As a Field Sales Agronomist, and a new one at that, I am always learning on the job. Just a few days back a farmer had contacted me asking me to go out and look at one of his fields. He just couldn't understand why this one area of his field had no leaves on the plants what so ever. So being the rookie that I am I asked another Sales Agronomist and a Seed Rep to go out there with me and this is what we found. Sure enough there were an area of soybeans that there were no leaves but the stems were all there. After looking around for a few minutes, the picture above is what we concluded to be the problem. See right across the road from this field is a pond, a pond full of geese. So the geese would walk across the road, eat the beans and walk back across the road. All I can say is he got one thing out of the deal, fertilizer!
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Challenges of my Job
As a Field Sales Agronomist, and a new one at that, I am always learning on the job. Just a few days back a farmer had contacted me asking me to go out and look at one of his fields. He just couldn't understand why this one area of his field had no leaves on the plants what so ever. So being the rookie that I am I asked another Sales Agronomist and a Seed Rep to go out there with me and this is what we found. Sure enough there were an area of soybeans that there were no leaves but the stems were all there. After looking around for a few minutes, the picture above is what we concluded to be the problem. See right across the road from this field is a pond, a pond full of geese. So the geese would walk across the road, eat the beans and walk back across the road. All I can say is he got one thing out of the deal, fertilizer!
