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Summer Field Days 1999, Out and About – Part I

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Mike Natvig leads the way at his Northeast Iowa field day. Charlotte Borlaug Culbert, sister of Nobel winner Norman Borlaug, was a special guest.

Consultant Ron Doetch, left, says farmers can’t afford not to grow small grains. He is working with Iowa growers through PFI board member Walt Ebert. Steve and June Weis, Osage, talked about their hoophouses and composting death losses at one of the hottest field days of the season.

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Joe Fitzgerald and entomologist Laura Weiser at the New Melleray Abbey field day in June. Angela Tedesco talked up the advantages of mesh-lined boxes for veggies. She was joined by Marcia Miquelon of Healthy Farmers, Healthy Profits, who showed several ergonomic and efficiency options.

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Firing up the flame weeder, an event that never fails to hold attention at New Melleray Abbey field days. The TV crew at Wayne and Ruth Fredericks’ field day was less interested in hogs than in the 15 inches of rain that had hit north central Iowa that week.

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David Weis raised and direct-marketed pasture poultry as an FFA project. Roger Weis, center, discussed the field of oats that had been drilled onto ridges.

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Discussions are always animated at Dick and Sharon Thompson’s field days. Joe Lynch, Onion Creek Farm, demonstrates one way to trellis a tomato vine.

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Nebraska stowaway Chuck Francis squeezed in for the field day at Steve and Wendi Williams’ farm, in southwest Iowa. After the field day, Wendi and Steve Williams rounded ’em up for the Niman Ranch truck.