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Farm Progress hosts media day Wednesday - only five more days until the big show
8/22/2008 1:58:47 PM
KATIE STINES
Staff Writer
The Farm Progress Show held Media Day August 13 at the Farm Progress Show site, located at Highway 17 off of Highway 30. Local dignitaries were on site as well as members of the media and some of the host families of the event for a tour and preview of what the show will feature.
The Farm Progress Show will be attended by people from around the world including 40 different states and 30 different countries, including Germany and Japan.
The show will feature many exhibits from a variety of machinery manufacturers, as well as cattle handling demonstrations, field demonstrations, a tillage demonstration, corn combining demonstration and various presentations. Iowa State University has a tent at the show which will feature 30 booths with displays on topics of food and human health, rural communities, economic development, the next generation of Iowans and bioeconomy.
The site features corn plots and even corn and sunflower plots, which were planted in May.
There will be plenty for people to do and see at the Farm Progress Show even if they do not know anything about farming. There will be: arts and crafts available for sale, a fashion show featuring western clothing, gardening demonstrations, working dogs herding animals, a chuck wagon and even a horse whisperer who begins the day with a bridle trained horse and by the end of the day will have it saddle trained.
A food court will be in each quadrant of the grounds. Many of the exhibitors will have air conditioned tents as well. Permanent restrooms were also built on the grounds which have air conditioning as well.
The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Ed Schafer, will be at the Farm Progress Show in the media tent on Thursday, August 28, at 4:30 p.m. It is expected that he will discuss and answer questions about farm bill implementation, Midwest flooding and other current agriculture issues.
For complete coverage of the Farm Progress Show see next week's editions of the Boone News-Republican.
The Farm Progress Show will be held August 26, 27 and 28.
