This is why we’re out here at NASCAR this weekend. Every car on the track here at Chicagoland Speedway and tomorrow at Kansas Speedway will be sporting the American Ethanol name around their gas cap. A fifteen percent blend of ethanol will be fueling these cars to help show consumers that the fuel is perfectly safe in their cars and …
Marquis Energy Sees Great NASCAR Ethanol Opportunity
The President of Marquis Energy is Mark Marquis, seen here introducing NASCAR driver Kenny Wallace to the crowd attending yesterday’s event held at the Hennepin ethanol plant. I spoke with Mark and learned that Marquis Energy is a real family type business that he had built after growing up on a family farm in this area and branching out into …
Zimfo Bytes
Leica Geosystems announces several updates for a range of Ag guidance products. After successfully raising more than $100,000 in the first year of a new grassroots campaign that provided funds to local FFA chapters throughout the country, Red Brand fence (Keystone Steel and Wire Co.) (www.redbrand.com/) has announced its decision to make this campaign an annual event. Koch Agronomic Services, …
Central Illinois Company Gives Back to FFA
We’ve all heard of Red Brand fence, right? They’re a milestone sponsor of the FFA (in fact they’ve been doing so for over 60 years). Did you know that Red Brand fence is manufactured in Peoria, Ill.? Keystone Steel and Wire Co began the Home Grown program in 2010. It gave opportunity for local Red Brand retailers to give back to local FFA …
Getting Ready To See NASCAR Burn Ethanol
Cindy and I are going NASCAR this weekend with most of our activity being posted onto Domestic Fuel.com. I’ll start things off with the Nationwide Series STP 300 at Chicagoland Speedway on Saturday with support from the Illinois Corn Marketing Board. Then Cindy will pick up at the Sprint Cup Series STP 400 at Kansas Speedway on Sunday with support …
Beef Checkoff Kicks Off BBQ Tour
In celebration of summer grilling season, the National Beef Checkoff is hitting the road with the American GrillMaster Experience BBQ Tour. In partnership with Sam’s Club and the Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS), the American GrillMaster Experience, a beef BBQ demonstration and educational tour, will include beef grilling demonstrations, product samples, recipes and other checkoff resources designed to educate and …
Corn Farmers Coalition Ads Target Lawmakers
For the third year in a row, the Corn Farmers Coalition (CFC) is targeting policy makers with information about the nation’s corn crop and the people who produce it. The new ads highlighting corn farming families showed up this week all over Union Station, an important venue for reaching policymakers inside “The Beltway,” as well as in Capital Hill publications, …
USDA Replaces Pyramid with Plate
Nutrition has a newer, rounder shape. Fruits and vegetables should make up half of our plates under the more user-friendly nutrition image released today by First Lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. USDA is ditching the long-used food pyramid for a plate. “I can already tell you how much this is going to help parents across the country,” …
AgChat Foundation Agvocacy 2.0 Conference Planned
The dates and place for the second AgChat Foundation Agvocacy 2.0 Conference are set. This year’s conference will be held August 22 and 23 in Nashville, Tennessee. We are excited to expand the conference by opening it up to 75 people who are passionate about agriculture and interested in learning how social media can be used to tell their stories. …
Lettuce Harvest
What a great feeling – reaping the first harvest from your home garden. This is my mixed lettuce and spinach, and if it would ever stop raining, I’d pick some iceburg lettuce. Now I’m kicking myself for not planting carrots; and my cucumbers seem to be late bloomers (pun intended). Seems like these days, I’m growing a variety of things: …