Our Family

Both of our parents grew up on farms and have worked in farming all their lives. Dad milked cows for many years in Wisconsin until he and Mom moved to central Iowa to help out on Mom's family's crop farm. Dad couldn't shake the dairy in his blood; so we kids grew up bottle feeding dairy calves in the little eight acre pasture around our house. Since we didn't own a cattle trailer at the time, we brought home one batch of calves in the back of a twelve passenger van. Needless to say, they didn't leave the farm the same way! It was only with great reluctance that we permitted 14 registered Angus heifers to be brought home in the fall of 2008, but we knew that our new 80 acre farm couldn't be filled up with bottle calves. We did, however, protest and remove the bumper sticker on the back of the new-to-us cattle trailer that brought them home: "I love Angus." It didn't take too long for our affections to be drawn toward to the big black cows, though we never lost our first love for Jerseys. Over the years God has led the Foerster kids in various directions, but the three youngest kids have stayed on at the farm, slowing taking over responsibility and ownership from Dad and Mom.