89 Century Farms were recognized in 2023, including Adams Farm
Published 4:56 pm Friday 31 March 2023
A Mower County family’s farm is one of 89 farms statewide to be recognized in the 2023 Century Farms List sponsored by the Minnesota State Fair and the Minnesota Farm Bureau.
Established in 1906, Jax Family Farm near Adams joins this year’s inductees in the program.
Qualifying farms have been family owned for at least 100 consecutive years and are 50 acres or more in size. Century Farm families will receive a memorial plaque and a certificate signed by the Presidents of the Minnesota State Fair and Minnesota Farm Bureau, and Governor Tim Walz. Since the program began in 1976, more than 11,000 Minnesota farms have been recognized as Century Farms.
Information on all Century Farms will be available at the Minnesota Farm Bureau exhibit during the 2023 Minnesota State Fair. A database of all Minnesota Century Farms is also available at fbmn.org.
The 2023 Minnesota State Fair runs from August 24 through September 4 Labor Day. Visit mnstatefair.org for more information.
2023 Century Farm families are listed by county, then by farm city or township, family or farm name, and year of original purchase:
Beltrami
Kelliher – Helblad Farm, 1904
Northome-Smischney Farms, 1915
Big Stone
Beardsley – Erickson Farms, 1914
Ortonville-Wellendorf, 1918
blue earth
Good thunder – Hof Hollerich, 1919
Vernon Center – Nobility Farm, 1888
Brown
Sleepy Eye – Schwartz Farm, 1900
carlton
Sawyer – Olesiak Farm, 1915
Wright-Dahl Farm, 1916
carver
Chaska – Kelzer Grimm Historical Farm, 1872
Chippewa
Milan – TJ Thompson, 1898
Chicago
Taylor’s Falls – Bostrom Farm, 1911
volume
Barnesville-Bruce Nelson-Martinus Flaten, 1897
Moorhead-Paul & Sherri Fossum, 1899
Clear water
Clearbrook – Hansen family farm, 1917
crow wings
Deerwood – Bordwell Farm, 1911
Evade
Kasson-Aarsvold Acres, 1923
Mantorville – LMC Farms, 1896
Faribault
Blue Earth – Olsen Farms, 1920
Kiester – Hof Meyer-Tufte, 1870
freeborn
Albert Lea-Yost Farm, 1923
Alden-Orville and Carol Ohm, 1913
Oakland-Miller Farms, 1862
Oakland – The Miller Farm, 1920
Oakland – W. Miller Farm, 1920
good-huh
Goodhue – McNamara Farm, 1861
Kenyon – Foss Farms, 1912
henpin
Rogers – Ende family farm, 1916
Houston
Spring Grove-Sylling Farm, 1891
Hubbard
Park Rapids – Lake View Farm, 1889
kanabec
Sandstone – Wichnerhof, 1915
Kandiyohi
Spicer – Peterson family farm, 1920
Le Sueur
Waterville—Jeff Stangler Farm, 1871
Lincoln
Ivanhoe-Circle R Ranch, LLC, 1920
Tyler-James and Laurie Johansen, 1920
Lyons
Coon Creek Township – Bevs 80, 1923
Marshall—Herman Schultz Farm, 1900
Minneota-Hammer, 1919
mumbo-jumbo
Mahnomen – McCollum Farm, 1908
marshal
Strathcona – Westlund family farm, 1913
Martin
Dunell-Stade Farm, 1922
East Chain Township – hometown of Olson, 1911
Odin-Stöbehof, 1903
McLeod
Hutchinson – Henke Farm, 1922
Meecker
Watkins – Kipf Farm, 1917
Mille Lacs
Milaca – Schreur farm, 1922
Princeton – The Burke Farm, 1892
mower
Adams-Jax family farm, 1906
murray
Fulda – Hof Koopmann, 1898
Fulda – farm of the Meier family, 1923
Fulda – farm of the Meier family, 1923
Nicollet
Fairfax-George & Mary Peichel, 1914
nobles
Brewster – Johnson Farm, 1915
Rushmore – Jacobs family farm, 1923
Rushmore – Family Reiter & Feeken, 1923
Wilmont-Sieve Bare Quarter, 1909
Jaw
Braham-Downing Farm, 1923
Pine City—Johnson Farm, 1920
Polk
Euclid-Magsam, 1920
East Grand Forks – Huderle Farm, 1899
Fishermen – Flat Farm, 1896
McIntosh – Syverson Farm, 1921
Warren – Anton Pulkrabek family farm, 1922
redwood
Revere – Sawyer family farm, 1923
Vesta – Barber, 1921
Vesta – Vernon Anderson Farm, 1922
Renville
Danube – The Peterson Farm, 1921
Hector-Dovenmuehle Farms, 1912
rice
Faribault – The Prieve family farm, 1892
rock
Luverne-Erdmannhof, 1922
Sibley
Arlington – Gordon Berg’s Farm, 1918
Arlington-Gary & Debbie Weckwerth, 1905
Gibbon – Grünhagen family farm, 1892
Gibbon – Niebuhr family farm, 1914
Glencoe-Darrell Buses, 1919
st louis
Eveleth-Peterson Farms, 1918
Hermantown – Busch Farm, 1921
stearns
Kimball – Willow Farm, 1916
Richmond – Hemmesch Farm, 1920
St. Cloud – The Gohman Farm, 1856
Steele
Ellendale – Johnson family farm, 1891
Ellendale – Johnson family farm, 1899
Stevens
Chokio – Twait Farm, 1920
todd
Burtrum – Mark & Deb Seven Farm, 1910
traverse
Hermann – Zimmerman Farm, 1911
Wabasha
Theilman-Drew & Rachel Wilson, 1920
Waseca
Minnesota Lake – Sonnek Farm, 1921
Wright
Buffalo – Proud Descendants of John C. Aldrich, 1866
Howard Lake-Birchwood, 1899