FRIDAY FARM PHOTO

We're finding all kinds of ways to share information about corn and the family farmers that grow it at The Corn Crib, professional baseball's newest ballpark. The Corn Crib is home to the Normal CornBelters. If you visit you'll see messages like this one, reminding non-farmers that their friends and neighbors are the family farmers producing Illinois' highest valued crop. If you sit through a game, you'll hear conversations about corn and farmers happening between people that otherwise never would have talked about corn. Spontaneous shouts of "Let's Go Corn!" echo through the stands, and Corny, the CornBelters mascot, is high-fived wherever he goes. It's opportunities like this that can make a huge difference as more and more challenges to agriculture are being promulgated by detractors.