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Fighting on the side of the Union Army in our great Civil War, Barney lived through the Battle of Chickamauga and for his service was rewarded an honorable discharge, 40 acres of land, a mule and 13 US dollars.<br/></p></div><div class="timeline_image-wrapper"><img src="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/65eb0a752c4cab3dda0d3fce/65eb0a752c4cab3dda0d4082_Barney-min.avif" loading="lazy" alt="barney image" class="timeline_image"/></div></div></div><div data-w-id="3669ff75-273a-733d-bf00-5b162fe029bb" class="timeline_item"><div id="w-node-_3669ff75-273a-733d-bf00-5b162fe029bc-d3142f59" class="timeline_left"><h3 class="timeline_date-text heading-large animate-scroll-in">1877</h3></div><div id="w-node-_3669ff75-273a-733d-bf00-5b162fe029bf-d3142f59" class="timeline_centre"><div class="timeline_circle"></div></div><div id="w-node-_3669ff75-273a-733d-bf00-5b162fe029c1-d3142f59" class="timeline_right"><div id="w-node-_3669ff75-273a-733d-bf00-5b162fe029c2-d3142f59" class="margin-bottom margin-xlarge"><p class="animate-scroll-in">Barneyâs son, my great grandfather, Edward J. Funk, was born in 1877. Ed Funk was bright, industrious, Christian â and a man who worked from morning till night. Ed and his wife Jennie Funk had 11 children. The children worked as all farm children do. They sold to their neighbors live chickens, fresh eggs, homemade cheese, pork and beef, and boxed ears of open pollinated corn that Ed had saved from the previous yearâs crop. They would always be told âdonât sell anything you would not eat or use on our own farm.â<br/></p></div><div class="timeline_image-wrapper"><img src="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/65eb0a752c4cab3dda0d3fce/65eb0a752c4cab3dda0d4081_Edward.avif" loading="lazy" alt="Ed funk image" class="timeline_image"/></div></div></div><div data-w-id="3669ff75-273a-733d-bf00-5b162fe029c8" class="timeline_item"><div id="w-node-_3669ff75-273a-733d-bf00-5b162fe029c9-d3142f59" class="timeline_left"><h3 class="timeline_date-text heading-large animate-scroll-in">1935</h3></div><div id="w-node-_3669ff75-273a-733d-bf00-5b162fe029cc-d3142f59" class="timeline_centre"><div class="timeline_circle"></div></div><div id="w-node-_3669ff75-273a-733d-bf00-5b162fe029ce-d3142f59" class="timeline_right"><div id="w-node-_3669ff75-273a-733d-bf00-5b162fe029cf-d3142f59" class="margin-bottom margin-xlarge"><p class="animate-scroll-in">
226Ed and his sons founded a seed company â Edward J. Funk and Sons â with the goal to provide the best performing seed to their friends and neighbors. They raised the first crop of hybrid seed corn in the state of Indiana and soon expanded far across the Corn Belt.<br/></p></div><div class="timeline_image-wrapper"><img src="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/65eb0a752c4cab3dda0d3fce/65eb0a752c4cab3dda0d4080_Cover.avif" loading="lazy" alt="History of company image" class="timeline_image"/></div></div></div><div data-w-id="3669ff75-273a-733d-bf00-5b162fe029d5" class="timeline_item"><div id="w-node-_3669ff75-273a-733d-bf00-5b162fe029d6-d3142f59" class="timeline_left"><h3 class="timeline_date-text heading-large animate-scroll-in">1942</h3></div><div id="w-node-_3669ff75-273a-733d-bf00-5b162fe029d9-d3142f59" class="timeline_centre"><div class="timeline_circle"></div></div><div id="w-node-_3669ff75-273a-733d-bf00-5b162fe029db-d3142f59" class="timeline_right"><div id="w-node-_3669ff75-273a-733d-bf00-5b162fe029dc-d3142f59" class="margin-bottom margin-xlarge"><p class="animate-scroll-in">Edâs sons were industrious. Among them, my great uncle Bernard was a sharp young businessman. My great uncle Carl was a member of Purdue Universityâs inaugural class to study corn hybridization. My grandfather Bill was a restless innovator who not only developed marketing programs still in use in the seed business today, but also created mechanical applications to spread liquid fertilizer, of which he was awarded multiple patents.