Des Moines Man Wins Top Honors in State Fair Vegetable Contest
October 27, 2011
Don Fancois of Des Moines was awarded first place Premium Vegetable award in the Garden Vegetables division of the Vegetable Crops contest judged at the 2011 Iowa State Fair. Larry Dau of Primghar took second place.
Additional results below:
Beans - snap, green
1) Chuck Werner, Chelsea
2) Ginger Werner, Chelsea
3) Mary Davis, Hazleton
4) Joyce Fisher, Ames
Beans - yellow wax
1) Larry Dau, Primghar
2) Don Francois, Des Moines
Beans - any other
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Mary Davis, Hazleton
Beans - lima
1) Kathryn Fattig, Chelsea
2) Gary Fattig, Chelsea
Beans - dried
1) Robert Morris, Des Moines
2) Kathryn Fattig, Chelsea
3) Larry Dau, Primghar
Beets for table use
1) Erik Francois, Des Moines
2) Lynne Pfantz, State Center
3) Stuart Spencer, Johnston
4) Larry Dau, Primghar
Cabbage - round, green
1) Mary Schnicker, Mt. Pleasant
2) Don Francois, Des Moines
3) Martin Schnicker, Mt. Pleasant
4) Larry Dau, Primghar
Cabbage - flat, green
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Larry Dau, Primghar
Cabbage - red
1) Jacob Van Manen, Kellogg
2) Don Francois, Des Moines
3) Chuck Werner, Chelsea
4) Ginger Werner, Chelsea
Cabbage - savoy
1) Ginger Werner, Chelsea
2) Don Francois, Des Moines
3) Chuck Werner, Chelsea
Cabbage - any other
1) Larry Dau, Primghar
2) Don Francois, Des Moines
Carrot - half long type
1) Larry Dau, Primghar
2) Jacob Van Manen, Kellogg
3) Gary Fattig, Chelsea
4) Lynne Pfantz, State Center
Carrot - long variety
1) Mary Davis, Hazleton
2) Don Francois, Des Moines
3) Larry Dau, Primghar
4) Stuart Spencer, Johnston
Cucumbers - for slicing
1) Larry Dau, Primghar
2) Ginger Werner, Chelsea
3) Don Francois, Des Moines
4) Chuck Werner, Chelsea
Cucumbers - dill
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Larry Dau, Primghar
3) Chuck Werner, Chelsea
4) Erik Francois, Des Moines
Cucumbers - pickling
1) Larry Dau, Primghar
2) Chuck Werner, Chelsea
3) Don Francois, Des Moines
4) Ginger Werner, Chelsea
Cucumbers - burpless
1) Larry Dau, Primghar
2) Gary Fattig, Chelsea
3) Ginger Werner, Chelsea
4) Gary Davis, Des Moines
Cucumbers - any other
1) Carrie Kupka, Walford
2) Mary Davis, Hazleton
Eggplant - standard variety
1) Brialy Carlson, Belle Plaine
2) Ginger Werner, Chelsea
3) Krista Kulas, Johnston
4) Jeralyn Smith, Chelsea
Eggplant - oriental type
1) Ginger Werner, Chelsea
2) Don Francois, Des Moines
3) Joyce Fisher, Ames
4) Chuck Werner, Chelsea
Eggplant - any other
1) Oxford Farms, Cambridge
2) Ginger Werner, Chelsea
3) Don Francois, Des Moines
4) Chuck Werner, Chelsea
Garlic - any variety
1) Erik Francois, Des Moines
2) Don Francois, Des Moines
3) Stuart Spencer, Johnston
4) Mary Davis, Hazleton
Garlic - braided
1) Mary Davis, Hazleton
2) Don Francois, Des Moines
3) Larry Dau, Primghar
4) Chuck Werner, Chelsea
Kohlrabi - white
1) Kathryn Fattig, Chelsea
2) Larry Dau, Primghar
3) Gary Fattig, Chelsea
4) Lynne Pfantz, State Center
Kohlrabi - purple
1) Larry Dau, Primghar
2) Don Francois, Des Moines
3) Kathryn Fattig, Chelsea
4) Gary Fattig, Chelsea
Leeks
1) Larry Dau, Primghar
Okra
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Larry Dau, Primghar
3) Stuart Spencer, Johnston
4) Chuck Werner, Chelsea
Onions - red
1) Larry Dau, Primghar
2) Ginger Werner, Chelsea
3) Don Francois, Des Moines
4) Mary Davis, Hazleton
Onions - white
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Erik Francois, Des Moines
3) Larry Dau, Primghar
4) Stuart Spencer, Johnston
Onions - yellow
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Erik Francois, Des Moines
3) Lynne Pfantz, State Center
4) Ginger Werner, Chelsea
Peppers - sweet, green, bell type
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Kathryn Fattig, Chelsea
3) Tom Smith, Chelsea
4) Gary Fattig, Chelsea
Peppers - sweet, yellow, bell type
1) Gary Fattig, Chelsea
2) Craig Musel, Chelsea
3) Kathryn Fattig, Chelsea
Peppers - sweet, red, bell type
1) Casey Fluegge, West Des Moines
