As a boy growing up in Spencer, Iowa, Trent Walker spent summers helping on his grandfatherโs farm, picturing that he someday would follow in his grandfatherโs footsteps and become a farmer himself. During harvest season, he trick-or-treated at his grandpaโs grain bin site as trucks came in from the fields. He was particularly drawn to […]
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