Bio-Match

AURI showcased innovations in ag-based products and renewable energy at Farmfest 2005, an annual
agricultural fair held in early August near Redwood Falls, Minn. Thousands of visitors streamed through AURI’s exhibit tent to look, learn and get up-close and personal with what’s happening in value-added agriculture. The three-day outdoor show gives AURI the opportunity to showcase its client-service work — usually hidden in the lab or at a client’s business — and its collaboration with other agricultural groups. Under the canopy of its large 40 x 60 foot exhibit tent, AURI also invites clients to display their products; several are featured here.

About 8,000 visitors stopped by AURI’s tent at Farmfest 2005 that featured dozens of new uses for ag products.

Joel Haskard, right, of the Clean Energy Resource Teams provides information on renewable energy to a visitor. Haskard and CERTs have collaborated with AURI on several projects including a biomass exchange website.

From right to left, AURI Executive Director Edgar Olson chats with Robert Nelsen
and Howard Hamilton of Environmental Dust Control about Dustlock, a soybean based road dust control product.

A crowd favorite at AURI’s Farmfest exhibit is the BOLT Enterprises booth where visitors sample Prairie Smoke barbecue sauces produced and marketed by Westbrook-Walnut Grove High School Students.

A visitor checks out samples of corn-based Ingeo fabric made by

Faribault Woolen Mills.

Young and old were challenged to test their “ag IQ” by playing the AURI Ag Millionaire interactive computer game, which educates as well as entertains contestants with questions on Minnesota agriculture.

BOLT Enterprise’s Jodi Cooley, left, and Jenna Jarmer (also pictured on cover) hold up corn-based shirts made by Future Products of Benson (see story pg 4). The Ingeo shirts displayed in AURI’s tent were also worn by staff at the Minnesota Corn Growers tent.

Many AURI visitors were intrigued by innovative uses for agricultural coproducts, once considered waste. Here a visitor checks out Golden Lyk protein blocks for livestock made from
distiller’s grains.

AURI Communications Director Dan Lemke, left, has planned and operated AURI’s Farmfest exhibit for the past 11 years and this year was joined by Karen Zimny, the institute’s new communications assistant.