Guest speakers and entertainers at the 1965 plow matches in Waseca included Congressman Ancher Nelson, Archie Baumann of the Farmers Union, Dillon Hempstead of the Farm Bureau, Oren Lee Staley of the National Farmers Organization, U. S. Congressman Gerald Ford, Minnesota Governor Rolvaag, Princess Kay (Mary Ann Tirtrud), the Singing Kahnke Brothers, the Waseca Nova Tones, Senator Walter Mondale, and Gomer Pyle, TV Entertainer.