At 67, Ferlyn Hofer just got a big glimpse of how the future of his family business could take shape.
He’s preparing for his 33-year-old son, Nolan, to take over the family hog farm east of Canistota that his father started in the early 1960s.
“It’s time to start thinking ahead,” Hofer said. “He’s been here the last five years, and before that, he was a lineman in North Dakota and enjoyed that, too, but his heart was here on the farm.”
Like his father before him, Hofer sells nearly all the hogs he produces each year to Smithfield Foods…