<br/></p></div><div class="timeline_image-wrapper"><img src="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/65eb0a752c4cab3dda0d3fce/65eb0a752c4cab3dda0d407e_Family-House-min.avif" loading="lazy" alt="History of midwest seed " class="timeline_image"/></div></div></div><div data-w-id="3669ff75-273a-733d-bf00-5b162fe029e2" class="timeline_item"><div id="w-node-_3669ff75-273a-733d-bf00-5b162fe029e3-d3142f59" class="timeline_left"><h3 class="timeline_date-text heading-large animate-scroll-in">1957</h3></div><div id="w-node-_3669ff75-273a-733d-bf00-5b162fe029e6-d3142f59" class="timeline_centre"><div class="timeline_circle"></div></div><div id="w-node-_3669ff75-273a-733d-bf00-5b162fe029e8-d3142f59" class="timeline_right"><div id="w-node-_3669ff75-273a-733d-bf00-5b162fe029e9-d3142f59" class="margin-bottom margin-xlarge"><p class="animate-scroll-in">As a young boy, my dad would visit his grandfather Ed at his farm. At sunset, they would sit on the side of the horse tank nearest the farmstead. Great Grandpa Ed would finish his workday with a cold beer but always had a Coca-Cola in a glass bottle for my dad. During this half hour, my grandfather Bill and my great uncles would also congregate to receive life lessons from Grandpa Ed. Life lessons around the horse tank! My dad heard my great grandfather tell them that you never sell anything you raise, be it animal or seed, that you would not consume or plant on your own farm.<br/></p></div><div class="timeline_image-wrapper"><img src="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/65eb0a752c4cab3dda0d3fce/65eb0a752c4cab3dda0d407d_Farm-min.avif" loading="lazy" alt="farm image history " class="timeline_image"/></div></div></div><div data-w-id="3669ff75-273a-733d-bf00-5b162fe029ef" class="timeline_item"><div id="w-node-_3669ff75-273a-733d-bf00-5b162fe029f0-d3142f59" class="timeline_left"><h3 class="timeline_date-text heading-large animate-scroll-in">1982</h3></div><div id="w-node-_3669ff75-273a-733d-bf00-5b162fe029f3-d3142f59" class="timeline_centre"><div class="timeline_circle"></div></div><div id="w-node-_3669ff75-273a-733d-bf00-5b162fe029f5-d3142f59" class="timeline_right"><div id="w-node-_3669ff75-273a-733d-bf00-5b162fe029f6-d3142f59" class="margin-bottom margin-xlarge"><p class="animate-scroll-in">My father Don took over the family business, Edward J. Funk & Sons Incorporated, in 1975. He started his career in field and plant production so very early seed quality, warm and cold germination, genetic purity, self and off-type plants became an early passion and he lived and breathed to have the highest standards possible.<br/></p></div><div class="timeline_image-wrapper"><img src="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/65eb0a752c4cab3dda0d3fce/65eb0a752c4cab3dda0d407f_Don-min.avif" loading="lazy" alt="Don funk image" class="timeline_image"/></div></div></div><div data-w-id="1dbec100-dafe-a608-f739-a7ddf81f77e6" class="timeline_item"><div id="w-node-_1dbec100-dafe-a608-f739-a7ddf81f77e7-d3142f59" class="timeline_left"><h3 class="timeline_date-text heading-large animate-scroll-in">2023</h3></div><div id="w-node-_1dbec100-dafe-a608-f739-a7ddf81f77ea-d3142f59" class="timeline_centre"><div class="timeline_circle"></div></div><div id="w-node-_1dbec100-dafe-a608-f739-a7ddf81f77ec-d3142f59" class="timeline_right"><div id="w-node-_1dbec100-dafe-a608-f739-a7ddf81f77ed-d3142f59" class="margin-bottom margin-xlarge"><div class="margin-bottom margin-small"><p>Seed companies are tested most every year in their production. Sometimes we have wet and cold conditions early, sometimes itâs too hot or too cold mid-season, sometimes itâs too wet or dry later, or and sometimes strong winds, particularly in western production create significant challenges in hybrid corn and s
