Last weekend Mark, Anton and I headed to NW Iowa to our final Young Farmer Advisory Committee meeting. We've had a wonderful three years serving on this committee and made so many wonderful friends from all over the state! We will truly miss serving on this committee!
The retiring 3rd year committee members. These are the couples that Mark and I went to Baltimore and San Antonio with. We have gotten to know them well and will miss them a bunch!
Randy taking over as chair for Emily.
We always go to the retiring chairs town for the final meeting. The Van Regenmorters live in Inwood, IA. In addition to farming they also own a service station in town. Here is a picture of our group on the tour.
Chad and Jody ringing up a few sales. :)
They also started a development on the edge of town. I love that they named the two streets Rebecca Lane and Emily Ave. after their daughters!
Rebecca and Emily were excited to show us their 4H bottle calves.
They have a small vineyard and enjoy making their own wine. This picture is of Chad explaining how they take care of the grapes.
The sow barn. For those of you that don't know much about hogs I'll explain a little about the picture. Their feed goes in the top (the part with the red lid) then drops down into a feeder pan. The sow goes in the crate and it closes behind her so nobody can steal her food. When she's finished she backs up and and gate opens and she can hang out in the barn or outside.
We had a baby boom this winter! Three out of the eight couples had babies, two couples had their first child, Mark and I our forth. :) 
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