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Sara also does the public relations, marketing and advertising for Trans Ova Genetics. Their older brother, Daniel, works full-time at TransOva as a cloning technician and helps out occasionally at the farm. He and his wife, Brooke, have three children and live in Sioux Center.

Tyler was not heavily involved with the business while in medical school. “But when I got closer to home during my residency, I was able to begin helping out again. On my days off, I try to get out there to help as much as I can. I like to be out there – it gives me a breath of fresh air.” He makes time to be on-farm for the “big things” such as breeding season, vaccinations, tattoos and sorting cattle. “My dad, brother-in-law, sister and I always talk about breeding decisions and management decisions. So I stay involved in the larger-scope management decisions.” Tyler is marrying Autumn Gross on Oct. 1st. In August and September, they moved into a new house, he started a new job, had the show cattle sale at the farm, and got a new puppy. All of that excitement will culminate with their wedding on Oct. 1st. “We packed it all into just a couple months’ time here,” she said.

Autumn is a graduate of South Dakota State University and works for Sanford Health. She’s in the human resources department and is able to work remotely from home since much of her job is done on the computer, on the phone or via video calls. She and Tyler met when he was doing his residency in Sioux Falls. Autumn is from Tulare, S.D. She lived on a farm when she was very young, but moved into Tulare during her early elementary years. Her dad has always been involved in agriculture, including his current job with Steinheuser’s Feedlot. Her brother is the agricultural education teacher and FFA adviser at Hitchcock-Tulare High School. “We did not show cattle, so that world is new to me in the past year-and-a-half. I’ve definitely learned a lot,” she said. At a Faber family gathering, it doesn’t take long for the conversation to come around to in-depth cattle talk. “About 20 minutes in, his mom and I are looking at each other, waiting for the moment when the cattle discussion will start.” Tyler’s nephews – 8-year-old Cohen and 7-year-old Creed Faber – are now in the show ring. “It was my nephews’ first year showing, so that was pretty cool to see. Both of them showed a heifer out of my last show heifer.” Even the holidays have a cattle-centric focus in the Faber family. Tyler said, “On Christmas Eve, one of our family traditions is to run all the cows through and pour them and vaccinate them, preg check or whatever we need to do. While we’ve got the whole family here, let’s get it done! More people makes it easier work.”