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A grand finale...pages 8-9

Disabled archers enjoy hunting...pages 10-11

Their dream in the country...pages 12-13

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AVON – Give Joe Neu-mann a crisp fall day, a tree line or small grove near a field and a dog, and he’s in heaven. “I always had bird dogs,” said this Avon man. “But four years ago I started with Ger-man Shorthair Pointer and I love it.” Neumann not only hunts with German Short Haired Pointers, he also takes them to hunting and field compe-titions and had done quite well. His dogs have earned ribbons and titles over the past few years. Sometimes it’s still astounding to him. “I never thought I’d be collecting ribbons, especially for a dog,” he said, looking at the armful of ribbons his dogs have won. “I sort of got into this by accident.” Four years ago he was

Fall and German Shorthair Pointers are perfect combination

looking for another dog to hunt with. He had hunted with Springer Spaniels and was familiar with Black Labs, when Josh Holden of Wild Wind Gun Dogs, a Ger-man Shorthair Pointer breed-er, came to his home. That

was the start of a friendship and the start of Neumann working with the breed. “I got Bailey. She recent-ly had a litter of pups. He (Holden) has a older dog, Emma, and I work with her,” said Neumann.

He also got Gunner, now a four-year-old retriever and a top-quality hunting dog in the American Kennel Club

PHOTO BY HERMAN LENSINGJoe Neumann, Avon, is shown with Gunner, a German Shorthair Pointer. Neumann has worked with Gunner for the past four years to have him become an award-winning hunting dog.

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RICHMOND – Randy Rothstein and sidekick Grant Heinen checked on the pump-kins and gourds in their patch near Richmond early one Sep-tember weekday morning. They’d had high hopes their 100-foot by 200-foot patch would produce these fall fa-vorites, but never in their wildest dreams did they think the seeds they planted in early July would amount to over 110 bright orange pumpkins, 30 over 50 pounds, with the larg-est one weighing 72 pounds; and close to 2,000 gourds of

By CAROL MOORMANStaff writer

Pumpkin partnersRichmond duo combine effort togrow pumpkins, gourds in cow yard

21 different varieties. This is the first year Ran-dy and Grant have combined efforts to grow pumpkins and gourds in this patch, using some seeds saved from pump-kins grown nearby in Randy and his wife, Mary’s, garden. On this early morning, as the sun rises, Mary smiles when saying Randy and Grant are like two peas in a pod, shar-ing many of the same likes. “They’re always keeping an eye out for one another,” she said.

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PHOTOS BY CAROL MOORMANRandy Rothstein (left) and Grant Heinen hold one of their largest pumpkins in their patch near Richmond. This is their first year growing pumpkins and gourds.

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Larry Hoeschen drives as Arlon and Jake Gilk look on during a test drive of one of their motors. The motors range from 3 to 40 horsepower and are able to bypass areas that would be impossible with standard outboard motors.

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PHOTO BY CAROL MOORMANGrant Heinen carries gourds grown around the edges of their pumpkin patch.

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A grotto, with pur-ple flowers tended to by Mary, was built in honor of Rothstein fam-ily members who have farmed the land, a plaque on the front indicating who they are. Farm buildings, like the barn, are gone and part of the old cow yard is now a pumpkin patch, which, after such a suc-cessful growing season, may all become a patch next year. Randy said it was Grant’s idea to grow pumpkins. Grant learned to drive Randy’s 966 diesel this year in a controlled environment, pulling the disk behind it to keep the weeds down in the cow yard. He mastered back-ing it all into the machine shed once he was done disking. “One day he was on the tractor disking in the cow yard, and he said we should grow pumpkins here,” said Randy, add-ing, “From there, it just

