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Andy Zenk is an Agribusiness Consultant with AgCountry Farm Credit Services, specializing in succession and retirement planning. In this position, he helps families work through the complex issues of farm transition, estate planning and business planning. He serves as a guide to help mentor and monitor the process of planning for retirement, constructing detailed plans based on the goals and needs of each person. He helps families design and implements necessary estate planning instruments. He also helps farmers with business entity formation and continuation plans, dissolutions and any other business planning issues they may have. Andy has a legal background as an attorney, and is currently licensed to practice law in Minnesota, North Dakota and Colorado. He holds a law degree with a business concentration from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan. Before joining AgCountry Farm Credit Services, he practiced law in Colorado in the areas of estate planning, asset protection, real estate and business planning. Andy lives with his wife Laurie and their four children in west-central Minnesota. He enjoys spending time at the lake, walleye fishing, hunting, and other outdoor activities. Although, most of his time is spent chasing his four children around (ages 8, 6, 4 and 1), which is his favorite thing by far.

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Welcome to your one-stop source for wheat information, where wheat producers across the country communicate with each other and provide up-to-date information about their crop.

I joined AGCO shortly after graduating from Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina where I majored in Communication Studies. I grew up on a small rural farm in Florida where we drove Massey Ferguson tractors. Little did I know that one day I would be working for the company who manufactures them! Combining my backgrounds in agriculture and marketing, I am very excited to advocate for agriculture through AGCO’s social media channels.

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

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.

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.