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150-year-old, seven-generation family farm hosts Sunday’s Breakfast on the Farm

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June 13, 2018
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CASCO – The Kewaunee County Dairy Promotion Committee finds a different family-run farm in the county each year celebrate June Dairy Month by hosting its annual Breakfast on the Farm.

Members of the Knorn Family at Junion Homestead Farm in Casco, host of the June 17 Breakfast on the Farm. The Knorns are the fifth, sixth and seventh generations of the Junion family to run the farm.

And this year's host is offering special reason to celebrate family farms.

The breakfast is being held Sunday at Junion Homestead Farm, which this year celebrates its 150th anniversary, all with the same family as its owner/operator. It’s the second time Junion Homestead has hosted the breakfast; the first was in 1998.

The farm’s current owners are Tony and Peggy (Junion) Knorn. Peggy is the fifth generation of Junions to work the farm; she married Tony, a farmer from Rib Lake, in 1982. The Knorns moved onto the family farm in 1990 and bought it from Peggy’s parents, Lawrence and Magdalene Junion, in 1993.

An aerial view of Junion Homestead Farm in Casco, host of the annual Breakfast on the Farm on June 17.

And, Tony and Peggy are not the most recent generation of the family on the farm, as daughter Amanda works as its herd manager and Mikayla, a dairy science student at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, has shown cows from the farm. The Knorns have two other daughters, Megan and Amber, and five grandchildren, making it seven generations on the farm.

The farm was established in 1868 by Lambert and Marie Junion, who emigrated to the U.S. from Belgium in 1856. According to an article on the dairy promotion website, it’s been a dairy farm for most of its existence, although it raised crops from 1966 to 1993 (until the Knorns purchased it) and at various times in its earlier days also raised chickens and pigs and operated a sawmill.

Tony and Peggy purchased a herd of 29 cows and six bred heifers on May 29, 1993, to restart the dairy part of the business. Since then, it’s expanded to where the farm now has 250 Holsteins, brown Swiss and Guernseys – 225 for milking – along with corn, alfalfa and oat crops.

As with most businesses, the expansion didn’t come without a few bumps in the road. Among the biggest, the Knorns said on the website, was a fire on Feb. 5, 1997, that burned down the farm’s shop and garage. Tony Knorn was able to get one tractor out of the garage, but two other were lost, along with tools, parts and other items, totaling a loss of about $100,000.

The Knorns said they’ve approached the expansions gradually and methodically, researching their options and touring other farms to learn what would work best for their farm and its environment.

“What you see today on the farm has been 150 years in the making,” the family wrote on the farm’s Facebook page. “We have the fifth, sixth and seventh generations of family working and growing together on the farm. We value the tradition of family farming and are proud of the fact that we have been the blood, sweat, and tears of the operation since 1868. We strive to manage our cattle and land the best we can to ensure the success of the farm and the generations to come.”

Chefs of “the biggest omelette you have ever seen" show off their work at a past Breakfast on the Farm in Kewaunee County.

FYI

The Kewaunee County Dairy Promotion holds its annual Breakfast on the Farm from 8 a.m. to noon Sunday at Junion Homestead Farm, E1939 County K, Casco.

The brunch features what the promotion calls “the biggest omelette you have ever seen,” fresh rolls and butter, a variety of cheeses, milk, pizza, deep-fried cheese curds and mozzarella sticks, yogurt samples, pizza  and strawberry sundaes

 Along with the dairy brunch, the event also has tours of the 150-year-old, seventh-generation farm; horse- and tractor-drawn wagon rides; an antique tractor show; ice cream cones, petting zoo; games; and live music. A nondenominational church service will be held before the breakfast, at 7 a.m.

Tickets are $7 for ages 12 and older, $3 ages 4-11, and are available at the door or in advance at Dairyland Veterinary Services in Casco, Ebert Enterprises in Algoma, Pagel’s Ponderosa Dairy in Kewaunee or Rio Creek Feed Mill in Luxemburg and Rio Creek.

For more information, go to dairypromo.com.

This article originally appeared on Green Bay Press-Gazette: 150-year-old, seven-generation family farm hosts Sunday's Breakfast on the Farm

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