What did I learn today at the Farm? Well, for one, I now know that the one and only Shawn Johnson (Olympic gymnast) and Donna Reed (yes, like from the Donna Reed Show) hail from this lovely state, and that Iowa’s league of high school women’s basketball is very important ‘round these parts. Our trip to Iowa’s Hall of Pride this afternoon taught me that not only does Iowa have many politicians and athletes in their claim to fame, but they also can now claim Dr H-N and his latent Dance Dance Marathon dancing skills. Probably more pertinent to our original aims in this particular excursion lay in the tiny corner of the museum devoted to corn and soybean farming. I found the interactive and animated videos to be very illustrative with the various moving parts in the whole process from seed to stalk. Being a history buff, the Wallace house this morning was most interesting. To see how one family so powerfully affected the agricultural industry, and how one man so critically altered the position of Vice President was definitely eye opening. And to know who began the movement towards making it possible to produce hybrid seeds on a large-scale basis made the changes seem less removed. His aid in Mexico and Siberia was instrumental in helping those people a time of great need and famine. I truly hope that I can use what I know about nutrition and food production to one-day help others  — in ways that they do not know how or cannot do themselves.