Better late than never.

This one time I went to Washington DC and it felt like yesterday but it was really over a month ago already. Whoops. Time flies when you're not blogging. I alluded in an earlier post that I would eventually get to posting about our kind-of-annual trip to DC. We went last year and as you might have guessed we went again this year. I think that's what annual means. The primary purpose of the trip is to reward county Farm Bureau presidents in Kansas for their service. Farmer Tim is still the Sherman Co. President, so they continue to let us intrude tagalong attend a week-ish long trip where we get to tour around, do a little lobbying and learn some stuff about issues affecting agriculture. But we also get to do fun stuff like visit family and friends. Win-win.

As was the case last year, the Farm Bill is still elusive as ever but a hot topic, nonetheless. The Sequester is of course a concern to farmers as it will likely result in major cuts to programs, affecting the way we do business. We did a lot of listening, which was good, but also frustrating because you see so much dysfunction (on both sides of the aisle) and you almost feel helpless. But I suppose our being there at least says something about our caring- or at least I'd like to think it does anyway. And since this post is so belated, I'll end this with a picture trip-in-review.