Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. I'm Chuck Zimmerman.

In this episode of the podcast I'm going to share some audio from the National Ethanol Conference. While Laura McNamara worked with Syngenta Seeds at Commodity Classic, which overlapped with the NEC, yours truly drove to Orlando and took photos, interviews and session audio in a custom virtual ag newsroom on AgNewsWire.com.

To start out with, Patrice Banks, Founder of Girls Auto Clinic, who spoke at the NEC Women's Leadership Breakfast, also spoke at one of the sessions. Hers was titled, Cultivating a New Crop of Ethanol Advocates.

Renewable Fuels Association staff member, Kendra Coulson, Marketing and Membership Manager, helps with educating new audiences and she has worked with Patrice and her audience.

On a different topic RFA has scholarships given out at the NEC. I thought you might like to hear how one winner of the Young Professionals Network scholarship is Verena Hopkins.

If you would like to hear more about what is going on in the renewable fuels world and specifically, ethanol, check out our virtual newsroom. We've got plenty more and besides the newsroom you can see stories from it on Energy.AgWired.com and the latest episode of The Ethanol Report.

That's the ZimmCast for now. I hope you enjoy it and thank you for listening.