David Uhr

About David

• Grew up in a small town in northern Florida.
• His father was a forester and they would spend a lot of time in the woods where he would teach him about trees and plants.
• When he was young, his grandfather helped him plant a small garden on his farm—says this is what sparked his early interest in agriculture.
• Once in high school, he began expanding the garden and producing enough food from it to use on a regular basis.
• In college, he decided to pursue agronomy, the science of soil management and crop production—says, “If I was going to spend my life doing something, I would rather be feeding the world”.
• After graduate school, he moved to Kentucky and opened a research facility studying corn hybrids.
• When that facility closed, he got a job doing research on corn breeding in Indiana and has been there ever since—he is now one of the leading corn breeders for Dow AgroSciences.
• Says to succeed in this kind of farming, you have to be a really good business person and have a thorough understanding of how to grow crops.