Celebrating Agriculture - Love for the land

With planting season just around the corner, it’s time to celebrate local farmers and the work that they do. This month’s agricultural spotlight takes us to rural Plainfield where Rick and Jane Juchems have been farming since 1979.
     The Juchems grow corn, soybeans and cover crops and custom feed 2400 finish hogs.
     Rick Juchems serves as Region Three director of the Iowa Soybean Association, and is also a Butler County Soil and Water Commissioner, Vice President of the Northeast Iowa Research Farm board and on the Butler Farm Service Agency (FSA) Committee.
     On a day to day basis, he tends to the hogs. When the hogs go to market, often five loads are hauled to Tyson in a day, starting at 4 a.m. with the last load leaving at around 10 p.m. Then the barns are cleaned up and filled again two days later.
 
Read more in the April 18 edition of the STAR.
 
 
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