Dave Gebhardt says the flat fields of Ukraine — Europe's breadbasket — look like those rolling, green corn and soybean acreages surrounding the farm he grew up on near Rochester, Minnesota.
"They produce wonderful crops," said Gebhardt, general manager of EarthDaily Agro, a Minnesota-based precision agriculture company. "It's like driving down to southern Minnesota."
But a steppe-to-prairie similarity is hardly the reason Gebhardt said his company's leadership felt a tug on their hearts when Russian soldiers invaded Ukraine two months ago, blocking vital Black Sea ports with their ships and littering wheat fields with landmines and tanks.
