Growers in the western Corn Belt and parts of the Southern Plains may notice a strange, slow, high-wing spray plane at work this summer over row-crop fields and some pastures — a sight that likely will become commonplace soon.

Farm Equipment recently launched the “What If & What Was” series, borrowing from the film, It’s a Wonderful Life. Thanks to a dramatic intercession, as you’ll recall, George Bailey was shown a world in which he’d never been born. Read your peers’ thoughts — had their business “failed to launch” or survive — here.

What a ride it has been! From washing a Massey 44 at my father’s Massey Ferguson dealership at age 10 to working on my uncle’s farm in my grade 8-12 summers.