Wisconsin Soybean News

Soybean Celebration Planned In Evansville

EVANSVILLE, Wis. - Sept. 26, 2007 – Everything’s coming up soybeans in
Evansville, Wis., as the city prepares to observe a week-long celebration of the state’s
miraculous, yellow oilseed crop October 15-20.

Officially the "Evansville Soybean Celebration" commences at 9 a.m., Monday, October
15, with the reading of the Governor's Proclamation declaring Evansville Soybean
Capital of Wisconsin. Events run throughout the week as local schools participate in
several "soy-centric" events.

Family and Consumer Education classes at the middle school and high school levels will
cook soybean specialties. Students then will compile a cookbook of their recipes and
compete for prizes in a weekend soybean cook-off. Art students can enter an "Art
Extravaganza" and, using Prang Soybean Crayons compete for prizes in three divisions:
Grades 3-5; 6-8, and; grades 9-12.

Evansville science classes will conduct age-appropriate lessons and classroom
experiments based on activities in the Wisconsin Soybean Kit for elementary classes and
the Bio-diesel Kit at the high school level. Both sets of kits were donated by the
Wisconsin Soybean Association, a major sponsor of this event.

Evansville's Soybean Festival culminates Saturday, October 20 with a day of free
festivities, food, facility tours and fun for visitors of all ages. Based at Evansville high
school from10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the local high school, events include business displays, a
wide variety of free soybean food samples, the soybean cook-off, a professional cooking
demonstration, appearance by Wisconsin's “Alice In Dairyland “ and a live remote
broadcast by local radio station WJVL. A miniature soybean farm and train will be on
display along with full-sized farming equipment from nearby John Deere and Case
dealerships.

Festival goers can board buses for tours of soybean operations at The Delong Co., and
Landmark Services Cooperative. The bus tours will run at 11 a.m. and noon and also will
provide a first-hand view of construction progress at the North Prairie Productions
Biodiesel Plant and watch a soybean field being harvested. Tickets are required for these
tours and will be available at the door.

Presiding over the week's events are King and Queen, Corvan and Joanne
Neuenschwander, members of the local FFA Alumni Association. You’re also likely to
see city's official soybean mascot, affectionately named Soyer by a local first grade class,
at many of the week's event. Soyer's costume was designed and constructed by a local
seamstress and proved to be a big hit during the Evansville 4th of July Parade.

Additional information on this event and a schedule of events is available online at
www.wisoybean.org . For more information about specific, Evansville activities call
Marsha Dobbs at 608-882-4612.