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For the 53rd AnnualEAU CLAIRE FARM SHOW

March 8-9, 20169 a.m.-3:30 p.m.Menards Conference Center

5150 Old Mill Plaza • Eau Claire

March 2, 2016

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March 2, 2016/The Country Today • Eau Claire Farm Show

Farm show moves to Menards Conference Center

Photo by Steve Kinderman

The 2016 Eau Claire Farm Show will be held at the Menards Conference Center,located a half-mile off I-94 just off Highway 312 on the northwest side of Eau Claire.The center offers 53,413 square-feet of at oor space.

By Karyn EckertRegional Editor | [email protected]

For its 53rd year, theGranddaddy of Farm Showsis getting a new home.

The Eau Claire FarmShow is moving to the Me-nards Conference Center, ahalf-mile off of Interstate 94just off Highway 312 on thenorthwest side of the city.The center opened last yearand boasts the most at oorspace, 53,413 square feet, inthe Chippewa Valley.

Steve Henry, founder ofNorth Country Enterprises,said the show had simplyoutgrown its former space atthe Eau Claire Indoor SportsCenter, which is the secondlargest indoor exhibition hallin the area. New vendorswere lined up on a waitinglist, and the parking lot wasoverowing onto city streets.

The Menards ConferenceCenter boasts 1,000 parking

spaces, as well as a 300-seatauditorium, on-site kitchenand dining space along withexhibit space, all adjacent tothe Menards corporateheadquarters. Also used forcorporate training for Me-nards employees, the centercan seat up to 2,500 peoplein a theater layout and 1,600in a banquet conguration.

Large overhead doors and aloading dock can accommo-date the large equipmentand displays moving in forthe farm show.

Henry said vendors willhave their own parking areabehind the center with easyaccess for loading and un-loading their equipment.Along with being the newsite for the Eau Claire FarmShow, the Menards Confer-ence Center is also homethe Wisconsin Sport Showlater in March and the HerImpressions Bridal Fair andWomen’s Expo in Septem-

ber. Past events include acareer show and CrossFitcompetition.

The second longest run-ning regional farm show inWisconsin, the Eau ClaireFarm show dates back to1963 with the NorthernState Power Company’sElectric Power Show at theNorthern Wisconsin Fair-grounds. The farm showlater moved to the LondonSquare Mall.

“Can you do a farmshow?” was the questionposed to Henry 40 years agoby the managers at London

Square Mall. He said yesand North Country Enter-prises, now led by the sec-ond generation, Bill andSally Henry, has been orga-nizing the Eau Claire FarmShow ever since. The fam-ily-owned company alsomanages the Midwest FarmShow in La Crosse, the RiceLake Farm Show and theGreater Wisconsin FarmExpo in Wausau.

Henry said the rst year at

the Menards ConferenceCenter will be a learning ex-perience as the team at NorthCountry Enterprises gureout the booth congurationsand trafc ow at the center.Since the center doubles as atraining facility, the space isnot a wide open rectangulararena like the previous site,Henry explained. The audi-torium and stage area is cen-trally located with a T-shaped exhibit hall surround-ing it and food court near themain entrance.

About 200 company rep-resentatives will be on-hand to meet show visitors,with an expected crowd of5,000 to 7,000. Despitemore square footage,Henry said exhibitor inter-est in the show continues toexceed the space. Newvendors are still waitingand some current vendorswould like to book morebooth space.

“We were lled in earlyDecember with still another15 to 20 vendors wanting ex-hibit space,” he said. “Weneed another 15,000, 20,000or 30,000 square feet to ac-commodate all the requests.”

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It takes only 0.3 parts permillion of iron in a farm’swater supply — justenough to start getting

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Iron and other mineralsin the water supply are

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“Once you clean up thewater, the nutritionist canwork off of clean waterand come up with a betterbalance of feed, and youend up with better milkproduction,” Seversonsaid.

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Historically, livestockwater used to be hand-pumped from shallowwells where the watermight have been hard, butiron wasn’t much of an is-sue, he said.

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Herbert last presented atthe farm show in 2012.

Herbert is a lifelong ani-mal lover who rescues non-releasable exotic animalsand cares for them at herRamsey, Minn., home.

For more than 15 years,she has owned and operatedCreature Encounters, a busi-ness that offers wildlife edu-cational programmingthroughout the Upper Mid-west.

