But they take time to come along.

It did not have agronomic value but was attractive. He entered the plant in the AAS trials, and it was selected as a gold-medal winner. He was a breeder, not a seed producer or marketer, so we helped get it to market through Pan American Seed Company, one of our subsidiaries.

I grew up on a farm and went to Iowa State. I planned to go into Extension, but my adviser said we bought seeds from Ball and I should try interviewing with them. That was 24 years ago and I have been doing the trials ever since.

The average means 50 percent of the time, we're over that, and 50 percent of the time, we're under that.

What we see this season is there are several days in between rains and enough time for it to stay dry and warm and windy. There's nowhere for the pollen to go, so it just stays in the air, on the trees and you can actually see it building up.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. -Jim Bishop.