by Doug Mayo | Nov 4, 2016
John and Mary were married for 56 years, and lived on the farm they cherished that had been in their family for three generations. After John died in 2010, Mary decided to keep living on the farm, but passed the business operation on to her son and grandsons. While...
by Doug Mayo | Oct 28, 2016
A male college student and a much older alumni sitting in front of him had a heated exchange at a recent college football game. The young man was enjoying heckling the coaches and players and shouting obscenities at the referees. The older gentlemen put up with this...
by Doug Mayo | Oct 21, 2016
Harold and Jenny live on a farm in the Florida Panhandle. Though they have been married for many years, and raised three children to adulthood together, their marriage has been challenging for Jenny. Harold has worked hard his whole adult life to provide for his...
by Doug Mayo | Oct 14, 2016
Wednesday, October 12th was National Farmer Day, an annual day set aside to pay tribute to the 2% of Americans that feed the other 98% of us. National Fill In Blank Day has been made very popular with social media as a neat way to draw attention to a meaningful...
by Doug Mayo | Oct 7, 2016
One day a farmer’s jackass fell down into an old abandoned well on the old homestead. The animal brayed and squealed pitifully for hours. The farmer was going crazy, because he could not figure out what to do. He and his wife hardly slept at all, as the poor...
by Doug Mayo | Sep 23, 2016
Farm machinery classified adds are normally dull and boring, but do get the point across in just a few words. Recently a farmer in the Panhandle came up with something really clever to generate income for his farm from an antique tractor restoration project that had...