In 1910, Frederick Feldt(1866 - 1946)moved a few miles from the original farmstead in Dutch Hollow to the site pictured. He was a dairy farmer and produced cheese right on the farm.

Frederickâ™s son, Ben Feldt (1896 - 1977), took over the farm in 1921. Ben changed the operation from dairy to beef several years later. His dreams were more "Western Ranch" than "Wisconsin Dairyland". These were the days of driving cattle for miles down country gravel roads from pasture to pasture and loading them at the railhead for shipping to market. The farm straddled the Illinois Central & Gulf railroad that connected Freeport, Illinois with Madison, Wisconsin so getting them to market was quite easy even back then.

Benâ™s son Wally Feldt (1924 - 2006) and son-in-law, Hans Sulzer farmed side-by-side for many years. Ben would purchase feeder calves in South Dakota and points west and send them back home in a convoy of double-decked cattle trucks. These feeder calves would be added to the hundreds of calves from their local cow/calf herds to form a huge feeder cattle operation.
(Source: http://sulzerbeef.com/about)

Located at N5441 Feldt Road; Monticello, WI