Farm4Profit Podcast

Farm4Fun w/ Laura & Grant Wilson "AKA" Laura Farms

Episode Summary

Nothing like catching up with old friends at Farm Progress Show. It had been over 2 years since we talked with Laura last. We learn about how her farming experience is growing and also get to meet her awesome husband Grant!

Episode Notes

Laura Farms. Laura & Grant Wilson

• Row crop farm, cow/calf herd, and pig operation. Follow along as we learn how to farm...together!
• Laura is a fifth generation farmer.
• part of a 2,000 acre irrigated row crop farming operation that also raises pigs and has a 150 head cow-calf herd. 
• commercial white corn, yellow corn, soybeans plant cover crops like cereal rye/turnips 
• husband Grant and my two adorable puppies: Baxter and Cooper. 
• We love dirt biking, camping, and wakeboarding at the lake.
• Met on the CRC Canada travel camp trip in July of 2016. 
• Got engaged on August 14, 2020. Married on December 19, 2020!
• Laura’s father, Cale Carlson is also a farmer and YouTuber, he has a YouTube channel by name, LEAAD Farms.
• Laura has four younger siblings namely, Adam, David, Ethan and Amanda.
• From Sweden to USA-
• Laura’s great-great-grandparents migrated from Sweden to the United States in 1910.
• they settled on a land in Nebraska and started farming with a couple of John Deere tractors and likewise, Carlson farms was established in 1910.
• over the years, Carlson farms greatly expanded to over 2000 acres irrigated farming.
• after returning from Vietnam as a Seabee started a hog operation which in the late 1980s expanded to cattle herds.
• At 13, Laura started her own cow herd.
• Business Administration and Management, General.

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