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Day 32

6/11/2015

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Since we are just getting this all up & running, this will be my first post.  The corn has now been in the ground a little over 4 weeks and is already 20" tall.  It has been hot this week, so the corn has grown a lot.  It has grown about 12 inches in the last 6 days.   It was "knee high" by June 10, so well ahead of the "knee high by the Fourth of July" benchmark.  Actually, In today's farming world, knee high by the Fourth of June is much more common. 

This field was not planted early for this area.  Much of the corn was already in the ground by May 1 and this particular field was not planted till May 9.  Even so, it isn't far behind those planted almost a month earlier.  

At this time the fertlizer is all on and the herbicides have been sprayed, so we can now sit back and watch the leaves wave at us and grow!

Today it has been raining off and on all day.  Wehave had .9" of rain since this morning.   Maybe you can even see it when it is raining "cats & dogs."
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    Hi!  My name is Sharon Greif.  I grew up with corn in rural Illinois where my dad raised seed corn for an old company called Hulting Hybrids.  I detasseled corn in high school & have NO desire to ever do that again! 

    I graduated from Iowa State University where I studied marketing. After three  years of living in the "Big City", I decided to follow my love of agriculture and took a job as a district sales manager for a seed corn company.    I was assigned a territory in Iowa, where I met &  married a corn and soybean farmer from Prairieburg Iowa.   Thirty-two years later, I'm still in Iowa, though I love Illinois also.

    I served on the Iowa Corn Grower board in the 90's as a district director.  I've also served on the Iowa Women in Ag committee and I currently serve on the board of the Iowa Arabian Horse Association.   

    I love Iowa State football & basketball, Arabian horses, Boxer dogs, and I am passionate about agriculture & it's story.

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