Jackson girl stays planted on the farm

Sunday, August 28, 2016

The family farm has drawn Paige Birk since she was about 6 years old. While she and her father, Steve Birk, don't live on the farm, he grew up there with his parents, Orville and Mary Birk, in rural Jackson. His great-great-grandfather settled there from Germany in 1876. Today, he and his daughter continue the family tradition of raising registered black angus breeding stock on the Missouri Century Farm.

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