Announcements

 

NMDHA 2009 Fall Field Day is featured in the September/October issue of Rural Heratige. Member Tom Wold is on the front cover!

NMDHA members Gene Loxtercamp and Louie Schafer are pictured in the 2011 Draft Horse Calendar published by Mischka Press

NMDHA 2009 Fall Field Day featured in Winter 2010 Small Farmer's Journal
Photos by Richard B. HIcks

Inside Front cover:
Tim Reynolds from Clarissa, MN with Belgians Bonnie and Trouble and a Percheron/Morgan cross Trace in the furrow. He's using a New Deere Plow.

Inside Back cover:
John Splettstoesser from Isle, MN, with his two Percherons,Willie and Bell, going to hook up to his wagon.

Page 23:
Louie Schaefer from Cold Spring, MN with Belgians, Kelly, Duke, Spike and Darcy on a Minnesota 6 foot grain binder.

Images of SFJ pages used with permission of Small Farmer's Journal

Page 55:
Barry Gorsenger from Mora, MN with his gray Percheron mare May on a McCormick Little 4 one horse mower. It has a three foot sickle/bar.

Leon Luffey from Delano, MN with his Belgians Dean and Duke on a #38 John Deere 2 wheel sulky plow.

Chad Loxtercamp from Coon Rapids, MN with Shires Heather and Shadow on a Minnesota one row cultivator.

Mike Denny from Sauk Centre, MN with his Percherons Chip and Steel on McCormick Culti Packer.
   

 

2009 Fall Field Days DVD Now Available!!

2009 Field Day DVD
Price: $25
See actual footage here!

See how your grandparents and great-grandparents farmed. Watch beautiful draft horses doing the work their ancestors did. Learn more about the different pieces of horse-drawn farm equipment and what it was used for. Listen to conversations with many of the teamsters and other participants in the field day.

This is a 2 DVD set with 4 hours of the 2 day event!

To order now: Send your check for $25.00 plus $3.00 for shipping and handling to:

JoAnn Holthaus, Treasurer
P.O. Box 232
Richmond, MN 56368