Page 74 Lincoln Daily News 2025 Logan County Fair Jul/Aug 2025 Kiddie tractor pull pulls out all the stops for young farmers Tuesday morning at 8 a.m., crowds of children gathered under the roof of the KC Pavilion at the Logan County Fair. Children competed for medals, trophies, and fair food prizes by pedaling a tractor that had a trailer attached to it with weights in the back. Whoever could pedal it fastest and the furthest would win the competition. Three diff erent categories were in place to keep the competition fair among the kids participating. The groups were divided into lightweight, middleweight, and heavyweight with the competition starting with the smallest of the group fi rst. Being the fi rst one to start is always hard, and some of the younger children were more timid when approaching the tractor. However, competitor Arainna Myers hit the ground running from where she was seated in waiting. She jumped onto the tractor from her sprint and before anyone could say a word to her about how to pedal it she was pushing to the end of the race. She won fi rst place in her division. Elliot Bruns was the winner of the middleweight category then followed Craig Hayes, who ran a close race against his competitors. All fi rst-place winners were awarded trophies for their eff ort, and second and third-place winners won medals. However, everyone was a winner and was given a t-shirt, handed out by a child family member of one of the helpers at the event, Sam Opperman. Opperman, as well as President Reagen Tibbs, explained the details of the Logan County Farm Bureau Young Leaders group. They shared that the organization has been around for around 40 years now and performs about 7-8 tractor pulls per year. Tibbs stated that this is an organization that “Supports anything we can in the community.”. As well as performing tractor pulls, it was stated that they would set up tours for high Continued --
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