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Farming on cow/calf operations gets slipped in instead of sleep between calving, feeding, branding, fencing, and all the other spring work. It is often a high-speed, high-stress form of diversification that causes a lot of laundry problems.

Anyway the inspiration for the following "Rancher's Guide to Farming" came when I wandered out to the shop. I could tell that something was wrong, because my husband and son and our neighbor were standing with their hands on their hips staring at a plow. Finally one of them said, "It must be binding somewhere."

Another one answered, "Yep!" Then as one, they...