took off.” Randy had an in-kling the cow yard would be a good place to grow pumpkins because the soil is so rich. The duo worked to-gether as a team, adding a bit of tender loving care. Seeds were gotten. Twelve rows of pumpkin seeds were planted, with gourd seeds planted on the outside. The watching–and sometimes daily check-ing–began. They weeded the patch the first three weeks, using a tiller after that until the plants start-ed vining. Randy said he only watered the area three times. They discovered they had unwanted visi-tors–deer–in their patch, which, other than put-ting up a tall fence, they couldn’t really deter. Pumpkins weren’t the only things they watched grow. Mary had numerous flower gar-dens around the farm,

including in the bottom of what was once a grain bin. Walking through a fenced-off vegetable garden, Randy talked about the zucchini, green beans, cucumbers, pota-toes, onions, watermel-on, cantaloupe and orna-mental corn he grew. Towering over all the plants in the garden are six-foot-tall popcorn stalks planted for Grant and his family. Kernels from harvested cobs are popped into popcorn. In mid-September, Grant picked the first cobs and popped them. “It tasted just like popcorn,” he said. On a sunny Saturday in late September, Ran-dy, Grant and other fam-ily members picked their

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on them and others will be carved,” said Randy. With a successful first year, they are al-ready looking forward to the next growing season, saving seeds from this year’s pumpkins to plant next spring. “Plans are for a bigger and better patch next year, adding more varieties of pumpkins, including different col-ors, and squash too, and maybe a surprise plant,” said Randy, adding, “We can’t wait for spring and summer.” What won’t be sur-prising is that Randy and Grant will be working together. After all, they are pumpkin partners.

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those tests, trials, and when he guided hunters. With Gunner, and a pup named Bam Bam, he has good hunting dogs that didn’t develop by acci-dent. “You have to start

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The breed was de-veloped in Germany in the 1800s, and was es-tablished by the 1870s. The dog was developed for long-range hunt-ing on dry land and to also work well in water. Strong bones mean it can carry almost any small bird. Webbed feet help in the water. The dogs are almost hard-wired to retrieve. Neumann found that is especially true with Gunner. He once left Gun-ner in Avon, while Neu-mann went to Sand Pines Pheasants to help with a European style hunt. Sand Pine Pheasants is about four-and-a-half miles from Avon. “When he heard the shooting, he jumped out of the window to come here,” said Neumann. “A policeman saw him. He jumped from a second story window.” Neumann said Gun-ner brings the same dedi-cation to competitions as he does to a hunt. Both Gunner and Bam Bam, a one-year-old pup, have earned dozens of rib-bons, medals and honors for their hunting skills. Emma is currently one point away from earning an amateur champion-ship. The award honors amateur, non-profession-al trainers. It hasn’t always been easy. Besides his jump from a window, Gunner has encountered a few

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A sap. No, not asap. A sap. That would be me when it comes to trees in general and fall color specifically. Actu-ally, I might be a little obsessed, so I hope there’s at least a small con-tingent of readers out there that can relate to what beautiful trees will do for the soul. I think I in-herited my high regard of trees from my dad. He loved them all (ex-cept maybe box elders). A few years before he died, I gave him a large, coffee table-type book filled with gorgeous photos of trees from around the world. I took a little flack over my en-thusiasm for that book but that’s okay. We now have it on display in our home. I look at trees all the time, but in the fall, I flat out gawk at them! I’ve taken photos all summer and fall of the trees in the grove

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just west of our house – and by that I mean about 30 feet west. To my delight, at the end of September, we drove

in from a differ-ent direction, and there, at the top of the grove, was a hint of or-ange. Just inside the first layer of trees, was a 35-foot sugar maple starting to change color.

Somehow I’d missed it. Talk about mak-ing my day. Actually, weeks. Since this spec-tacle was taking place outside my kitchen window, I had the joy of watching it evolve. In the years to come, there will be even more to watch. Recently, five good-sized trees were planted on our property–four different maples and a red pin oak. I’d also like to experiment with growing northern red oaks from seed. (One of my grandsons, six-year-old Carter, heard me say

PHOTOS BY DIANE LEUKAMA different perspective is always fun. This photo was taken in our grove the day we discovered a 35-foot maple beginning to turn color.

