This article was first published in the May-June 2025 issue of Soybean Business. Click here to read the digital version.

Dave Garry has been farming ever since he can remember. He farmed with his father, now in his 68th season, but has been farming independently for the past 10 years in both Pennington and Polk counties.   

“Up until some of the newer genetics of the soybeans nowadays, we struggled to get good yields,” he said. “We were trying some other commodities for crop rotation purposes.”  

Besides soybeans, Garry grows specialty crops, including winter rye, yellow field peas, barley, black oil sunflowers and hard red spring wheat. 

Dave Garry and his wife, Heidi, farm in Pennington and Red Lake counties.

Garry is very involved in his community and charity work with his wife, Heidi. They cook breakfast for the Ronald McDonald House and participate in fundraisers to raise money for North Country Horsemen Trails to Treatment. This organization assists people in need of funding during cancer treatment. For the past 11 years, the Garrys hold Trash the Dress for MDS.  

Garry joined the county board to try to make a difference and is now secretary of the Pennington-Red Lake County Corn & Soybean Growers. For local leaders like him, agriculture outreach starts at the county level.  

“Our local board wants to try to get more involved with the youth through both the FFA program and in the 4-H program,” Garry said. “Even in a very rural farm area, many people don’t know the difference between corn or soybeans.” 

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