Saturday, December 13, 2025

Yield, Milo

If machines could talk

The gaggle of old geezers who gather every day to gab, gossip, and gripe over coffee and iced tea-- of which I am a...

Poker in the pokey

Crop harvesting crews usually consist of a few old timers, who own the equipment and establish a customer base, and a bunch of rambunctious,...

Big farmer”oops”

As crop producers keep farming more and more acres, sometimes their management gets stretched a bit too thin. That's what happened to ol' L. Austin...

Aggie Influencers

One of the strangest offshoot of the modern digital communications world is the creation of the job "influencer." Now, I've had a lot of...

Farm youth ingenuity

A farm lad going to the nearby land-grant university wuz majoring in agribusiness. and marketing. He earned an internship at a well-known implement dealership...

Cell Phone Fiasco

Cell phones and smart phones have become absolutely necessary to many rural folks for them do their jobs or run their businesses. One such person...

Gas well experience

This is an era when drilling new oil and gas wells in the U.S. is commonplace. New oil and gas deposits are being found,...

Popcorn People

After the sale concluded, two middle-aged ranchers were chewing the fat in the livestock auction cafe. They knew each other, but hadn't had the...