Cereal manufacturer Kellogg’s has toasted two farming families in Queensland earlier this month celebrating a 50-year relationship with both as the 2012 corn harvest gets into full swing.

Representatives from the company, which proudly uses Australian grown grains, visited the farms to present the families with commemorative plaques to officially mark 50 years of working together.

One family, the Peters’ from Norwin near Toowoomba, has supplied corn to Kellogg’s through three generations of their family and were celebrating even more following one of their best corn yields to date.

“We’re really pleased with how the corn is looking this year,” said Arnold Peters. “The quality this year is superb ironically thanks to moisture in the soil as a result of the heavy rain we endured last year.”

“We’ve got around 2,700 tonnes of corn here across 900 acres of land and we’re really proud to know that much of it will end up on the breakfast tables in millions of Australian homes.”

Arnold runs the harvest with his two sons Lance and Mark, both of whom have sons and daughters of their own.

“It was my father that originally starting growing corn for Kellogg’s back in the 1950s. Now I’m farming with my sons and we hope that their children will carry on the tradition,” added Arnold.

Whilst the harvest continues for many farmers, the Peters’ are all done for this year and the family enjoyed a well earned holiday on the Sunshine Coast. Meanwhile, the other family celebrating 50 years of supply to Kellogg’s, the Petersen’s from Killarney, is just about to begin.

“These are the people that really make it happen for us,” said Raquel Epstein, procurement manager from Kellogg’s. “We owe a great deal of gratitude to the dedication of these farmers and the quality grains they have grown for us for half a century. We hope we’ll be celebrating with them again in another 50 years time.”

Kellogg’s will also be celebrating with rice farmers in New South Wales this week as the company hits more 50-year milestones.