Cultivating Legacy: Drew Peterson on Family, Farming, and Leadership

Drew Peterson focuses on the positive: “I’m so blessed,” is what comes to the Salem farmer’s mind when he talks about his son Michael, who just turned a year old, the first quarter of which was spent in a neonatal intensive care unit after entering the world earlier than expected. Among other things, Peterson is also grateful for the opportunity to have been in the Corteva Agriscience Young Leader Program, which opened the door to being a South Dakota Soybean leader and a South Dakota lawmaker. On this edition of The Soybean Pod, Drew talks about the lasting benefits of that leadership training, his dream for Michael’s future, and how that shapes the future of the Peterson farm. That decision will be Michael’s and future siblings’, says Drew, adding, “I want to be [the kind of] farmer with my wife and my dad, that [Michael] thinks that looks like a pretty cool deal.”