Last Tuesday I spoke at Farm
Technology Days, an annual outdoor agriculture event that moves each year to a
different county in the state. It’s
major sponsor is the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, UW-Madison. This year it
was on the 6,000 acre Statz Brothers’ farm near Sun Prairie in Dane
County
The event drew some 45,000
people over the three-day run. The
weather was cool and dry, perfect for an outdoor event where people could see
the present day and the future for agriculture.
From buzzing drones, to the biggest tractors I’ve ever seen, from
demonstrations on harvesting alfalfa to viewing the most up-to-date technology
for milking cows. It was all there.
I spoke on Tuesday morning,
and talked about the past, when we farmed 160 acres without electricity, milked
a small herd of cows by hand, cut hay with horses, and communicated with a
party-line telephone. And a drone was a
male honey bee.
I reminded the estimated 150
people in my audience, that to know where we are going, whether it is in
farming, or in life, we must know where we’ve been. I emphasized the importance of knowing our
histories.
THE OLD
TIMER SAYS: When we forget our
histories, we forget who we are.
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Purchase Jerry’s
DVDS and his Books from the Patterson Memorial Library in Wild Rose, Wisconsin
(a fund raiser for them):
The library
now has available signed copies of Jerry’s DVDs, Emmy Winner, A Farm Winter with Jerry Apps and Jerry Apps a Farm Story.
Also
available are several of Jerry’s signed books including The Quiet Season (on which the DVD A Farm Winter is based), as well as Rural Wit and Wisdom and Old
Farm, (which are related to the DVD Jerry
Apps a Farm Story). Also available is Jerry’s new novel, The Great Sand Fracas of Ames County.
Contact
the library for prices and special package deals.
Patterson
Memorial Library
500 Division Street
UPCOMING
EVENTS:
August
30, 1-4 p.m., Book World, West Bend.
Book signing.
September
3, Noon. Old World Wisconsin, Wisconsin
Agriculture: A History .
September
3, 7 p.m. Books and Company bookstore, Oconomowoc. Wisconsin Agriculture: A
History.
September
12, 2-4 p.m. Remarks at 3:00 p.m. West Madison Agriculture Research Station,
Wisconsin Agriculture: A History. Call
888-748-7479 for reservations.
September
16, 11:00-11:45. Larry Meiller Show,
Wisconsin Public Radio. Wisconsin
agricultural history.
September
17, 11:-a.m. St. Luke’s Church,
Middleton, WI Stories From the Land
September
19 , Stonefield Village, Cassville.
Whispers and Shadows.
September
23, 6:00 p.m. Patterson Memorial Library, Wild Rose. Wisconsin Agriculture: A
History.
September
26, 10:30 -2:00, Dregni’s, Westby, Book signing.
October
4, 1-3 p.m. Readers Realm bookstore,
Montello. Ag. History
October
7, 6:30 p.m. Reedsburg Library, Whispers and Shadows
October
11, 10-12:00 a,m. Heartland Forum,
Chicago.
October
11, 3:00 p.m. Old World Wisconsin-Wisconsin Ag. History
October
12, 6:00 p.m. Coloma Historical Society.
Limping Through Life
October
15, Prairie du Sac Library, Whispers and Shadows
October
17, 9-4 Teaching writing workshop at The Clearing, Ellison Bay, WI
October
17, 4:30-6:00 p.m. The Clearing. Book
signing, Whispers and Shadows, Wisconsin Agriculture: A History.
October
23, 10-11:00 a.m. Wisconsin Historical Society Museum (on the square). Whispers
and Shadows. Wisconsin Book Festival.
October
23, 3:30 p.m. Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium (On UW Campus) Wisconsin
Agriculture: A History. Wisconsin Book
Festival.
October
25, 2:00 p.m. Schlitz Nature Center, Milwaukee with Boswell Books. Whispers and Shadows.
October
29, Brown County Library. Premier of TV
Documentary,” The Land With Jerry Apps. “ Book signing, Whispers and Shadows.
November
1, 2:00 p.m. Gard Theater, Spring Green. Ag History and Wisconsin Place Names.
November
5, 7:00 p.m. Baraboo Library, Whispers and Shadows.
November
7, Edgerton Book Festival, The Land (TV documentary) and Whispers and Shadows
November
10, 6:00 p.m. Wausau Public Library, Wisconsin Agriculture: A History.
November
12, 7:00 p.m. Bellville High School Auditorium with Bellville Public Library. Wisconsin Agriculture: A History
November
14, 9:30 -11:30 a.m. Sheboygan County Historical Research Center. Wisconsin Agriculture: A History.
November
15, 9:15 Midvale Lutheran Church, The Land (TV documentary) plus discussion of Whispers and Shadows.
November
17, 7:00 p.m. Hotel Red (1501 Monroe Street- corner of Regent and Monroe,
Madison.) Discussion of Wisconsin
Agriculture: A History with Doug Moe. Sponsored by Mystery to me Bookstore. Book signing to follow.
November
18, Preview of TV Documentary, “The Land With Jerry Apps” Wild Rose High School
Auditorium. Whispers and Shadows book
signing. (Time to be announced)
1 comment:
Hello Jerry!
My neighbor John and I were discussing signs of the end of Summer this afternoon. Among them were the sight of the school bus (it still gives us the willies after nearly 50 years) and the fact that the swallows were now gone. I was pleasantly surprised tonight when walking into the old barn I was scolded by a pair of barn swallows. They still have a nest of young swallows to feed. Summer isn't over quite yet!
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