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Show Schedule
Husker Harvest Days - West of Grand Island, Nebraska / Grand Island, NE .. Husker's Host City
Husker returns for the 33rd Annual Event. Husker Harvest Days is known as the world's largest totally irrigated working farm show. The pivots surrounding Husker Harvest Days are all from different irrigation companies. Valley is updating their pivot for 2010. The show currently features 870 outdoor lots and scores of additional indoor exhibit spaces inside four Diversified Industry buildings and a Livestock Industry building. The spaces added to the show with the 2009 expansion were quickly claimed by exhibitors and the show a sold out event. SHOW HOURS Tuesday & Wednesday - 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday - 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. TICKETS $7 per adult, per day $5 per student (13-17), per day Children under 12 FREE
Sept. 14th, 15th & 16th are the days of the Husker Event.
57th Annual Farm Progress Show returns to Boone, IA in 2010 / Boone, IA
Matt Jungman says this show starting August 31st to September 2nd, 2010 will catch many peoples eyes. SHOW HOURS: Tuesday & Wednesday - 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday - 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. TICKETS: $10 per adult, per day $5 per student (13-17), per day Children under 12 FREE The crops at the Farm Progress Show in Boone were planted right on schedule, April 14 and 15. Hybrids planted ranged from 78 - 80 day corn. As of July 1, corn at the Farm Progress Show is tasseled and some even brown silked. Right on schedule for harvesting at the show! About one third of the field demonstration acres were planted in twin rows with a Great Plains planter. The current plan is for these acres to be harvested on Tuesday of the Farm Progress Show, August 31st. Wednesday and Thursday’s field demonstration fields were planted with a Kinze 3660 twin-line planter. The crops at the Farm Progress Show in Boone were planted right on schedule, April 14 and 15. Hybrids planted ranged from 78 - 80 day corn. As of July 1, corn at the Farm Progress Show is tasseled and some even brown silked. Right on schedule for harvesting at the show! About one third of the field demonstration acres were planted in twin rows with a Great Plains planter. The current plan is for these acres to be harvested on Tuesday of the Farm Progress Show, August 31st. Wednesday and Thursday’s field demonstration fields were planted with a Kinze 3660 twin-line planter. The final decision will be made later this summer as to which fields are harvested on what days. A special thanks to Channel, Crop Production Services, Agrigold for supplying field demonstration inputs, Great Plains and Kinze Manufacturing for the use of planters, Case IH for the use of a tractor and Kinze Manufacturing the use of the planter to be used in the seed technology plots. Orthman Mfg, Inc will be there with a strong team each day.
Farm Science Review with Ohio State University Extension Service - 48th Annual Event / London, Ohio
This year on Sept. 21-23rd, 2010 the FSR is looking at 600+ exhibitors joining the event to make it the most memorable in recent years. There will be expanded programs on conservation practices in the Gwynne Conservation Area. Each day visitors to FSR will see field demonstration of harvesting, strip-tilling, global positioning advances and guidance on combines and tractors or sprayers. Yes, Orthman Mfg Team of Adam Souder and the guys from Widmer & Associates will be working together to show, demo and talk about the "real leader" of strip-till in the Eastern Corn Belt Region. Come by and see us!
Where? The Farm Science Review is located approx. 2 miles North of London, Ohio on US 40. Cost? $5 in advance or $8 at the gate Questions of the event contact: Candace Pollock or Chuck Gamble at their e-mail: gamble.19@osu.edu or pollock.58@osu.edu
