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Kelly Hagler, 25, is among the millions of young people who have left rural communities for the bright lights of the city, in this case Chicago.But Hagler…
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Trent Johnson didn’t grow up on a farm, but he was always enamored with the cowboy lifestyle.He sure looks the part now. I visited him in his custom…
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Jackie Dougan Jackson keeps a pretty thorough log of her life. The 85-year-old retired college professor lives in Springfield, Ill., and has lived there…
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Aaron Troester’s life both did, and didn’t, turn out exactly the way he planned.The 29-year-old farmer in the north-central Nebraska town of O’Neill was…
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Rose Alderson is a bright-eyed, energetic grandmother who loves her home a few miles outside of Nickerson, Kan.It’s the home her father was raised in and…
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Brandon Fahrmeier had a nice job as a sales rep in Ohio for a large company. He and his wife had a nice suburban home. Then they had kids. The Fahrmeiers…
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Rhonda McClure seems to approach farming with a homesteader’s resourcefulness, but she adds her own modern flair.McClure and her husband Don sell fleece…
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It was a warm day when I interviewed Ryan Brady, but we sat outside to talk. Discussing farm life didn't seem right with walls between us and the land.I…
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When a guy is a mechanical engineer at a nuclear power plant, you figure he puts in a pretty good day of work.Not so for Nolan Strawder, whose day job, as…
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Ninety years ago this May, my grandfather, Ronald Merle Phillips, and his twin brother, Robert Earl, were born on a farm near Chetopa, Kan.His twin died…
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Sometimes farm roots don’t blossom into a farm life. But those memories can still have a huge influence, perhaps even determining a career choice.That’s…
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It’s not every day that a trip to the drug store can change your destiny.For 20-year-old Nan Arnold, it was a day in 1956 in Ashland, a small, dusty dot…