Current Articles: Grower Spotlight: Tommy Hoskyn (Stuttgart, Arkansas) Any businessperson worth their salt has, at minimum, a 5-year business plan that projects revenue, expenses, and projected profit. In fact, most banks demand such detailed plans before issuing business operating loans... [View the Full Article] Grower Spotlight: Gene (Pucky) Sandager (Hills, Minnesota) When you feed the world, you are as important as any ambassador or government diplomat," explained 50-year-old Gene (Pucky) Sandager, a corn, soybean, and cattle producer from Hills, Minnesota... [View the Full Article] Grower Spotlight: Patrick Johnson (Tunica, Mississippi) Being a fresh college graduate is one of the scariest and thrilling times of one's lifetime. All of a sudden it is up to you to make your own decisions. But what if your decision entailed entering a risky industry... [View the Full Article] Community Spotlight: Walnut Grove, Minnesota “Little House on the Prairie” Opposes Grassley-Dorgan Pay Limits Amendment Tom and DeVonna Zeug have a lot in common with the famous Charles Ingalls family who, in the late 19th century, settled on a farm just seven miles away from what is today the Zeug family's fifth generation farm... [View the Full Article] Grower Spotlight: David Kragnes (Felton, Minnesota) David Kragnes sits on the Board of Directors for a major American company. But David is different from your average corporate board member. He doesn't wear a three-piece suit to work every day or drive a luxury sedan. He drives a Deere and feels more comfortable in jeans... [View the Full Article] Grower Spotlight: Justin Cariker (Tunica, Mississippi) Farmer Justin Cariker from Tunica, Mississippi has so many titles you couldn't possible fit it all on a business card. He is a cotton farmer, soybean farmer, wheat farmer and corn farmer, and when he's not farming he is extremely active in his community... [View the Full Article] Grower Spotlight: John Thaemert (Ellsworth, Kansas) When John Thaemert isn’t sporting a suit and sitting behind his desk at the Citizens State Bank & Trust Co. in Ellsworth, Kan., he’s wearing jeans and working on his wheat farm a few miles down the road near Sylvan Grove... [View the Full Article] Community Spotlight: Abbeville, Louisiana Sept. 24 marks the two-year anniversary of the “big flood” in Abbeville, Louisiana... [View the Full Article] Grower Spotlight: Gene Fynboh (Brandon, Minnesota) Nowadays, everybody seems to be hopping on the ethanol bandwagon... [View the Full Article] Community Spotlight: Stuttgart, Arkansas If you've eaten rice one night this week for dinner, there's a 50-50 chance it came from Arkansas... [View the Full Article] Grower Spotlight: Charles Guidry (Erath, Louisiana) Back when Charles Guidry was still a young, bright-eyed farmer in the 1980s, life was a lot different than it is today. [View the Full Article] Grower Spotlight: Barry Evans (Kress, Texas) Many Americans wrongly think that farmers are uneducated and not tech-savvy. [View the Full Article] Community Spotlight: South Louisiana Sugar For more than 200 years, sugar production has been a way of life in southern Louisiana. [View the Full Article] Grower Spotlight: Theresia Gillie (Hallock, Minnesota) Theresia Gillie is sick of the stereotypes of women on the farm. [View the Full Article]