NEW SALEM, Ind. — Crop Production Services (CPS) recently hosted Think Big Days, Aug. 17-18, in Rush County, Ind. highlighting CPS products including Dyna-Gro and Loveland chemical products.

“We tried to make this a family-friendly event, inviting our customers, prospective customers and their farm families,” said John Brown, seed manager for CPS. “We designed this to be an educational process, about growing better corn, soybeans, wheat and alfalfa.”

Brown also mentioned that many CPS suppliers were on hand to answer customer questions including Dow Chemical, Syngenta, Monsanto and BASF. Additionally, Bill Johnson, weed specialist at Purdue University and Tom Lous, a weed specialist at Ohio State University provided seminars during the event. For the keynote on Saturday morning, nearly 600 attendees enjoyed a presentation from Matt Painter, head coach of the Purdue University men’s basketball team. 

Brown said that customers also enjoyed a one-hour walking tour of CPS corn and soybean trials, showcasing the best that CPS has to offer, despite drought-related conditions.

“The crops that were stressed will probably yield half of what is normal. But considering the condition, we were still able to do the tours and show benefits of our products, he said.

“Overall, we felt like the event was quite a success, especially since our goal was 400 attendees and we had nearly 600 over the two-day period in August,” added Brown, who mentioned that the event has already been scheduled for 2013, Aug. 16-17 in New Salem. “This event showed a lot of valuable information in what we can provide for farmers and the farming community. It was a real win-win for everyone.”

According to Brown, the advantage to CPS is that “we can provide all the inputs to maximize production.”

“We sell everything from seed to chemicals, we are a one-stop shop,” he said. “That’s what this event was all about, thinking big, big yields, big profits. That really differentiates us from other products and other seed companies.”