Dr. Nick Harre, Photo Credit: Illinois Soybean Association

A fifth-generation farmer says his PhD is not going to waste working on his family farm.

Nick Harre tells Brownfield while in school, it wasn’t feasible for him to return to work on the farm so he continued his education obtaining a Masters Degree in Plant, Soil and Ag Systems from Southern Illinois University and Doctorate in Botany and Plant Pathology from Purdue University. But when the farm expanded, Harre says he couldn’t pass up the opportunity to come home.

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