Clayton Groetsch
13 years old
Eighth grade
When do you do chores? At night at roughly 4:30 to 5:00 p.m. and weekend mornings.
What is your favorite and least favorite chore? My favorite is feeding cows and my least favorite is cleaning the calf barn out.
What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? Chopping.
Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. The most fun memory is when I first learned how to drive skid loader.
What is your favorite animal on your farm? Probably my dogs, Smokey and Molly. Smokey is a decent cattle dog and fun to play with. Molly is really good at hunting.
What do you want to be when you grow up? A dairy farmer-crop farmer. I want to be both of them.
If you had a farm, describe what it would look like? I would have a 120-cow barn, roughly nine cattle sheds by the barn, a nice grain system, 2-3 machinery sheds, a bunker for my silage silos, a decent-sized shop and a calf barn.
What is your favorite game to play on the farm? Paintball.
What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? Candy pasta.
What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? Go to the lake.
What is your number one activity to do on the farm in the fall? Climbing the silo.
Logan Groetsch
11 years old
Sixth grade
When do you do chores? Mornings on the weekends and nights every day.
What is your favorite and least favorite chore? My favorite chore is sweeping mats. My least favorite is doing calf chores.
What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? Working on stuff with Dad in the shop.
Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. Falling off of six square bales and landing on my brother Jack. It was a soft landing.
What is your favorite animal on your farm? A cow. They are super big.
What do you want to be when you grow up? I want to work on pickups and put in lift kits.
If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. I would have a lot of cows and a couple of chickens with a big barn.
What is your favorite game to play on the farm? Hide-and-seek.
What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? Salisbury steak and mashed potatoes.
What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? Hang out outdoors.
What is your number one activity to do on the farm in the fall? Paintball because it’s super fun. I get to shoot my cousins.
Jack Groetsch
9 years old
Third grade
When do you do chores? Around 5 p.m.
What is your favorite and least favorite chore? My favorite chore is pushing manure. My least favorite chore is bedding cattle.
What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? Riding in the Massey pulling chopper boxes with my cousin, Hayden, when Dad is chopping corn.
Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. When bailing mini squares this last summer, my cousins, brothers and I were in the hay wagon stacking bales and jumping off the wagon to kill field mice. We were laughing so hard. Then we got back to the farm and built hay forts when we unloaded.
What is your favorite animal on your farm? Pigs when we have them because they are little pets who love when I feed them.
What do you want to be when you grow up? A pig farmer.
If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. It would be a pig farm with two barns and a couple of grain bins.
What is your favorite game to play on the farm? Hide-and-seek.
What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? Candy hotdish. It’s not candy, but I eat it like candy.
What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? Go to the lake.
What is your number one activity to do on the farm in the fall? Drive four-wheelers. We have trails throughout the farm with small obstacles.
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