Prairie management sparks absentee landowner interest. By
12/23/2020 Larry Roadman, a self-proclaimed city boy from Baltimore, Maryland, remembers working on his grandparents’ farm in Grundy County, Iowa, for three weeks each summer between the ages of 10 and 12. John H. Roadman, Larry’s great-grandfather, drove a covered wagon from Pennsylvania to settle the land in the 1870s, which is now a 400-acre seed corn and bean farm with myriad conservation practices in place. Absentee landowners, Larry and his wife, Betsy, live in Maine, and their sons, Keene and Christian, reside in Maine and Illinois, respectively. Their passion for conservation and sustaining the farm legacy, however, has spanned the distance.
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