The winter wheat field that looked so good in early July took a turn for the worse when, because of too much rain, wind and manure-applied nitrogen, it began to lodge. Dad was always upbeat about the ...

August’s arrival pulled me in conflicting directions. The month brought with it the Le Sueur County Fair, which meant seeing school friends, coins for a can of pop and a corn dog, and a tractor pull ...

The binder, a vast improvement over Cyrus McCormick's innovative reaper, was a machine that could cut and bind (tie) the stalks of grain into a bundle. The separator, or threshing machine, was used to ...

The fog, the result of high humidity and the absence of any breeze, lingered past sunrise following a rain that jump-started the nearby soybean field. I cranked the air conditioning down 2 degrees and ...

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