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Field demonstration locations announced for Husker Harvest Days.

Mindy Ward, Editor, Missouri Ruralist

September 13, 2021

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Combine in field at HHD
IN ON ACTION: Take an up-close look at combines while they are in the field at Husker Harvest Days, Sept. 14-16, in Grand Island, Neb. Mindy Ward

What sets Husker Harvest Days apart from all other farm show? A total of 340 acres of field demonstrations.

You can see a new combine, grain cart or tillage tool at work right in an actual cornfield. Then you compare your favorite side-by-side to its competitors.

The field demonstrations at Husker Harvest Days, Sept. 14-16, in Grand Island, Neb., offer visitors the chance to get in the fields to check out the machines and look at the results. Feel free to walk through the corn residue. Pick up the dirt after tillage tools. But it is not just for row crops.

Head over to the hay equipment demonstrations and watch the mowers and rakes. Pick up the alfalfa and inspect the stems for leaves before they bale it. Then check out the big round balers in action.

The field demonstrations are a popular attraction, with thousands of visitors standing in the fields, behind the string line, watching machines work. The map below offers you a chance to know where the demonstrations will take place each day.

Field demo map

Below is a list of those companies participating in this year’s Husker Harvest Days field demonstrations.

List of field demo participants

About the Author(s)

Mindy Ward

Editor, Missouri Ruralist

Mindy resides on a small farm just outside of Holstein, Mo, about 80 miles southwest of St. Louis.

After graduating from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural journalism, she worked briefly at a public relations firm in Kansas City. Her husband’s career led the couple north to Minnesota.

There, she reported on large-scale production of corn, soybeans, sugar beets, and dairy, as well as, biofuels for The Land. After 10 years, the couple returned to Missouri and she began covering agriculture in the Show-Me State.

“In all my 15 years of writing about agriculture, I have found some of the most progressive thinkers are farmers,” she says. “They are constantly searching for ways to do more with less, improve their land and leave their legacy to the next generation.”

Mindy and her husband, Stacy, together with their daughters, Elisa and Cassidy, operate Showtime Farms in southern Warren County. The family spends a great deal of time caring for and showing Dorset, Oxford and crossbred sheep.

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