Isaac Beranek
Age: 14
8th grade
When do you do chores? I help mostly at nights. On the weekends, I get up at 6 a.m. and go out and help finish chores.
What is your favorite and least favorite chore? I don’t really have a preference. I just do what needs to be done so we can get everything done in a day.
What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? I like doing tillage in the spring and fall and when we haul out the shed that the dry cows are in.
Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. A fun memory is my first year showing at the county fair and getting to break in my heifers to walk with me.
What is your favorite animal on your farm? My favorite animal is probably the Brown Swiss 5-year-old. She’s my favorite because she’s not annoying but lets you play with her and she’s broke to the halter.
What do you want to be when you grow up? When I grow up, I want to be a diesel mechanic.
If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. If I had a farm, I would have a set of bins in the corner, a machine shed to the west, the house would be to the east and the open front steer shed to the north, open to the south, with a shop in the middle of the yard.
What is your favorite game to play on the farm? We don’t play many games. Dad always has us working.
What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? Dad doesn’t cook. Mom cooks. If Dad tried to cook, the house would burn down, so Mom and Grandma make most of the food. I’m not picky. I eat whatever is served.
What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? We don’t go many places. We are always at home working on stuff.
Are you involved in activities? What is your favorite and why? Yes, trap shooting and I work for a neighbor doing fall tillage work. I’m in trap shooting in the spring and I work for Fisher Farms by Gibbon.
Brody Beranek
Age: 11
6th grade
When do you do chores? At night after I get home from school and on the weekends.
What is your favorite and least favorite chore? My favorite is feeding bottle calves and my least favorite is filling the parlor.
What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? Helping haul bales and working on new building projects.
Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. Playing with the new Brown Swiss calves and walking them on a halter.
What is your favorite animal on your farm? My dog Remy. He’s fat, protective of me and likes to snuggle or sit on me.
What do you want to be when you grow up? A farmer. But, I’m pretty young to decide that for sure.
If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. There would be fenced-in land to raise a lot of beef cows. We’d have a big shop, a machine shed for equipment and a calf barn to raise the calves in. We’d have to have an open front shed for storing bales. We’d have to have a chicken coop for fresh eggs every morning. My house would be a wooden-style ranch house.
What is your favorite game to play on the farm? We don’t play games. We work.
What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? Brats on the smoker.
What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? We barely leave. That’s hard to answer.
Are you involved in activities? What is your favorite and why? No, but I might look into playing football next year.
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