Meet the Dairyland Seed Family - Christal Boggess

CHRISTAL BOGGESS serves as a Customer Service Representative for Dairyland Seed working out of her home near Ogden, Iowa. Her role at Dairyland Seed involves assisting customers and District Sales Managers with product needs and availability. A significant part of the year involves entering and approving, transferring seed, invoice moves, working with shipping holds and pending return orders.

“My favorite part of the job is customer care, working with the wonderful customers and District Sales Managers at Dairyland Seed,” says Christal. “I enjoy helping and talking with so many of you each day.”

(BACK ROW) CHRISTAL’S CHILDREN, COLTON AND ASHTON
(FRONT ROW) JEFF AND CHRISTAL HOLDING TAN

“The people at Dairyland are what makes my job so enjoyable. They have been such a pleasure to work with. Even though I work out of my home, I have felt as though I work right alongside of them. I’m thankful that I have a wonderful team to work with,” she adds.

Growing up as the oldest child of a farming family, Christal was her dad’s right-hand helper. She learned to drive at a very young age just to transport equipment from farm to farm and spent countless hours walking soybean fields using corn knives and eventually using chemicals. She was really excited when they discovered the greatest of inventions, the homemade bean bar, which had just enough seats for three kids and saved much more time than all the previous years of walking beans. Christal showed sheep and cattle at the local county fair as well as several inside exhibits.

“Growing up on the farm has definitely taught me great work ethics, and my love for planting and watching things grow,” Christal says.

In the summer you’ll find Christal working in her garden or planting flowers. She admits, “I may get a little carried away with this, but my happy place is when my hands are in the dirt.”

Christal, her husband Jeff, have been married for 29 years and live north of Ogden, Iowa, in the same house she grew up in as a child. They bought the homeplace along with 60 acres of pasture from her parents but do not farm, although they have had several cow-calf herds over the years. Their oldest son Colton is 25 and owns a home just seven miles from them. Colton graduated from Iowa State University with an Ag Business Degree and works for a seed production company nearby. Daughter Ashton is 21 and will be graduating from Kirkwood Community College in August with a Dental Assisting Degree.

Christal and Jeff’s passion for sports carried over into their children. Christal volunteered with several of her kids’ basketball and soccer programs and coached both sports for a few years. Her husband was the softball and baseball coach for several years when the kids were younger. Now, as the kids are all grown up, she can’t wait until they can start it all over again as grandparents someday!