I get all kinds of phone calls during the course of a day. Sometimes it’s the granddaughter of a reader who recalls seeing her grandpa on the cover of the Ohio Farmer in 1957, might have been March or April, but it could have been '58 or '59, and it might have been Farm Journal, but do I happen to have an extra copy of the 1957 March issue and April too? Sometimes it’s a P.R. person pushing a story idea. “Would you like to talk with Ron Weedster in person? I think you will…

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It's kind of amazing sometimes how the little things about agriculture strike people who aren't that familiar with the subject. Back in my days as a big city reporter, I recall explaining to the paper's editor that more than 99% of the state's corn plants had only one ear of corn. He was very sure he had seen many, many plants with more than one ear. I explained that probably along the outside row, he had seen multiple ears, but that was only on the edge where light was plentiful. The next day…

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