– Letter to the Editor –

– Letter to the Editor –

Letter to the Editor:

Dear readers, my name is Chuck Rueth, chairman of Farm Technology Days for Clark County. I am chairman for the July 12-14, 2022 Farm Technology Days event. This letter is to inform you regarding the steps that will be taken and developed, leading up to this big event.

With hosting this event in central Wisconsin, this pulls people in from all over North America. This is what has been done so far.

We have drafted our Executive Committee, which is the main committee, and have people from all over the county represented. Each person of the Executive Committee will comprise a letter, in our community papers, telling what their subcommittee will do.

In September, 2019, we sent out applications for farmers to apply to be the host farm. The Executive Committee was very pleased with the six applicants who applied. The final decision was very hard to make, because of the quality farms that applied.

In October, 2019, the Executive Committee made the decision, at their media event, to give this honor to Roehl Acres, located in Loyal, as well as Rustic Occasions. In cooperation with the host farm and the Executive Committee, the general location was made for tent city, parking and field demonstrations, to allow for crop planting in specified areas.

In November, we went to a meeting consisting of several counties, including, Eau Claire, Clark and Jefferson counties. This gave us the tools needed to start planning a 2022 event, with a flare of our own.

The Executive Committee has created policies to follow in planning this event, including creating a logo and letterhead, called “Clark County, Where Tradition and Technology Meet.”

Throughout 2020, we have dealt with the COVID-19 situation. This included learning to do Zoom meetings and hosting outdoors meetings. With these meetings, we are ahead of schedule, per the three-year master schedule for Farm Technology days.

The Hospitality Committee will also attend the Eau Claire Farm Technology days to promote our 2022 event.

A budget needed to be developed, along with a state publicity brochure, and the final maps for tent city, parking and field demonstrations was finalized in April.

I have informed you of the planning sequence. In the future, there will be more letters to the editors, explaining where we are and where we are going, for each subcommittee.

If you are interested in helping with this event, more information will follow or, you can contact ChuckRueth@hosrueth@ gmail.com. Many hands are needed for a successful event and many hands make for light work.

Chuck Rueth, 2022 Farm Technology Days chairman