Horse Progress Days

(2012 Schedule will be posted February 2012)

2011 Horse Progress Days Schedule

Thursday, June 30th

Bus Tour-Click for more information, or contact:
Dutchie Travel
162 East Main Street
Leola, PA 17540
877-812-3123.

New for 2011

On Thursday June 30th there will be a special time of instruction and hands on experience offered to 6-8 individuals who wish to actually handle and drive draft horses in real farming situations and applications. Instructor Ferman Wengerd of Pioneer Equipment will work with participants regardless of experience. If you have ever thought I would like to do some of this with my horses but do not know how to get started, this is the class for you. This unique experience is only $300 per person and includes a 2-day pass to the event. Call 330-857-0267 ext. 3 to reserve your space. (There are only a few spaces left.) Payment can be sent to Horse Progress Days, Attn: Leon Wengerd - 16875 Jericho Road - Dalton, Ohio 44618

Also New for 2011

There will be produce equipment, growing demonstrations, clinics, and seminars running concurrently with the regular field demonstrations. Seminars and clinics both days - all day, relating to topics of interest to commercial Dairy and Produce Farmers, horse training, collar fitting, and many other timely subjects.

In the Fields Friday & Saturday

9:00am manure spreaders followed by: plows, sub soilers
and slitters,disks, harrows, planters, cultivators, sprayers
and seeders

1:00pm Haymaking demonstration: motorized and non motorized forecarts, sickle bar mowers
and haybines, hay tedders and rakes, small square bale,
round bale, balers and wrappers, pick-up systems, storage
and more.

Daily Activities In the Arena Friday & Saturday

7:45am a bull whip cracking demonstration
by cowboy whip maker Krist King of West Unity Ohio

8:15am barnyard mule pull

10:00am Abner Esh harnessing
and collar fitting demonstrations

2:00 pm sheep herding with John Fisher

12:00 -1:30pm Hands on driving for beginners
(Check the schedule when you arrive for additional afternoon events in the arena.)

4:00pm Auction

5:00pm Breed Presentation

Daily Activities In the Round Pen Friday & Saturday

9:00am Rick Wheat horse trainer

11:00am Buck Wheeler w/ Stabilizer
(Check the schedule you receive when you arrive for other
offerings in the round pen.)

Produce Seminars in the high tunnel

9:30am Diagnosing plant problems

10:15am High tunnel management and season extension

11:00am Food safety regulations

1:00pm Growing for the produce auction

1:45pm Cooperative growers panel (Friday)
CSA growers panel (Saturday)

2:30pm Use of tissue testing for fertilizing

Produce Demonstrations Friday and Saturday

9:00am plows and tillage, roto tillage, mulch layers,

transplanting, cultivators, spraying, sprayer calibration 11:00am stake tomato demonstration
irrigation demonstration -Bill Wohlfrom

1:00pm no till roller, no till planters, no till transplanter
plastic mulch lifter

2:00pm packing demonstrations

2:30pm High tunnel raspberry tour, up over the hill
in a wagon (Friday Only)

Special offering in the field, with the plants:

Ask the experts (actual farmers)
10:00am talk to onion farmers 10:30am talk to sweet corn farmers 11:00am talk to pepper growers 1:00pm tomato growers 2:00pm vine crop growers