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issue 7 spring 2015 what’s in this issue • get your seed ready for spring • emerging markets • we want to make your job easier
You Are Your Own Researcher By Pat Toner
O
ne late
sunny
afternoon
December,
one
in
affiliations may be best abbreviated as
of
“B.Sc.”
my most “conversational”
that day was typical agronomy chat. While everyone faced challenges (and
Next, the conversation quickly diverted
some very frustrating), the success stories
him Bob) came into the office and
into
performance,
relentlessly come to the fore as well. We
introduced me to his son who was home
achievements, and challenges. 2014
talked about the encouraging responses
for the holidays. The introduction went
proved to be a challenge in marketing,
consistently found by applying the right
something like, “Bachelor of Science,
driven primarily by the fact it was also a
fungicide to lentils, the performance of
Professional Agrologist, and Certified
challenge in disease mitigation, resistant
relatively new chemistry for weed control
Crop
immediately
weed management, and plant nutrition
and crop safety in field peas, the late-
by a humbling debate that professional
and health. All in all, the conversation
season outbreak we saw of Sclerotinia
customers
Advisor,”
followed
(let’s
call
on-farm
crop