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Cenex® Announces the Hometown Throwdown $100,000 Grand Prize Festival Winner!
Hometown Throwdown continues the brand's tradition of giving back to communities by awarding $150,000 to fund local festivals INVER GROVE HEIGHTS, Minn., May
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[{"type":"text","content":"Hometown Throwdown continues the brand's tradition of giving back to communities by awarding $150,000 to fund local festivals\nINVER GROVE HEIGHTS, Minn., May 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Cenex®, the energy brand of CHS Inc., announced today that the Norborne Soybean Festival in Norborne, Missouri, is the Hometown Throwdown $100,000 grand prize winner, while the other two finalists, Hayward Musky Festival in Hayward, Wisconsin, and Roseau Fall Harvest Festival in Roseau, Minnesota, will each receive $25,000. The prizes will go toward bringing these unique celebrations to the next level.\n\n \n \n\n \nAs the self-proclaimed, \"Soybean Capital of the World,\" Norborne has been celebrating its agricultural roots since 1982. Hosted each August, the Norborne Soybean Festival is a testament to the hard-working, generous, humble people of Norborne. The 100% volunteer-run festival features entertainment for all ages, including a soy coin hunt, soy donuts, ag in the classroom and the naming of a new King or Queen Soybean. With its long history rooted in tradition, local pride, community engagement and family fun, it is no surprise that Norborne's Soybean Festival is the best fest in the United States.\nHometown Throwdown, a social media contest Cenex launched this past fall, encouraged local pride by asking individuals and organizations to share what makes their hometown festival unique. Over 500 festival submissions were received during the entry period from Oct. 3 through Dec. 15, 2023.\n\"We couldn't be more pleased with the response we received for Hometown Throwdown. We love seeing the pride people have for their local communities and it's clear there's no shortage of that in Norborne, Missouri,\" said Erin Wroge, senior director of energy marketing at CHS Inc. \"A big congratulations from all of us at Cenex to the Norborne Soybean Festival. We were truly impressed with all three festivals in the running for the grand prize and we're looking forward to fostering community pride across the Cenex footprint for years to come.\"\nHometown Throwdown is inspired by the Cenex brand's strong local roots and is a continuation of its long history of giving back to the communities it calls home. The brand is local to its core with all 1,400-plus retail locations across 19 states run by members of the community. To date, Cenex has given more than h...
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