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Farm News: Angus Field Day Coming To MNcommentsPosted: 07.26.2011
Mark your calendars now for the Minnesota/Wisconsin/Iowa Angus Field Day that will be held on Sunday, August 14, 2011, at Chuck and Barb Skemp’s Queen’s Highland Farm near LaCrescent, Minnesota on the banks of the beautiful Mississippi River. Queen’s Highland Farm is one of the most beautiful farms in the world and located where Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa join. You will enjoy a day of fun and excitement for the entire family!
Featured star, Baxter Black, described by the New York Times as ‘…probably the nation’s most successful living poet,” thinks it’s an exaggeration.
He can shoe a horse, string a bob wire fence and bang out a Bob Wills classic on his flat top guitar. Cowboy poet, ex-veterinarian and sorry team roper, he has more hair around his lip than on his head. Raised in New Mexico, spent his workin’ life in the mountain west tormenting cows, now he travels the country tormenting cowboys.
Since 1982, Baxter Black has been rhyming his way into the national spotlight, and now stands as the best selling cowboy poet in the world. Baxter lives in Benson, Arizona, between the Gila River and the Gila monster, the Mexican border and the Border Patrol and between the horse and the cow---where the action is.
He still doesn’t own a television or a cell phone, and his idea of a modern convenience is Velcro chaps.
So, in a nut shell (where some believe he may have evolved) there is considerably more to Baxter than just an entertainer. He is the real thing. Because, as he says, “It’s hard to be what you aren’t.” Baxter’s philosophy is simple enough - in spite of all the computerized, digitized, high-tech innovations now available to mankind, there will always be a need for someone who can “think up stuff”.
Schedule of Events on August 14th:
1:00 p.m. - The program will get underway at 1:00 p.m. when you can begin viewing the cattle.
2:00 p.m. - A fruit bar will open at 2:00 p.m. followed by guest speaker, Jon Janssen, Beef Procurement Manager at Genex, as well as Tom Burke from the American Angus Hall of Fame.
3:00 p.m. - About 3:00 p.m. the Angus sale will begin; we will have 30 outstanding Angus cattle selling.
4:00 p.m. - You won’t want to miss the legendary star, Baxter Black, cowboy poet and comedian extraordinaire!
5:00 p.m. - This electrifying day will conclude with a delicious “corn feed,” which will begin at 5:00.
There is no charge for this exciting event. The entire afternoon is free, compliments of the
Minnesota/Wisconsin/Iowa Angus breeders. |