Each producer will receive a cash prize for their community
By Diego Flammini
Assistant Editor, North American Content
Farms.com
Producers from Iowa, Illinois and Ohio are the winners of Dow AgroSciences’ Power to Do More contest.
The contest encouraged producers to upload photos from their farm. The winners were determined by the amount of votes each photo collected.
Chad Hibma from Harris, Iowa, Curt Robbins from Fairfield, Illinois and Lee Stammen from Fort Recovery, Ohio were the top three vote-getters. Each will receive $10,000 for their community.
Chad Hibma and his daughter, Avery.
Hibma’s cash prize will be donated to the National FFA Organization in his hometown.
“We’re pretty excited about it,” Hibma, a corn, soybean and hog producer, said in a June 13 release. “The school secretary sent out an email every day to remind people to vote.”
Robbins, a corn and soybean producer, will be handing his $10,000 prize to the Fairfield Community High School to help with renovations to the football field- where he spends off the farm as a coach.
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The Robbins family
“The kids all throughout the school really embraced it,” he said in the release. They knew it wasn’t just for one group, but it was for everybody. The football field represents more than just one small group of the school. It represents the whole school.”
And Stammen’s winnings will go towards the Fort Recovery FFA chapter.
“I had actually reached out to some other FFA chapters in the area trying to get them on board, too,” the corn, soybeand, wheat and hog producer said in the release. “So we tried to pull people from other schools to get involved to get all of the votes we could.”
Lee Stammen and his son, Levi
In addition to the $10,000 for their communities, the farmers will each receive a sports trip for two.
Hibma will travel to Denver to watch the Broncos, Robbins will attend a Chicago Bears home game and Stammen will go to a Cincinnati Bengals game.
Hibma, Robbins and Stammen weren’t the only contest participants to win prizes.
The remaining seven spots that make up the top 10 will each receive $1,000 for their community.
“Each of the winning farmers has a unique and powerful story, and we’re excited to share it,” Lyndsie Kaehler, U.S. corn herbicides product manager, Dow AgroSciences, said in the statement.