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‘ANF Day at Kinnick’ is this Saturday

America Needs Farmers–ANF.

That message will reverberate around historic Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City this Saturday when the Iowa Hawkeyes host Northwestern.  It will be “ANF Day at Kinnick”, the result of a partnership announced this summer between the Iowa Farm Bureau and University of Iowa Athletics Department. 

ANF was first lauched in 1985 during the height of the Farm Crisis by legendary Hawkeye coach Hayden Fry, who wanted to show an increasingly urban nation why agriculture matters. And Iowa Farm Bureau president Craig Lang says while the agricultural landscape has changed over the years, big challenges still remain.

“Because we have a growing world population, we will have to grow nearly 100 percent more food than we are today, with the same resources we had—natural resources—in 1985,” says Lang.

AUDIO: Craig Lang (5:37 MP3)

Farmer and Farm Bureau member Larry Sailer of Iowa Falls says the ANF campaign is a good opportunity to reach non-farmers.

“We’ve got a fantastic story to tell of how we have succeeded with all the advances in farming,” Sailer says, “and we’d like to continue doing so.”

AUDIO: Larry Sailer (3:08 MP3)

Among the activities planned for Saturday is the UI’s first stadium “card stunt”, where all fans in the four grandstands of Kinnick will, on cue, hold them up to make two designs and messages to the 70-thousand people in the stadium and the national television audience watching on the Big Ten Network.

 

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