Tare Awards - 2013

Each year at our Annual Meeting we give out awards to the Growers who bring us the cleanest beans at harvest.  Historically there has been a category for Pintos and one for Great Northerns.  This year, of course, we added the Field Pea category.  Below are the winners for 2013!  If you were not present at the meeting to claim your award, please stop by the Gering Office to pick it up!

Pintos

1^st Place – Michael Becker   0.78%

2^nd Place – Nathan Davis     1.50%

3^rd Place – Mickey Ryan       1.80%

Great Northerns

1^st Place – LRK Farms                     1.68%

2^nd Place – Rodney Schwartzkopf   1.75%

3^rd Place – Howell Farms                 1.82%

 

Yellow Peas

1^st Place – Carl Thomas        0.10%

2^nd Place – Laux Seed Farm 1.00%

3^rd Place – Four Lazy H Inc.  1.23%



 

Annual Meeting 2013

Below are some photos from our Annual Member Meeting.  We had an excellent dinner - Thank You Gering Civic Center! - and a delicious bean brownie dessert - Thank You Jamie Meisner & The Mixing Bowl!

We handed out awards, elected new Board Members - Bill Benzel & John Maser were re-elected, Allan Kreman (pictured below) was elected to his first term - and had a great presentation by our Board President, Jerry Mackie and our General Manager, John Lightcap.

I know it was hard for those of you finishing up harvest to make it, but we appreciate all of the growers who attended this event! Especially the pea growers that travelled from over 300 miles away!