Media Giant’s Agricultural Industry Effort Helps
American Family Farms To Plan For Successful Transition From Parents
To Children
Ambia, IN - The "Farm Journal Legacy Project Supported by
Pioneer" logo will be on #50 Karl Weber's race car for the 2011 JEGS
All-Star Tour presented by
GM
Performance Parts beginning at this weekend's race at Illiana
Speedway. The Legacy Project is an industry-wide effort which
encourages succession-planning for family-owned farms across the US.
"I am honored to have the Legacy Project logo on my car", said 14
year old Karl Weber, "because it is important to America that
family-owned farms stay within the family, after all, I am a young
farmer myself and want to continue what my family has created."
Weber joins the JEGS All-Star Tour presented by GM Performance
Parts as a Rookie after winning more than 7 Karting Championships in
only 3 years of racing. The diminutive teen arrives at Illiana
Speedway directly from the farm field after helping The Weber Farm by
piloting a 15,000-pound John Deere Tractor as the family plants its
Pioneer Hi-Bred corn and soybean seeds for the growing season.
About Legacy Project:
The Farm Journal Legacy Project is an industry promotion effort to
bring awareness of what it takes to plan the succession of family
farms from one generation to another. Through Farm Journal's Media
properties, the Legacy Project provides comprehensive succession
planning information to family-owned farms.
www.agweb.com/legacyproject/about/
About Karl Weber:
Karl Weber, 14, has been racing for only 3 years. Competing in all
of the key karting series he has garnered 7 Championships with more
than 100 race victories. Weber qualified 12th in the Inaugural JEGS
All-Star Tour presented by GM Performance Parts race in Toledo.
www.karlweberracing.com
About The Weber Farm:
The Weber Farm is a 12,000 acre American Farm Operation. It
produces corn and soybean with most of the corn as food-quality,
product and going into Frito-Lay's corn-based consumer products.
