Iowa Roots: Iowa State honors agricultural history, Sukup family with End Zone Project

A familiar corrugated steel – the kind used to make grain bins – has found another purpose at Iowa State University.
     The industrial material is traveling from Sukup Manufacturing in Sheffield to Ames to grace Jack Trice Stadium as the focal point of the new end zone addition. Sukup End Zone Club season ticketholders will have access to a two-level lounge that is part of the stadium’s $60 million renovation project, which will open this fall. The lounge features fixtures and signs made from the Sukup-manufactured steel used for grain bins in Iowa and worldwide.
     “We hope it creates a feel for the farming aspect of Iowa,” said Emily Schmitt, general counsel for Sukup Manufacturing. “It was a perfect highlight.”
     Read the full article in the June 17 edition of the Hampton Chronicle.