It would be a good year for a good year.

It’s like last week was winter with the fields still full of snow, and this week is summer. No spring this year it seems.

The farmers are getting the equipment ready to go and are getting fidgety. You can see it in their eyes and hear it in their words.

They are nervous. We’ve had three bad years of farming out here and they really, really need a good one. Especially the young farmers. They are heavily invested in their farms and they can’t have years when they make no money. But that’s been what’s been happening.

The older farmers have most of their equipment and land paid off and can carry a few bad years. But not these young ones. Word has come for one farmer that the bank can’t afford to cover him any longer, so he is having to sell all, and pay out his debts.

Last summer was a bumper crop, until the afternoon in August when the hail came. Then it all changed in one day. There was insurance for some, but that just covered some costs. Now, because of three bad years, some are starting to double insure, so maybe they can make some money.

We’ve had farmers go bankrupt here and it’s a really dark time for everybody when that happens.

But one good year... one good year could change everything.

This would be a good time for a good year.