How the Christmans Balance Farming, Ranching, and Family

By: Lisa Foust Prater

He’s a fifth-generation farmer. She’s a fourth-generation rancher. Those are the roles Jordan and Jacki Christman know and love, and when they got married in 2010, they decided there was no need to change them. Now, in addition to raising their daughter, Citti, 10, and sons Cahan, 11, and Conway, 8, they manage their own areas of expertise within JC Farms but help each other when needed.

Jordan grew up farming with his dad and grandpa in southwest North Dakota’s Adams County. The county diagonally to the southwest is Harding County, South Dakota, where Jacki grew up on her family’s Price Ranch, riding horses and raising cattle and sheep.