Between basketball seasons, Monmouth-Roseville boys basketball head coach Chuck Grant can be found in the fields helping out his brothers.
While Grant may not be on the court during harvest season, he stays busy helping coordinate the family’s farming operation. Everyone has a role to play, and Grant says the key is putting each person where they do their best work.
“You put people in what they do best. My oldest brother farms, and my other brothers farm — well, they’ve both been farming for 50 years. They like running combines — that’s boring for me. We have my nephew who kind of brings carts in, and we have semis coming in. We load up and send them in different directions,” Grant says.
While his brothers operate the combines, Grant is on the ground keeping track of the moving parts and helping the operation run smoothly.
“A lot of farms, we have half and half, half corn, half soybeans. We try to stay where we can keep the combines together and keep the crew together and knock out farms,” Grant says. “We like to kind of coordinate that, and I always say, for a bunch of old dudes, we knock out a lot of acres in a day.”
Grant emphasizes that the farm is not just a family farm by name, but a true family operation. His brothers also get help from his nephews, Dale and Doug, as well as his sisters-in-law, Lynn and Connie.