that, and a couple days later he showed up with a handful of acorns he’d picked for me from his back yard. How sweet

is that!) Red oak acorns, though, may be more difficult to find than I thought. Apparently it’s only every other year

the trees have acorns to harvest. I’m working on it. When it comes to trees, I especially enjoy watching the light com-ing through them from the back. I’ve tried to capture that on camera, but it just doesn’t do it justice. Last winter, in an art gallery in Scottsdale, Ariz., I came across an artist’s, Frank Ba-laam’s, work that was focused on just that. These paintings were done with a dif-ferent technique than is normally used in a land-scape painting. Normal-ly, the painting is done working from the far-thest point to the near-est point. He reversed it, so the last paint add-ed is the light coming through from the back. I would have loved to buy one of his pieces; a 6x6” (yes, inch) paint-ing runs about $850. A 6’x6’ is $18,925. May-be some day. For now, I hope to try this different meth-

od of painting using my own photos. I plan to change the method slightly, and tone down the color a little, but with a similar goal to Balaam’s of having it look kind of like stained glass when it’s done. Back to fall in Min-nesota. This year, the predictions were that the fall color would be particularly beautiful, and it didn’t disappoint. The weather didn’t ei-ther. The Indian Sum-mer we had toward the end of September was amazing. As I write this in the second week of October, the col-ors are still beautiful. I have yet to take a drive through the St. John’s/Avon Hills area, and from what I hear, it will be well worth the trip. Overall, this fall has been a very grand finale, and I’ve enjoyed every moment of it.


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Just outside of Al-bany, the journey down Brian and Emily Si-mon’s half-mile drive-way leads all who enter along a path of twists and turns, beautiful flower beds, through an old railroad trestle, past beautiful trees and a beautifully-kept barn, vegetable gardens and more. After passing un-der the railroad trestle, which is now the Wobe-gon Trail, the hills rise up all around the pe-rimeter of the property, giving a private feel to the peaceful hideaway. It’s clear from the start that the property is special, especially when Brian and Emily start talking about their dream that came true in the country. They beam with appreciation

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that they call this place home. “It’s just so amaz-ing that we are here,” Emily said. “We are en-joying it so much. The privacy, the quiet and the sounds of nature.” Brian and Emily moved to the property in 2012. They found out about it from a co-work-er of Brian’s who saw a “For Sale” sign at the end of the driveway and mentioned it to him. The couple had previ-ously been living in the city limits of Albany for eight years, but always felt a pull to the out-skirts. “We both grew up in the country,” Bri-an explained. “It just seemed like that was where we needed to be. When my co-worker mentioned it, I thought it would be perfect.” Emily was not so sure at first. While the

property was beautiful, the farmhouse, built in 1904, was in need of a few updates. “We had been liv-ing in a new house,”

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Emily. Along with the dream came a lot of hard work. But with Brian’s handiwork and his dad’s carpentry help, each project came together over the course of about two years. While the previ-ous owners took great care of the property and made some major changes themselves, including adding a two-stall garage to the house and planting many of the flower gardens on the property, there were still things that need-ed to be done to fit the needs of a modern fam-ily. Inside the house, all light fixtures and ceiling fans were re-

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What are some of your hunting secrets? I go early and stay late. I also use scent control.

Tell us about your best hunting story: I got my first deer when I was 14 years old. I was hunting with my dad and my brothers. I was sitting in the deer stand bored out of my mind. Then, a deer walked right in front of me. My heart was beating out of my chest. I took a steady aim and shot the deer. Not sure who was more excited, my dad or me. A person never forgets their first shot.

What is the best day of hunting you’ve ever had? When I took each of my

two kids into the stand to hunt. I loved to see their excitement doing my favorite sport. Needless to say, we didn’t see any deer.

What is your favorite way to prepare your game? I love making French dip sandwiches with it. I prepare the roast with pepper, four cloves of garlic, 32 ounc-es of beef stock and four cubes of beef bouillion. I boil the meat then let it simmer for 1.5 hours, turning it once. Then, I serve it on a toasted hoagie bun.

