But, it didn’t turn out that way. Laura took over her family’s Livingston County farm — 1,500 acres of corn and soybeans.
As a student at Illinois State University in Normal, she started taking agriculture classes and ended up with an ag business degree. She knew she wanted to farm.
“It was a big challenge. I came in not knowing if I would be able,” she recalls.
Her father worked for the FSA and had farmed with her uncle Bill. Her two brothers had been helping with the farm since they were kids, but she had not.
“My dad and uncle had no concept of a woman farming,” she says of when she first approached them after college for a job. But, she proved herself. Read more in Illinois Farmer Today.
