If you're in farming, you have to be optimistic. It's hard to say what the industry is going to look like in 5 to 10 years, but there will be an industry of some kind.

People owning the land were not involved and that is a major problem.

The best meeting I ever went to was a meeting in France where the talk slots were 60 minutes long, but you were told to prepare a five-minute talk. It was absolutely great because the entire talk was a conversation between the speaker and the audience.

The winner of the Prince and Princess of the Patch will each receive a $50 savings bond, courtesy of Bancroft State Bank.

No matter what resentments we may have from the past, we have to be able to wash each other's feet. That frees the person doing the washing.

In an age of instant gratification and superficial solutions to grave social ills, this cannot be emphasized enough.