The first Farmer's Appreciation Day at the Rice County Fairgrounds is a little over three weeks away. I hope you are have it on your schedule. It will be from 8AM to noon at the Rice County Fairgrounds in Faribault on June 11. Like usual, it will include a free breakfast ,but this year it will be much more. A number of sponsors will have booths set up, including Central Farm Services, Environmental Tillage Systems, Hodgman Drainage, Solar Connection, Dakota Rice Corn and Soybean Growers and the Rice County American Dairy Association.

This year's speakers include Mark Dorenkamp. Mark is a farm broadcaster with the Brownfield Farm Network. Mark grew up in a small town in north-central Iowa. He got his start in radio as a play-by-play sports broadcaster. When a local radio station needed a farm broadcaster, the love affair he had with farming as a boy started all over again. I hope to see you at the first Farmer's Appreciation Day at the Rice County Fairgrounds in Faribault on June 11.

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