Antique Harvest Days and Plow Days combined at Ottumwa IA

Roger in Iowa · Oct 8, 2014

Antique Harvest Days and Plow Days are combined at Ottumwa for October 25 and 26 with rain date of 1 and 2 November.

Location is exit 40 north of Ottumwa off of hwys 63 and 163 on hwy 149 north and south of that exit one half mile.

Rich Schumacher · Oct 8, 2014

Just curious to how these work? Is the land owned by a private party and the particpants harvest the crop and plow the land for the land owner? Is there an entry fee? Thanks for satisfying my curiousity.

Roger in Iowa · Oct 8, 2014

No entry fee or admission fee. All volunteer.

The land is owned by members of the club and their crop. Yes, the participants harvest and plow for the owners. Insurance is by the club.

Rich Schumacher · Oct 8, 2014

Thanks! I have thought about hobby farming land inherited from my dad's farm and reducing cost by creating an event like this.

Roger in Iowa · Oct 8, 2014

Don't know that it will reduce costs. Your grain loss will increase, your liability increases, timeliness of harvest decreases.

Not much positive from a producer standpoint. Have to do it for the fun of it!

Mike Aylward · Oct 8, 2014

One plus to the land owner is that he gets his crop harvested for free. These are balanced by the things Roger mentioned. The old units have more losses than newer units (properly adjusted, of course). Mike

Animal · Oct 8, 2014

I must be doing it all wrong, after I furnish the beer and chili on a plow day it would be much more cost effective to do it myself, but it sure as heck would not be near as much fun!

Antique Harvest Days and Plow Days combined at Ottumwa IA

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