They came... oh, how they came to the Farm Progress Show! Half a section of cars and trucks lined up on a hayfield Passengers streaming in Mega tents and open air the vendors engaged the farmers A thousand vendors ten thousand farmers Connecting, sharing info The machinery farmers dream of shiny, parked to see [...]
"And the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being." Genesis 2:7 In the springtime I walked the fields my feet traversing the soil as my father did my grandfather did my great grandfather did Eyes seasoned [...]
Some two hundred years ago a ploughman wrote of a mouse Behind a horse he watched her scurry across the fresh plowed field Burns sat and pondered what he'd done turning the home site over A tender fellow more a poet than a striving farmer guilt surrounded him. I, in turn, have seen my [...]
Setting records right and left middle of the country too Global warming is the culprit so some scientists say Learned fellows degrees in tow study deeply numbers and more then make their premise give it to us 'Best guess', might be a better thought Ten year cooling they tell us now along with 'climate [...]
Winter often holds us in a grip of ice and iron winds We, like bits of paper, are swept across the prairie looking for a spot of comfort warmth by our fires now tamed The soil frozen hard captive much like us endure, we think, for spring is coming the calendar clicks the days [...]
Arctic winds unfurl to lash the winter plains they're a poke in the breadbasket that feeds the world Bitter cold wind, sleet, snow fight with one another with us in the miserable middle O well! We're killing bugs! No kidding! Insects die by billions as their eggs freeze and split decimated, no more! No one [...]
The midwest prairie has a thing that happens most every year Just when winter's iron grip seems crushingly stong The sun comes warm and the winds die down temperatures climb over freezing Ice recedes, snow piles shrink people shed a layer A welcome respite the January Thaw affording hope of spring The jet stream shifts [...]
Breathing in the scent of freshly tilled black soil the harvest freshly done the bounty gathered in the season now, begins again It's evening in the life of a farmer the year of tilling, planting, tending, harvest done it could be a time of rest, but not yet the soil, the mother of it all [...]
Stop! Look! Did you see it? The word 'again'? It's two words, really: A and gain! Rain is a gain! The fields are soaking drinking it in Not much in ponds not much in ditches The soil is 'talking' saying 'It's okay". Are you not busy? Nothing to do? Ah, refocus is the word [...]
Winter comes with icy fingers strong and sure and certain to grip us all our whole world frozen soil, ice and snow and winds that blow from the arctic Fences sink in snow with ice and frost lacing caking cars and windshields no yielding Trees stand ridged sometimes frosted (see hoarfrost) sometimes plastered with [...]