BESIDES PICKING UP plenty of new ideas from the program and if networking with almost 650 fellow attendees wasn’t enough, some folks at the 13th annual National No-Tillage Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, went home with a number of extremely valuable, big-time prizes.

PHILLIPS ROTARY HARROW FOR 2005 SEASON.

Trevor Hughes of Peru, Ind., won the free 1-year use of a Phillips rotary harrow, valued at over $19,000 for the 2005 season.

—Precision Metal Fabricating Ltd. 
240 103rd St., E., Saskatoon, Canada S0C 250 
Phone: (800) 667-6845 or (306) 955-3700 
E-mail: sales@precisionmetalfab.com
Web site: www.precisionmetalfab.com

ZONE COMMANDER.

Burdette Piening of Lincoln, Neb., won the free 1-year use of the Zone Commander vertical tillage tool from Brillion Iron Works.

—Brillion Iron Works, 200 Park Ave., Brillion WI 54110 Phone: (920) 756-3720. Fax: (920) 756-3409 
E-mail: gwallander@brillionironworks.com 
Web site: brillionironworks.com

TRASH REDUCTION KIT.

Dean James of Danville, Pa., won a trash reduction kit that features smaller gathering chain drive sprockets for his combine from Calmer Farms.

—Calmer Ag Research Center 
550 N. Knox Rd., Farms, Alpha, IL 61413 
Phone: (309) 334-2609 Fax: (309) 334-2696 
E-mail: mcalmer@winco.net

THREE COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS.

Sponsored by Phoenix Rotary Equipment Ltd., Katie Smith of Bainbridge, Ga., won first prize in the conservation tillage essay contest and walked away with $2,500 in scholarship money. Winning second place and $1,500 was Nicole Thomas of Pavillion, Wyo., and placing third and earning a $1,000 scholarship was Wade Boehm of Ames, Iowa.

—Phoenix Rotary Equipment Ltd. 
401 18th Ave., Nisku, Alberta, Canada T9E…