In memoriam.Legendary agribusinessman Dave Garst, 79, passed away last month in Carroll, IA, after a brief fight with cancer. Garst, best known for the founding of the seed company that bears his family's name, was a seedsman Seeds´man n. 1. A sower; one who sows or scatters seed. The seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. - Shak. 2. A person who deals in seeds. Noun 1. , politician, sales rep, and farmland owner. He was named NAMA's Agri-Marketer of the Year in 1987. He was the son of prominent agriculturalist Roswell Garst Roswell Garst (June 13, 1898 - November 4, 1977) was a farmer and seed company executive. He developed hybrid corn seed in 1930 that allowed greater crop yields than open-pollinated corn. who is credited with helping develop the hybrid seed In agriculture and gardening, hybrid seed is seed produced by artificially cross-pollinated plants. Hybrids are bred to improve the characteristics of the resulting plants, such as better yield, greater uniformity, improved color, disease resistance, and so forth. industry as the Western Corn Belt Corn Belt, major agricultural region of the U.S. Midwest where corn acreage once exceeded that of any other crop. It is now commonly called the Feed Grains and Livestock Belt. sales agent for Pioneer Hybrid, operating under the name Garst & Thomas. Dave Garst joined Garst & Thomas in 1956 as a sales representative in western Kansas where he helped that region increase its corn acreage substantially, and grew the company's com market share to over 50 percent. Garst succeeded his father as sales manager of the company in 1961. In 1983 the company ended its 53-year relationship with Pioneer and Garst launched Garst Seed Co., with headquarters in Coon Rapids, IA. In 1985, the company was sold to ICI (language) ICI - An extensible, interpretated language by Tim Long with syntax similar to C. ICI adds high-level garbage-collected associative data structures, exception handling, sets, regular expressions, and dynamic arrays. , the England-based chemical manufacturer. Upon his retirement from the seed business, Garst remained active in the American Society of Agricultural Consultants and has been a vocal advocate of ethanol and World Peace initiatives. Garst was preceded in death by his brother Steve, who passed away one-year ago and was also involved in managing the Garst family holdings. |
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