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Ep. 002: Zach Nixon - Beck's Hybrids
Knee High by the 4th of July? Corn has changed…
TrophyCast's second episode brought in its first guest, and the crew didn't have to look far — Zach Nixon, District Sales Manager for Beck's Hybrids, covering nine counties in northeast Missouri. He's also cousins with co-host Jason Wallingford, a connection that came up more than once. Zach's a first-generation cattle farmer with a wife and three kids, six years into his career at Beck's, and he came prepared to talk shop — corn, cattle, dirt, deer, and everything in between.
First thing worth knowing: the old saying about corn being knee-high by the Fourth of July doesn't hold up anymore. Modern hybrids are tasseling by early July now. If a field isn't already well above head height by then, something either went wrong or went in late.
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