meet your neighbors PRODUCTION SALE APRIL 9, 2022 • 1 P.M. At the Farm • Sullivan, MO
Selling 45 Lots Bred Females Open Heifers Bulls Genetic Opportunities
LUNCH • NOON SALE • 1 P.M.
Progeny and Genetics from These Elite Females will be featured. MAGS Constance
CONSULTANTS: Bill Helton, 256-962-0256 Mark Smith, 515-229-5227
SHE SELLS
AUCTIONEER: Chisum Peterson, 605-730-4214
Making Their Way Back to the Farm By Eileen J. Manella
After years of “city life,” Austin and Rebekah Lebahn are back on the family farm When Austin Lebahn dated his girlfriend during college, she visited him as he milked cows for his grandfather in Mansfield, Mo. While he may have foreseen marrying Rebekah, little did he know they would end up moving onto that same farm with their five children and make it their own.
sale of the property. Kenneth and Delores Lebahn purchased the dairy farm in 1978 and retired from running it in 2008. Austin surprised them with his interest in the family land and bought it together with his father Tim. The father and son already ran a heating and cooling business in the same town of Mansfield.
Austin Lebahn, his wife Rebekah, and their five children raise beef cattle on a former dairy farm once owned by Austin’s grandparents.
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SALE MANAGEMENT:
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Photo by Eileen J. Manella
BERTI LIMOUSIN Robby & Jeannine Berti 7786 Seminary Rd. • Sullivan, MO 63080 • 573-468-5511, home
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“I’d love to move my kids out here. I grew up on a farm,” Austin said of Lebahn Dairy, years later and living in the nearby city of Rogersville, Mo. In 2018, he did not pass on the opportunity of his grandparent’s
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“My parents would go to work and make me walk up the fence row to meet Grandpa in the barn,” Austin recalled. “He would tie my Mansfield, Mo. tie before school.” Austin lived in a house on the farm property with his parMARCH 21, 2022
