With the 2016 hay growing and harvest season well underway, USDA’s annual acreage report indicated U.S. hay harvested area will be up from a year earlier. The report, released June 30, set estimated all hay acreage at about 56.1 million acres, up 2 percent compared with the 54.4 million acres harvested in 2015.

StarFire 6000 Receiver from John Deere

John Deere takes satellite-based guidance to even higher levels of accuracy, repeatability and signal pull-in speed with the introduction of the StarFire 6000 receiver and SF3 signal.

The other day I got behind a fellow pulling a boat on a trailer behind his camper. We were on a fairly rough road, and the boat trailer was doing quite a bit of bouncing. As it bounced, one of the tires would squash almost to the rim on each bounce.

I failed and broke a promise. Not long ago, I told my friend Mary Beth that I would always write about her son-in-law for my Memorial Day column. SFC Forrest Robertson made the ultimate sacrifice in Afghanistan; he died protecting each one of us. He is the only hero that I knew personally that made the greatest sacrifice, and that is why I have vowed to never forget. Then Monday happened.

“… Only God can make a tree,” wrote Joyce Kilmer in his oft-repeated poem. But no such restrictions exist regarding who can create shade.

What’s a two-bucket gal? A two-bucket gal is a woman who can do two or more things at once: helping on the farm, no matter what the job; wash the family’s greasy clothes; have lunches ready; run the tractor, grain cart or whatever needs running; manage the house; and be the glue of the family.