Dairy Farm
In 1953, twelve years after becoming president of H. B. Fuller Company, Elmer entered the dairy business, buying a farm held by Eleanor's family on Deer Lake near St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin. It was the start of thirty-five years in the dairy business, with about two hundred head of cattle. The herd was slowly converted to registered Holsteins. In 1984 Deer Lake Farm received the National Holstein Association's Progressive Breeder Award. Additional land was acquired in the 1950s and environmental restoration projects undertaken on the expanded farm. After Andersen moved out of the dairy business in 1988, eighty acres of land surrounding one of the ponds was placed into a land preserve to honor the memories of Eleanor's parents.
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