I’ve said before that it’s a see-saw farm market, and last week it was a see-saw weather pattern! One day, it was spring, and the next day it was a rolling, blowing blizzard! I didn’t even go outside that day, but watched the cows and calves get as close to the sheds as they could for protection, and I watched Erik put extra hay in the barn lot hay ring for them They were huddled together with their backs to the wind.
The calves could get into the barn through a small gate, but their mothers were kept outside. That’s the kind of weather that you DON’T want when baby calves are coming. Agriculture, and especially livestock producers, work so hard to put your food on the tables.
I was just reading the article in the Illinois Farm Bureau’s Farm Week newspaper about the death of Orion Samuelson at the age of 91. He was called the “voice of agriculture” broadcasting on WGM radio. I remember meeting him and Max Armstrong who worked with Orion when they were broadcasting from ag meetings. They were both easy to talk to, and I always felt they were sincerely involved in spreading agriculture’s story to the public. Thanks, Orion for a job well done. You are missed.
Talk about missing people, I had an experience this week. One of my classmates has been in poor health for some time, but with the help of his wife he was “managing.”
(I found we always ask about the person who is ill, but we sometimes forget to ask the caregiver how they are.) Anyway, I sat down at the computer and wrote a long letter to them.
