Born on Jan. 11, 1950 in Jacksonville Ill., and continues to live there today. The farm has been in his family for at least three generations and his grandparents lived five miles up the road. In the early generations, the farm was diversified, housing various livestock as well as growing crops. Jim has changed the focus of the farm from a diversified operation to raising grass fed Angus, and he has planted perennial grasses and clover in fields where there was once corn and soybeans. Jim also raises free range chickens. The produce from the farm is sold through a website as well as straight from Burrus' own farm. He sells quarters and halves of beef through a local meat locker.
From the description of An interview with Jim Burrus / Jim Burrus ; Charlyn Fargo, interviewer. 2008. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 429529304
