Yes it did happen!

After a series of tornadoes left the area Thursday nite the weather was nice and it turned out to be one of the best national shows that I have been to. Unofficially there were 440 Oliver, Hart-Parr, Cletrac, &amp; Cockshutt tractors there. Also of those, 37 were the featured tractors, the Super 44 &amp; 440. That was sure a lot of those to be sitting in one place. There were also some orchard &amp; hi-crop Olivers too. Nice crowds for the 3 days. 

I was pleasantly surprised at the turnout of both equipment and people. I had been hearing that with the ever increasing fuel prices that people were leaving their tractors home and not even coming themselves. When we left home in Iowa gas was $2.44 and around Baraboo it was $2.70. Things have changed in the last 2 weeks, yesterday gas was $2.83 at the same station in Iowa.

Marc Sletten