Page 22 2025 Fall Farm Outlook Lincoln Daily News Oct 2025 any FFA or 4H programs, I had a lot of friends that were, and we were always spending time in the barns. Even to this day, I spend time at the barns supporting my granddaughters and their love of showing swine and sheep. And all through high school, I worked at all the grandstand events at the fair, and didn’t realize it then, but even locked eyes with my now farmer husband while taking tickets for all those tractor pulls that are now a huge part of my life. That’s all farm related too…isn’t it? So, I was involved with many different aspects of the farm life and farming community, so I am sure it isn’t much different…right? So, being that proud farmer wife, I grabbed a cup of coffee and a stack of magazines, sat down in the lazy boy, and kicked my feet up. It wouldn’t take me too long to get through this stack. Boy, was I going to really impress my husband, nonchalantly, of course! I was sure this was going to give me the ability to engage in conversation just a little bit more intelligently. I mean, we already watch the noon news together, and they always have an Ag segment that we chatted about…well, sometimes. Here I go…. the cover has such vibrant colors of a beautiful field of, well, something growing with a large tractor in the middle of the field with some round equipment trailing behind it. It was a green tractor, and yes, of course I knew the name of that brand, or wait….is that a tractor? Oh well, it doesn’t matter, it’s still a green machine and they are all basically the same, just like the red ones are too. The sun setting on the cover of the magazine is so colorful, it gives me a warm feeling of gratitude inside, or maybe it’s just that my coffee is still a little too warm to drink. Regardless, I turn to the first page and appreciate the welcoming note from the editor. After the table of contents, I get to the first article, and here we go! This is going to be so much fun! I’m sure once I get past this title, talking about detecting mycotoxins and unlocking organic phosphorus, I’ll be able to understand where this article is going. Well…okay…I’m sure I don’t need to read this one. Besides, it is more for analysis in high-tech farming. So, moving on to the next! Oh good, this one is about the EPA and its herbicide strategy, mitigation measures, and drift buffers. Okay, moving on to the next because I am sure this doesn’t apply to my husband's farm since we grow soybeans and corn. Besides, not every article in every magazine is interesting or applicable to everyone, right? Next page……residual herbicides, runoff, and pesticides? Next…. Biologicals, next…. fertilizer, irrigation, threeway cropping, next, next, next……… Another magazine, and another, and another. I thumbed through every single page of each magazine on my lap, which were all different in nature. And what I learned was pretty eyeopening to this wanna-be farmer's wife and that is that farming is MASSIVE, and it really is an art. An art that even though it might be
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