Welcome to West Bureau Farms’ Gallery!
Check out our collection of family photos, old and new, showing what farm life was like then and now.
Harlan's grandparents
Sarah Jane Taylor
Harlan's mother, Selma, with her chickens
Harlan (right) and his sister Irene feeding chickens
Irving and Evelyn Wessel
Harlan's family shocking oats on the Malden farm
Malden farm
The Taylors and Wessels. From left to right, William John Wessel, Irving Taylor, Irving Wessel, Sarah Jane Taylor, Evelyn Wessel (Swanson), and Everett Taylor
Harlan taking some cats for a ride on a sled
Fritz Larson (Sylvia's father) hauling water to the threshing crew
Unloading corn at the Malden farm with the Swanson's first elevator
The Swanson's first threshing machine on the Malden farm
A load of corn from the Malden farm
Looking down
Sarah Jane Taylor with Roger
Harlan posing in front of a new car
Evelyn with the new car
Roger in a cornfield
Burton and Evelyn
Drilling a well at the home farm
Buying cattle in Nebraska
Evelyn with a flower arrangement
Harlan fueling up for the day
Loading the corn crib on the Home farm
Ron with a lamb
Harlan working on the Home farm
Ron in the flower garden
Harlan with a pig
Roger combining wheat
Ron and Pete with quadruplet baby goats
Pete with the Case tractor we still have
Pete hauling corn in with wagons
Found a wet spot!
Working at the bin site
One of our early combines
Feeding time
Levelling ground in preparation for a new machine shed at the home farm
Harlan and Evelyn with the Centennial Farm sign
Laying drainage tile
Side dressing anhydrous ammonia
After a storm
Combing soybeans in 2020. Taken with Harlan's old 35mm film camera
Planting corn
Putting up wind turbines
A late summer morning
Unloading corn at the bin site
Strip tilling
A very windy spring day causing a dust storm
A particularly wet spring, 2019
Tearing down the arch shed at the bin site to make room for new bins
Broke down!
Loading the seed tender with a box of seed soybeans
Pouring concrete for new bins
A beautiful harvest sunset
Waiting out a rain storm so we can get back to spraying
Harvesting corn
Filling a grain bag
Chiseling in the snow
Setting the platforms off so we can switch farms
Damage to the bin site after a storm in 2020
Harvesting soybeans
Harvesting corn
Side dressing nitrogen
Repairs being made to the bin site after the 2020 storm
The Home farm-1960s
The Home farm-1970s
The Home farm-2000s
If you know someone in the photos or have photos of our family you would like to share with us, please let us know by emailing us at westbureaufarms@gmail.com!