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PHOTO: Kneeling on ground left to right Bob Schmitz, Harold Pomeroy, Tubby Irlbeck, Louis Hoffman, Clayton Irlbeck, Benny Klocke, Cliff Danner, Fatso Stangl, Harry Stangl Fledderman Farm Photo 1965. Standing back rows left to right Milo Reis, Art Irlbeck, Louis Anthofer, Clarence Fledderman, George Fledderman, Harry Klocke, Alvin Hoffman, Benny Wiskus, Don Schmitz, Eugene Hoffman, RaySporrer with hands on shoulders of Fritz Wiskus, Leo Danner, Marvin Wiskus(standing tall far back), Pete Danner, Charles Wiskus, John Seidl, August Meyer

Custom Farming

Full package of farming services available: Excavating/building cleanup, drainage installation, NH3 application, lime/litter spreading, planting, tillage, spraying, harvest, and trucking.

Templeton Family Farms History

The farm as we know it today was established in 1886 by Frank and Peter Murray. Frank and Peter homesteaded the original two farmsteads (Rich and Chris) and began the operation. Frank Murray had a son by the name of John Murray. John was married to Crystal (Harper) and they had a daughter by the name of Lorrine. Lorrine (Murray) married Cliff Danner. Cliff Danner started farming with Frank & Peter Murray and in 1949 purchased some tracts of the farm from them. Peter Murray also owned and operated the local tavern in Templeton. Templeton Rye was a regular drink at that time for this establishment. Cliff and Lorrine had a son by the name of Rich. Rich Danner then married Nancy (Kennebeck) and they had two children, Chris and Matt. Rich started farming with Cliff right out of high school in 1970. Several farms are still owned directly by Lorrine Danner (Murray) and the farm encompasses many of the same tracts that Frank and Peter Murray farmed, over 120 years ago. The farm was awarded a century award by the State of Iowa in the 1980’s. Chris and Matt Danner are the fifth generation of direct family farming the original homestead.

Danner Farm 1949 Danner Farm 1974-1975

Danner Farm 1949 and 1974-1976

Danner Farm 2011 Danner Grainsite 2011

Danner Farm and Danner Grainsite 2011

Mission Statement

Templeton Family Farms will build on the foundation of three generations to develop our future strength in production agriculture. Templeton Family Farms, along with its production partners, is securing tomorrow’s agribusiness potential today.

Value Statement

Templeton Family Farms will cultivate lasting interdependent relationships with associates that will enhance our mutual long-term business and personal success. The owners and employees of Templeton Family Farms will earn an honest day’s wage through an honest day’s labor.

Templeton Family Farms Motto

Effectiveness is doing the right things;

Efficiency is doing the right things the right way.

33501 Kittyhawk Ave.

Templeton, IA 51463

Matt@TempletonFF.com

(712) 210-6230

About Us

Custom Farming

Mission Statement

Value Statement

Templeton Family Farms Motto

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten".

The details are not the details. They make the design.

The details are details. They make the product. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

A champion team will always beat a team of champions.

Pride is tasteless, colorless and size less. Yet it is the hardest thing to swallow.

Hire character. Train skill.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins; cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

It's Not the Big That Eat the Small...It's the Fast That Eat the Slow.

I do not believe you can do todayâ€™s job with yesterdays methods and be in business tomorrow.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Something positive is better than anything negative.

Great men talk about ideas; Mediocre men talk about things; Small men talk about people.

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

Iâ€™m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Be yourself, no one can ever tell you youâ€™re doing it wrong.

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Even if your on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Integrity is one of several paths; it distinguishes itself because it is the right path, and the only one upon which you will never get lost.

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish one's growth without destroying one's roots.

If you donâ€™t know where youâ€™re going, any road will get you there.

Things turn out best for people who make the best of how things turn out.

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but nearly everybody enjoys.

Whatever we are is determined by whatever we think.

Nothing is so embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldnâ€™t be done.

Temper is what gets us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Trust is one of those things that is much easier to maintain than to repair.

We grow old not so much by living but by losing interest in living.

When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.

Even a fish would not be caught if he learned to keep his mouth shut.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving something behind.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Worry about being better, bigger will take care of itself.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

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