Jim Dove is a Regional Agronomist for Seed at FBN. He covers central Minnesota, most of South Dakota, and northwest Wisconsin. Jim has 5 years of retail agronomy experience and 3 years experience of being the agronomy manager for a 25,000 acre family farm.
He grew up on a farm in west central MN and has a bachelors degree in business management. In his spare time, he enjoys walking fields and providing drone footage for growers to help them get a new viewpoint of their fields.
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