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The May Family has side-by-side farmsteads south of Rush City;  one that they settled in the mid-1980s and the smaller one  was established by son Jason soon after he finished schooling.

The May clan is the 2023 University of Minnesota Farm Family of the Year for Chisago County and they were given their certificate during Farmfest last week.  

University news releasesreported this is the first year in a long long time that all 87 counties selected a Farm Family.  The honor was started in 1979.

Along with Farmfest additional areas of the university that are involved in the recognition include; Extension, the Ag Experimental Station, the College of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Sciences and the College of Veterinary Medicine.

In 1984 Floyd and Janice May brought their four children to the farm they bought near the freeway,  in Rushseba Township. There were Dana, Jason, Ryan and Randall.  There were also Janice’s parents Herbert and Mary Lindenfelser and a host of relatives and friends who helped out those first years with soybeans,  corn and hay crops.

Jason earned a diesel technician degree after high school and he purchased a farmstead adjacent to the one where he grew up. Farming became his full time job but the mechanical skills were useful around the farm equipment.

Jason is known for going on to become involved in Chisago County Farm Bureau (president 12 years) and serves on the FSA committee.  His wife Becky is active in the County Fair Kids’ Day and daughter Meghan wants to pursue an ag business degree.

 

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