History isn’t just a record of what once was. It’s a guide for what could be, if we fail to learn from the mistakes of those who came before us.

As we bid farewell to February, I find myself aching for the warmth and promise of spring in the heart of middle America.

By the time you read this column, the year’s corn harvest will be finished and the soybeans harvested and trucked off to market. Another year in the farmers’ calendar is just about complete.

Bringing a couple old newspaper articles with him to the podium to prove his point, Gov. Eric Holcomb told the Indiana Farm Bureau State Convention that Indiana’s story is the chronicle of agriculture in the state.

One of the world’s oldest professions that merge science and art is featured at a permanent display during Historic Farm Days.