Here is a small story for you… On our combined farms east of Wahoo (ours, Frank’s, Grandpa Frank’s, Marie’s and Greatgrandma Marie’s), we primarily grew corn, wheat, milo, alfalfa and occasionally oats. I’m not sure about the delineation of whose acreage was actually whose, but it was all farmed as one. Of course, we rotated the fields every couple years. What was once corn became wheat and so on. Some acreage always remained as pasture for our cattle though, and not rotated. At that time I had never even heard of soy beans. We had no irrigation then either. I learned to drive when I was about 11 in the old Ford grain truck going alongside either Dad or Grandpa in the combine as they emptied it’s bin into the truck during wheat harvest.
I was 13 when we moved off of our farm into Fremont (1962). Ray, Frank and two partners, Ed Lilly and Merlin Flanders started Victory Motors at the west end of Fremont on Military Ave.  Originally it was just Merlin’s Victory Marine store that sold and serviced boats, motors, ski ropes, etc.  Expanded, with four partners they then also sold Ramblers, Jeeps and Yamaha motorcycles as well as a Standard Oil gas station and used car lot. Profits must have been slim, though, as we moved to Merritt Island, Florida when I was 16 (1965). Dad (Ray) went to work for General Electric on the Apollo program, but that’s another story.

Steve Cernik