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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.

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.

Kristina grew up in a small farming community in southwest Iowa. Today, she lives on five acres in the country while running her own consulting business in the city. Her website, www.kristinashouse.com, features homemaking, gardening, travel, entertainment, business and technology tips. In the kitchen, Kristina bridges the recipes of her past to the new flavors and fashionable foods of today. In business, she combines a Midwest work ethic with trendy tech tools. Join her each week for flashbacks and fast-forwards. To contact her, e-mail: Kristina@kristinashouse.com.

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Doug Austin is passionate finding solutions that will allow us to nutritiously, responsibly and profitably produce the food in our future. His experience in consumer insights and shopper marketing bring interesting and helpful insights to the table about the customer’s perspective of our food production and how the industry can work together for a brighter more nutritious future.

CNH Case New Holland is a world leader in the agricultural and construction equipment businesses. Supported by about 11,500 dealers in 160 countries, CNH brings together the knowledge and heritage of its Case and New Holland brand families with the strength and resources of its worldwide commercial, industrial, product support and finance organizations. CNH Global N.V., whose stock is listed at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:CNH), is a majority-owned subsidiary of Fiat S.p.A. (FIA.MI), More information about CNH and its Case and New Holland products can be found online at www.cnh.com .

Schering-Plough Animal Health is the global animal health business of Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP). Schering-Plough is a global science-based health care company with leading prescription, consumer and animal health products. Through internal research and collaborations with partners, Schering-Plough discovers, develops, manufactures and markets advanced drug therapies to meet important medical needs. Schering-Plough’'s vision is to earn the trust of the physicians, patients and customers served by its more than 33,500 people around the world. The company is based in Kenilworth, N.J., and its Web site is www.schering-plough.com.

Greg Stephens is on the faculty at K-State in Salina where he teaches business, supervision and history of technology. He considers himself a generalist. Greg is also on the state board for Kansas NFO and has an interest with siblings in a western Kansas family farm. In the past 30 years he has worked with non-profit and rural organizations, assisted in leadership training, grant writing, and provided management training and consulting for regional agribusiness. This blog represents Greg’s thoughts on positive agriculture, rural and organizational development, entrepreneurship, technology, and group marketing.

Andy is a seasoned grain market analyst and the senior account executive at Walsh Hedging. His main focus is assisting producers and end users to better hedge their investments through his various market strategies over his years of experience working on the grain floor.