For 30 years now the city of Martin has come together to celebrate one of their communities top cash crops. The Tennessee Soybean Festival celebrates the soybean, farmers, and agriculture as a whole. The three day festival features amusement rides, good food, and live concerts each night. It starts September 7th and goes through September 9th.
Thomas Capps
The soybean celebrated in Martin. Hello and welcome to Tennessee Home and Farm Radio. I'm Thomas Capps.
Brad Thompson
It's time to celebrate, you know our roots and to recognize agriculture to recognize farmers.
Thomas Capps
Each year the city of Martin comes together to recognize one of the top cash crops in their community from live music to amusement rides and good food. The soybean festival has something for everyone. Now in its 30th Year festival Director Brad Thompson says the annual tradition always seeks to keep agriculture at the center.
Brad Thompson
Soybeans are a Top Crop in Tennessee and you know the impact of soybeans reaches far beyond the Tennessee farm. And you know, in fact the economic impact of soybeans just on the across the state of Tennessee's over a billion dollars.
Thomas Capps
The three day event starts today in the historic downtown of Martin and goes until Saturday. Each night features live concerts Thursday nights performances Cheap Trick, Friday Brothers Osbourne, and Saturday night is Russell Dickerson Thompson just wants everyone to come out and have a good time keeping this three decade old tradition alive.
Brad Thompson
The Tennessee soybean festival has its challenges a little bit with marketing soybeans, but the more we look into it, the more we learned like the soybean is a very diverse agricultural commodity and just like the soybean, our festival offers a lot of diverse activities. We'd like to say that we have a little something for everyone here to come and celebrate from the people the food the activities. You know, everyone is welcome anyone who would like to come you know we have the vending fair. We have over 50 different food trucks we have the carnival food we have a midway amusement ride.
Thomas Capps
General admission into the festival is free. Tickets for the concert start at $20 for Tennessee Holman Farm Radio, I'm Thomas Capps.
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