12/26/07 President's Cup, the Dixons

Don and Georgia Dixon of Idaho Falls are the Idaho Farm Bureau's first power couple and this year's President Cup winning couple. Both spent decades working on congressional staffs. GEORGIA-"I worked for ten years for Senator Jim McClure. I began to work for Senator Craig and I worked for him for twelve years." DON-"I'm primarily a third generation potato farmer and mainly growing potatoes, grain, alfalfa hay, malt barley and malt barley seed and involved in a cow calf operation." Georgia said she had to learn how to be a farm wife but she also learned the value of raising three children on a farm and passing on a work ethic to them. GEORGIA "I mean they're expected to go out and do certain things. " DON "Its really nice for a family to be able to see what their dad or their mom does as far as work. It involves nature, it involves process, it involves a lot of faith because you put a lot of seed into the ground or fertilizer and then expecting it of course to produce a harvest." More about the Dixon's and their ties to Farm Bureau. That's tomorrow. Voice of Idaho Agriculture Bill Scott