ACLF Joins Farm American

If you are a Nascar fan, tune in, ACLF has partnered with Furniture Row Racing to sponsor the #78 car as Farm American.  This was announced earlier this week in Tampa at the Commoddity Classic.  Albert is there at the meeting so I am sending out this message on his behalf. 

TAMPA, Fla. (March 4, 2011) -- Furniture Row Racing, which competes on the NASCAR Sprint Cup circuit, announced today that Agro-Culture Liquid Fertilizers has joined the team as a financial partner for its Farm American program. The announcement was made during the Commodity Classic trade show at the Tampa Convention Center.

Agro-Culture Liquid Fertilizers manufactures and markets in-house formulated and branded liquid fertilizer products. Incorporated in 1983, the well-known St. Johns, Mich.-based agricultural company has worked years ahead of the industry response to the demand for environmentally friendly products. The company owns the largest fertilizer research farm in the United States dedicated to plant nutrition.

The Denver, Colo.-based Furniture Row Racing team spearheaded the Farm American program in 2010 with a special paint scheme at selected races on its No. 78 Chevrolet, driven by Regan Smith.

The Farm American program promotes the importance of U.S. agriculture, which employs directly and indirectly more than 22 million people in the American workforce. The details and schedule of the 2011 Farm-American program are still being worked out and will be announced at a later date.

"Agro-Culture Liquid Fertilizers is thrilled to have the opportunity to be involved with Furniture Row Racing's Farm American program," said Albert Bancroft, marketing communications manager at Agro-Culture Liquid Fertilizers. "The NASCAR-related program allows farmers and ranchers to tell their story. As a third generation family-owned company, we feel it is important that the story of U.S. agriculture is brought to the dinner table of the consumer.”

Bancroft added, “Being involved with Farm American we see the ability to aid producers in overcoming objections of those who do not understand. And we're also thrilled to be part of an exciting race team. It's a talented team which was evident in its seventh-place finish in the recent Daytona 500."

Joe Garone, general manager of Furniture Row Racing, was equally excited about the new partnership.

"We are proud to partner with Agro-Culture Liquid Fertilizers, a multi-generation, family-owned agribusiness whose highest priority is honoring the traditions of America's farm and ranch families," said Garone. "While we seek additional financial partners for the Farm American program, this partnership with Agro-Culture Liquid Fertilizers will always remain special since it’s the first agriculture business to join our team."

The No. 78 Furniture Row Racing team will be competing this weekend in the Kobalt Tools 400 Sprint Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
http://www.farmamerican.com/index.asp?LT=about

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http://jayski.com/cupnews.htm#20110304f

Ashley Update 3/4/11

It has been a while since my last post.  They have been doing a lot of work in the plant and also a lot of rough in projects.  Here are a few pictures of progress.

 Truck Loadout office.  They are working on the steps and landing out at the NCRS.  That will be better than a ladder. 

 They are busily putting togehter gas lines and air lines throughout the building along with all of the other rough in projects.

All of the walls in the building are up.  They are working on getting the last of the doors in place to finish things up.  This picture was taken in the truck loading area looking 300 feet to the end of the building.

A view from up high.....

A couple of views of the site from up high.  I think that is about the middle of the tower.  Thanks to Ron Andrews for the pictures.

Final Tower Erection

Today they put up the towers at the farm and at the office.  They will put up the tower in Ashley tomorrow.  You can see the progression of the tower at the farm in the pictures below.  Thanks to Tracy for the pictures.

Putting the last piece on the corporate office picture.

Tower Erection

Well, it is finally happening.  If you remember from earlier last year, we are working to put up some communication towers to communicate internet from the corporate office to the NCRS to Ashley.  They began today by setting the bases and will continue to put them up this week.  It is very warm here and the load limits are going on the roads Wednesday.  This caused them to change up the schedule a bit to get this done but I am confident that they will rise to the occasion.

Ashley Update

Lots going on at Ashley right now.  They are beginning to set tanks for the inside storage and manufacturing.

 The 30,000 gal tanks don't look that large inside a building this big.

 The office is coming along nicely.

 They are getting much of the walls completed.  Fabric on the top and hard plastic panels on the bottom.

You can see the tank again here.  The elevated building is the truck loadout office.

Hey - If you haven't noticed, you aren't seeing the NCRS projects on here anymore.  Jerry is keeping those up to date on his blog at http://ncrsresearch.blogspot.com/

So tune in if you haven't!

ASHLEY UPDATE

Lots of progress this week.  Framing of office, plant work, heating, etc.

You can see the platform for the truck loadout office in front of the forklift.

 Driver Lounge

 Break Room

 Site Manager Office.

Logistics Office