Relate Ag Past To Present

摘要

Fifteen years ago, Jim Cuddeback got a phone call from a neighbor, Dale Statler. "He said he wanted to return a piece of farm equipment his family had borrowed," Jim says. It wasn't unusual for the two Washington, Iowa, families to loan each other equipment. But Jim didn't remember Statler borrowing anything recently. Nevertheless, he drove to his neighbor's to haul the machinery home. Much to his surprise, the borrowed farm equipment was a wooden harrow made with metal teeth. "Dale said his father had borrowed it from my grandfather," Jim says. "He finally uncovered it in a hay barn."