Special Report

Grower: Commodity Classic’s important

The National Corn Growers Association and American Soybean Association began the producer event and trade show which has now grown to include the National Association of Wheat Growers and the National Sorghum Producers, “With all FOUR together we can pull more of the industry that supports agriculture together at the Trade Show,” says Wesley Spurlock, a Texas grower and a director of the NCGA board.

Plus, he says it’s important for growers who raise multiple crops represented at Commodity Classic to be there as the groups discuss and make policy decisions.

Spurlock, a grower in the Texas Panhandle, tells Brownfield he hasn’t been to Commodity Classic since the beginning 20 years ago but he should have been – because it’s really helped him as a farmer, “It IS important to go to it, to be able to look at all the different new technologies, new equipment and all the work that is going on on our behalf by the industry.”

Commodity Classic kicks off today at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. The trade show begins at Noon on Thursday.

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