NCGA
Sponsored AgriTalk Pump Tour Visits Great Bend, Kansas (7-7-05)
The AgriTalk
Ethanol Pump Tour, sponsored by the National Corn Growers Association,
will stop in Great Bend, Kan., on Friday, July 8, at the Great Bend
Ampride at 2300 10th Street, with host Mike Adams broadcasting live
from 10 to 11 a.m. The event is sponsored by the Kansas Farm Bureau,
Barton County Farm Bureau and the Great Bend Coop as part of an
Ethanol Rally.
“We have an ethanol
rally every year,” said Dianna Zeretzke, county coordinator
with the Barton County Farm Bureau. “The 10 cents off is really
nice.”
Great Bend Ampride will
offer 10 cents off each gallon of E10 gas, up to 30 gallons, from
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The first 50 customers will receive prize bags.
Other prizes will also be given away at the event.
Steve King, a sprint
car racer from Jetmore, Kan., will be at the event to sign autographs.
King’s car is sponsored by ICM, a Kansas-based engineering
and construction management company that specializes in ethanol
plants. King’s car will be on display at the station.
“I think ethanol
has a big impact,” King said. “Anything we can do to
help the farmers out.”
This is the
first AgriTalk Ethanol Pump Tour event for Great Bend.
The pump tour
is aimed at bolstering public awareness around corn-based ethanol
and its use as a domestic, renewable-energy resource. Now in its
fourth year, the tour was started by Adams as a way to promote use
of the corn-based renewable fuel.
AgriTalk is
broadcast live to 74 stations across the country. It can be heard
on KVGB 1590 AM in Great Bend.