Husker Harvest Days Educates Next Generation on New Technologies
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After four and a half decades, Husker Harvest Days has become a family tradition for generations of farmers. It is common for fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, grandfathers and grandmothers to attend the show together. Farm families share the experience with the next generation of producers, even the little ones in the family. It is truly a family event that puts the latest technology into the next generation's hands.
The Osmond FFA Chapter works to pass that knowledge along to its members by attending the event annually. On Wednesday, September 13th, sixteen Osmond FFA members traveled 143 miles to Grand Island to experience the 2.6 million-square-foot exhibitor space with the latest technology and equipment offerings from agriculture companies.
From irrigation to forage, the streets of Husker Harvest Days had plenty of new products to turn heads this year. More than 70 new products were exhibited during the three-day event. Some notable products included the new spray drones, the Vermeer self-propelled baler, as well as the irrigation system sprinkler ball that fits on a pivot nozzle, just to name a few.
If you look back at the original flyers for that first show, Husker Harvest Days was touted as the “World’s Fair of Irrigated Agriculture.” It is even more so today. All major center pivot manufacturers are headquartered in Nebraska and have prominent displays of their latest products. On display were irrigation technologies, subsurface drip, service and maintenance, sprinkler packages, wheels and tires, pipe, power sources, and every component imaginable, including water management, soil moisture sensors, and conservation-related tech.
Husker Harvest Days is also unique because of the popular side-by-side cattle chute and handling demonstrations each day. Beef is our No. 1 industry in this part of the country, and that is why beef and other livestock products, breed associations, and educational opportunities are so prevalent at the show.
But Husker Harvest Days would not be the show that it is without those generations of producers returning year after year to reflect on where agriculture has been and to look forward to where the industry is going next.