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The evolution
of farming from
accounting to
accountability
R
obert Klemm is known in Lincoln and Logan County as
the owner of Klemm Tax Service. He has been in the tax
accounting business for the past 38 years.
Fresh out of school, Klemm began doing farm income tax
preparation in a back office of the DeWitt County Farm Bureau. He later
joined a partnership with Charles Engelhart, who was retiring from the
Logan County Extension. From there, Klemm Tax Service has evolved
into what it is today.
Klemm is also a farmer. He grew up on the family farm in DeWitt
County, just a stone’s throw away from the Logan County line. The
base of his 1,000-acre operation is a few hundred acres his grandfather
purchased in 1905. Klemm’s father farmed the ground, and now Robert
does.
Today, Klemm’s son John works for Farm Credit Services in Sherman
and helps out on the farm as he can. Daughter Olivia teaches in Clinton.
Farming is dear to her, and she comes home once in a while to get her
“farming fix.” Youngest son Aaron is a junior at Monmouth College,
studying sports business. He works on the farm during the summer
months. Wife Patty is an on-the-farm wife and helper who works beside
Robert to keep all the family businesses going.
STORY BY NILA SMITH
