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Glencoe’s Mathews’ farm honored as Century Farm by Farm Bureau

The Mathews farm near Glencoe received its Century Farm designation this year. The farm was established in 1916. Pictured, from left, are Kevin Mathews, Anna Mathews, Rodney Mathews, Mary Mathews. Not pictured are Kevin’s wife, Tammy, and Anna’s 12-year-old dog, Macy.

The Mathews farm has officially been declared a century farm by the Minnesota Farm Bureau. The Minnesota Farm Bureau honors families who have owned their farms for at least 100 years, are at least 50 acres in size and are currently involved in agriculture production.
Anna Mathews currently resides on the farm. Her sons Rodney and Kevin Mathews, both of Glencoe, continue to grow cash crops and care for the 32 dairy cows on the farm, whose milk is sold to Bongards’ Creamery in Norwood Young America.
“After Dad died in 1983, someone had to take care of the farm,” said Rodney Mathews. “Kevin and I took over from there, although Mom milked cows for quite a few years after that.”
The Mathews farm was officially registered by Reinhold Matthews on Nov. 14, 1916, although Reinhold is believed to have bought the land seven years before then, in 1909. Anna Mathews, and her late husband Earl, bought the farm from Reinhold on July 29, 1961.
In 1965, a tornado tore down every building on the farm except the house, which was built in the late 1920s.  “They did a lot of fixing but the shape of everything stayed the same,” said Rodney Mathews.
 

For more, see the June 21 print edition of The Chronicle.