Whitney Monin’s worlds collided in the spring of 2020 on her 80-acre Kentucky farm. Monin and her husband, Josh, purchased the land, a lifelong dream, and planned to use it as a test plot for training dealers and farmer customers in her former role as technical agronomist at Channel Seed. Monin meticulously selected the hybrids and measured the number of seeds she could plant. However, after planting, it rained for nine straight days and Monin was forced to make a decision. “I walked out to the fields and my husband asked, ‘If this wasn’t your field, and you were the agronomist, how would you advise the farmer to move forward?’ I said I’d recommend tearing up the fields to replant, which was a personal lesson in humility. My best-laid plans as an agronomist to have a beautiful field of corn behind my home turned