Essay by John Mattingly
Agriculture – November 2006 – Colorado Central Magazine
DRIVE ACROSS the Great Plains and Midwest of the United States in summer, and you’ll notice a vast quilt of wheat, corn, and soybeans, their tidy rows stitching fencerow to fencerow, from eastern Colorado through Ohio. Every thirty miles or so, white silos and gray, steaming feedmills rise up on the horizon like bountiful cathedrals, towering over short Main Streets where cafes with names like Rear O’ The Steer and Fillin’ Station are surrounded by glinting new pickups next to the Supreme Court Motel.
