Beck talks of taking over farming at first Women, Land and Legacy meeting

Calhoun County native Michele Maguire Beck used to tell people didn’t want to marry a farmer.
“Then I met my husband,” said Beck, who now lives in Ringgold County.
She spoke July 19 to several dozen women at the first Calhoun County Women, Land and Legacy event, held at the Lake City Public Library. Women, Land and Legacy is a U.S. Department of Agriculture education and outreach program designed to bring women together to share their farming and agriculture experiences, as well as provide new information and support.
Beck, a retired Family and Consumer Sciences teacher who graduated from Iowa State University, met Charlie Kim Beck just after moving to southern Iowa for her first teaching job. “Fast forward 30 years and my husband had a terminal illness,” she said. “Here we had this cow calf operation my husband had put his heart and soul in. What do we do with that?”
She decided what she would do is keep the farm going.
Read more in the Aug. 1 edition.