32 grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. The couple farms in partnership with their sons and their wives Trent and Heather, Thadd and Wendy, Travis and Kathy; and Troy and Donna; and sonin-law and daughter, Jon and Tricia Blomgren. When they got married in 1965, Roger and Janet farmed 60 acres and did a little sharecropping and hauling grain and livestock for a local trucker. “I like pigs, so I bought seven crates on a farm sale. I went in with Dad on a partnership on the pigs which we farrowed in Dad’s hog house because we were living on a acreage doing chores for house rent for a neighbor.”
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Roger and Janet rented their uncle’s farm in 1967 and then bought it on contract in 1970. “And that really made the difference. We kept expanding on pigs. Dad liked to drive September 2021 | www.agemedia.pub | The Farming Families Magazine
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