Pictured here are Sharon Kingstrom, executive assistant at ValAdCo, left, and Diane Maurice, member service representative at Renville-Sibley. The land in Renville-Sibley's service territory is gorgeous. The dirt is black and deep. There is little wasteland.
Many fields are total quarter sections.
The farmers grow corn, sugar beets, green peas, soy beans and a little alfalfa. The farmers' yields are 150 to 175 bushels of corn per acre without irrigation. Neat and tidy farmsteads and a few abandoned ones interrupt the greening scape. We've invested a lot of money to make sure we have backup for them. They just can't take an outage.