Galesburg master farms for good of all

摘要

ALOT of folks in agriculture talk of farming as a business, and of farmers as businessmen. But after just a little time spent with Jim Purlee, you get the feeling he is that rare breed who combines both a head for business with the tender heart of a farmer. Across his desk, nary a stray paper lies. He says a professor in grad school once told him you should only handle a piece of paper once. "When I start to stack, I think of that," Jim says. Just outside that office, as he speaks of the six men whowork for him full time and the 14 who come on board during harvest, he does as a father would.