Wednesday, June 27, 2007

How Farmers Do Business

We were ten miles from home when a local seed corn salesman spotted us and tailed us to John's alfalfa field.


He idled his pickup by the side of the road, watching as John sized up the afalfa, uprooted a lone pigweed, and pulled our vehicle back onto the gravel.

No cherrywood desk, no secretary bringing coffee, no dialing the phone. If you want to do business with a farmer, you only need to know his vehicle, and maybe where he goes to check his hay.

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