This week’s American Farm Family is a fifth-generation operation that produces soybeans, corn and pork

No two acres are the same and neither are the families who tend them.

The Illinois Soybean Association introduces us to this week’s American Farm Family, a fifth-generation outfit that produces soybeans, corn, and pork.

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