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[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]
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]
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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]
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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 isnt what it use to be or if it was just
my attitude and expectation for the day. I just wasnt 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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