Dairy farmer Dan Brick is ready for his close-up.
The Greenleaf farm is host to this year’s Brown County Breakfast on the Farm event, with Brick and company having spent the last several months preparing for the moment of welcoming the community to his home.
This marks the second time the owners of the family farm that has stood since the mid-1800s have hosted the event, the first time being more than 12 years ago.
“My wife was pregnant with our sons Ian and Eli at that time and we only had our son Sawyer,” Brick told NBC26.com. “The farm has grown a little bit since then and technology has grown significantly since the last time we hosted.”
The event is being billed as a way to give individuals not close to agriculture an inside look of what it’s like at your local farm, along with showing how food is produced.
“Right here, here is a double tent parlor,” said Ian Brick, the owner’s son. “We milk all the cows we have on this farm in this parlor. We run 22 hours of the day. The other two hours is when we’re cleaning the parlor.”
Ian has been working on the farm for as long as he can remember, and has come to know his way around the grounds quite well.
“Right here, these tubes are going in suction which goes up to the teacup and then the milk that is coming out of the cow goes into a tube leading into a tank which goes into the bulk tank,” he added.
Going forward, Ian said his vision is clear.
“I hope to be a sixth-generation farmer and taking over the farm we are on today and turning it into something a lot bigger,” he added. “What I hope to do when I’m older is have a robot barn with over four thousand cows.”
