HE’S THE OLDEST SUPPLIER OF SUGAR AND HE LIVES IN MINNESOTA

“Been farming long?” – From that picture hanging in your grandparents’ house. Most of us can only dream of living as long as Earl Mallinger and still be working so to speak. At 105 he is the oldest supplier of sugar to the famous Crystal Sugar Company. I like how he refers to himself as a “windshield farmer” but it remains a fact that his 1000 acres of farm land is all his. Most of it is filled with sugar beets which, I feel a lot of people forget that Minnesota is the number one producer of. He’s seen his share of flooding and more being born in 1917. Earl makes the best point about how to keep going by reminding us all to not stop moving. Congratulations to him on decades of hard work and here’s to decades more!