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Last Small Grower Meeting

We did it!  I'd like to thank my crew for helping put on all of these Small Grower Meetings, 11 down!  We had fun and I feel like we had great participation from our growers, thank you!  If you guys have any feedback for us on these meetings, please feel free to share.  Just give us a call!

Today, we were in Torrington, Wyoming.  We had 12 guests and several great questions.  Thank you Goshen County Extension Office for hosting us!

Monday at the F.A.R.M.

Heading over to the Farm And Ranch Museum in Gering for our 10th Small Grower Meeting of the season.  We are expecting a very large group!  So excited!

Alliance Small Grower Meeting

We are headed up to Alliance today to meet with our growers there!  Looking forward to another great meeting!  We will hold our last two Small Grower meetings early next week.

1. Monday February 27th at 1 pm at the Farm and Ranch Museum in Gering
2. Tuesday February 28th at 1 pm at the Extension Office just west of Torrington, Wyoming

Hope to see you all soon!  :)  Have a great weekend!

Updates

These are pictures I took this weekend at my house during a walk.  It was an absolutely beautiful day!  The snow was laid so delicately over the fields and buildings.  As the sun was shinning, it was slowly melting the snow; it was so very pretty!    

I am working in Bridgeport today and it is not snowing yet!  LOL!  It seems like every other time I have been here, it has snowed at some point in the day.  It looks and feels like it could snow today though.  We will just have to wait and see!

Wednesday in the Valley

Hi All!  

I hope everyone is having a great day!  We are transferring Great Northerns from Gering to Bridgeport today so that they can be cleaned and processed.  It is a nice day...very little wind and warm.  They keep talking about wind, but maybe we were able to dodge it here in the valley!

P.S.  So, hello wind.  I have been proven wrong....that wind they were talking about....yep, it's here!  It's definitely a square day here in the valley.  53*F and at least 53 m.p.h. gusts!

Mitchell/Morrill Meeting

We had a great showing for our Mitchell/Morrill Small Grower Meetings today.  We had a morning session and also afternoon.  The morning session was very interactive and extremely interested in trying to capture the canner market.  The afternoon session was small but mighty!  We had great discussions and fellowship with these growers as well!  Thank you Scotts Bluff County Ag Society for allowing us to rent the meeting room and a BIG thank you to Just Your Way Cafe who provided our homemade cinnamon rolls!  Yummy!  :)

Snowy Morning

Wow, it was snowing and blowing this morning on my way to work.  The road was already covered when I was headed to the gym!  Check out this AWESOME picture that Dave took!

Despite the weather, we had excellent Small Grower Meetings today!  We had our morning meeting in the Skyport board room at the airport.  It was a great group with great fellowship following meeting.  Our afternoon meeting was at the Scottsbluff Training Center just west of the new MainStreet Market.  We had good representation there as several growers joined together to talk about beans.  We had excellent service at both locations today, thank you!

Mirage Flats

Dave, John, Courtney, and I all headed up to the Mirage Flats area for our small grower meeting today!  It was a very successful meeting.  I feel like we had a large crowd from up there, growers came from near and also from as far as Chadron.  Some people had to tend to cattle today, which is totally understandable!  Hopefully you can make it to another meeting.  :)  

Bayard Meeting

We had a great meeting in Bayard today!  Thank you for those who came and thank you Corner Cafe!  The banana bread and homemade donuts were delicious!  It's off to Mirage Flats tomorrow!

Wednesday!

I am a little late posting this blog, but today was a super duper catch up day!  We have been traveling the countryside and today I played catch up.  We also were able to fit in 2 safety meetings to go over our food safety certification information with the guys.

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Our second small grower meeting went well down in Kimball today!  We had lunch afterwards and there were beautiful roses on the tables.  Thank you for your hospitality Mulligan's Steakhouse!

First Small Grower Meeting

Today, we kick off our first of 12 small grower meetings!  We are excited to see everyone and get to chat about beans over some coffee.  I hope to see you all in the next couple of weeks as we travel the countryside to meet with our growers!

Small Grower Meetings

Starting Monday, we kick off our first of 12 small grower meetings we put on for our growers.  The first one will be at our Bridgeport Headquarters at 10 am.  You should be getting a call here in the next couple of days about a meeting in your area.  If you are curious before then, please give us a call (308) 436.2186.  Hope to see you all soon!  Come with questions.  Have a great weekend!

Tip of the Day:  ....Live like it's heaven on earth!  ~ Anonymous ~

Mark Your Calendars

Spring is just around the corner!

On Tuesday, March 6th, 2012 we will be holding our "Spring Grower Meeting" for our members at the Civic Center here in Gering.  Please set this date aside as you will be pleased with our lineup of speakers and of course the wonderful lunch served by the Civic Center.  We will get started with registration at 8:30 am and will serve lunch around noon. 

Tip of the Day:  ....Love like you have never been hurt....

Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Picture from Bridgeport.

Tip of the Day:  ....Sing like no one is listening....

Happy February 2012!

Well, better late than never, right?  Happy February!

Tip of the Day:  Dance like no one is watching....

Happenings at Stateline Today....

It sounds like the guys in Bridgeport are making 100 pound Pinto bags for a boxcar and running Great Northerns to get ready for a hopper tomorrow.  Our guys here in Gering are loading boxcars today too!

Where they load boxcars in Bridgeport.

Tip of the Day:  Enjoy what you do today and always!

Happy Saturday

View from atop the bins!

I hope everyone has a great and RELAXING weekend!

Tip of the Day:  Enjoy what you do!

A Day in Bridgeport

Yesterday, Heath and I walked around all the bins, tunnels, ladders, mill, and warehouse going over H.A.C.C.P/food certification improvements.  He showed me and taught me how they process beans here in Bridgeport as we walked around.  It has been alot of fun being down here the past couple of days.  Here are a couple photos from my journey.

As Heath and I were on top of the bins and this is what I found!
Willie likes to light it up during Christmas time!
How FUN!  :)

Tip of the Day:  Change is Good!

Seed Treater

We have an option this year to treat any Cruiser untreated seed for our growers, thanks to the help of Panhandle Coop.  We had the guys out last Friday to test a tote of seed through the machine.  We took samples before and after the seed went through the machine.  We found no damage done to the seeds, making this machine a viable option available for those wanting varieties that were not originally treated.  This will be possible for seed packaged in 2,000 pound totes.

Tip of the Day:  SMILE!  :)

Traveling Today

Buenos Dias,

I will be on the road today!  I just wanted to post a quick update on the blog before I left.  Make it a GREAT day!

~Kinsey

Tip of the Day:  Smile while you workout.