This weekend we wandered around the four state farm show in Cherokee County Kansas. Every summer about 20,000 people descend on this festival to check out the newest in combines, tractors, sprayers, balers, and just about every piece of equipment you can use to farm these days. You could watch a haying demonstration, test drive a new mower, sign up for a new generator and collect a few grain and feed pens for free. We took advantage of going early on Friday before the crowds, the weather was beautiful here in Kansas an unusually cool sunny day for July.
Some of the equipment like this sprayer was so tall you could literally walk under it, bit of an overkill for my 3 1/2 acres I'd say. Besides being an organic mini-ranchodeluxe I really don't need this.
There were lots of places to stop and swap stories, "I remember in my day"..
Lots of little kids climbing the one story ladders to sit behind the wheel of a house sized combine, under moms supervision of course, I hope the keys weren't in it.
Clean up crews of frowning teenage boys roamed the several hundred acres of tents emptying trash cans.
Furniture, crafts, even chicken tractors (coops on wheels), small poultry cages, rabbit cages and other useful items could be found.
More Green ideas every year here was a way to heat you home with giant hay bales!
Old Tractors,
and fleets of new ones.
More stories.
Lunch.
Several variations on storm shelters popped up along the isles. This one was made of cast iron, it came complete with a reading light.
We also found hay rakes,
tools, tools and more tools,
flags,
and Lemonade.
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5 comments:
I would have found a lot of my wants had I been there. Those bird houses in particular.
I really like these "Americana" photos. Always interesting!
Looks like a fun place to spend a few hours, even if you don't need much of it. "Frowning teenage boys" made me laugh!
I love farm shows. Here they're usually combined with the county fair. One of the few places the American flag seems to be flown a lot.
I love farmers' fairs, we have an annual one here in our town too which is always fun to participate in with exhibits and to visit as well. Nice photos.
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