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With almost 100 years of cooking corn among them, Loyal Corn Festival volunteers are, from left, Chris Smith, a truck driver from Greenwood, Wisconsin; Paul Gries of Loyal, Wisconsin, in sales at Swiderski Equipment in Thorp, Wisconsin; and Keith Weyhmiller of Mike's Tire Service in Loyal.
Brothers Tony Roth, left, and Tom Roth, both of Roth Manufacuturing, a Loyal, Wisconsin, farm-equipment manufacturer, are responsible for the conveyor system that delivers corn on the cob at the Loyal Corn Festival.
Brad Zepplin of Loyal, Wisconsin, melts some of the 120 pounds of butter that's served with corn during the Loyal Corn Festival.
Patrick Kirby, 6, of Loyal, Wisconsin, and his brother Duncan Kirby, 4, eat corn Aug. 27 during the Loyal Corn Festival.
Hungry Loyal Corn Festival-goers pluck cobs of corn from a conveyor during the Loyal Corn Festival in the small town of Loyal in Clark County, Wisconsin.
Truckloads of corn are consumed during Loyal Corn Festival, held Aug. 24.27 in Loyal, Wisconsin. Chris Smith of Greenwood, Wisconsin, left, and Paul Gries of Loyal man shovels to fill buckets for a giant pressure cooker.
About 6.5 tons of steaming-hot corn on the cob is consumed in two days during the Loyal Corn Festival in north-central Wisconsin.
It's hot work feeding corn onto a conveyor that delivers cobs to a hungry public at the Loyal Corn Festival in Loyal, Wisconsin. Enduring the heat are Paul Gries, left, of Loyal, and Chris Smith of Greenwood, Wisconsin.
From left, siblings Emily, Hannah and Joe Dorwaldt, children of Adam and Rebekah Dorwaldt of Greenwood, Wisconsin, collect candy at the Loyal Corn Festival parade. The 2017 parade is the first to roll down the newly redone Main Street in Loyal, Wisconsin.
LOYAL, Wis. – Throughout the summer, small-town Wisconsin raises armies of volunteers for weekend celebrations. One of the “corniest” was Loyal’s event held Aug. 24-27 in Clark County, Wisconsin.
Jane Fyksen writes about crops, dairy, livestock and other agricultural topics; she is the crops editor for Agri-View based in Wisconsin. Email Jfyksen@madison.com to contact her.
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With almost 100 years of cooking corn among them, Loyal Corn Festival volunteers are, from left, Chris Smith, a truck driver from Greenwood, Wisconsin; Paul Gries of Loyal, Wisconsin, in sales at Swiderski Equipment in Thorp, Wisconsin; and Keith Weyhmiller of Mike's Tire Service in Loyal.
From left, siblings Emily, Hannah and Joe Dorwaldt, children of Adam and Rebekah Dorwaldt of Greenwood, Wisconsin, collect candy at the Loyal Corn Festival parade. The 2017 parade is the first to roll down the newly redone Main Street in Loyal, Wisconsin.
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