It’s been a tough week around the farm with equipment failures that have delayed harvest a few days. I’ll get back on track.

But while repairs are underway, I can’t help but think about others who won’t recover so easily from hits to their budgets – setting them back further and further every time they fill up at the gas station or get a paycheck.

Many of our friends on the West Side of the state disregard rural folks in communities like ours.

We see this every session that the Legislature is controlled by Democrats. Most of them have such little knowledge and awareness of our wa...