The activity at Commodity Classic next week is going to be hot and heavy and you’re going to get a full dose here on AgWired starting Wednesday morning. Leading up to next week’s event, we’ve been getting a rundown on the activities of all the major companies who will be exhibiting like FMC. I thought this was a pretty cool idea so I thought I’d share it with you here.

When corn, soybean and wheat growers from around the nation gather in Tampa next week for the 2007 Commodity Classic event, FMC Corporation will give them a unique way to support U.S. servicemen and women stationed overseas. Today FMC announced it will make a donation to support the United Service Organization’s (USO) Operation Care Package initiative as part of the company’s “Be a Hero, Support a Hero” promotion at the Commodity Classic event. For every crop producer who registers for the company’s prize drawing at the FMC Corporation booth (#300) at the Commodity Classic trade show, the company will donate $5.00 to the USO Operation Care Package initiative. In addition, FMC will make a $5.00 donation to “Operation Care Package” for every crop producer who attends the FMC What is New and Closing Learning Center sessions at the Commodity Classic event.

What is New (WIN) session, “New Products for the Corn & Soybean Markets”: Friday, March 2 from 2:00 p.m. until 2:40 p.m. in room 25, Convention Center

“We feel that the American farmer is a hero in his or her own way, by finding new and more productive ways to feed the world,” explains Aaron Locker, FMC corn and soybean product manager. “The ‘Be a Hero, Support a Hero’ initiative gives us a way to help farmers express their deeply felt sense of patriotism and their heartfelt support of American troops around the world.”