For the most part, I’m pretty familiar with cattle but horses I don’t know so much about. I have had a few in my life time, broke my arm on one, so I’ve never had great experiences with them.
At the Farm Progress Show, the gentleman by the name of Craig Cameron was here demonstrating how to break a horse.
Amazing enough, I thought I would never see somebody break a horse in an hour! A random, wild horse was put into this round pen and Craig was suck with it by himself. He sure had a crowd around him too which probably didn’t help the horse matter out any. Craig never let the crowd, the horse, or anything get to him while he vigorously worked with the horse.
Craig did have some great key points to help horse trainers out: first of all, never get mad at the horse because they are only doing what they think they should be doing. Most of the time, they develop habits because of human behavior. The horses need to learn, so there has to be patience from the trainer and always wait for the horse. Take steps one at a time and if the horse has problems with something, stop and go back to it later.
I think the most important part of the demonstration that he pointed out is that you need to make your horses turn. Turn, Turn, Turn! Their heads lead where they go and if you can get control of their head, you have control of their body.
Craig did a great job of answering questions throughout the demonstration and make sure everybody had an understanding of what he was doing. Needless to say, he had the horse trained enough in one hour that he could ride it and wow was the crowds amazed at his wonderful work!
Coverage of the Farm Progress Show is sponsored by Monsanto: 
I thought I knew quite a bit about handling cattle from classes and my own experience, which I still do but companies have come out with a lot of new machinery to move cattle safely, quickly, and easier. 
When I saw the 
It seems like the number 17 Team Ethanol Indy Car is all over the place. It’s here on display at the Farm Progress Show courtesy of the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council (EPIC).
I asked Alan how it’s going here at the show. He says the line has been long at times with people waiting their turn driving the car. As a farmer he’s very proud of the work being done in the renewable fuels area to make America independent of foreign oil. He doesn’t mind the hard work and long hours driving this demonstrator around the country to promote ethanol which he firmly believes is good for America, the environment and farmers like himself. He not only grows corn that’s turned into ethanol but feeds the by-product (DDG’s) to his cattle.
I finally got to tour the Monsanto exhibit last night. All I can say is “wow.” It’s got to be the coolest exhibit I’ve seen at this show. I know they’re my sponsor but you’d have to see it to believe it.
At the Chevrolet exhibit you’ll find 
On Tuesday, the demonstrations were canceled due to all the rain but they started up yesterday in full force! I was able to see the combines harvest the corn; it was really nice to see the operation set up for the public to watch the demonstrations. All the combines all line up along the right side of the field and it is all roped off so people can watch them slowly. A combine runs about every 3-4 minutes so you are able to see each combine by itself.
Ag in America Tour goes around to different schools across the Midwest promoting agriculture. It is up to the younger generation to determine how our future goes. They will be the ones filling our shoes later down the road. 
It’s a beautiful morning here on the final day of the Farm Progress Show.
By the time we got to the media tent the balloon was almost on top of us. 
I had the chance to talk to Greg Webb, Vice President of Public Affairs. Greg was very knowledgeable about the direction ADM was heading. Technology is always changing and it is up to them to keep up with it!