Sponsor Levels and Benefits

TIER One — $11,000/year
Showcase your company’s product in a demonstration area featured at well-attended field days, in media articles, on project website and more. 

• Company logo on road-side signs.
• Company name and logo appears in all project promotion. 
• Area-wide producer meetings recognize your sponsorship.
• Company logo adorns informational materials.
• Media coverage from local, regional and national publications

TIER Two — $5,000/year
Your product used in conjunction with other products in a project demonstration area.  

• Company logo on road-side signs.
• Company name and logo appears in all project promotion. 
• Area-wide producer meetings recognize your sponsorship.
• Company logo adorns informational materials.
• Media coverage from local, regional and national publications.       

TIER Three — $2,500/year

• Your sponsor name in promotion of project, field days,  outreach material and web site
• Area-wide producer meetings recognize company’s sponsorship.
• Company logo adorns informational materials. 
• Media coverage from local, regional and national publications.     

Your Audience

• Information will reach 100 percent of the producers in the watershed, representing 52,480 acres. 
• Media releases will reach local publications:  Fairbury Blade, Pontiac Daily Leader, and The Paper; regional publications including AgriNews and the county Bugle; and national publications such as Corn and Soybean Digest, Farm Journal, Successful Farming, and more.
• Exposure will include CTIC’s e-magazine, Partners, with a circulation of more than 6,000 conservation professionals, as well as an interactive web site devoted to the project. 
• Area-wide producers will meet to discuss project progress and conservation systems.
• Field days will be promoted through local agricultural dealers...and other agricultural professionals who producers go to for advice...and will attract watershed producers as well as producers in surrounding counties.
• Producer information packets will include your logo, nutrient use efficiency study data, demonstration information and results, 4R nutrient stewardship materials, and tactics to avoid herbicide resistance.
• Speakers will include company representatives, conservation producers and other conservation experts, and partnering organizations. 
• Winter meetings will be held to update Indian Creek producers and interested others and solicit feedback for successful continuation of the project.
• Regular reports will be filed with IL EPA, IL Department of Agriculture, US EPA, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service NRCS and other partners.