Leann Schafer serves on the North Dakota Dry Bean Council and is a Northarvest Bean Growers board member. She and her husband, Jeff, have raised dry edible beans since 1988 in central North Dakota, near New Rockford, ND. They raise primarily pinto beans and occasionally black turtle beans, in addition to corn, soybeans, and seed oats. They also have a commercial cow-calf operation and background and finish cattle in their state-inspected feedlot. Two of their three children, Chelsey and Colten, have joined them in them farming and ranching at Rhein Valley Farms, where Jeff is the fifth generation, and Chelsey, Colten, and Corey are the sixth generation. (New Rockford, ND)