MONROE - Alan and Yvonne DeVoe have been busy getting their farm ready to host the Green County Breakfast on the Farm Saturday.
The couple and their three children, Katlyn, 15, - the Juda Dairy Queen - Samantha, 12, and Dean, 9, will welcome thousands of people to their farm, N266 Twin Grove Road.
Yvonne said people suggested they host the dairy breakfast for a few years, and this year they decided to have the breakfast at their farm. It is a good year to have it, she said, because her daughter has had a good time as the Juda Dairy Queen.
It's a lot of work to host the breakfast. Fortunately for the DeVoes, Green County Ag Chest members will do most of the work. Members of FFA and 4-H help with the setup and cleanup.
Members of Ag Chest have the dairy breakfast routine down to a science. The group has been in charge of the breakfasts since the first one was held in 1961 in Juda.
The breakfast brings in people from across the county to eat a meal, enjoy the entertainment, visit the petting zoo, take a wagon ride, buy crafts and to see old friends.
The breakfast starts early, 6 a.m. If history is a guide, there will be a couple hundred people in line for food before 6 a.m.
Businesses from Green County donate to the breakfast every year, and dozens of volunteers spend hours making food for the approximately 5,000 people who attend.
Dennis Hoesly, owner of Hoesly's Meats in New Glarus, will make all of the sausage for the breakfast. Six farmers have donated all the pork needed to make 1,400 pounds of sausage. Hoesly said it takes a lot of people to make the breakfast successful.
"This is want it's all about," he said.
Besides sausage, the breakfast includes scrambled eggs, coffee cake, cheese, coffee, juice and milk. Strawberry sundaes, which are always popular at the breakfast, will be served for dessert.
According to the Green County Ag Chest Web site, the volunteers will cook about 21,600 eggs, 5,000 half-pints of milk, 126 gallons of ice cream, 3,500 cartons of orange juice, 200 coffee cakes, 110 pounds of butter, 480 pounds of cheese and 26 jars of coffee.
Breakfast is served from 6 to 10 a.m. The cost is $5 for people 11 and older; $3 for children aged 6 to 10; and free for children under the age of 5.
The couple and their three children, Katlyn, 15, - the Juda Dairy Queen - Samantha, 12, and Dean, 9, will welcome thousands of people to their farm, N266 Twin Grove Road.
Yvonne said people suggested they host the dairy breakfast for a few years, and this year they decided to have the breakfast at their farm. It is a good year to have it, she said, because her daughter has had a good time as the Juda Dairy Queen.
It's a lot of work to host the breakfast. Fortunately for the DeVoes, Green County Ag Chest members will do most of the work. Members of FFA and 4-H help with the setup and cleanup.
Members of Ag Chest have the dairy breakfast routine down to a science. The group has been in charge of the breakfasts since the first one was held in 1961 in Juda.
The breakfast brings in people from across the county to eat a meal, enjoy the entertainment, visit the petting zoo, take a wagon ride, buy crafts and to see old friends.
The breakfast starts early, 6 a.m. If history is a guide, there will be a couple hundred people in line for food before 6 a.m.
Businesses from Green County donate to the breakfast every year, and dozens of volunteers spend hours making food for the approximately 5,000 people who attend.
Dennis Hoesly, owner of Hoesly's Meats in New Glarus, will make all of the sausage for the breakfast. Six farmers have donated all the pork needed to make 1,400 pounds of sausage. Hoesly said it takes a lot of people to make the breakfast successful.
"This is want it's all about," he said.
Besides sausage, the breakfast includes scrambled eggs, coffee cake, cheese, coffee, juice and milk. Strawberry sundaes, which are always popular at the breakfast, will be served for dessert.
According to the Green County Ag Chest Web site, the volunteers will cook about 21,600 eggs, 5,000 half-pints of milk, 126 gallons of ice cream, 3,500 cartons of orange juice, 200 coffee cakes, 110 pounds of butter, 480 pounds of cheese and 26 jars of coffee.
Breakfast is served from 6 to 10 a.m. The cost is $5 for people 11 and older; $3 for children aged 6 to 10; and free for children under the age of 5.