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AvonWhat is your favorite hunting season? Why? The archery deer season is our fa-vorite. We also love going to Colorado for elk. We love the challenge of bow hunting and having to get close to the animal to get a shot. Spending time together at the Camp Ripley hunt or at our family farm during gun season with my brother Ken and his sons.

What are some of your hunting secrets? Scent control and playing the wind are huge with bow hunting. We keep our clothes in plastic totes and wear knee-high rubber boots to keep our scent down walking in to the stands. You need to get within 30-40 yards to get a shot and the wind needs to be in your favor or the deer will bust you. We have a stand on the neighbors’ land behind our house and the boys know all they need to do is check which way the flag is blowing in the yard to see if they can hunt that stand or should stay out so they don’t give away the stand.

Tell us your best hunting story: Last fall in Colorado was Zach’s first elk trip and on the first night we set up to glass a mile-wide valley. I had Zach sit up in the point of the valley going up the ridge and I went down the tree line about 200 yards. Within a few minutes a big 6x6 bull elk pops out on the opposite side of the valley. I turn to start heading back to get Zach to go after the bull and he has a cow moose with two calves and three mule deer milling around right in front of him that came out of the timber right after we got there. Zach was pinned down and since I couldn’t pull him out without disturbing all those animals I snuck down the valley through wash-outs and got to the bottom of the valley to the last two spruce trees between me the bull and started cow calling. The bull came racing in head back bugling like mad. He got within 70 yards and stopped behind one of the last spruce trees and I was next to the other tree ready to draw. I didn’t want to call anymore to give myself away and he didn’t like that the cow he was after shut up. So we had a stand off that seemed to last forever, but was probably a couple minutes until he bailed out. We had a another similar hunt a few nights later and Zach got to get right up on a big bull with me doing the calling. Just didn’t quite get the shot. We got three nice bulls with my brother, brother-in-law and nephews a few years earlier that was awesome, but getting out in the mountains with your own kid and hunting and camping for ten days was unfor-gettable. Jake hasn’t let me forget that he hasn’t gotten his chance to hunt elk yet.

What is the best day of hunting you’ve ever had? Zach and Jake had almost identi-cal hunts when they were old enough to go alone and hunt the stand behind the house; both shot nice does on their first night out alone. Of course I didn’t believe them at first, but they both made nice shots and we found the deer right away.

What is your favorite way to prepare your game? My wife likes to cast iron fry venison back-strap medallions in butter with mushrooms and onions.

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What is your favorite hunting season? Why? Deer hunting. It’s my favorite because it is the only hunt-ing season that we do as a family, usually my dad and my brother’s get together and spend the weekend hunting.

What are some of your hunting secrets? I like to hang my hunting clothes outside for a couple weeks prior to opening morning. I also like to be in my stand at least 30 minutes before sunrise. I never use a flash-light when entering the woods and I always take my time walking to my stand to be as quiet as possible.

Tell us your best hunting story? It was one of my first years hunting and my dad gave me his 4-10 bolt action gun to use. It snowed about 6” the night before so it was perfect hunting and the deer really stood out in the woods. I was sitting in my stand for about an hour and I could see a deer walking in my footprints right towards my stand with his head down. I usually drop some scent as I walk in the woods and apparent-ly this buck picked up on my trail. I patiently waited for this buck to get about 10-15 yards from my stand; it was a nice 10-12 point buck. Biggest deer I have ever seen, guessing it had a 14-16” spread. I had this buck in my sights and all I remember is pulling the trigger and hearing “click”. I look at the deer and it is staring right at me. My first thought is I forgot to load my gun, I reload take aim and at this point the deer is running, I did take a shot, but missed it. As I was telling my hunting party the story at lunch, no one believed me. Everyone said I got buck fever and just missed the deer. I was so mad that after lunch I spent the next half hour digging in the snow by my stand to find the defective shell and prove that I had a shell that did not fire, and eventually I found the 4-10 shell with a dent from the hammer. To this date, that was one of the largest deer that I ever had a chance to harvest.

