BALTIC, S.D. — Meet Eric Watson, a Guinness World Record holder for winter wheat yield. Watson achieved a whopping 247 bushels per acre (16.79 metric tons per hectare), and was one of more than 20 national and international yield winners attending the Ag PhD field day on July 26 near Baltic. The winners were celebrities…
A special gift for Reed! Reed Havlik is a young boy in Jesup with a rare terminal genetic brain disease known as Vanishing White Matter. According to the Facebook Page Team Reed, “At the age of two, Reed was a normal developing boy running around, happy, healthy and loving life. On November 1st, 2014 Reed woke…
It is now growing season across the Corn Belt of the United States. Seeds that have just been sown will, with the right mixture of sunshine and rain, be knee-high plants by the Fourth of July and tall stalks with ears ripe for picking by late August. Corn is much more than great summer picnic…