2) Don Francois, Des Moines
3) Craig Musel, Chelsea
Peppers - sweet, banana
1) Mary Davis, Hazleton
2) Kathryn Fattig, Chelsea
3) Gary Fattig, Chelsea
4) Don Francois, Des Moines
Peppers - sweet, gypsy
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Daniel Cretors, Urbandale
3) Janet Schuessler, Huxley
Peppers - sweet, any other
1) Gary Fattig, Chelsea
2) Daniel Cretors, Urbandale
3) Stuart Spencer, Johnston
4) Don Francois, Des Moines
Potatoes - white
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Dave Francois, Central City
3) Stuart Spencer, Johnston
4) Kathryn Fattig, Chelsea
Potatoes - red
1) Dave Francois, Central City
2) Larry Dau, Primghar
3) Don Francois, Des Moines
4) Lynne Pfantz, State Center
Potatoes - yellow
1) Dave Francois, Central City
2) Stuart Spencer, Johnston
3) Don Francois, Des Moines
4) Larry Dau, Primghar
Potatoes - Russet
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Stuart Spencer, Johnston
3) Larry Dau, Primghar
4) Lynne Pfantz, State Center
Potatoes - Fingerling
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Erik Francois, Des Moines
3) Chuck Werner, Chelsea
4) Ginger Werner, Chelsea
Rutabaga
1) Larry Dau, Primghar
2) Kathryn Fattig, Chelsea
3) Don Francois, Des Moines
4) Kathryn Fattig, Chelsea
Shallots
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
Sweet Potatoes or Yams
1) Mary Davis, Hazleton
2) Don Francois, Des Moines
3) Larry Dau, Primghar
4) Lori Alcorn, Winterset
Sweet Corn - yellow
1) Jacob Van Manen, Kellogg
2) Merna Vanlaar, Grand River
3) Donald Vanlaar, Grand River
4) Don Francois, Des Moines
Sweet Corn - yellow and white
1) Lynne Pfantz, State Center
2) Jacob Van Manen, Kellogg
3) Don Francois, Des Moines
4) Larry Dau, Primghar
Sweet Corn - white
3) Don Francois, Des Moines
Swiss Chard
1) Larry Dau, Primghar
2) Robert Morris, Des Moines
3) Marlene Mogle, Des Moines
Tomatillo
1) Larry Dau, Primghar
Turnips
1) Larry Dau, Primghar
2) Gary Fattig, Chelsea
3) Kathryn Fattig, Chelsea
4) Oxford Farms, Cambridge
Any Other Kind of Vegetable
1) Robert Morris, Des Moines
2) Don Francois, Des Moines
3) Ginger Werner, Chelsea
4) Charles L. Hoehnle, Homestead
Summer Squash - Crookneck
1) Chuck Werner, Chelsea
2) Ginger Werner, Chelsea
3) Larry Dau, Primghar
4) Don Francois, Des Moines
Summer Squash - Scallop or Patty Pan
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Larry Dau, Primghar
3) Chuck Werner, Chelsea
4) Ginger Werner, Chelsea
Summer Squash - Zucchini, green
1) Larry Dau, Primghar
2) Don Francois, Des Moines
3) Lynne Pfantz, State Center
4) Krista Kulas, Johnston
Summer Squash - Zucchini, yellow
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Mary Davis, Hazleton
3) Larry Dau, Primghar
Summer Squash - Straightneck
1) Chuck Werner, Chelsea
2) Ginger Werner, Chelsea
3) Don Francois, Des Moines
4) Larry Dau, Primghar
Summer Squash - any other
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
Pumpkins - Sugar Pie
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Dwight Sanders, Vinton
3) Stuart Spencer, Johnston
4) Larry Dau, Primghar
Pumpkins - Jack-O-Lantern
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Amy Solsma, Sanborn
3) Merna Vanlaar, Grand River
4) Larry Dau, Primghar
Pumpkins - any other
1) Larry Dau, Primghar
2) Kathryn Fattig, Chelsea
3) Brialy Carlson, Belle Plaine
4) Mary Davis, Hazleton
Winter Squash - Acorn
1) Dwight Sanders, Vinton
2) Kathryn Fattig, Chelsea
3) Vicki Greimann, Fort Dodge
4) Don Francois, Des Moines
Winter Squash - Acorn-like
1) Larry Dau, Primghar
2) Dwight Sanders, Vinton
3) Marlene Mogle, Des Moines
4) Amy Solsma, Sanborn
Winter Squash - Banana
1) Larry Dau, Primghar
Winter Squash - Buttercup
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Larry Dau, Primghar
3) Gary Fattig, Chelsea
4) Dwight Sanders, Vinton
Winter Squash - Butternut
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Stuart Spencer, Johnston
3) Erik Francois, Des Moines
4) Larry Dau, Primghar
Winter Squash - Delicta
1) Larry Dau, Primghar
