Their Agriculture Stories... Aaron

My grandparents bought 320 acres of pasture and farmground in 1948 just north of Rushville Nebraska.  This piece of land is just across the road from 640 acres that my great-grandfather homesteaded in 1918 when he immigrated to the United States from Denmark.  The story says he hit Rushville with 5 dollars and a saddle in 1912 when he was 17 years old.  His name was Antone Rasmus Rasmussen and he worked for the first few years in America for one of the largest ranches in America at the time, a ranch by the name of Modisett.  In 1930 William Antone Rasmussen was born and in 1948 he married my grandma and bought the half section that is still the current ranch headquarters.  They had 20 milk cows that they milked by hand, a few hereford beef cows and numerous chickens and hogs.  In 1959 my dad, Stuart William was born and in 1960 my uncle Dwight Aaron was born.  By this time, the beef cow herd had expanded to about 75 cows and they had about 1000 hogs on feed all the time as well as around 500 head of lambs on feed.  In 1978 my dad married Juliane Jacobson(my mom) and together they built a 80 cow grade A dairy.  In 1979, I was born and my sisters followed in 1981 and 1982.  Over the next several years we received state and national honors for record producing Holstein cows and also built the beef cow herd to about 200 angus and angus x shorthorn cows by 1990.  In 1991 we sold the dairy herd in it's entirety to a big outfit in North Dakota and increased the beef herd to about 300 cows and added about 2500 acres of pasture and 1500 more acres of farm ground.  In 2001 I married Tara Housh and A&T Cattle Co. was formed.  In 2004 Jett Aaron was born and in 2006 Jaelyn Jean arrived.  by 2007 A&T Cattle had grown to about 150 cows both commercial and registered shorthorn cows.  In 2009 my grand father William passed away and in 2010 my grandmother Shirley passed away, leaving Rasmussen Family Ranch Trust to my uncle, father and I.  Currently between Rasmussen Ranch and A&T Cattle we run about 900 cows on 10,000 acres of pasture land and we also farm about 2200 acres of cropland.  On top of our cattle operation we also do custom a.i. and embryo work for area ranchers.  We a.i. about 9,000 head annually for area ranches as well as almost all of our own cows.

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