During a 1959 tour, the first visit to the United States by a Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev was impressed by the barnyard and burgeoning cornfields of Iowa farmer Raymond Garst. When be returned to Moscow, Khrushchev pressed for the extensive planting of corn in Russia's unsuitable conditions. The corn campaign proved a disaster, another of the "hare-brained schemes" that would eventually cost Khrushchev his leadership. Wisconsin Historical Society, Image ID 11243.