Armstrong said that Grube’s lifelong partnership with wife, Dawn, extends beyond the farm shop to the tractor shed: “In the ...

BELVIDERE — The Boone County fair is full of tradition from the annual fair food vendors, family farms showing their best livestock, and those that travel hundreds of miles for the Draft horse shows.

“Financially, you never recover from tractor pulling. You start putting all this money in, but you get hooked on it, and away you go.” That’s how Dale Conard describes his involvement with antique ...

Ryan Robinson competes in the antique tractor pull at the Douglas County Fair on Thursday, August 1, 2024. With COVID-19 and weather cancellations, it had been a few years since the Douglas County ...