Zach Emmendorfer, 21, stands in a wheat field next to a barn on his family’s farm in De Kalb, Missouri, on Monday, April 18, 2016. Zach’s great grandfather built the barn in 1912 using wood from the farm.
Zach looks out the left window of his tractor before he makes a turn in the cornfield. This growing season is the first that Zach will plant without his grandfather. He has rouhgly 400 acres total, and planted corn in 200. He will plant nearly 115 m
Zach plants corn in one of his fields in De Kalb, Missouri. Zach has been doing field work since he was 13, but started driving tractors with his grandfathers at age 7.
Zach looks at an old ear of corn that was laying on an unplanted field. Zach grows dent corn, which is primarily used for animal feed or ethanol. Dent corn is identifiable from other species of corn beause of the tiny dents on the tops of the kernel
A young red angus cow looks through a barbed wire fence on a field in De Kalb, Missouri. Zach’s cousin Dave Reddick owns part of the land that their family has owned for over a century. In addition to growing crops, Dave has Angus and Red Angus cows
Zach drives his grandmother back to her house after visiting one of the fields his family owns. Zach’s family has records of owning the same two large sections of land in De Kalb, Missouri, from as early as 1850. But knows for certain his ancestors
Zach and his grandmother look at a photo of himself with his grandfather wearing their Future Farmers of America jackets. Both were presidents of a local FFA chapter when they were in high school. His grandfather was the Atchison County Community Hi
Zach reads over a question on his last exam for his Grain and Material Handling class. Zach took over the farm after his grandfather passed away, but he still had to finish up his last semester as the University of Missouri where he studied Agricult
Zach picks up corn seed from the local Missouri Farmers Association Agri Services center in St. Joseph, Missouri. He uses De Kalb brand seed. Zach decided to take up the family business because of his grandfather. “My grandfather did it and was so p
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