78 Century Farms Honored in 2022
The Minnesota State Fair and the Minnesota Farm Bureau recognize 78 Minnesota farms as 2022 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, nearly 11,000 Minnesota farms have been recognized as Century Farms. 2022 Century Farm families are listed by county, then by the farm’s city or township, family or farm names and year of original purchase:
Aitkin
- Swatara – O’Brien Farm, 1916
Anoka
- St. Francis – Gaslin-Compart Farm, 1911
- Becker
- Ponsford – Rader Farm, 1922
- Beltrami
- Bemidji – Wright’s Corner, 1908
Blue Earth
- Lewisville – Zellmer/Davis, 1908
- Mapleton – Fischer Brothers Farm, 1912
Brown
- Hanska – Schultz-Fischer Farm, 1921
- Sleepy Eye – Lynn and Joyce Krenz, 1890
Carlton
- Cromwell – Anderson’s Swede Lake Farm, 1918
Cass
- Walker – Copeland Family Tree Farm, 1919
Chippewa
- Raymond – Erickson Family Farms, 1904
Chisago
- Sunrise – Mold Farm, 1888
Clearwater
- Bagley – Larson Farm, 1902
- Bagley – Hoie Farm, 1922
- Gonvick – Richard & Cheryl Mollin Farm, 1911
Cottonwood
- Comfrey – Henry Kleinow Farm, 1900
Dakota
- Hastings – Rotty Farms, 1910
Dodge
- Dodge Center – Loquai/French, 1920
Douglas
- Alexandria – Hausmann Farm, 1909
- Kensington – Hamen Farm, 1920
Faribault
- Blue Earth – Hannaman, 1870
- Blue Earth – Mathews Farm, 1921
- Easton – Staloch Farms, 1918
- Elmore – Grimmelman Farm, 1912
- Elmore – Peter Farm, 1920
Fillmore
- Spring Valley – Schumacher Farm, 1922
- Spring Valley – The Eggerichs Family Farm, 1910
Freeborn
- Oakland – Calvin S. Lyle Family Farm, 1898
Goodhue
- Lake City – Marty & Barb Kehren Farms, 1922
Grant
- Herman – Werk Family Farm, 1906
Houston
- La Crescent – Eden, 1920
Jackson
- Round Lake – The “80”, 1921
Kanabec
- Milaca – Asher Farm, 1914
Kittson
- Humboldt – Hemmes, 1922
Lac Qui Parle
- Canby – Kahn Farm, 1909
- Dawson – Karl & LaVon DeJong, 1891
- Marietta – Willis Family Farm, 1890
Lake of the Woods
- Baudette – Horntvedt Farm, 1920
Lyon
- Marshall – Gregoire Farms, 1898
Mahnomen
- Bejou – DeVries Family Farm, 1914
Marshall
- Stephen – Bolduc Farm, 1916
Martin
- Trimont – Krusemark Farms, 1922
McLeod
- Lester Prairie – Ide Farm, 1910
Meeker
- Litchfield – Albright Family Farm, 1920
Mille Lacs
- Foreston – Anderson, 1913
Morrison
- Hillman – Beack Dairy, 1916
- Little Falls – The Welinski Family Farm, 1903
- Pierz – Bill Pohlkamp Farm, 1920
Mower
- Austin – Bell Farm, 1859
Nobles
- Rushmore – Behrens Farm, 1920
- Worthington – Perkins Farm, 1911
Olmsted
- Eyota – Pries Farms, 1910
Otter Tail (East)
- Rothsay – Ohe Family Farm, 1908
Pine
- Finlayson – Matson Farm, 1898
- Willow River – The Sangren-Nelson Farm, 1919
Polk
- Fertile – Refling-Johnson-Olson Farms, 1889
- Fisher – McWilliams Farm, 1919
Redwood
- Sleepy Eye – Leon & Mary Peterson’s Family Farm, 1921
Roseau
- Roseau – Michal, 1921
Sibley
- Buffalo Lake – The Quast Family Farm, 1888
St. Louis
- Cook – Flank Farm, 1921
Stearns
- Avon – Heitzman Farm, 1916
- Freeport – Schulzetenberg Farm, 1916
- Kimball – Greeley – Loewen Farm, 1919
- Melrose – Rademacher, 1916
Steele
- Medford – Bruessel Family Farm, 1914
- Owatonna – Hensrud Farm, 1922
- Owatonna – Rysavy, 1922
Traverse
- Wheaton – Nelson, 1920
Waseca
- Janesville – Mittelstaedt and Adams, 1919
- New Richland – Established by Sam & Nellie Zellweger as Blooming Dale Farm, 1918
- New Richland – Tollefson Farms, 1920
- Waldorf – Behrns Family Farm, 1906
- Waseca – Eustice Farm est. 1914, 1914
- Waseca – The Lakeside Johnson Farm, 1878
Winona
- Altura – Kobler Farm, 1922
- Lewiston – Baer Farms, 1920
- Utica – Baer Family Farms, 1920
Information on all Century Farms will be available at the Minnesota Farm Bureau exhibit during the 2022 Minnesota State Fair. A database of all Minnesota Century Farms is also available at fbmn.org.