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Herbert cares for a widevariety of animals, includingwildlife from Africa, SouthAmerica and other areas ofthe U.S. Some were un-wanted pets, some were in-jured and had no place elseto go.

Before accepting an ani-mal, Herbert makes sure shehas the space and the nan-cial means to care for it; shealso considers whether theanimal has the temperamentto be part of her publicshows.

Herbert shares her homewith talking parrots, Egyp-tian fruit bats, raccoons,snakes, lizards, bugs, hedge-hogs, chinchillas and more.

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Its annual Farm FamilyEvent and availability of a24-hour doctor-staffedemergency room areamong the reasons HSHSSt. Joseph’s Hospital ofChippewa Falls will re-ceive this year’s AggieAward during the EauClaire Farm Show.

The hospital will be recog-nized during the show,set for March 8-9 at theMenards Conference Center.

“It’s an extraordinaryaward, and it’s very hum-bling,” said St. Joseph’sPresident and Chief Execu-tive Ofcer Joan Coff- man. “To be honored in

this way really is a testa-ment to the mission ofHospital Sisters that goesback more than 130 years.It makes us feel good.”

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Event at which farm fami-lies can receive health in-formation and screenings,hear a keynote speaker andenjoy a complimentarylunch. About 150 peopleattend each year.

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Coffman said they alsooffer a community gardenon-site behind the L.E.Phillips treatment centerthat is open to area resi-dents who want to growtheir own food; a lot ofproduce is donated tothose in need.

Coffman said the hos-pital has focused on thehealth needs of the farm-ing and logging commu-nities since the HospitalSisters of the Third Orderof St. Francis came toChippewa Falls in June1885 at the invitation ofFather Charles Gold-smith, the rst and onlypastor in Chippewa Fallsat the time.

“The agricultural com-munity is near and dearto our sisters’ hearts,”she said, “and we want tocontinue to support themand grow with them.”

By that fall, the Rut-ledge home became thesite of HSHS St. Joseph’sHospital. The sale of hos-

pital tickets to loggers (a$5 ticket insured theholder for one year incase of sickness, includ-ing medicine) fundedbuilding additions.

In the 1970s, theHospital Sisters began amajor capital campaignto raise money for alarger facility. The newHSHS St. Joseph's wasformally opened in 1975along County Highway I.In 1976, the rst lay ad-ministrator was ap-pointed.

Fifteen Sisters haveserved as administrator,and many worked in thehospital. Educational of-ferings and retreats forstaff preserve the Sisters’mission to provide care inthe Franciscan spirit andcontinue its Catholichealing ministry.

Event is March 9The HSHS St. Joseph’s

Foundation will host its14th annual Farm Family

Event from noon to 2 p.m.Wednesday, March 9, atDove Healthcare — Wis-sota Health and RegionalVent Center in ChippewaFalls.

“It’s a great event,” Coff-man said. “It’s an opportu-nity for us to give back to(farmers) and for them tonetwork with each other.”

Each year, in addition to afeatured speaker, farmguests enjoy a complimen-tary lunch and presentationsand screenings on a variety

of health-related topics ofinterest to farm families.This year’s keynote speakerwill be the “Fabulous FarmBabe,” Pam Jahnke.

The Farm Family Eventis free, but registration is re-quired by March 2 by call-ing 715-717-7231 or email-ing [email protected].

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The award is coordi-nated by North CountryEnterprises, farm showsponsors and WAXX Ra-dio. Recipients have in-cluded area high schoolagriculture teachers, me-dia personalities and oth-ers active in farm organi-zations and events. Pat

Kelliher of Eau Clairewas the rst Aggie Awardrecipient.

“Pat’s personality andlikability came acrossclearly when doing re-ports on local radio sta-tions,” Henry said. “Sub-jects such as land and wa-ter conservation were up-permost on his mind, butcome holiday time in De-cember, he was in hisprime sharing stories ofpast Christmases onChannel 13.”

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seeds, clothing, MilwaukeeBucks tickets and a GreenBay Packers autographedfootball will be among theitems sold to the highestbidders at the WisconsinFFA Silent Auction March8-9 at the Eau Claire FarmShow.

The auction, sponsoredby The Country Today and

North Country Enterprises,will be held in a silent auc-tion format.

Auction items will bedisplayed each day from 9a.m. to 2 p.m. Bidders willhave an opportunity to bidon and take home differentitems each day.

