America’s Farmers Food Drive collects 22,000 pounds of food at Farm Progress Show.
DECATUR, ILL. (09/27/2013) - Nearly 75 percent of food pantries have reported an increase in demand for their services in recent years, according to Feeding America. To help feed the nearly two million hungry people in Illinois, Monsanto, in conjunction with Farm Progress and the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, sponsored the fifth annual America’s Farmers Food Drive at the Farm Progress Show Aug. 27-29 in Decatur, Ill.
The food drive collected more than 22,000 pounds of food for food pantries in the Decatur area, including Catholic Charities, Northeast Community Fund and the Salvation Army.
145 FFA chapters and 4-H clubs in Illinois participated in the America’s Farmers Food Drive. The top FFA chapters and top 4-H clubs that brought the most food, in pounds, were awarded $250 each. The ag youth organizations to receive a donation are:
•Pontiac FFA
•Maroa-Forsyth FFA
•Serena FFA
•4-H RoboStorms
•Camargo Champs 4-H Club
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“It is Monsanto’s goal through the America’s Farmers Food Drive to raise awareness and help eliminate rural hunger,” said Elizabeth Vancil, Monsanto customer advocacy outreach manager. “The FFA and 4-H members who participated in the food drive should be proud to know that their donations are helping people in need who live in their communities.”
In addition to the food collected at the America’s Farmers Food Drive at Farm Progress Show, Monsanto donated $10,000 to the United Way of Decatur and Mid Illinois, and the Howard G. Buffett Foundation donated $10,000 to Feeding America.
“The monetary match from Monsanto will help pantries purchase food from the Central Illinois Foodbank, where the cost for many items is only 15 cents per pound,” said James Keith, United Way of Decatur and Mid Illinois director of community impact. “At that price, $10,000 equals 66,667 pounds of food.”
Monsanto launched the America’s Farmers Food Drive in 2009 at the Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Ill., which has resulted in more than 87,000 pounds of food collected to date.
To learn more about Monsanto’s commitment to farmers across America, please visit www.AmericasFarmers.com.
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About The Howard G. Buffett Foundation
Established in 1999, The Howard G. Buffett Foundation’s primary mission is to combat hunger and improve the standard of living for vulnerable populations throughout the world. The Foundation invests in a full spectrum of initiatives to address global hunger and food insecurity including: direct humanitarian aid for populations in crisis; agricultural development for smallholder farmers, particularly women; livelihood improvement for smallholders through commercial market access; academic and field research to increase farmer productivity in resource-constrained contexts; and advocacy campaigns to sustain and scale best practices. Learn more at www.thehowardgbuffettfoundation.org.
About the Farm Progress Show
Farm Progress Show, www.FarmProgressShow.com, the nation's largest outdoor farm event, annually hosts more than 600 exhibitors displaying new farm equipment, tractors, combines and farm implements; seed and crop protection products; and many additional farm supplies and services.
Producers from the U.S. and around the world attend this industry-leading annual agricultural event.
Ag manufacturers and suppliers from across the country and around the world are exhibitors. Field demonstrations are a show mainstay. Each show day, field demos include side-by-side tillage techniques, GPS and precision equipment, and tractor and combine performance comparisons on hundreds of corn acres available for harvesting. Live cattle-handling demonstrations include the newest cattle chutes, equipment, animal health products and work techniques. Additionally, the show features restored antique machinery, arts and crafts displays, horse training demonstrations and entertainment.
The show is an excellent learning opportunity for producers and includes a wide variety of marketing, management and production seminars.
The Farm Progress Show is a Penton/Farm Progress event.
About Penton/Farm Progress
Penton/Farm Progress, www.PentonFarmProgress.com, is the largest most diversified agriculture information business in North America. Through a robust network of live events, digital products, data, marketing services, broadcasting and publications, Penton/Farm Progress is connected to nearly all of the nation's most economically significant farmers, growers and ranchers. This comprises nearly 75% of the 2.2 million farms and ranches in the U.S., and an estimated 85% of the nation's annual agricultural gross domestic product.
Penton/Farm Progress is a Penton business.
About Penton
For millions of business owners and decision-makers, Penton makes the difference every day. We engage our professional users by providing actionable ideas and insights, data and workflow tools, community and networking, both in person and virtually, all with deep relevance to their specific industries. We then activate this engagement by connecting users with tens of thousands of targeted providers of products and services to help drive business growth. Learn more about our company at www.Penton.com. Penton is a privately held company owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP.
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