Do you know Joe? As in Sloppy Joe? This is “The Joe You Know.” Well Cargill Meat Solutions is looking for the sloppiest kid in America at BeSloppy.com. One very messy kid under the age of 10 will win a college fund and top honors as the “Sloppiest Joe.”
From March 3-30, parents can visit BeSloppy.com and submit a photo of their child eating a sloppy joe. Nominations will be posted online, and beginning April 12, site visitors will have two weeks to vote for their favorite photo.
The child whose photo receives the most votes will be named “Sloppiest Joe” (http://besloppy.com/contest.html) and awarded a $1,000 U.S. savings bond for their college education. Two runners-up will receive a year’s supply of fresh ground beef for the family.
BeSloppy.com was created to help families put a new twist on an old favorite recipe, the sloppy joe. The site contains 16 not-so-average sloppy joe recipes, including Maui-Wowie Joe, Sloppy Cho and Sloppy Joeganoff.
“We know it’s difficult for parents to plan different meals that their kids will enjoy. I’ve found it’s much easier to take familiar meals and change them up for kids with their favorite flavors,” said Chef Pete Geoghegan, corporate chef for Cargill, the company managing the contest. “That’s why we’ve updated the classic meal to include ingredients like fruit, vegetables and even jelly. And the bonus for parents is more interesting recipes that are still tasty and quick to prepare.”
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I know we’ve heard a lot from Gene Hemphill here on AgWired the past few days but well we should. Here’s my interview with him from the trade show floor at Commodity Classic. In it we talk about his support of the ag media including sponsoring the media room. Gene says they’ve been doing it since Commodity Classic started and before that individually at the organizational meetings of the groups involved with Classic.
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There aren’t too many people in agricultural marketing who don’t know Gene Hemphill, Industry Affairs, New Holland. You probably know that we honored him at the media reception at Commodity Classic. This week’s program expands on that theme. Gene is a friend as well as a client and beloved by all of us in the media who have worked with him for so long. For all the attention he’s getting for “partially retiring” I can’t wait to see what happens when he really retires!
Kip Cullers of Missouri is not only a great corn and soybean grower, he has become one heck of an entertaining speaker. He’s really fun to be around, but he is totally serious about helping other growers meet their optimum potential for yields.
Kip says with prices where they are today, growers should make every effort to maximize soybean yields. “Soybeans now are $15, so – my gosh – you can spend a little and make a bunch. It’s simple economics.”
Besides hearing from a researcher and a farmer we also heard from Commodity Classic Learning Center sponsor Bruce Battles, Agronomy Marketing Manager, 
I think growers appreciate hearing from other growers, even if they also sell Garst Seed. At the Commodity Classic Learning Center session on Maximizing Yield in Continuous Corn, north central Iowa grower Mike Missman talked about his experience with corn on corn.
There were 145 media representatives covering Commodity Classic. Here’s some of them at the Sec. of Ag Schafer press conference. We all have significant needs for things like internet access, phone lines, work spaces, convenient food/beverages, privacy, a meeting place, secure room for equipment and help finding our way around. That’s why it is so important and appreciated to have companies like New Holland sponsor a media/press conference room at events like Commodity Classic.
If you haven’t heard Dr. Fred Below, Professor of Plant Physiology, University of Illinois, speak then you’re missing something. He was part of a panel discussion on Maximizing Yield in Continuous Corn that filled the room. The Learning Center session was sponsored by 