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Oklahoma Territory Agronomy Advisor and Katie's coworker, Michael Marlow, speaking at a field day in Blackwell, OK to a group of growers about Asgrow varieties in one of her soybean plots.

Where’s the sales pitch? It’s in the yield, it’s in the field!

By Katie

If you would have asked me 10 years ago what I wanted to be when I grow up, sales probably would have been one of the last things to come to mind. In fact, when I tell people now that I am involved in sales I feel like I need to explain exactly what I do so that they don’t think that I go door to door begging people to buy seed. I sell soybeans, corn, cotton, grain sorghum, winter canola and alfalfa and I love it. I only wish I would have known earlier what exactly it … Full Article »

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Originally published
September 15, 2010 by Monsantoco

Farmers Love Data!

It’s Saturday morning and I’m sitting in a meeting room… got here at 8 a.m. and we will be running until the afternoon. As the speakers have taken the stage or videos hit the screen, I’m reminded of how important data is to farmers.

The data presented today is on cotton – yield, fiber quality, disease resistance, etc.

The reality I see routinely strikes me again so early in the morning. These guys were chatting, trading stories one minute. Next minute, they are sitting in a room with pen and paper running & gunning. Why? There is data to be … Full Article »

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Originally published
December 14, 2009 by Janice Person