July 30, 2021

Farmers Bowl 2021 is planned for Saturday, Sept. 18. The annual festival, which is spearheaded by the Mayville State University Foundation, celebrates the proud agricultural heritage of the area. Each year, volunteers come together to plan and execute a day-long celebration that is anticipated and enjoyed by members of the Mayville State University family and community. The day centers around a Mayville State Comets home football game.

This year’s Farmers Bowl is going to be a really big deal. Rodney Miller and Jann Carl, hosts of Small Town Big Deal, a television show that airs nationwide and has more than a million viewers each week, will be joining in the fun. Together with their producers will be recording Farmers Bowl highlights for a future episode of the show.

Miller and Carl will be driving antique tractors to lead the annual Farmers Bowl Parade, which will begin at 10 a.m. on Sept. 18.

Do you have a vehicle of interest or other parade entry that would help to make this Farmers Bowl parade the best ever?

“It is our goal to assemble a parade that will show people across the nation just how special Mayville State University, Mayville-Portland, and this area truly are,” said Farmers Bowl Parade chairman Jay Henrickson. “We encourage anyone who has something that parade-watchers will enjoy to shine it up, spiff it up, and show it off.”

Organizers have set a goal to have a record number of antique tractors or pieces of farm machinery in the lineup, as well as all kinds of other parade entries. In addition to chairman Henrickson, Farmers Bowl Parade committee members are Lori Nelson, Fred Strand, Larry Young, Delores Henrickson, Al Hoyt, and Paul Hanson.

Lineup for the parade will be on Main Street, west of the Goose River Bank/Hardware Hank in Mayville, beginning at 9 a.m. on Sept. 18. The parade route will be slightly different this year. The parade will make its way east on Main Street, then take a turn onto and through the Mayville State campus. People are encouraged to check out the route map at www.mayvillestate.edu/farmersbowl to be sure they don’t miss out.

To register an entry, call 701-788-4864 or email stacy.buchl@mayvillestate.edu. For general parade information, email Jay Henrickson at jay.henrickson48@gmail.com.

Immediately following the parade, the public is invited to partake in the Farmers Bowl Family Fun Festival and the legendary Farmers Bowl Corn on the Cob and Hot Dog Feed just outside of Jerome Berg Field on the Mayville State campus. The Comets will host Dickinson State University in the football game which begins at 1:30 p.m. at Jerome Berg Field. The annual Comet Athletic Club Sportsmen’s Raffle and Farmers Bowl Silent Auction event will begin with socializing at 5 p.m. at the Norsemen Hall in Portland.

There will be a special edition of the Ceremony of Remembrance at the Mayville State Military Honor Garden located on the grounds south of the Edson and Margaret Larson Alumni and Leadership Center beginning at 9 a.m. on Sept. 18. The beautiful Military Honor Garden will be enhanced by the Mayville American Legion’s Avenue of Flags in honor of this special occasion.

The Goose River Heritage Center in downtown Mayville will be open and ice cream will be served from 10 a.m. until noon on Sept. 18. There will also be a Lindaas Barn Dance from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

If your organization has an event planned for Sept. 18 and you’d like to have the information listed on the Farmers Bowl schedule, please email alumni.mail@mayvillestate.edu or call 701-788-4750.

See all the details for Farmers Bowl 2021 at www.mayvillestate.edu/farmersbowl. Keep checking back as information will be updated as it becomes available.