Tomorrow is the Big Day

Ah finally, I'm writing my first post. I just found out that I received 

this amazing opportunity through Monsanto on Friday, so my week

up until now has been a little crazy. I was excited when I found out 

that I was going to Husker Harvest Days because my parent's house

is about a 35-40 minute drive from the HHD site, so I get to stay at 

home for three days. Plus, HHD is always fun and educational, and

it's a great opportunity to build up your free pen collection.

It was so refreshing to leave the city and make the two hour drive

on I-80 back home. I love watching the size of civilization grow 

smaller and the number of fields slowly increase as I'm driving 

on the interstate. Of course, I'm sure I'll be ready to get back 

to Lincoln by Wednesday, and my trek all over campus to get

to classes on Thursday is going to seem like a nothing commute

compared to walking around HHD for two days.

I was doing some research today, trying to plan which booths

I want to visit and looking up the ones that I have to visit for

one of my classes, when I came across an article in the Nebraska

Farmer HHD 2008 edition. It was titled How HHD got off the

drawing boards and I found it quite interesting. 

I thought I would put some fun facts about HHD on here:

-Husker Harvest Days was born in 1978 thanks

to the Grand Island Chamber of Commerce

officials, area business  leaders and Nebraska Farmer.

-The first show was held October 10-12, 1978. 
-The number of exhibitors at HHD has nearly tripled 

since the first show in '78.
-The show is the largest irrigated farm show with

about 860 irrigated acres.

 

As my first post comes to a close, I would like to thank Monsanto

and everyone involved with the Future Ag Journalist

Fellowship program for giving me and other college

students the opportunity to write for you.