Members’ Corner: Rick Pfanner-Missouri Farmers Union
Friday, November 2nd, 2007
Rick Pfanner is a difficult farmer to track down.
Rick grew up on his family farm near Hunnewell, Missouri. Hunnewell is a small rural community of about 250 in Northeast Missouri, and the Pfanner farm is located four miles south, in the heart of Missouri’s farming country. After finishing high school, Rick began full-time in the business that his parents had started. For twenty-one years, Ricky, as his family and friends refer to him, has been running the family farm with his mother and two brothers. The Pfanner farm raises cattle and sheep and produces corn, beans, wheat and milo.
Although he doesn’t find his busy life allows him much free time outside of farming and Farmers Union, Rick enjoys hunting and fishing, but most of all enjoys spending time with his newborn son, Blake. Friday, Nov. 2, also just happened to be Rick, and his wife Dawn’s first wedding anniversary. Congratulations, Rick and Dawn.
