Agriculture has been a learning experience

This week the nation celebrates the industry that feeds the world—the agricultural industry.

Being a city girl who has lived in Wyoming for 25 years, I have lived in this rural state longer than I lived in Iowa. While Iowa is considered a rural state, I was not a rural girl.

Since living in Wyoming, I have learned to cut and wrap beef, feed chickens, pluck chickens, feed pigs, buck bales of hay and ride a horse.

My education in Wyoming agriculture grows every year. My husband grew up in the country and his family has a small acreage in Riverton where they have had all kinds of animals that roa...