Farmers of Merrick County - Richard Brown
Richard started farming in 1972. Prior to this, though, he was no stranger to farming. Richard’s father, also called Richard, was a farmer so he grew up on a farm. The first field Richard planted? It was 30 acres of dry land soybeans in 1966 during high school for an FFA project. And at that point in his life, Richard wasn’t too sure about farming. You see when he graduated high school he had no…