South Dakota Farmers Union celebrates Day County farm family

The Rumpca family on their farm near Webster: from left, Mike, Sandy, Tyler, Chelsy, Lennox and Jocelyn. Reporter & Farmer | subscriber snapshot
The Rumpca family on their farm near Webster: from left, Mike, Sandy, Tyler, Chelsy, Lennox and Jocelyn. Reporter & Farmer | subscriber snapshot

The small porch of Mike and Sandy Rumpca’s farmhouse is full of sunbathing kittens. Groggy with sleep, they barely look up when Lennox, 15, and Jocelyn, 17, run up the steps.

Sandy has donuts and scotcheroos waiting for her grandkids.

“Grandma always has good food,” said Jocelyn, a Webster High School senior. “If I’m ever hungry, I can just walk over.”

It’s one of the perks to living next door, expla…