Monday September 9, 2013 – Please join us at our plot for our combination “Plot Night” and Annual meeting.

5:00 pm – Arrive at the plot (Southwest corner of Beith Rd. and Rt. 47), take a look at the FIRST trial planted corn, meet and greet your local seed reps, check out our soybean fungicide trial, or just socialize with other Kane County corn growers!

6:00 pm – Enjoy a fabulous meal provided by Nats on Maple of Sycamore, IL – This aint your average pork chop dinner!

A short business meeting will take place toward the end of dinner

7:00 pm – Keynote speaker Gary D. Schnitkey, Professor of Economics – “Looking Forward to the 2014 Crop Year”

This event is free to attend for members; each membership receives 2 dinner tickets

Additional guests and all non-members will be charged $30 at the event

This event is by RSVP only

Please RSVP to Karl Gust by Thursday, September 5 @ 815-482-0760 or Karl.gust@elburncoop.com

Click on the link below and find out how you can nominate your favorite non profit organization to receive funding provided by Monsanto.  The form is quick and easy to fill out, be sure to list “Burlington Central FFA” as the recipient!  Thanks for helping!

http://www.americasfarmers.com/growcommunities/plant-your-ideas.aspx

The 2013 annual meeting date is Monday September 9.  The event starts at 5:00 pm.  Check your mailbox for your invitation or click on the annual meeting on our calendar for more details.  This is an RSVP only event, so please respond soon!  Hope to see you there!

Members from Advanced Crop Care and Elburn Cooperative talked to a group of Kane County Corn Growers Members and answered questions.  What a beautiful morning for coffee, donuts, and great timely information!

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Please join us tomorrow August 20 at 7:30 am for a free scouting and crop clinic.  The event will be held at our test plot.  Coffee and donuts will be provided.  Industry experts will be there to talk about crop progress, pest development, and grain marketing.  Don’t miss out!

Our annual golf outing yesterday was a blast!  I think everyone enjoyed themselves very much and we couldn’t have asked for nicer weather!  Tee off was at 9:00 am, and we enjoyed a nice steak lunch/dinner after in the Pine Room at Bliss Creek Golf Club in Sugar Grove.  After dinner we presented scholarship awards to a few of our recipients.  This year the Kane County Corn Growers spent $13,500 in scholarships to our young people!  Thank you to all the door prize donors this year including:

• Buck Brothers
• DeKalb Implement
• Advanced Trading
• Hughes Hybrids
• First Farm Credit
• Volpp Seed / Monsanto
• Pioneer
• DeRaedt Seed Corp
• Dean Miller
• Great Lakes
• DeKalb Seed
• McGladrey
• Golden Harvest
• Harvest Risk Mgmt. / Mike Pitstick
• Castle Bank
• Johnsen Country Store
• Old Second
• Country Companies
• Elburn Cooperative Co
• Kane County Farm Bureau
• Dow Agrosciences

On June 11, members of the Kane County Corn Growers assisted the Kane County Farm Bureau on part of a farm field trip for school teachers.  The educators stopped at Eldon and Sandy Gould’s farm as part of their tour.  The Kane County Corn Growers provided lunch and information as part of their experience.

Check the calendar and plan to join us for our annual golf outing at Bliss Creek on July 29.  Cost and times will be added when they become available.  Please RSVP to Bob Biddle by July 10.