Life Is Simple
Late in the summer, I finally succumbed to pressure from my wife, and agreed to meet with a surgeon concerning a health issue that has been bothering me for the past year.
Across the Fence
Agriculture continues to come under fire from those who have no understanding about our industry, but the fight is nothing new. Our way of life has been questioned for decades by those who “think” they know about life on the farm.
Freshly Picked
Ten years ago this month, we became parents. We’d barely finished renovations on our farm house when it was time to bring our firstborn into the world. Just a few weeks earlier we’d learned our child was breech which meant a scheduled C-section delivery.
Life Is Simple
Late in the summer, I finally succumbed to pressure from my wife, and agreed to meet with a surgeon concerning a health issue that has been bothering me for the past year.
Across the Fence
Agriculture continues to come under fire from those who have no understanding about our industry, but the fight is nothing new. Our way of life has been questioned for decades by those who “think” they know about life on the farm.
Life Is Simple
An old poker player once told me that, given the choice between being lucky or being good, he’d choose lucky every time. When I asked that same old poker player (who happened to be a pretty big farmer, as well) why he continued to farm well into his golden years, he stoically replied, “I love to gamble.”
Across the Fence
Freshly Picked
Life Is Simple
A lot of people will probably be surprised to find out that, even at my advanced age and despite the fact that I have been involved in agriculture my entire life, I had never set foot in a combine until about a month ago.
Across the Fence
I believe in the future of farming with a faith born not of words but of deeds – achievements won by the present and past generations of agriculturists; in the promise of better days through better ways, even as the better things we now enjoy have come to us from the struggles of former years.”