Twillman Feed to host Town, Country dinner

August 30, 2011 at 8:28 a.m. | Updated August 30, 2011 at 8:28 a.m.

Fred Atkinson, of Atkinson Farm Service, addresses the crowd at a previous Town and Country Dinner. This year's event will begin at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13, at Twillman Feed Service in Calwood.
Fred Atkinson, of Atkinson Farm Service, addresses the crowd at a previous Town and Country Dinner. This year's event will begin at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13, at Twillman Feed Service in Calwood.

Town and Country Dinner participants will visit Calwood this year to take a peek into a piece of the agricultural world.

The annual event will begin at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13, at Twillman Feed Service. Kingdom of Callaway Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Nancy Lewis said it has been some time since the event was held in Calwood.

The Town and Country Dinner has been held on and off since the 1960s and every year since 1991.

"The idea is to get chamber members really out onto farms or into an agricultural business to see what is happening in the agricultural world," Lewis said.

The chamber switches every year from either a farm or agricultural business as the chosen location of the event.

Twillman Feed Service has been in business since 1979 and serves Callaway, Boone, Montgomery and Audrain County. It has a location in Calwood and Mexico. Owner, Kenny Twillman, said his business mostly sells animal feed but offers other "incidentals" as well.

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