The Minnesota State Fair and the Minnesota Farm Bureau recognize 154 Minnesota farms as 2020 Century Farms.
Qualifying farms have been in continuous family ownership for at least 100 years and are 50 acres or more.
Century Farm families receive a commemorative sign, as well as a certificate signed by Minnesota State Fair and Minnesota Farm Bureau presidents and Governor Tim Walz.
Since the program began in 1976, more than 10,500 Minnesota farms have been recognized as Century Farms.
2020 Century Farm families are listed by county, then by the farm’s city or township, family or farm names and year of original purchase:
Brown
New Ulm – Milford East, 1872
Sleepy Eye – Berkner Farms, 1920
St. James – KJH Hanson Farm, 1887
Cottonwood
Jeffers – Schoper Farm, 1919
Lamberton – Hubert Farm, 1916
Revere – Peder Enstad Homestead, 1871
Kandiyohi
Atwater – Person – Kelley, 1920
Pennock – Thompson Family Farm, 1895
Lac qui Parle
Bellingham – Trygestad Family Farms, LLC, 1920
Lyon
Tyler – Bakker Farms, 1920
McLeod
Brownton – Zimmerman Farm, 1920
Lester Prairie – Curtis and Debra Marks, 1920
Lester Prairie – Francis Burch, 1919
Stewart – The Maiers Family Farm, 1919
Redwood
Clements – Nelsen Family Farm, 1918
Lamberton – Steven and Euleen Christensen Farm, 1912
Garden City – Michael and Mary Pankratz Family Farm, 1877
Morgan – Schmidt Family Farm, 1920
Renville
Fairfax – Jeffrey and Kari Jo Borth, 1920
Franklin – Sherman Farm, 1920
Yellow Medicine
Canby – Hansen Farm, 1903
Canby – Kraft Farm, 1920
Information on all Century Farms will be available at the Minnesota Farm Bureau exhibit during the 2020 Minnesota State Fair.
A database of all Minnesota Century Farms is also available at fbmn.org.
