2010 Legacy Award Winner: Harold Reetz

Harold Reetz has been a champion of technology and precision agriculture throughout his four decade-long career. Starting out in Extension in the Purdue University system in the 1970s, he assumed numerous leadership roles over the years and worked tirelessly as a champion for improving agronomic practices through education, research, outreach, and collaboration with like-minded growers and researchers from around the world.

In his role as midwest director of the International Plant Nutrition Institute, Reetz promoted the use of variable-rate fertilizers. He initiated the InfoAg Conference in the mid-1990s as a way of getting people together to share experiences and build a networked community of vendors, users, and service providers. As president of the Foundation for Agronomic Research he led multi-state teams in field research projects and development of training materials, as well as workshops on the use of precision farming and the resulting data to make decisions.

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Other 2010 PrecisionAg Awards of Excellence Winners:
• Crop Adviser/Entrepreneur Award: OptiGro Team/Jimmy Sanders
• Education/Research Award: Dr. Terry Griffin
• Farmer Award: Ken Dalenberg
• Legacy Award: Jess Loweberg-DeBoer

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