226oybean seed production.</p></div><div class="margin-bottom margin-small"><p>With these challenges, seed companies face the pivotal question of lowering the standards of the seed quality they produce in order to have what they deem necessary to sell the following season. Quite frankly, do they sell seed they would not plant on their own farms?</p></div><div class="margin-bottom margin-small"><p>My guides to these questions remain the voices of my great grandfather Edward J. Funk, my grandfather Bill Funk, and my great uncles Bernard and Carl Funk. These voices remind me to stick to a standard of wanting less than 1% of off-type plants in a given seed lot. They continue to lead me to make the difficult decision to sometimes remove seed from our new crop inventory because it just wonât do.</p></div><div class="margin-bottom margin-small"><p>Todayâs seed industry has greatly evolved from when Great Grandpa Funk was raising and selling open-pollinated corn. While we embrace the dynamic present of row-crop farming, there is one thing that will never change for us â our commitment to Seed Quality. Itâs a commitment we made at Funk, when we grew Channel into a leading national brand, and one in which we remain committed to today, at NCÂ Plus. Because as Great Grandpa Ed always said:</p></div><h4><strong>âDonât sell it if you wouldnât plant it on your own farm.â</strong><br/></h4></div><div class="timeline_image-wrapper"><img src="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/65eb0a752c4cab3dda0d3fce/65eb0a752c4cab3dda0d407a_dan_shot.avif" loading="lazy" sizes="100vw" srcset="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/65eb0a752c4cab3dda0d3fce/65eb0a752c4cab3dda0d407a_dan_shot-p-500.avif 500w, https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/65eb0a752c4cab3dda0d3fce/65eb0a752c4cab3dda0d407a_dan_shot-p-800.avif 800w, https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/65eb0a752c4cab3dda0d3fce/65eb0a752c4cab3dda0d407a_dan_shot.avif 1200w" alt="" class="timeline_image"/></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="timeline_heading hide"><div class="page-padding"><div class="padding-vertical padding-medium"><div class="container-medium"><div class="timeline_bottom-text"><div class="margin-bottom margin-small"><p>Seed companies are tested most every year in their production. Sometimes we have wet and cold conditions early, sometimes itâs too hot or too cold mid-season, sometimes itâs too wet or dry later, or and sometimes strong winds, particularly in western production create significant challenges in hybrid corn and soybean seed production.</p></div><div class="margin-bottom margin-small"><p>With these challenges, seed companies face the pivotal question of lowering the standards of the seed quality they produce in order to have what they deem necessary to sell the following season. Quite frankly, do they sell seed they would not plant on their own farms?</p></div><div class="margin-bottom margin-small"><p>My guides to these questions remain the voices of my great grandfather Edward J. Funk, my grandfather Bill Funk, and my great uncles Bernard and Carl Funk. These voices remind me to stick to a standard of wanting less than 1% of off-type plants in a given seed lot. They continue to lead me to make the difficult decision to sometimes remove seed from our new crop inventory because it just wonât do.</p></div><div class="margin-bottom margin-small"><p>Todayâs seed industry has greatly evolved from when Great Grandpa Funk was raising and selling open-pollinated corn. While we embrace the dynamic present of row-crop farming, there is one thing that will never change for us â our commitment to Seed Quality. Itâs a commitment we made at Funk, when we grew Channel into a leading national brand, and one in which we remain committed to today, at Midwest. Because as Great Grandpa Ed always said:</p></div><div class="margin-bottom margin-small"><h3><strong>âDonât sell it if you wouldnât plant it on your own farm.â</strong><br/></h3></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><section class="section_lightboxes"><div class="padding-section-small"><div class="lightboxes_component"><a href="#" id="funseekers" class="lightboxes_link is-center w-inline-block w-lightbox"><div class="lighbtoxes_content-wrap"><div class="spacer-xsmall"></div><h2 class="lightbox_card-title hide">Funseekers</h2><div class="spacer-xsmall"></div><p class="text-size-medium max-width-medium hide">Farming isnât just a job. It's a passion. And it's about having fun.</p></div>
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