A Fun Ride

Bayer Crop Science Crop Protection Technical Development Representative Kevin Thorsness will retire this fall. During the Big Iron Farm and Construction Show, RRFN visited with Thorsness about his 32-year career with Bayer. “It’s been a fun ride,” said Thorsness. “We’ve seen a lot of technology come to the area that helped to push yields; traited corn, soybeans and canola and the use of glyphosate.” Thorsness said the agricultural landscape also changed in the 1990s when Fusarium head blight devastated regional wheat production. “There’s fewer acres of wheat, but the guys that are growing wheat are putting a lot more into it. Thirty-two years ago, a 45 bushel wheat crop was a nice crop. This year, there were guys who were harvesting well over 100 bushels per acre.”