Working the plan: Their diversified operation allows the next generation to pursue grain or livestock

摘要

Trapped in the crosstown traffic of Denver one decade ago, Greg McClure was acutely aware he was a long way from home. Not the suburban home where he lived with his wife, Amy, and their three young children. But his home farm 1,000 miles away in Lawrence County, Illinois. Married in 1984, the McClures spent the first 13 years living and working in Denver. Greg, a double major in business administration and computer science, was a project manager at Lockheed Martin. In 1997, as their children startedschool, they began to reevaluate their lives and jobs. They felt the timing was right to move back to the family farm near St. Francisville. "In the corporate world, we worked to provide for our family," Greg says. "But our passion was to work with family to create a future."