listen to this whole thing before you get mad at me.

You're a farmer from Emden, right?

You're gonna farm there and whatever.

When have you ever gone to a place like China and Japan?

And that's what this leadership offers you, and it's not like a reason to do it, but it's for the people that haven't done it, sometimes they look, oh, they're just traveling.

No, it's not, it's a lot more to that.

You're actually doing things there to promote agriculture back here.

- Grains Council trip was in the wet fall, late fall was '10 or '09.

- '09, yep.

- So I went the next November, December.

So we had just finished the next harvest.

So we were there to tell our customers that what we just harvested was good quality and they had to put up with '09 crop that was not the best.

- [Rob] It was pretty rough, yeah.

- Yes, so we were there to assure them that we had good quality corn coming to them in the future, so those were some tough meetings.

- Yeah.

- One tip I'll give to you and other people, if you go to another country and they're using an interpreter, if you wanna find out if they really know English, tell a little joke.

And if they laugh immediately, you know that they can hear and understand English, and they used the interpreter for a few seconds to think of their answer.

If you ask 'em a question and they listen to the interpreter, they've already heard it.

- What if you're just not that funny?

- Well, that's on you I guess.

- Did you do that?

Did you like slip in a joke?

- I did.

- And they were like, "Ah, that guy right there."

- By accident, and then they started laughing.

I thought, "Okay, they understand English."

So that's my tip for the day.

- Okay, that's good to know.

You only learned that on PBS.

- Yeah.

(Rob chuckles)