The FFA auction origi-nated at The Country To-day Farm & Home Show in

Menomonie more than adozen years ago and wasmoved to Eau Claire whenthe Menomonie and EauClaire farm shows mergedin 2003. The auctions haveraised about $50,000 forprograms sponsored by theWisconsin FFA Founda-tion.

Farm-show exhibitorsand other FFA supporters

donate items for the auc-tion.

An up-to-date list of auc-tion items appears in an ad-vertisement in this editionof The Country Today.Items will be accepted upuntil 8:45 a.m. on March 8.

Jim Massey, The Coun-try Today editor and a pastpresident of the WisconsinFFA Foundation, said the

newspaper is appreciativeof auction-item donors andpleased to be involved inthe annual fundraiser.

“This auction has contin-ued to grow over the yearsand we’re always happywhen we can do somethingthat benets Wisconsin’syoung FFA members,”Massey said. “The FFA isWisconsin’s premier youth

leadership organization.This auction wouldn’t besuccessful without the dona-tions we receive from agri-cultural business and thefarm show attendees whobuy the items each year.”

All proceeds of the auc-tion are forwarded to theWisconsin FFA Founda-tion. Donations of all typesare welcome from individ-uals and businesses and aretax deductible.

Wisconsin FFA state of-cers will help oversee theauction.

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The farm show will befrom 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.March 8-9, with free ad-mission and parking. TheMenards Conference Cen-ter is at 5150 Old MillPlaza in Eau Claire.

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Henry reects on 40 years of organizing farm showsBy Steve HenryNorth Country Enterprises

Good memories: For a citykid who grew up in centralMinnesota and witnessed theannual dust storms of Dakota,topsoil ltering down aroundour home; for a city kid whowould walk a couple ofblocks with a metal containerto ll up with fresh milk fromour closest farmer; from theGrange building that was sur-rounded by a eld of cornand located next to our prop-erty; from the rst puff oncorn silk that three of us kidsjust had to try; to the Farmalltractor that Uncle Freemanallowed me to drive.

A farmer I should havebeen.

Later in life as I embarkedon 40 years of coordinatingfarm shows in Wisconsin,Iowa and Minnesota, I grewto more fully appreciate thehard work that farmers acceptand the dedication they haveas stewards of the land. Myappreciation doesn’t endthere.

I often think of the farmkids who go on to becomethe young men and womenthat our society needs. I be-came a staunch supporter ofthe many 4-H and FFAyouth that I had the privi-lege to assist in scholarshipjudging generated byWAXX Radio — clean cut,knowledgeable and alwayswilling to accept responsi-bility. And to this day, whenI see the blue-jacketed FFAmembers, they are our fu-ture. I trust they will makethis a better world in whichto live.

By accident I got into thebusiness of conducting farmshows. It was Northern StatesPower Co, that offered a“farm power” show duringthe spring of 1963. The showtook place at the NorthernWisconsin State Fairgroundin Chippewa Falls. That waswhen NSP focused on thesale of farm equipment re-quiring the use of electricpower.

Ten years later, once Lon-don Square Mall was com-pleted, the show moved toEau Claire. The mall aislesprovided sufcient room todisplay back-to-back exhibitbooths.

In 1975, NSP decided torid itself of the show. It wasthen that I became involvedand formed a family-ownedcompany called North Coun-try Enterprises. The EauClaire Farm Show was thenpromoted as being open to allcompanies and distributors offarm machinery, equipmentand ag products; not just toequipment requiring electric-ity.

With the sale of LondonSquare Mall, the farm showoccupied the vacated PrangeWay store. Another changeof venue became a realitywhen the Eau Claire IndoorSports Center was built in2002. The farm show becameone of the rst occupants of

the Sports Center on an an-nual basis.

One year later, The Coun-try Today became a co-sponsor of the Eau ClaireFarm Show. And now in2016, the second longestrunning regional farm showin Wisconsin will be fea-tured at a new location, theMenards Conference Cen-

ter, on March 8 and 9.What are some of the

changes witnessed over thepast 40 years of farm shows?The size of equipment hasgreatly increased and the ad-vent of the computer has of-fered our farmers access toupdated information andmarkets. The introduction oftillage equipment was an-

other giant step that I wit-nessed along with solar pan-els, GPS and now drones.

Regardless of the wealth ofinformation and new prod-ucts, the farmer remains

committed to grow foods de-sired, not only at home, buton the world market. Mythanks and respect go out tothe farm families who con-tinue to feed us. Thank you!

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