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What is your favorite hunting season? Why? I like deer hunting because the family gets together. We tell stories of seasons past, the fun we had and all the oopses.

What are some of your hunting secrets? I really don’t have any secrets. The best you can do is have fun.

Tell us about your best hunting story: The best story I have is when my brother, Dean, and I were pheasant hunting with my niece, Dayna Voller. There was a hen that flew in front of Dean and I and was heading toward Dayna. She shot twice and started saying, “ I got him. I got him.” Dean and I looked at each other and said, “Oh! Oh!” We walked over and she had a rooster as her first pheasant.

What is the best day of hunting you’ve ever had? My best day of hunting is all of them, but three stand out. The first was Dayna’s first pheasant. The second was turkey hunting with Deb Zormeier and she got her first turkey. The third was bow-hunting deer. I had two nice bucks around me. The bigger one was in rut and chasing the smaller one. I got the big one. The best this is being with family and friends.

What is your favorite way to prepare your game? I like making jerky out of my deer meat.

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What is the best day of hunting you’ve ever had? Saturday afternoon of opening bow hunting this year. I had taken my daughter with just to sit in the stand with me for the past couple of years and every time she would come with, we would never see any deer. This year she was too tired to get up on opening morning and I saw a bunch of deer, so she was disappointed again. However, she did sit in the stand with me on Saturday afternoon and she got to see her first deer in the woods and it was an 8-point buck that walked right under our stand. I decided not to shoot at this buck, but she talks about how cool it was to see a buck so close.

What is your favorite way to prepare your game? My favorite dish is venison sausage with fried rice, cou-ple eggs, and soy sauce all mixed together in a large skillet.

What is your favorite hunting season? Archery Deer. Why? Fall is my favorite season. The tempera-ture is nice most of the time, and the bugs are not as bad.

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Drunken pigs on bikes, “honey wagons” pulled by oxen and Bob Hope. When Chub Hensley, of Osakis, sees people driving fancy new Hyundais, it’s hard for him to be-lieve. He remembers a very different Korea. Although the mid-sixties were years of military drafts, Hensley enlisted in the U.S. Army at the age of 18. Still a very young man when he got to Korea, he describes his very first experience there. “When we landed, we were picked up by a cou-ple of military guys. We noticed a terrible odor. In front of us was a team of oxen pulling a cart. We later found out it was human waste to be used for fertilizer on the rice fields. We called it a ‘honey wagon.’” Although it was a smelly start, Hensley was im-pressed with the strength of the oxen pulling their various loads of cargo. “I owned a trucking company [after the military]. That was their trucking company,” said Hensley. Not all commodities were hauled by oxen. A common sight was people hauling their pigs to mar-ket, one at a time...strapped on the back of their bicy-cles. The pigs were very calm, and Hensley found out they were filled with alcohol. “That would calm them down and they would lay on the bicycle and sleep. Naturally, the first time you see it, you wonder, ‘am I really seeing this,’” he said with a smile. Turning the pages of his military photo album, Hensley comes across many photos he took of Bob

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After his time in the military was up, Hensley would have liked to re-enlist, but he had hearing problems and would have needed special permission to stay. In the mean-time, he went back home to Osakis. While he’d been gone, a young wom-an, Jan, from a fam-ily he had known, had been widowed, losing her husband and a leg in an ac-cident. They started dating and then mar-ried. Between them they have six chil-dren. Chub has two daughters, Mary and Pam, from a previous marriage, who live in Texas. Jan has a daughter, Dawn, who lives next door to the Hensleys, and together they have three children, Darrin, Kari and Christa. In 1975, Chub and Jan started Hensley Trucking, Inc., out of their home, then moved the business into Osakis 4-5 years later. They started out hauling eggs and branched into other food products, mainly to and from Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Illi-nois. “We hauled a lot to Jeno Paulucci in Duluth,” said Hensley. Paulucci was the Duluth entrepreneur that founded some 70 companies, mostly known for Bellisio Foods, Jenos Pizza Rolls and Chun King foods. Darrin officially took over the trucking business about five years ago. Chub and Jan are content living in their country

Hensley enjoyed USO shows both in Korea and Vietnam. He took the photo of Bob Hope and a USO girl, above.

