Farm's future secured by sons
Brothers Mike and Tom Gerrits were worried that Country Aire Farms, their family’s 101-year-old dairy farm near Greenleaf, wouldn’t be passed down to a fourth generation. Their two eldest sons had walked away from the farm to enroll in college. Matt Gerrits pursued a career as a pharmacist; Nick Gerrits pursued a career as a certified public accountant. But that changed for each of them after they experienced life outside the dairy.“They asked us if we had a spot for them on th
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