At 100, he’s still promoting hybrid corn
MARKLESBURG At 100 years
old, Sam Garners says his blood
pressure is as good as at 16-year
old kid’s. And it must be. Gamer
has been an active DeKalg-Pfizer
Genetics seed dealer for the last 45
years. He also is an avid camper,
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An advertisement in an Ohio
farm paper 50 years ago spurred
Gamer’s interest in hybrid com.
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“Hybrid seed com hadn’t been
introduced into this part of the
country at that time, and I wafited
to try something different,”
Garner recalls. “It’s like farmers
who started-using no-till methods a
few years ago. Somebody’s got to
be first.”
Gamer introduced hybrid com
in the Marklesburg area from 1934
to 1938 by sponsoring annual com
shows for local farmers and Ex
tension agents. “The Pennsylvania
secretary of agriculture even
came to one of my farm shows. I
wrote to him and told him that if he
could attend other meetings, he
could come to mine. And he
came.”
Gamer decided to become a
DeKalb dealer after attending the
Pennsylvania Farm Show in
Harrisburg in 1939. “I got eight or
10 bags of DeKalb seed at the farm
show to sell the first year,” he
says.
Breaking in something new is
always a challenge, but Gamer
had an idea. “I picked some good
farmers and asked them to test
their corn against my hybrid seed
com by planting eight rows of their
com, then eight rows of DeKalb,
followed by eight rows of their
corn.” If the 16 rows of com
yielded more than the eight rows of
DeKalb, Gamer didn’t change the
farmer for the DeKalb seed. But if
DeKalb yielded more, the farmer
had to pay him for the seed.
Gamer didn’t lose any money on
those deals.
“Getting new hybrids off the
ground is real difficult, because
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farmers hate to try new hybrids.
That’s as true today as it was 45
years ago. But you’ve got to be
innovative and think of ways to get
farmers to try these new brands. ”
“Sam has the tremendous ability
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“He’s determined, energetic and
extremely personable.”
Garner thinks it’s vital that
farmers look toward the future and
stay involved in agricultural
organizations. “That farmer’s the
only fellow who’s keepin’ this
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organized and willing to try in
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“Sam may be 100 years old, but
he sure doesn’t think that way,”
says Leo Damkroger, Associate
Director of Training for DeKalb-
Pfizer Genetics. “He is active,
attends nearly all dealer meetings
and provides service to farmers in
his area.”
Gamer looks at life like a ladder.
“You know, life’s like a ladder.
You climb up 50 rungs, and then
you start climbin’ down. Some
people fall off real quick after they
start climbin’ down,” he says.
“Me... I’m just about down to the
bottom, and I’ve been lucky
enough not to fall off yet. ”
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