Balanced role strategy advances next generation. When the Johnsons are running against the clock, the game plan for their Floyd, Iowa, farm doesn't rely on one person to call the shots. "We work together and try to make sure that any of us can step inand take over for someone else if needed, no matter what," Maurice says. His wife, Pam, agrees. "We know where we have to be and what needs to be done," she says. "We act as a team." Maurice and Pam formed the original team 39 years ago when they married. "We bought 10 sows from my dad and borrowed farrowing crates," she says. Trained as a nurse, Pam worked at a hospital until their first son, Ben, was born, when she decided to stay home. Son Andy was born three years later.
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