Happkes named Morrison County Farm Family of the Year

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Being named Morrison County Farm Family of the Year came as a surprise to the Happkes. After all, Stacy Happke said, who along with her husband, Kent, and their children, Carter, Hayden, Kensie and Sydney, own and operate the Happke Holstein Farm in Pierz, there are so many other farm families that well deserve the recognition.

“We’re happy to be named and it’s an honor, but we’re no more hardworking than any other farm family that there is,” she said.

Kent and Stacy mark the fourth generation on the dairy farm with their children being the fifth. It all began sometime in the 1930s when Great Grandpa Robert Happke established the farm and later passed it onto Kent’s Grandpa George. With a love for dairy farming, the tradition continued with Kent’s dad, Bob, who later turned it over to Kent in 1998.

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