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Interview with Bryan Bula

By Joe Kertzman, managing editor, Badger Common’Tater

“It’s the country in me,” Bryan Bula says about why he stuck with farming after graduating from high school and enrolled in the Agricultural Short Course at UW-Madison. “I don’t know what else I’d see myself doing. I don’t think I could handle working indoors.”

Bula was one of the first five potato growers contracted by The Little Potato Company when it opened a facility in Deforest, Wisconsin. Those growers included Bryan Bula Farms, Taterland Farms, Flyte Family Farms, Kevin Sigourney Farm, and Coloma Farms.

Now several other Wisconsin potato growers also raise Creamers for The Little Potato Company.

At a young age, Bryan started out by farming some dryland parcels on his parents’ farm and then began renting small parcels from neighboring properties with corn and soybean rotation.

While in college, he began gearing up for a beef cow-calf operation with rotational grazing on irrigated pastures.

Not one to rest on his laurels, Bryan also embarked on custom sprayer work, purchasing a 126-foot self-propelled spray rig and using it to do work on the family farm. He also picked up additional spraying work on canning crop acreage for Lakeside Foods, and seed corn acres for Kaltenberg Seeds, now called DSP (Diversified Seed Producers).

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