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WHERE WE COME FROM<br />
Ryan, Mitch and Abe Krukow<br />
are among three generations<br />
who farm together in Scott and<br />
Clinton counties. Mitch taught<br />
his sons, Ryan and Cory, the<br />
ropes. Now Abe, his brother,<br />
Lane, and cousin, Carver, are<br />
also working with their fathers<br />
and grandfather with hopes to<br />
pass the operation onto their<br />
future children.<br />
EASTERN IOWA FARMER PHOTO /<br />
CONTRIBUTED<br />
“There was a similar climate and<br />
rich soil, and they saw opportunity,”<br />
she said.<br />
After graduating high school,<br />
Mitch headed to college to study<br />
accounting and business, coming<br />
home to take over his grandparents’<br />
farm after his grandfather fell ill.<br />
“After I started farming, I<br />
promised my wife Julie, future<br />
wife at that time, that we could get<br />
a place in town. <strong>We</strong> wouldn’t live<br />
on the farm forever, just for a year.<br />
I didn’t think she would want to<br />
live on the farm since she grew up<br />
in town. Thank heavens a month or<br />
so after we got married, we were<br />
talking one night, and she asked if<br />
we had to move to town. I didn’t<br />
know where this conversation was<br />
going but she continued and said<br />
she loved living on the farm and<br />
thought it would be a wonderful<br />
place to raise kids. <strong>We</strong> spent the<br />
rest of our lives at the farm.”<br />
Mitch and Julie raised three kids<br />
“I didn’t really realize how each<br />
part of the process fit into the<br />
whole, or how little things like<br />
trimming fence lines impacted<br />
the big picture, but now I<br />
understand that a lot more.”<br />
— ABE KRUKOW<br />
and continued to expand, bringing<br />
their two boys, Cory, and Ryan,<br />
into the operation when they were<br />
in high school.<br />
“I started renting farm ground<br />
when I was a sophomore in high<br />
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eifarmer.com SPRING 2024 | EASTERN IOWA FARMER 51
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