Article: Farming showcased as a family affair on farm tour

By BOBBY WARREN

Staff Writer

MARSHALLVILLE -- With the costs of farming operations increasing each year, Elmer Baer said he hopes he and his wife can pass on a viable business to their children.

The farm at 6669 Coalbank Road has been in the Baer family since 1818, and Elmer and Carolyn Baer are the seventh generation to work the farm. Their son, Jeff, and his family, wife Angie and children, are the eighth and ninth generations to live on the farm.

The Baer farm was one of eight stops on the 2009 Wayne County Farm Tour, which continues today from 1 p.m.-6 p.m.

"We have always been good stewards of the soil and caring for the animals," Carolyn Baer said. "It's been passed down from ...

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