Sharon's CornCam Blog

Day 41

6/20/2015

Yesterday the weather was beautiful. Corn is really starting to take off. Rain is on its way today. It is thundering in the distance as I write this. June is still on the cool side. We are 64 GDUs (Growing Degree Units) behind normal for the month. A GDU is a measurement of heat units for corn. We should average about 20 GDUs each day. This puts us about 3 days behind average. I can believe it - our air conditioner has hardly been on this month. Tomorrow is the first day of Summer!

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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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