Family labor still vital to farm business

http://www.illinoisfarmertoday.com/news/article_355b2078-8dc9-11e7-b538-af323127ed65.html

Six members of the Browning family — three brothers and their three sons — take care of most of the duties at their Franklin County farm. From left are Brad, Benny, Michael, Randy, Keith and Kendall. (Nat Williams, Illinois Farmer Today.)

WEST FRANKFORT, IL – (Nat Williams, Illinois Farmer Today.  Please click on the link above for the full article.  Here is an excerpt below.)

Chances are, when something needs to be done at the Browning farm, it will be a Browning doing it.

Six members of the family — three brothers and one son each — take care of most of the duties at the 4,500-acre grain operation in the southeastern corner of Franklin County. That’s the way it’s been since they can remember.

“Dad put me on the planter when I got out of high school,” said Randy, the eldest of the three brothers.

Randy’s two brothers — Benny and Keith — are an integral part of the operation. In addition, their sons — Michael, Brad and Kendall, respectively — are also heavily involved in the farm. Those six do most of the work, though some part-time help is contracted seasonally.