Farming: ‘The only job worth doing’

Chuck Sutherland will be honored for his farm conservation efforts by receiving the Key Bankers Award at the Allen County Conservation District Annual Meeting on Feb. 11.

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February 3, 2023 - 2:55 PM

Farmer Chuck Sutherland will receive the Key Bankers Award on Feb. 11 at the Allen County Conservation District Annual Meeting. Photo by Richard Luken / Iola Register

Chuck Sutherland farms across a wide swath of Allen County.

He and cousin Joel Sutherland are partners, farming mostly row crops like soybeans and corn on 3,000 acres. Their plots are scattered across the county, stretching from Humboldt to Carlyle and from west of the Neosho River to LaHarpe.

As such, the topography is quite diverse as well, from hilltops to river bottoms.

And in 2022, the Sutherlands saw firsthand how fickle Kansas weather could be.

Even with different plots of land within a roughly 20-mile radius of each other, some experienced substantially different weather patterns.

“Down by Humboldt it was quite a bit dryer,” Sutherland noted. “The northern part wasn’t as bad.”

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