March 4, 2020 Volume XVIII Issue 5
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71st Montana Seed Show Set for March 12-14
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NISSEN ANGUS
with special guest Schmitt Angus
Annual Production Sale
April 1, 2020
Blaine County Fairgrounds - Chinook, MT
www.nissenangus.com
Serious Seed Show enthusiasts have their “show book” in hand and are reviewing the department guides for the various contests and scheduled events to look forward to mid-March. “Montana's Longest Running Seed Show” was first organized in 1949, the same year as the Harlem FFA or Snake Butte FFA organization, and the Seed Show continues to remain the only one still going on in the state. What was once an event centered around showing seed potatoes and other area crops, contraptions, innovations, and show-quality baked goods continues this year thanks to countless hours of volunteer time. One of the original seed show committee members who still lives in Harlem is Elsie (Gebert) Bertelsen. As a junior in high school, she was part of a 13-person committee to plan and organize the very first show that remains an annually anticipated event following the Fort Belknap Mid-Winter Fair leading us out of the cold and into the warmer months ahead. Elsie shared with Tricia's Trader how she had been awarded a trip to Chicago from the area 4-H Chapter of Harlem, also known as the Snake Butte 4-H Club. As a top-four state winner, she won the trip to the 4-H National Convention. When she returned she was asked to organize the first seed show. The County Extension Agent at that time, Herbert DeVries, approached Elsie to appoint her to the planning committee. "When we first started, it was potatoes and grains... for seeds," Elsie recalls. "And because I was representing the women, I was also on the first Continued on page 7...
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