Peanut Butter & Milk Festival Meeting

The Peanut Butter & Milk Festival Committee met on Tuesday night, with final preparations being made for a group of delegates to travel to Hartford, Alabama the first week of November.
Five Litchfield High School FFA students and two chaperones will be on this year’s trip.

The students include Cade Cervin, Alexis Engelke, Bianca Forsberg, Wyatt Ratike, and Emmett VanDerBill and their hosts are Conner Childs, Ella & Jase Turner, Kaitlyn Harris, Porter Miller and Brayden & Addison West, respectively. Their chaperones are Lane & Abagayle Lysdal who will be staying with Darin & Lisa Moseley in Hartford.

The group will travel nonstop to Fort Walton Beach, Florida on November 1st and will be picked up by the sister-city committee from Hartford. They will spend the week learning about the peanut and cotton industries; will tour other businesses in Southeast Alabama; and attend the National Peanut Festival. They will return to Minnesota on November 8th and will talk about their experiences at the next Peanut Butter & Milk Festival Committee meeting on Tuesday, November 18th at 7 p.m. in the Litchfield High School Ag Room. Everyone is welcome.

Also Tuesday evening, the Committee selected the dates for this winter’s Peanut Butter & Milk Festival. It will run from January 31st to February 7th of 2026. A group from Hartford, Alabama will visit Meeker County that week to learn about the dairy industry and experience outdoor winter activities. Also on Tuesday, the PB&M Committee listened to a presentation by the FFA Ag Issues Team as they did a skit about eminent domain and power line construction.