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Travel Indiana: Cross the border, but feel at home seeing Indiana people.

Tom Bechman 1, Editor, Indiana Prairie Farm

September 14, 2016

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Travel Indiana stretches its boundaries this month. Can you recognize and name the event where this photo was taken? You don’t have to guess the year. Just name the venue.

Here are a couple of hints. This year’s event runs from Nov. 1-16. Thousands of Indiana livestock producers will head south to either show, buy or sell livestock. Some may go just for the atmosphere. Others may want to check out the huge exhibition of vendors offering country ware and all kinds of livestock-related products. It’s all just in time to pick up a Christmas present for the livestock enthusiast who has everything — almost!

Rare buggy

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Congratulations to Norma Wallpe, Fowler. She correctly guessed that the rare doctor’s buggy featured in the July issue of Indiana Prairie Farmer was housed at Pioneer Village on the Indiana State Fairgrounds.

The buggy is just one of many unusual items of days gone by you will find there. This year, Pioneer Village added another rare item to its collection. Jim and Bob Cherry, Greenfield, donated a Massey-Harris binder, originally horse-drawn, restored to its original condition.

Mauri Williamson, retired curator of the ag museum, "worked" at Pioneer Village each day of the fair in 2016. Pioneer Village is now in the capable hands of Tim Nannet and a crew of assistants.

Wallpe will receive a $25 gift certificate for being the winning entry. For a chance to win your own gift certificate, identify the livestock show described above. Send your entry to: Indiana Prairie Farmer, P.O. Box 247, Franklin, IN 46131, or email [email protected]

About the Author(s)

Tom Bechman 1

Editor, Indiana Prairie Farm

Tom Bechman is an important cog in the Farm Progress machinery. In addition to serving as editor of Indiana Prairie Farmer, Tom is nationally known for his coverage of Midwest agronomy, conservation, no-till farming, farm management, farm safety, high-tech farming and personal property tax relief. His byline appears monthly in many of the 18 state and regional farm magazines published by Farm Progress.

"I consider it my responsibility and opportunity as a farm magazine editor to supply useful information that will help today's farm families survive and thrive," the veteran editor says.

Tom graduated from Whiteland (Ind.) High School, earned his B.S. in animal science and agricultural education from Purdue University in 1975 and an M.S. in dairy nutrition two years later. He first joined the magazine as a field editor in 1981 after four years as a vocational agriculture teacher.

Tom enjoys interacting with farm families, university specialists and industry leaders, gathering and sifting through loads of information available in agriculture today. "Whenever I find a new idea or a new thought that could either improve someone's life or their income, I consider it a personal challenge to discover how to present it in the most useful form, " he says.

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