Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Yield, Milo

Original Wealth

Last week I learned that I'm a pseudonymuncle. What's that, you say? Well, a pseudonymuncle is defined as "an insignificant person writing under a...

Unlucky traffic ticket

My friend from Asbury, Mo, ol' A.C. Doocey, recently got the strangest traffic ticket I've ever heard of. A.C. has retired from part-time farming and...

“Old Iron” speaks memories

Last week, I fantasized about the conversations "Old Iron" might have if it could talk. That was all in imaginative fun. So, this week it's...

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...