The Family behind the Farm Kent and Dana Weatherby
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o Kent and Dana Weatherby, the farm family was always instilled in us as kids to work together until lifestyle is all they have ever known. From being the job was done and we didn’t question it.” raised on multi-generation farms to building their own together, they cannot imagine any other way of life. Growing up, Dana was always eager to chip in wherever she was needed, between driving a Farmall M tractor Dana grew up near Spaulding, IL helping out around spraying corn, running the combine, and helping their corn and soybean farm with her two younger build their new machine shed. She also spent countless sisters and her parents, Fred and Judy Kramer. Dana summers walking beans with her sisters while their grew up watching the successful partnership between father jokingly sang old songs to keep them entertained. her parents as they farmed with one another throughout their lives. Seeing her mother be so active on the farm gave her the desire to pursue a career in agriculture and farm “My family was very hands-on and always did it alongside her own family one day. ourselves no matter what the job was,” says Dana. “It
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