It was a packed house at the Wetzel County 4-H Camp Mollohan Center on Friday evening, March 10, 2023, as the fifty-fifth Wetzel County 4-H/FFA Ham and Bacon Sh
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While heavy favourites won in two of the three divisions of the second preliminary of the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes for two-year-old pacing fillies Thursday afternoon at Harrah’s Philadelphia, the fastest winner upset the favourite – and she came to the race not only from the Stallion Series, but from a second in the second-tier series.
The Always B Miki–Gallie Beach filly Hit Me Up was developed by noted Midwestern Brian Brown, and it was for his barn that she was second, beaten only a neck, by Lyons Serenity, in a first round Stallion Series contest. In sending her east to race for trainer Jennifer Bongiorno, her connections, including owner Joshua Graber, decided to try her against Sire Stakes competition.
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Photo credit: XtremeAg Corn stands look impressive, as beans and wheat work through some frost damage from last week. XtremeAg’s Chad Henderson, Lee Lubbers, and Dan Luepkes report on crop progress.
Chad Henderson - Madison, Alabama
A fifth-generation farmer, Chad farms over 8,000 acres with his dad, son, and nephew as a part of Henderson Farms in northern Alabama. Chad grows corn, soybeans, and wheat in what had been mostly a dryland environment until 2012 when he added the first irrigation systems to Henderson Farms. I am waiting for my amber waves of grain as the wheat is starting to turn gold and harvest is only about two weeks away. Our river bottom corn planting is wrapping up, and our double-crop soybean planting will be geared up again after wheat harvest.