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1st Annual Michigan Soybean Festival

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Real Estate Agent with Preview Properties, PC - http://www.RealEstateMich.com

I headed out to the Fowlerville Fairgrounds with my wife to take in some knowledge of the soybean.  A mere $3 entrance fee (with free parking) and a few free hours were all that was needed.  Who knew that there would be so many cute chicks there, too. 

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There were swap meet vendors, an old Model A, and some tractors on display.  We missed the tractor pull and the evening entertainment, but the Historical Village was open, and the soybean displays were interesting. 

Being ‘city slickers’, we decided that farmers are pretty ingenious.  Who else could get you to buy tickets to ‘cow pie bingo,’ a game where you literally pay to watch where a cow poops.  A grid is drawn on the ground and a well fed cow then walks around and does its thing.  The grid with the most ‘stuff’ is the winner.  As my wife said, “at least we didn’t have to fling it or pick it up.”

And because this is a two-day event, your hand stamp was good for both days. There were a lot of other things going on in the County this weekend which likely hurt the attendance a bit, but it’s an interesting concept and has the potential to grow.

Really, it’s a celebration of farm life, and I was surprised to find that Michigan has over 2 million acres of soybeans planted and that it is our number two crop, adding about a billion dollars to the State’s economy.  That’s a pretty good reason to celebrate the soybean, too.

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Alan Adamo
Westline Real Estate - Huntington Beach, CA
Your Huntington Beach REALTOR®

Robert thanks for sharing this post. That sounds like a lot of fun with exception to the cow pooping thing. ;) Hopefully you got to eat some of the soybeans? Many thanks to farmers growing and harvesting soybeans. Got to have some edimame with my sushi.

Sep 11, 2011 04:45 AM
Robert Smith
Preview Properties, PC - http://www.RealEstateMich.com - Brighton, MI
SRES, Search for Homes Brighton-Howell-SE Michigan

Alan, the soybeans we had were dry roasted, a la peanut-style. Not a lot of taste, but apparently a healthy choice.  Yup, some exhibitors were appalled at my edimame-only eating of the venerable soybean, at least in whole bean form.  But that's what it was about, educating the masses.

Sep 12, 2011 12:06 AM