NEAR LESTER, IA (KELO-AM) Getting a crops-eye view in a combine cutting corn this harvest season is none other than KELO Radio's Bill Zortman. Zortman is riding shotgun to 27-year-old Ross Moegler.
Harvest has been challenging this year.
"Can't control the weather and we can kick and scream all we want but the Man upstairs makes those types of decisions for us, so we try to just roll with the punches," Moegler says, using a philosophy familiar to all farmers.
Zortman keeps firing the questions, as Moegler does his rows on his big place near Lester, Iowa. How do you pass this lifestyle on to the next generation?
"It's what I grew up with, and that's why I got my boy with me today, my oldest son, try to instill in him the same way I had instilled in me - the value of agricultural upbringing." says Moegler.
Over the dull roar of the combine, Zortman asks if you had a civilian in here with you, someone who knew nothing about farming, what would you say? Moegler says he'd try to show that farmers are honest about what they do, that they wouldn't do anything to harm their crops or the land, that you can't believe everything you read in the papers or on the internet, and that he would never do anything "evil" because it would effect his family as well.
Zortman leaves to get back to Sioux Falls. Moegler keeps combining....