By Joe Kertzman, managing editor, Badger Common’Tater
Nestled along County Road D in Bancroft, Wisconsin, K&A Farms, LLC is the rare first-generation family potato and vegetable farm headed by husband-and-wife business and life partners, Kiley and Annette (K&A) Stucker.
While Kiley handles management of the farm, Annette holds down the office, including accounting and finance, human resources, yield monitoring, and bookkeeping and database duties.
And though neither Kiley nor Annette grew up on farms, they proudly showed me around their operation, starting with an impressive 70-by-170-foot shop built on the property three years ago.
Next came a potato storage facility, and machinery such as a 2018 4-row Lenco harvester, a Lockwood 656 six-row windrower, a John Deere 8420 tillage tractor, liquid tanks, an entire lineup of E-Z Tarp truck liners/beds, and the first tractor they ever bought, a John Deere 8220 used for planting and tillage.
“There are times when we walk around and think, ‘This is all ours,’” Annette says in wonder. “We sure have our plate full.”
Kiley was kind enough to answer interview questions for me before the visit and expound on his notes while I was there.
