History of Ruby's Farm

March 3, 1854 - The property was transferred by an Act of the U.S. Congress to the State of Minnesota.

January 26, 1869 - The property was granted from the state of Minnesota to the Southern Minnesota Rail Road. Granted ($00.00) so that they could build the railroad system.

The property was described as a farm containing 240 acres, more or less, according to Government survey thereof.

The abstract has been recorded on in excess of 100 times. Through various property exchanges, life, death, divorce, etc. It has been held together.

In 1909, a Ditch Lien was placed in the abstract to fund the properties share of Judicial Ditch No. 6. The ditch lien was for $1249.74 payable in 15 annual installments with general taxes, first principal payable with taxes payable in 1914. E.W. Allen was the owner then and for the cost of $83.32 per year or $0.35 per acre per year. This system was installed on his farm and began draining the wetlands.

The drainage system was funded in 1909 and installed soon there after.

In 1956, Lawrence and Shirley Ruby purchased the farm. Lawrence farmed corn and soybeans around the wetlands until in the early 1970's when he added tile to the system to finally dry them out.

Crop was lost every year due to flooding. He contoured the waterways and made the water flow and run off as much as possible.

In 1986 Dan Ruby joined Lawrence and farmed full time with him until his death in 2004.

In 2006, the farm was rented out after Dan Ruby had farmed 20 years.

Farming alone was no where near as pleasurable as farming with my parents. Farming with an aged line of machinery, ever increasing input costs, and very volatile grain markets helped to make the decision easy to stop farming.

Ruby's Farm 2005 - 10 year averages for this farm was 167 bushels corn, 49 bushels soybeans.
The farm has an 86 CER.

The best corn crop was 214 bushels average over the scale.

In November of 2008, Ruby's Wetland Bank was approved and may be built in the fall of 2009.