DARINGLY
Diverse by Melissa McGee Buehler photos courtesy Mid Continent Farms
Variety is the spice of life, and the norm at Mid Continent Farms. I n the middle of north central
The Stewart family began farming and raising cattle in 1916, with W.C. Mueller, Gregg Stewart’s great-grandfather. Gregg is now a fifth-generation stockman and owner of Mid Continent Farms (MCF) in Washington County, Kansas. During World War II, Ray Stewart, (Gregg and Kent’s
grandfather) kept a cowherd and sold mules to the U.S. Army. Their father, Conrad, was more interested in the cash grain business and feeding out cattle. Gregg remembers, “Dad always said Grandpa was an ‘ole mule skinner’, so Kent and I came by trading livestock naturally.” Cow-calf pairs were not part of the operation until 1980. From its humble beginnings, the outfit has always been
November 2019
Kansas, where the sunflowers stand at attention to the midday sun, and the wheat blows in the light breeze, Agriculture is the lifeblood of small communities thriving there. When looking on a map of the United States, near the middle of the country is Washington, Kansas. Just north of the famous flint hills of Kansas, Mid Continent Farms has built a multigeneration family
venture based on a diverse, yet practical cowherd, along with a mixed farming operation.
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