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Poppin’ good time Midwest Electric director’s crop helps make memories at Farm Science Review. BY JEFF MCCALLISTER
Roger Rank donates every kernel of the popcorn served in the Ohio’s Electric Cooperatives Education Center at Farm Science Review.
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oger Rank has grown popcorn on his fields near Van Wert for almost 40 years. For much of that time, the early part of each harvest has had to go to waste in order to comply with some of the regulations and demands of the distributors who bought the crop. But lately, he’s found a use for those first kernels of the season. Instead of disposing of them, he donates a portion of that crop to various organizations.
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Anyone who visits the Ohio’s Electric Cooperatives Education Center at the 2019 Farm Science Review Sept. 17–19 in London will know exactly where part of that donation has gone. “The smell of popcorn popping is one of the lasting memories people take away from our building,” says Janet Rehberg, director of cooperative development at OEC. “People come back and visit us year after year, and