a colorful adventure

Last week I was busily going about things & checked in on Twitter and somehow, almost miraculously I caught two tweets about Tennessee cotton. It was awesome! First came this one from Shane Kinne with the photo at right. Touring a #cotton gin in TN. New territory for this north MO farm boy. #agchat http://t.co/cj3BoIo— Shane [...]

Thursday I was returning to Memphis after a long visit in St. Louis. The drive home was one I had been looking forward to. It had been a tough time in my part of the world. Some of the big notes were I drove through a night of storms on my way up, a tornado ripped [...]

Spring 2011 is officially here. For some friends, that was realized when they saw the first robin in their yard. For me, it seems to be when I am drawn to a drive with the top down in my car. For a lot of farmers though it could be when they first hear planting reports [...]

Sirens have been going off all day off & on.  It’s a sound that at this point, it seems to be the background music for spring weekends.  They started early in the morning, kept lots of folks awake most of the night. somehow I made it back to sleep (the word exhaustion comes to mind). [...]

Yesterday, severe weather ripped its way across much of the central U.S.  Hearts and minds immediately went out to the people who lived in the areas where forecasts included tornado warnings.  No group of people understand the power of weather more than the farmers and ranchers that produce our food, feed and fiber. Farmers and [...]

One of the things folks in agriculture can’t spend enough time talking about is the weather. Good or bad, there is always something to say about it.  And with all the technology there is today — 24 hour weather channels, mobile weather updates, etc. its easy to stay up to date.  So you may think [...]

As the calendar clicked over to Christmas, I posted a blog entry on some of my thoughts about staying home for the holiday.  Staying home was like a dream because I travel a lot and while I LOVE travel, the change of pace sounded like a fantastic idea.  I took time to point out that [...]