Should the U.S. government be collecting ag data, and to what extent? It costs money, you know, to collect all that data. The National Agricultural Statistics Service spent $179.5 million, the Forest Service $66.8 million, etc.

“My wheat is gone! How am I going to get more chicken feed made?” If I hadn’t paid so much for that tablet with gaming apps, I’d have tossed it across the room.

Few people have heard of the Battle of Taranto, which took place at the beginning of WWII before the U.S. entered the conflict.

I despise poker. I’m not a poker-playing aficionado. In fact, I’d rather try to spell “aficionado” with one hand tied behind my back and spell-check turned off than play poker.

When my son Homer was 12, he was given his first .22-caliber rifle to hunt rabbits and squirrels. We had an old irrigating pickup that barely ran, and he could take that pickup with his .22 to the gravel pits about a mile away and hunt for hours.

I lost my hearing on the back of a spud harvester. Where did you lose yours?

In the mid-1800s, some pioneers too poor to buy wagons and teams migrated West by pulling handcarts piled high with tools, seeds, blankets, beans, flour and a little lard.

The yoke of the cart only accommodated two people, so other family members pushed from behind. Hence came the saying, “For some must push and some must pull.”

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