Local youth celebrate National 4-H Week with window displays and more

[OCT. 4, 2000]  The first week of October brings National 4-H Week. Special activities during the week include window displays, a poster contest, bookmarks in the library, and visits by 4-H professionals to third grade classrooms in Logan County.


[Cloverdale 4-H Club – first place winner]

The clubs that participated in the window displays are Atlanta Town and Country 4-H Club, with a display at Atlanta Museum Annex in Atlanta; Barn Buddies, at Prairie Years in Lincoln; Chester 4-H Club, at Grapes and Grounds in Lincoln; Cloverdale 4-H, at the Red Cross building in Lincoln; Hartem Achievers, at Country Companies in Emden; Middletown 4-H Club, at Middletown Junior High School in Middletown; and Wide A Wake 4-H Club, at 604 Broadway in Lincoln.

 

A team of judges visited each of the window displays in the communities. All clubs did a great job on their displays, and each received an A. However, the top three also win money for their club. Cloverdale 4-H will receive $15 for first place, Middletown 4-H Club will receive $10 for second place, and Atlanta Town and Country will receive $5 for third place.

 


[Middletown 4-H Club – second place winners]

Several 4-H'ers also made posters to celebrate the week. Posters are displayed at Chester-East Lincoln School and at 604 Broadway in Lincoln. The youth who participated in the poster contest are as follows: Emily Bakken, Lincoln; Jackie Bakken, Lincoln; Nichole Benz, Lincoln; Max Buse, Beason; Amanda Davison, Beason; Daniel Fulton, Lincoln; and Zach Huffer, Lincoln. The winner of the poster contest is Jackie Bakken, and she will receive $15 for first place. Her poster is on display at 604 Broadway in Lincoln. Congratulations to all who entered!

 

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Patty Huffer, (academic professional/youth), and Joann Benz (youth development educator) visited several local schools to talk about 4-H. The schools they visited were Carroll Catholic in Lincoln, Elkhart Grade School in Elkhart, Northwest Elementary in Lincoln, New Wine in Lincoln, Jefferson Grade School in Lincoln, Chester-East Elementary in Lincoln, Washington Monroe Elementary in Lincoln; Hartsburg-Emden Grade School in Emden, Central School in Lincoln; New Holland Elementary in New Holland, West-Lincoln Broadwell in Lincoln, and Mount Pulaski Zion Lutheran in Mount Pulaski. Each child who participated received a brochure, a pencil or a bookmark, and a poster.

 


[Atlanta Town and Country – third place]


[Jackie Bakken – first place poster]

If you are interested in knowing more about 4-H week or the 4-H program, please contact Joann Benz at 732-8289 or write to her at the address below:

Joann Benz, Logan County Extension

4-H/Youth Development Educator

University of Illinois

980 N. Postville Drive

Lincoln, IL 62656

 

[4-H news release]


Farm Progress Show 2000

As a Beason farmer saw it

[SEPT. 30, 2000]  LDN asked farmer-reader Dave Sasse of Beason to record his thoughts and impressions of this year's Farm Progress Show. Dave and his family take their camper to the Farm Progress Show almost every year. Here is what the Farm Progress Show 2000 looked like in the eyes of a Logan County farmer.

Reader review

By Dave Sasse

We finally made it to the Farm Progress Show at about 9 p.m. after combining down corn all day. After driving what seemed like a mile in between orange cones in the dark that led us through the dirt road to the cornfield where we parked our camper outside of tent city. We woke the next morning to the roar of garbage trucks and generators that other campers were using to power their campers. The generators died down as the Show opened and campers finished their breakfast and headed in to see all the displays of machinery and equipment.

 

Entering the display area of the show, which was almost at our back door, we met up with many friends who had decided to come to the show that day and exchanged stories of how horrible the corn was down and what varieties were doing the best. It was good to see the FFA youth from Lincoln, Mount Pulaski and other area schools. These FFA members served at the food booths for a money-making project.

Looking at the displays, there was your usual tractors, combines and heavy tillage equipment. Farmers enjoy looking at "big iron" items, and there was plenty of that to look at. One of the good things about the Farm Progress Show is that you get to talk to the people from the head offices and factory people of the big companies. The farmer gets to discuss their likes and dislikes of what they have done to the equipment.

 

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At the John Deere tent I was talking with one of the people from Moline and found out that there may be another update on our John Deere 8400 tractor that we may want to have put on. Deere also had a display of the Farm Doc, which is another computer display that you can put in your tractor, sprayer or combine to document what spray or variety was used where in what field, what equipment was used and who was actually operating the equipment. Farm Doc will also let you put this in a form of a map to show exactly what part of the field all these items were used on.

 

Progressive equipment had their display of strip-till anhydrous bars on display. I liked that you could put down a liquid fertilizer with your anhydrous at the same time. This eliminates the use of starter fertilizer as we are planting and helps us spread our workload out. It looks to me that this is a great tool to help out in our strip-till operation.

Tile plows, tile and equipment to do tiling were more abundant this year than I had seen in past years. They even had some of the plows in the field putting in a drainage system this year.

It is very encouraging to me to see as many young children at the show as there were this year. I think this shows that farmers still believe that their occupation is worth passing on to their children. As I saw a young boy sitting in a new combine, it brought back memories of when I was a young child and could remember sitting in a John Deere 95 combine at the Farm Progress Show with my parents and daydreaming about the days that I would be running such a large machine.

[Dave Sasse]

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Hartem FFA team wins at state event

[SEPT. 30, 2000]  For the third consecutive year a Hartsburg-Emden FFA ag issues team has won the state FFA Ag Issues Career Development Event. The team members are Kate Wrage, who serves as the moderator; Sarah Struebing; Nick Reinhart; Matt Duckworth; Natalie Coers; Nic Coers; and Anthony Jones. These FFA members presented a forum on genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Pros and cons were presented, along with the team's solution to this global dilemma. The Hartem ag issues team will now represent the Illinois FFA at the National FFA Convention in Louisville, Ky., Oct. 25-28.


[Left to right: Natalie Coers, Sarah Struebing, Matt Duckworth, Kate Wrage, Nic Coers, Nick Reinhart and Anthony Jones]


Farm Progress Show 2000

A day with the family

[SEPT. 29, 2000]  Robert Klemm is a farmer in the Waynesville area and owner of Klemm's Tax Service.  He recorded his thoughts on the 2000 Farm Progress Show to share with LDN readers.

Reader review

By Robert Klemm

On Wednesday our family got up early for their every-three-year trip to the Farm Progress Show. Yes, that is right, I said family because we took this opportunity to all be together for the day — my wife Patty, two sons John (17), Aaron (7) — and daughter Olivia (20), however, is away at college.

We arrived early to avoid the traffic and therefore we were in the second row of parking. After having attended several of the shows through the years, I am still trying to decide if the show isn’t what it use to be or if it was just my attitude and expectation for the day. I just wasn’t as impressed as I have been in past even though I still did enjoy the exhibits a good deal.

 

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I did have the opportunity to visit with several company representatives on specific products that I had technical questions that salesmen may not have been able to answer nearly as well.

We also as always were able to view, and I was able to explain to the boys, some of the equipment that we do not use in our farming operation. We were all able to see it firsthand. The best example of this is the newer tile plows to be pulled with farm tractors. For these we were even able to go out in the field and hear real-life experience from other farmers as the companies explained their product and we actually saw them being used.

Three years from now, when the show is back in Illinois, we will go as a family again and see what is newest in farming.

[Robert Klemm]


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