COWBOY LOGIC
If you can't drive the pickup truck, sit in the middle. You may have to hunch your legs because of the stickshift, but you don't have to get out and open every gate. A different way of looking at things, perhaps, but typical of those who spend their time outdoors studying the horizon rather than indoors studying their navels. This is a collection of thoughtful, yet often humorous perspectives on farming, rural life and other matters.

Baxter Black
Baxter Black once made his living as a large-animal veterinarian in the western United States. Now he spends a lot of time speaking, writing poetry and commentary on almost everything under the sun. He has been featured on the Tonight Show, PBS and National Public Radio. His Ag Man comic strips appears in numerous farm magazines.

Ace Reid's Cartoon of the Month
A sampling of Ace Reid's enduring comic strips about hapless ranch hands Jake and Zeb. You can also order Ace Reid books and calendars here.

Thayne Cozart
Thayne Cozart has a silly side and a serious one, too. Known to many as the clownish character Milo Yield, Cozart started out as an agricultural journalist, founded Farm Talk, a newspaper in Kansas, and served for several years as communications director for the National Farmers Organization.

Lewis Baumgartner
Billing himself as "the world's worst farmer," this Fulton, MO, native was able to find humor amid the difficulties he experienced during the 1980s farm crisis. Sharing that humor developed into a second career, although he and his wife still manage a farm near Millersburg, MO.