Editorial / Opinions

My sister sent me a text message over the weekend asking what my plans for the afternoon were. This isn’t anything unusual, so I just answered honestly explaining I was headed to Springfield, Mo., to the PBR.

A man stopped me in a business in eastern Oklahoma and asked if I was Dusty Richards. That’s not unusual. He said he knew me from all the years he attended the Rodeo of the Ozarks and how he had enjoyed it. He knew I had been on that board for years and he said he never missed a year.

If I have ever met a farmer to whom more bizarre things have happened to than Charlie, I don’t know who it would be. So, when I spotted him at a farm meeting last week, I was pretty sure I’d have my column for this week.

Recently I’ve noticed a lot of negative feedback from Chevrolet’s Silverado commercial that was aimed at targeting farmers.

As a child, I can remember that most of my little friends dreamed of growing up to be firemen, policemen, soldiers, or professional baseball players. Even then, I was a little odd, because I thought the ideal job would be that of the farm broadcaster that provided the afternoon market reports on the big radio station we listened to religiously. At that early age, I could sense that the information he provided was important to my family and thus, must be pretty important himself.

Recently I’ve noticed a lot of negative feedback from Chevorlet’s Silverado commercial that was aimed at targeting farmers.

Feast or famine sums up things – like the abundance of rain we have had this month. For three summers, we would have given a pretty penny for any part of these rains, but none fell. The year after a cool July followed by a mild August, we are green. Where is this heating they have been preaching to us about? Weather patterns took a new twist just like it has for centuries.

'I’m a logger,’ is a line from an old comedy song that allowed the main character to get out of several predicaments by revealing how tough of an occupation he had. The Department of Labor evidently agrees because the logging category of forestry is always at, or near, the top of their annual survey of the most dangerous professions.

I am the type of person who enjoys each season. Typically, I don’t favor one season over another and by the time one season ends and the other begins I am ready to embrace the change.

'I’m a logger,’ is a line from an old comedy song that allowed the main character to get out of several predicaments by revealing how tough of an occupation he had. The Department of Labor evidently agrees because the logging category of forestry is always at, or near, the top of their annual survey of the most dangerous professions.