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The St. Procopius Abbey Farm

Frs. Bede and Christian on a combine

 

 

 

The operation of this sizable farm helped support the college and abbey. Equipped with the most modern agricultural machinery, the expansive fields, orchards, and truck gardens yielded a wide variety of fruits and vegetables including corn, wheat, barley, alfalfa, oats, hay.

Rev. Bede Cernik, O.S.B., manager of the farm, at the controls of a combine, confers with Rev. Christian Ceplecha, O.S.B.
Farm Threshings Panorama
 
Silage season on Abbey farm, 1930   Hay baler on Abbv farm in the late 1950s