Lori Mesik Hamilton's great grandparents, immigrants of the Austria-Hungarian Empire, moved from Colorado to Ashland County after her great-grandmother was struck with tuberculosis. They thought the crisp air would do her good. Lori says crisp was an understatement -- when she was farming as a girl on the Century Farm, she remembers using a crowbar to pick the ice off the barn door to milk cows. This is just one memory she has of her family's farm in Moquah, a dairy farm until 1999. Today, her younger brother farms beef and crops on the 500 acres. This Century Farm story is brought to you by Compeer Financial.

Lori Mesik Hamilton's great grandparents, immigrants of the Austria-Hungarian Empire, moved from Colorado to Ashland County after her great-grandmother was struck with tuberculosis. They thought the crisp air would do her good. Lori says crisp was an understatement -- when she was farming as a girl on the Century Farm, she remembers using a crowbar to pick the ice off the barn door to milk cows. This is just one memory she has of her family's farm in Moquah, a dairy farm until 1999. Today, her younger brother farms beef and crops on the 500 acres. This Century Farm story is brought to you by Compeer Financial.

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