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The Show is Here!
Ten Years and Still Growing!
Editorial from the September/October/November 2002 issue of Small Farm Today® magazine.
Fall is approaching and I am harvesting seed crops for next year.
My health problems have caused many problems this year, but we are trying to fix that by hiring young healthy employees that you will meet at this year's show. Thanks for your patience.
The 10th National Small Farm Trade Show & Conference is on October 31 through November 2. This is the year to attend. If you do not go home with a bushel basket of ideas and enough inspiration from speeches from John Ikerd (author of the "Sustaining People Through Agriculture" column in this magazine), and Fred Kirschenmann from the Leopold Center, then you must have been sleeping. There will be the most seminars yet (21), plus six short courses.
This year's new items include an IBGA-certified Meat Goat Show, an ABGA-certified Dairy Goat Show, and talks and displays on Alternative Energy items such as Photovoltaic Cells and Wind Turbines. this year we will again host the 2nd Annual Alpaca Show (AOBA-certified).
Regional ALBC folks will be there with all kinds of rare and minor breeds. The Farmer's Market from Silex, Missouri, will have demonstrations on what is a good chicken and what is a good rabbit. Danny Shilling will have a stock dog clinic on Wednesday before the show for you to work with your dog, and will have demonstrations throughout the show.
About 300 exhibitors will be there with useful equipment and supplies, including two-wheel tractors, potato diggers, balers, organic fertilizer, small tractors, books, electric fencing, and everything you need and use on your small farm. The show has a good reputation for quality breeding stock, so if you need some poultry, hogs, cattle, horses, sheep, or goats, this is where to be.
It is three days of pure pleasure and profit for your small farm—see you there.
Happy and Profitable Farming,
Ron Macher
Publisher/Farmer