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For over 100 years, the Faribault Chamber has supported agriculture as an essential sector of our economy, Our committee’s mission is to promote ag education and careers, as well as advance and promote relationships between farm and business.
Farmers are an essential part of everyone’s day-to-day, producing food that sustains life, and their work often goes unseen. The Rice County Fair believes it is important to acknowledge their efforts, given the significant role agriculture plays in its events and festivities.

On Wednesday, the fair hosted the 2025 Best of the Best Ag Hall of Fame Breakfast in the Beer Gardens, accompanied by a program that recognized important figures in the farming community.

Three farmers were inducted into the Rice County Ag Hall of Fame, along with one family being recognized as the Rice County Farm Family of the Year. There were also outstanding conservationists named, and then the century and sesquicentennial farms were celebrated.

 

Congratulations to the following for their significant contributions to Agriculture and our Community! 

Rice county ag hall of fame inductees: 

Clifford Meschke

Art Madsen

Sam Leif Haugen

Outstanding Conservationist

Alan and Andrew Meyer

Rice County Farm Family of the Year: 

Zimmerman Family

Century farms- Rice County

Montgomery Pesta Family Farm 1925

Sesquicentennial Farms - Rice County 

Faribault – Misgen Family Farm, 1873

Kenyon – Alan J. & Andrew J. Meyer, 1874

Lonsdale – Clarence & Delores Salaba, 1875

Warsaw – James E. Draper, 1873

 

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