Sharon's CornCam Blog

day 59

7/9/2015

The corn is now approaching 7 feet tall. We are probably a week away from tasseling. The cool weather we've been having is slowing all the crop down around here. We are almost 1 week behind on heat units now. This field still looks pretty good, but when I drive around the countryside, a lot of fields are showing signs of going backwards due to too much rain.

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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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