There is a small community a little over 20 miles southeast of Birmingham, Alabama, that takes God’s involvement in their lives, and the land they till, very seriously. Their guiding principle is applied to everything they do.

First-place corn silage
“Luck and paying attention to details. We watch the health of the crop, water, proper nutrients and soil fertility.

“I think getting it here would be a great thing for the industry. We need it for producers to be able to hit that premium market with new stands of hay.

Nick Robbins, a welder from Buhl, Idaho, says he heard about how hay haulers, dealers and producers use hand probes to test the moisture content of hay bales. They stick the bale once and move on.

If only boys would listen to their fathers before making some of those classic decisions in life, especially those that are made in the teenage years.