Immediate Release:
Monday, August 25, 2008
Nebraska Corn Board contacts:
Alan Tiemann: 402.643.0721
NE Corn Board: 800.632.6761
Film crew coming to Seward to talk about foreign markets for agricultural products
LINCOLN, NE – A film crew will be in Seward later this week to complete interviews and record additional footage for an episode of America’s Heartland, a television program that focuses on America’s farmers and ranchers and how they bring food, fuel and fiber to the world.
The crew will spend time on the Alan and Lori Tiemann farm near Seward and also at Lori’s off-farm job at a local bank. Alan is a member of the Nebraska Corn Board.
The filming in Seward follows a trip the film crew and Tiemann’s took to Taiwan and China earlier this summer.
“This episode focuses on foreign markets for corn, distillers grains and PLA, the corn-based material made in Blair that is used in everything from plastic ware to clothing,” Alan said. “Since all of these items come from Nebraska, the show’s producers decided to work with a farm family here.”
While in Asia, Alan and Lori visited farms that use U.S. corn and the ethanol co-product distillers grains, as well as a factory that uses PLA to make a variety of biodegradable corn-based food containers and other goods. “The company we visited in Taiwan – the Wei Mon Industry Co. – is a sewer pipe company,” Alan explained. “The company had a problem with plastic materials plugging pipes. To help fix the problem, they started making PLA cups and food-type containers, which will biodegrade. PLA, of course, is made right here in Nebraska – in Blair.”
Alan said the episode is part of the fourth season of America’s Heartland and will air this winter on RFD-TV and at AmericasHeartland.org – a preview is already on line and includes a short segment with Alan and Lori on a dairy farm in China. Although episodes air on many public television stations, NET does not currently carry the series.
The episode featuring the Tiemann’s is supported by the Nebraska Corn Board, NC+ Hybrids and the U.S. Grains Council.
America’s Heartland is a magazine-style series that has been airing since 2005. More than 62 half-hour episodes containing 300 stories have been produced to date.
The Nebraska Corn Board is a self-help program, funded and managed by Nebraska corn farmers. Producers invest in the program at a rate of ¼ of a cent per bushel of corn sold. Nebraska corn checkoff funds are invested in programs of market development, research and education.
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