Parker Hjelle, nephew
12 years old
Seventh grade
When do you do chores? Mostly after school and during the summer and fall.
What is your favorite and least favorite chore? My favorite thing to do is fieldwork and my least favorite is fencing.
What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? Picking up bales in the fields.
Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. Getting sprayed with hydraulic fluid.
What is your favorite animal on your farm? The calves, because this is when they are the tamest.
What do you want to be when you grow up? I want to pour concrete or be a farmer.
If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. I would have a small feedlot and some sheds.
What is your favorite game to play on the farm? I like to play with the dog and have it fetch sticks.
What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? Homemade mac and cheese.
What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? Go to our cabin or go fishing.
Are you involved in activities? 4-H is the only activity I do, and I like it because it’s involved with farming and some outdoors.
Austin Hjelle
11 years old
Fifth grade
When do you do chores? I help in the evenings and weekends during the school year.
What is your favorite and least favorite chore? My favorite chore is feeding the beef cows, because I get to see my cow and calf. My least favorite is feeding the switch cows total mixed ration with the skid loader because it’s boring.
What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? Harvest season, because I get to rake and haul cornstalk bales and chisel plow soybean stubble.
Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. Unloading small square rye straw bales with my brother, cousin and friends.
What is your favorite animal on your farm? Raspberry, my beef calf, because she is my first calf from my own cow.
What do you want to be when you grow up? A farmer just like my dad.
If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. Mostly the same as our farm but with a parlor and more machine and livestock sheds.
What is your favorite game to play on the farm? Play basketball with the other boys.
What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? Tater tot hot dish.
What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? Go swimming and wakeboarding at my grandparents’ lake and go bear and deer hunting up north.
Are you involved in activities? I’m in football, wrestling and 4-H. My favorite is wrestling, because it’s up to me if I win or lose.
Emmett Hjelle
7 years old
First grade
When do you do chores? Mostly in the evenings after school.
What is your favorite and least favorite chore? My favorite chore is feeding the beef cows silage, because I get to pet No. 8. My least favorite is when I have to feed bottle calves, because some are slow.
What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? Unload rye straw bales up in the barn with friends, because we get to throw the bales off the conveyor.
Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. Riding in the combine and falling asleep.
What is your favorite animal on your farm? Flower, my Jersey heifer calf I took to the fair last year.
What do you want to be when you grow up? Farmer or a lawyer.
If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. One just like ours but with sheep, chickens and ducks.
What is your favorite game to play on the farm? I like to play tag.
What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? Tacos.
What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? We go hunting up north and go fishing. We go out to eat and go on vacations.
Are you involved in activities? I’m involved with Sunday school, 4-H, tennis this summer and maybe football and wrestling. My favorite is 4-H, because I get to show my calf at the fair.
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