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Jack DeShazo has decades of experience in the agriculture field.

Azle resident Dr. Gerry Lewis guides explorers to discover their AMAZING. He is an author, musician, and speaker, and a coach-sultant for individuals, churches, and organizations. More at www.discoveryouramazing.com.

Over the past couple of week’s I have been reflecting a lot on beginning my 60th year. Mrs. Sweetie says I should stop saying that because people will think I’m 60 when, in reality, I just turned 59.

My original purpose for writing the Agriculture 101 column was to call the general public’s attention to the importance of Agriculture. I think most readers are not too surprised when I write about beef cattle and sheep as producers of Agricultural products or corn and tomatoes as end products. But when I started stretching the perimeters to include reindeer and caribou I imagine I created a little bit of doubt and head scratching. This all started with last week’s Agriculture 101 column and it being a part of the Christmas week edition. I threw in a little bit of trivial information about some of Santa’s draft animals and also our northernmost Agricultural producers. So, this week let’s go a little deeper than just reindeer/caribou trivia.

If you are on Facebook, you will know what I’m talking about when I reference “memories” that pop up.