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Trade Show Talk
Editorial from the March/April 2001 issue of Small Farm Today® magazine.
Hello, everyone. I am here to tell you I am back. Thanks to everyone who wrote in after the car accident (see Letters for some of them). My mother and I were the only ones badly hurt. My wife, father, grandmother, and everyone in the car that hit us was okay or only slightly hurt. My doctors thought I would take a year to recover–it's good to be back after only two months. Of course, Ron says this cuts into my vacation time from the magazine–I say it doesn't count because I was unconscious for about a month. Anyway, Ron hired some University students to help fill in on the last issue (and this issue) while I was away. They did a pretty good job! (Thanks, Kristin and Sean). They put this issue together, and I just checked it. I will not resume my full duties until next issue. Once again, thanks to everyone who wrote! Notes were helpful and entertaining while I was in therapy. Paul The Almost Back (but not quite yet) Managing Editor |
The show will have new hours:
We will have three big days this year with the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy (ALBC) bringing about 50 stalls of large livestock, rare to minor breeds. We are adding to the space we use in the arena area and have now rented four more barns: two for livestock and two for machinery.
Featured speakers this year include Joel Salatin on Family Friendly Farming, Darren Small, the Pizza Farmer, and John Ikerd, a nationally known sustainable agriculture expert and friend of the small farmer (and author).
This is definitely the year to plan your time off so you can attend the 9th annual Trade Show & Conference™. Pre-registry avoids lines for you and gives us time to get everything ready to speed your entrance to the show.
Our Kentucky friends will be back with their two-wheel tractor equipment, mower, rakes, and hopefully a baler by showtime.
ALBC fans will enjoy talks by small farm predator control expert Eugene Fythe from Canada, where he tells me coyotes reach 70 pounds.
Phillip Sponenberg will talk on genetics of meat goats; Deb Robinson from Colorado will talk about handspinning rare wool breeds; and Margie Bender from the ALBC office will relay her latest weeder geese research.
Diane Endicott will tell how 19 farms and ranches formed a co-op to market beef in Kansas City Hen House restaurant, and Lindsey Howerton will describe how hog farmers formed a co-op to market pork in local grocery stores and restaurants.
These are just a few of the exciting speakers for this year.
We will also have demonstrations on draft horses, machinery, and sawmills (outside), stock dogs, alpacas, emu egg carving, corn shuck crafts, and soapmaking.
The 9th annual Trade Show & Conference™ will have everything you need for profitable small farm ideas for the new millenium.
Happy and Profitable Farming,
Ron Macher
Publisher/Farmer