Hillsboro farmer Joel Thorsrud gifted North Dakota State University an endowed Professorship in the name of retired NDSU soybean breeder Ted Helms. Thorsrud credits Helms for the growth of North Dakota’s soybean industry. “When I first started growing soybeans, there really weren’t a lot of good choices. Since Ted Helms started breeding, he’s come out with much better varieties. He let the other seed companies take his varieties and make their changes to them which caused all those seed company’s varieties to get much better.” Thorsrud spent many years as an active farmer/member of the soybean industry. “I spent six years on the North Dakota Soybean Council and nine years on the United Soybean board after that. When you serve on these soybean boards, you don’t just spend a couple of hours at a meeting. You go all in and learn a bunch of different aspects of soybeans.”
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