Triple K Cattle puts the family in family farming

Klutes honored for many years in cattle feeding operation

Brothers Dean, left, and Mark Klute stand by one of the two feeding trucks they use in their Triple K Cattle Company cattle feeding operation northeast of Hampton. The company is being honored this week by the York-Hamilton County Cattlemen at their 75th annual banquet in York.

As family farming operations go, they don’t come much more family than Triple K Cattle Company of Hampton. Brothers Dean and Mark Klute are now in their fifth decade of feeding cattle at their operation northeast of Hampton. Both of them started right out of high school in the 1970s, creating a partnership with their father, LaVern, who was the grandson of Hamilton County homesteaders. Today ...

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