Dr. Kelly Gillespie is a crop physiologist with degrees from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois and the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. She currently leads corn and soybean crop efficiency portfolio strategy for Bayer Crop Science.  Kelly also sits on the executive board of the North American Plant Phenotyping Network and the advisory board of the Iowa Soybean Research Council. Listen in to hear Kelly discuss a revolutionary innovation in corn production, the development of shorter statured hybrids.  In this conversation she explains the benefits that this technology will provide to farmers once it is fully commercialized in the next couple of years.  In the next episode of this two part series we will talk with a Mexican farmer about his experiences with the product. To learn more, you can connect with Kelly on LinkedIn or Twitter @kmgillespie.  For a deeper dive into the topic of short corn, check out this Future of Farming panel discussion on short corn: https://www.cropscience.bayer.com/who-we-are/events/how-sustainable-short-stature-corn-can-change-future-food.