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Professor Dale is University Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and former Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Michigan State University.

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Welcome to Ultimate Farm Truck. If you enjoy dressing up your wheels or adding useful equipment to your truck, you’re welcome to participate! I will cruise the web for neat stuff, add my two cents and post it here. Combined with the comments from readers like you we’ll create an interesting and helpful resource for outfitting pickups and farm trucks. Steps, winches, lights, bed liners, wheels – I’ll cover it all.

Dee Dee is a 16-year-old member of 4-H. She has been in 4-H for about five years and will soon join FFA. She enjoys showing beef cattle and sheep at the fairs. Dee Dee says these experiences have taught her so much about leadership, hard work and dedication. She would like to show others that agriculture is more than the “factory farms” and it is about caring people trying to put healthy food on our plates.

David Maloni is the chief commodity analyst for the American Restaurant Association with his expertise and analytics featured in The Weekly Commodity Report, The Daily Commodity Bulletin and is referenced in various news articles. David specializes in proteins, dairy and grains. He can be contacted at info@americanrestaurantassociation.com. Visit the ARA website at www.AmericanRestaurantAssociation.com

Andy is a seasoned grain market analyst and the senior account executive at Walsh Hedging. His main focus is assisting producers and end users to better hedge their investments through his various market strategies over his years of experience working on the grain floor.

Doug Austin is passionate finding solutions that will allow us to nutritiously, responsibly and profitably produce the food in our future. His experience in consumer insights and shopper marketing bring interesting and helpful insights to the table about the customer’s perspective of our food production and how the industry can work together for a brighter more nutritious future.

Greg Stephens is on the faculty at K-State in Salina where he teaches business, supervision and history of technology. He considers himself a generalist. Greg is also on the state board for Kansas NFO and has an interest with siblings in a western Kansas family farm. In the past 30 years he has worked with non-profit and rural organizations, assisted in leadership training, grant writing, and provided management training and consulting for regional agribusiness. This blog represents Greg’s thoughts on positive agriculture, rural and organizational development, entrepreneurship, technology, and group marketing.

Bayer AG is a global research-based and growth-oriented enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, nutrition and high-tech materials. Bayer CropScience AG, a subsidiary of Bayer AG with annual sales of about EUR 5.7 billion (2006), is one of the world’s leading innovative crop science companies in the areas of crop protection, non-agricultural pest control, seeds and plant biotechnology. The company offers an outstanding range of products and extensive service backup for modern, sustainable agriculture and for non-agricultural applications. Bayer CropScience has a global workforce of about 17,900 and is represented in more than 120 countries. This and further news is available at: www.newsroom.bayercropscience.com

Schering-Plough Animal Health is the global animal health business of Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP). Schering-Plough is a global science-based health care company with leading prescription, consumer and animal health products. Through internal research and collaborations with partners, Schering-Plough discovers, develops, manufactures and markets advanced drug therapies to meet important medical needs. Schering-Plough’'s vision is to earn the trust of the physicians, patients and customers served by its more than 33,500 people around the world. The company is based in Kenilworth, N.J., and its Web site is www.schering-plough.com.