Missouri Beef Cattlemen Association Magazine- Cartoon by Rick Friday

Hope y'all had a Merry Lil' Christmas!

Malicious websites continue trying to lure me to their webpage with beautiful women wearing hardly anything. I am 63 years old, they’ll need photos of banana bread fresh out of the oven or bacon frying to get my attention.

Here It's Friday everyday! How many Hackberries can Hackler hack if a Hackler could hack hackberries?

Way to go Ringgold County, Iowa! This sign can be read along US Highway 169 as you enter Ringgold County, Iowa. My father used to say, “ You should never cuss a farmer with your mouth full.”

“The only thing preventing total Corporate takeover in Agriculture is the will of the Family Farmer to exist.” - Friday Cartoons

My father was a lifetime farmer and when I was a boy I remember him as being a pessimist, especially about the weather, but as he aged he became more of an optimist and when under pressure he’d say. “It always works out.”

A one track mind.

And if the whole wide world stops singing And all the stars go dark I'll keep a light on in my soul Keep a bluebird in my heart

Some of this land has been owned by our family for 126 years and we aim to keep it a while longer.

My entire life I've heard the old saying “Knee high by the fourth of July” as a way farmers could measure the success of their corn crop, but, my father would always say, “We don’t measure our success until after harvest.”

Farm News June 25, 2021 cartoon submission. “No Pun - No Fun!”

Did you know that farmers and ranchers only receive 14.6 cents of every dollar that consumers spend on food at home and away from home?

The Missouri Beef Cattlemen’s Magazine is also the recipient of the 2017 James Flanagan Most Improved Publication Award. See the cartoon in the March 2021 edition on page 96. mocattle.org/news-center/mis…

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Let Grandpa show you How 2 sweat & swear & rip your jeans; recite a prayer & eat ur greens. Skip a stone & plant some seeds; put down the phone & pull the weeds. Avoid bug bites & ivy itch; playground fights & a willow switch. Fish 4 Bass & Channel cat; glove a ball & swing a bat

In 1974 corn was worth $3.60 per bushel and I was earning $2 per hour and it was that day I decided I wanted to be a farmer. 47 years later, corn is worth about $5.70 per bushel and Iowa minimum wage is $7.25. farm-news.com/

May we never forget the true meaning. Sending you Peace, Love and Easter Blessings! - Friday Cartoons

If you are having fun expect contentment, if you are making fun expect karma.

Birdy, birdy, in the sky Dropped some whitewash in my eye. I did not fret, I did not cry. I'm just glad that cows don't fly!”