Ex-farmer Rescues In-plants

While he was working on his first degree in farm operations at Iowa State University, his family sold its farm equipment and operations and began renting out its 425-acre tract.

That decision sealed Larsen's fate.

"I wasn't going to have a farm to go back and do much farming with," explains Larsen. "That's when I got involved with journalism, and that's where I started to learn about layout design and printing."