U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Bennett Groth of Moville,
Summary
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Bennett Groth of Moville, Iowa, production agriculture specialist for the Iowa National Guard's 734th Agri-Business Development Team, assists U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Eric Pugh of Winterset, Iowa, forestry specialist for the ADT, collect a soil sample at the Salar Bagh Demonstration Farm Sept. 21. The farm is owned and operated by the government of Kunar province near Asadabad, Afghanistan. The airman and soldier were part of a mission to assess the farm, which currently produces corn, soybeans, tea and locust trees for timber. The ADT found the demonstration farm to be superbly run and the farm manager to have a high degree of agricultural expertise, leading the ADT to focus on methods of transferring the farm manager's skill-set to farmers throughout the province.