New Year, new farmers, NEW sweepstakes from Farmers Feed US!

Posted on: Sat, 01/01/2011 - 21:44 — mwidboom

Meet the Vanderkooi family of Ocheda Dairy!

Free tickets to Minnesota Gophers Men’s Basketball games and free groceries from Cub Foods are up for grabs in a new sweepstakes sponsored by the Minnesota Farmers Feed US campaign. Farmers Feed US is a consumer education campaign featuring Minnesota farmers showing how they produce safe, nutritious and affordable food. More than 75,000 Minnesotans registered for the first Farmers Feed US sweepstakes that ended in November and two lucky winners each went home with $5,000 in free groceries.  

The new campaign features four University of Minnesota graduates who work in agriculture – including Laura Schulz, a veterinarian from St. Peter; John Gorton, a turkey farmer from Pelican Rapids; Rita Vander Kooi, a dairy farmer from Worthington; and Bryan Lawrence, a cattle farmer from Princeton.By visiting the Farmers Feed US website, consumers will meet several Minnesota farmers and can take an online tour of their farms. They can also register for their choice of grand prize options -- a $500 Cub Foods gift card or a chance to bring 20 people to watch the Gophers-Penn State basketball game from a suite at Williams Arena, Sunday, March 6.  Other prizes are Cub gift cards for $250, $100 and $50; four packs of Gopher tickets for 5 lucky winners, and an official NCAA basketball autographed by Gopher coach, Tubby Smith.

Minnesotans can register for the sweepstakes through February 28 at www.farmersfeedus.org/mn.