2018 Wisconsin Farm Technology Days, Building Tent City
Tuesday, June 12th, 2018 -- 9:06 AM
-In less than a month, the 2018 Wisconsin Farm Technology Days will get underway in Wood County.The event, happening from 9am-4pm, July 10th-12th at D&B Sternweis Farms, along with Weber’s Farm Store-Heiman’s Holsteins, on County Highway H near Marshfield, will feature over 600 exhibitors, innovation square, field demonstrations, virtual farm tours, delicious food and much more.
The large variety of events and the building of, essentially, a small city in the middle of a field takes a large group of committee members and volunteers to make everything happen. During the recent Media Day for the event, I spoke with David Buehler, Chair of the Tent City Committee, and he talked about how it’s all put together.
"The basic process starts with a template. The grounds have already been predetermined or the layout. So, I go through and make sure it fits the area and the site. And then we start mapping everything and on Tuesday we're actually going to go out and physically survey the site and stake it, so that every booth is known. And then everything goes up from there. Where tents get set up and people start laying out their booths and things like that."
From there, it’s a simple matter of each exhibitor finding their space and getting set up. Once again, Farm Technology Days is happening from 9am-4pm, July 10th-12th at D&B Sternweis Farms, along with Weber’s Farm Store-Heiman’s Holsteins, on County Highway H near Marshfield.
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