Under the Wire

If you have spent the past three months stranded half way between Jeffry City and Mayoworth, Wyo., you probably haven’t heard about stimulus dollars flowing into just about every citizen’s bank account. I’m not going to try and explain it all. Just ask around and you will get an earful about this.

I can, however, point out that these programs grew from aid to individual citizens to businesses, large and small with one exception. At first ag enterprises were not included. Later that was changed to include most ag endeavors but not all. For some reason, the cow/calf operators of the country were...