The Eastman Rotary Club recently named Fred R. Bracewell as Dodge County 2016 Farmer of the Year. His wife, Lillian, and others members of his family were on hand to see him receive this recognition. Also several Dodge County farmers came as guests of the Eastman Rotary Club.
Bracewell has operated his farm located south of Chauncey between Highway 341 and Sugar Creek most of his adult life. He operated his farm as a diversified farm operation including row crops, cows and hogs for many years.
Scooter Harrington, Lillian and Fred R. Bracewell, Jesse Bearden
and Wade Hall
Bracewell named 2016 farmer of the year
During this time, Bracewell worked with the Dodge County ASCS Office for eight years and then 23 years with the U.S. Soil and Conservation Service. While filling these roles, he worked with almost every farm operation in the county designing terrace systems, ponds, lakes and installing drain tile until his retirement in 1987.
In the late eighties, he reduced the row crop operation and began to plant pine trees. Later he stopped raising hogs and in 2003 sold his cows and used the pasture lands to plant more pine trees. Today, after more than 25 years of retirement, he manages the timber with a planned harvest schedule and is replanting for future harvest.
In the late eighties, he reduced the row crop operation and began to plant pine trees. Later he stopped raising hogs and in 2003 sold his cows and used the pasture lands to plant more pine trees. Today, after more than 25 years of retirement, he manages the timber with a planned harvest schedule and is replanting for future harvest.
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