2) Dwight Sanders, Vinton
Winter Squash - Hubbard, blue
1) Kathryn Fattig, Chelsea
2) Don Francois, Des Moines
3) Gary Fattig, Chelsea
Winter Squash - Hubbard, any other
1) Dwight Sanders, Vinton
2) Don Francois, Des Moines
3) Amy Solsma, Sanborn
Winter Squash - Spaghetti
1) Marlene Mogle, Des Moines
2) Kathryn Fattig, Chelsea
3) Don Francois, Des Moines
4) Jack And Barb Suiter, Sully
Winter Squash - any other
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Gary Fattig, Chelsea
3) Krista Kulas, Johnston
4) Larry Dau, Primghar
Tomatoes - red, large type
1) Casey Fluegge, West Des Moines
2) Joyce Fisher, Ames
3) Don Francois, Des Moines
4) Martin Schnicker, Mt. Pleasant
Tomatoes - any other red
1) Gary Davis, Des Moines
2) Dakota Rundlett, Vinton
3) Brialy Carlson, Belle Plaine
4) Robert Morris, Des Moines
Tomatoes - pink
1) Ginger Werner, Chelsea
2) Gary Fattig, Chelsea
Tomatoes - yellow or golden
1) Martin Schnicker, Mt. Pleasant
2) Don Francois, Des Moines
3) Mary Davis, Hazleton
4) Scott Zalaznik, Ames
Tomatoes - paste type
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Donn Stone, Boone
3) Valerie Singer, Altoona
4) Chuck Werner, Chelsea
Tomatoes - cherry, large type
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Robert Morris, Des Moines
3) Dakota Rundlett, Vinton
4) Gary Fattig, Chelsea
Tomatoes - grape
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Stuart Spencer, Johnston
3) Lois Scholbrock, Des Moines
4) Jeralyn Smith, Chelsea
Tomatoes - small cherry, yellow
1) Lauren Trujillo, Earlham
2) Dakota Rundlett, Vinton
3) Byron De Vries, Earlham
4) Rod Zeitler, Iowa City
Tomatoes - small cherry, red
1) Donn Stone, Boone
2) Daniel Cretors, Urbandale
3) Robert Russell II, Des Moines
4) Lois Scholbrock, Des Moines
Tomatoes - teardrop
1) Ginger Werner, Chelsea
2) Rod Zeitler, Iowa City
3) Chuck Werner, Chelsea
4) Mary Davis, Hazleton
Melons - Muskmellon or Cataloupe
1) Ray Christenson, Granger
2) Tom Smith, Chelsea
3) Don Francois, Des Moines
4) Craig Musel, Chelsea
Melons - Honey Dew or other winter melon
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Erik Francois, Des Moines
3) Gary Fattig, Chelsea
4) Rob Fattig, Chelsea
Melons - Watermelon, small or baby
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Gary Fattig, Chelsea
3) Oxford Farms, Cambridge
4) Kathryn Fattig, Chelsea
Melons - Watermelon, round
1) Merna Vanlaar, Grand River
2) Jacob Van Manen, Kellogg
3) Vicki Greimann, Fort Dodge
4) Ray Christenson, Granger
Melons - Watermelon, long
1) Mary Schnicker, Mt. Pleasant
2) Martin Schnicker, Mt. Pleasant
3) Gary Fattig, Chelsea
4) Kathryn Fattig, Chelsea
Gourds - small crown of thorns
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Larry Dau, Primghar
3) Dwight Sanders, Vinton
Gourds - small ornamental spoon or globes
1) Oxford Farms, Cambridge
2) Dwight Sanders, Vinton
3) Don Francois, Des Moines
4) Vicki Greimann, Fort Dodge
Gourds - small ornamental, mixed
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Kathryn Fattig, Chelsea
3) Gary Fattig, Chelsea
4) Vicki Greimann, Fort Dodge
Gourds - Autumn Wings
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Dwight Sanders, Vinton
3) Kathryn Fattig, Chelsea
4) Gary Fattig, Chelsea
Pumpkin - ornamental, mini orange
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Merna Vanlaar, Grand River
3) Vicki Greimann, Fort Dodge
4) Donald Vanlaar, Grand River
Pumpkin - ornamental, mini white
1) Larry Dau, Primghar
2) Mary Davis, Hazleton
3) Dwight Sanders, Vinton
4) Gary Fattig, Chelsea
Pumpkin - ornamental, any other
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Larry Dau, Primghar
3) Dwight Sanders, Vinton
4) Gary Fattig, Chelsea
Best Onion
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
Best Tomato and Runner-up
1) Don Francois, Des Moines
2) Donn Stone, Boone
The 2011 Iowa State Fair “Nothing Compares” ended August 21. The 2012 Iowa State Fair is set August 9-19. For more information, call 800/545-FAIR or visit iowastatefair.org.
