DOVER, Minn. — For nearly a century, Keith Kisro has called the same patch of ground in rural Olmsted County home. Now, just four months shy of his 95th birthday, he says this year’s soybean harvest will likely be his last.

“It’s getting harder,” Kisro said, sitting in the farmhouse where he and his wife, Pat, have lived for decades and raised five children. “I can run a tractor as well as any 21-year-old, but the heavy work is getting to be too much.”

Keith and Pat, 92, have been farming together for their entire 72 years of marriage. Even now, she’s right there in the field alongside him.

“If he needs something, I do it,” Pat said. “I have run the packer after he gets the field planted, and then when he gets in the harvest time, when he gets the wagon full, I get the wagon and I brin

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