F4F - Iowa Corn Champions

Farm4Profit Podcast

• Stan Nelson
• Iowa Corn Promotion Board President
• Southeast Iowa Native - Farming for 42 years in Des Moines County
• Raises corn, soybeans for seed and hay
• Works on the farm with daughter Valerie, her husband Jared, daughter Emily, & husband Caleb
• Organization Involvements
• National Corn Growers Association and U.S. Grains Council Action Teams
• Iowa Soybean Association
• Director of District 9 for 5 years
• Iowa Cattlemen's Association
• Iowa Farm Bureau
• School Board member at the Danville Community School District for 9 years
• Graduated from ISU in 1980 with bachelors in farm operations
• Stu Swanson
• Iowa Corn Growers Association First Vice President
• Serves on the animal agriculture & environment committee
• Raises corn, soybeans, and customer feeding wean to finish hogs
• Leadership:
• North Central Coop Board of Directors
• County FSA Committee
• Wright County Fair Swine Committee
• Iowa Soybean Association
• Iowa Pork Producers Association
• After college
• Worked at Iowa Pork Producers Association - director of producer education
• Awards:
• Iowa Pork Producers Association as Master Pork Producer in 2017
• Coalition to Support Iowa’s Farmers Good Farm Neighbor Award in 2019
• IDALS Iowa Farm Environmental Leader Award in 2020
• Passionate about accelerating water quality efforts in Iowa
• Recently traveled to Washington D.C. for leadership training and visit with elected officials
• Craig Floss
• Iowa Corn CEO
• CEO since 1997
• At Iowa corn talk a lot about legacy with farmers
• Recently awarded the ISU Knoll Corporation Foundation Award
• History of ICGA
• Founded in 1967 by Walter Goeppinger of Boone, IA
• Voice of Iowa corn farmers
• 12-member board - peer-elected farmers and 2 industry liaisons
• U.S. Grain Council
• 27 years of service
• Background
• Corn, soybean, and livestock farmer
• Assisted with a feeder pig operation as a teenager
• Attended ISU
• Then worked in Chicago for Spraying Systems Co.
• Responsible for all sales outside of the U.S.

HISTORY OF IOWA CORN & THE SPEEDWAY (WHY NASCAR) 25,000+ seats sold out for the race and 1000 farmers and their families present to watch their product in action on the fastest short-track in the nation surrounded by corn fields. A large, national audience excited about the power and performance of ethanol with 4.1 million unique viewers. Driving online traffic and increasing brand exposure with 7.6 million digital page views. If you divide Iowa’s 2023 corn crop by the race’s 350 laps, each time around the track would equate to 7 million bushels. Corn is a major economic engine for the state.