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home north of Osakis, spending time with family and friends. Looking back on his military days, Hensley en-courages people to consider the military as a way of life. In his nine years, Hensley covered a lot of ground. He went from Fort Hood, Texas, to Califor-nia, Korea (1964-65), Arlington, Va., Manheim, Ger-many, Vietnam (1966-67), back to Germany and back to Vietnam (1968-69). On a couple of R&R trips, he traveled to Australia and Japan. Hensley loved the military, which for him was packed with travel, adventure, meeting people and something new all the time. “I think the military is great for people who are undecided about what to do in life.”

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who continued con-struction work, would do most of the chores and Barb’s brothers helped with grinding feed and making hay. “We saved enough to buy 20 cows out of our pocket and her dad gave us six heifers,” Mark said. Barb added, “I remember our first calf being a bull and I was so excited for my check.” A short time later, the Massmanns enlisted help again from Barb’s dad, Joe, and started looking for another farm with a bigger barn and some acreage as well. “Dad asked, ‘Does this feel like home?’ I said, ‘yes, this feels like home.’ We met the neighbors and knew it

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Every female born has had a name. They don’t use eartags. “We name all our cows. The daughters’ names get the same first letter of their mother’s name. We get help from a book of 100,000 names,” Barb said. Mark added, “Barb remem-bers every cow, heifer, calf. She knows them by heart and I know them by their udders.” Their daughters’ roles on the dairy increased through the years and so did the amount of visitors to the dairy. “They both helped on the farm. We found when you have girls you always have boys to help,” Mark said. “One thing about farming I told the girls is that they would never have a harder job than this.” Barb added, “It teaches them a lot of responsi-bility and prepares them for life.” The Massmanns typically dry up their cows in the summer and August is their vacation month. Their favorite vacation spots include camping in South Dakota’s Black Hills and Yellowstone Na-tional Park. “I couldn’t be dairy farming if we calved year

around. We look forward to that break. By Septem-ber, I am looking forward to the newborn calves,” Barb said. Mark added, “The cows get a break – we get a break.” Their toughest personal tragedy happened in

1996 when Melony, who was 15 at the time, was cutting a string on a haybale and got poked in the eye with the scis-sors. She spent five days in the hospital and couldn’t come back in the barn for months for precautionary reasons. “That was tough. She said she couldn’t see the yard light. We took her to see the doctors

in the Twin Cities. That was harder than losing a crop,” he said. “We have never had a scissor in the barn since then. That was a sad day.” She now wears a plastic lens in that eye. With the challenges of farming also come the triumphs. Throughout their dairying career, the Massmanns have added on to their operation by putting up a 17- by 70-ft. silo in 1993. They built a manure pit in 1992 and put up grain bins in the mid-1990s. In 2000, the Massmanns also remod-

Barb Massmann feeds two newborn calves on their farm Sept. 22. Barb names all the animals on their farm.

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eled their house. Through the years, Mark and Barb have also changed some farming methods, including feeding and harvesting hay. The Massmanns never feed si-lage to their heifers. “We have very few problems with the cows, no DAs,” Mark said. “And we’ve recently started wrapping our hay. I believe you have to take care of the soil and the cows. I’m always worried about molds in the feed.” Looking back on their dairy career that was never supposed to be, the Massmanns feel fortu-nate to have been able to farm. “It’s a great place to raise our kids,” Barb said. Mark added, “I have never regretted taking the chance to dairy farm when the opportunity was there. Our goal was never to be rich at farming, but to have a better place to live. We were able to raise our family in the country and help our children and us learn life’s lessons such as responsibility and strong work ethic, while spending a lot of quality time together.” Both their daughters now work in the medical field. Melony is a certified nursing assistant and Jennifer is a medical secretary at the hospital in Staples.

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