Regardless of what happened the previous year, or for any stretch of previous years, farmers seem to rejuvenate each spring. The snow melts, the leaves return to the trees and the soil is turned up once again.
Spring brings with it new hope for a good year on the farm.
Any recovery for farmers also would translate into greater prosperity for Bismarck, Mandan, Dickinson, Hettinger and all of the cities and towns of North Dakota that depend on agriculture's good fortunes. A lot of things can still happen between now and August, but as April begins there seems more reason for hope than the simple fact of springtime. Those are just a few of the millions of words that have been written about agriculture in the Tribune. The industry is the state's largest sector of the economy. It's big business.