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report. i jumped it. it's our privilege to report on the people and places that make up the world of echo culture. each year we do our best to cover all the corners of farm country. this weekend we will highlight some of our favorite stops along the way. we begin in new mexico. home to one of the nation's top collegiate rodeo teams. just one step away from the arenas of festivals circuit. >> at the edge of new mexico's found range via scoble or scale higher education establishment with an enrollment hovering around the thousand, they supplant community college, and this year is the giant in the arena. >> we are the team to beat pretty much, so far. >> right now the men's team is in third in the nation and one

team member is writing at the front of the pack. ranked top all-around cowboy in the country out of 130 of their schools including many four year universities. the guys are good and girls are getting there. >> last year they had the best pro racer. how does it become like this carries such talented athletes? >> we've had a lot of support from the school and the community and we been really lucky that we have gotten a lot of good kids here in the last couple years. most of his guitar are from smaller towns that don't want to go to for your university right off the bat. they want to make it easy into the college atmosphere. >> is the great place to start out, coming from the small town and stuff, i wasn't sure

about the whole college deal. but from one small town to another about the same size, classes are going good and stuff. it's almost home away from home. >> is very different from where i'm from, because i'm from the coast. >> jackson and she's obviously not from texas. join new south wales australia. and for the rodeo team being out of town or out of state is not that uncommon. did those writers from 16 different states, australia and most years, canada. >> we just want some of the skits from smaller states and australia and idaho, they don't get recruit as much as kids here in southwest so to compete with the bigger schools we have to think outside the box. >> it helps the school sheriff settled with the big boys.

>> review is not of college sports, it's nowhere near as big as it is here. this has been the team, extreme of mine for about five years, trying to get over here so i could pursue my education and rodeo. >> it only adds to the learning experience. >> it helps to know how they do things and, just from the different parts of the country. >> lessons you can learn in parts of the classroom. be consistent with what you do, don't do it every day and then slack off. >> they are helping us small schools stand tall in the

rights of intercollegiate rodeo and openness kids get shot of helping their dreams. >> as the sprawl pushes back the rural curtain of america so many shall combinations can be found. for jazz musician in colorado friend has provided him with the new audience or raised questions about who is really performing for. and hurts asked the story. >> where is that noise coming from, isn't that guy again? >> rumor has it, he is playing music for prairie dogs. he's been playing saxophone for

years. >> this is his favorite place to practice. >> well, but nonjudgmental payments. >> way to minute. the prairie dog guy place for people? >> we are from colorado. >> and, the beatles played here. if not just the prairie dog player, he plays up the music. his unconventional practice has gone into this perfect stage. >> is really nice. the acoustics are great and

it's pretty. it sure is nice out here. >> and he doesn't care if he's playing for big years are cute little furry ones, or ones waiting for gossip. >> apparently there are rumors that i come out here in order to play with the prairie dogs. that might be neat but i just come out here to play. >> this deviation as justification to his craft. nothing more. >> i am not able to take, i'm an actual person and i put one regularly. >> is not doing this to be strange. but, because of his adoring and

adorable fan, not every musician can say they get standing ovations at practice. >> when the special edition of us foreign report returns, an oklahoma girl makes the difference halfway around the world. and later, tractor tales. plus the visit from baxter black. we will be right back. we turn now to a

story that makes us feel good about the future of our country. in oklahoma, a small-town girl is >> we turn now to the story that can make us feel good about the future of our country. in oklahoma, small-town girl is making the big-time difference in the world around her. but her success is not only her own community. she is reaching across lines for people she's never even met. >> the colors would brighten anyone's day. the subject made just right in your heart. little girls sundresses in shades of purple, yellow and pink to name a few. >> i never thought it would get the state. >> all part of the senior research project to make inroads. >> i wanted to find something

different so in this project came up i knew it was the great fit. >> she chose the organization little dresses for africa started with the small workshop last summer. >> we had to cut some pieces so it would look like address. >> nine -year-old avery clark attended the workshop. so did laura randall, an sixth- grader who has been sewing since age five. her grandmother came along also. the dresses are about the size of april case. >> you cut out the arm hole and finish the scene some way, then you may take casing that goes straight across and you call that up and it goes around their necks. >> shortly after birth was

inspired. it goes from third grade through sixth grade and started making dresses. i learned to rip those out and i did a lot of that. >> barbara has been sewing most of her life links to childhood lessons from her own grandmother. >> i tried to pass the love of sewing onto other people because it's just us feel that makes you more unique. >> after that first workshop, word soon spread. >> i started receiving more calls and more dresses. >> and are now making has assembled 267 dresses. her original goal, 111 and she's still going. >> you put them in at the clock back and label how many dresses

on it and the size so that when they arrive at the place they can sort them out. >> and get them to little girls who will likely enjoy wearing dresses just as much as these little girls enjoyed making them. >> it makes me feel really good that they, really special dress. >> i think it has been opposing for a lot of people. you don't have to be someone famous to make the difference in the lives of others. >> thank you. when we come back at story time with baxter black. a necessary evil -

but on the farm, time marches to a much different beat. baxter black jo for many of us the alarm clock

is unnecessary evil but on that one time or just do it differently. baxter black joins us now to explain. have you ever heard of burma say, my gosh, i'm going to be late for work. not hardly. there's the different cadence of farmers life. they literally march to the different drummer. one of the great distinctions between urban and country. it's eight-five versus dawn to dusk. it revolves around the man-made schedule in town, punch the clock, 40 hour week, eight- five, kind of the house. those are alien concepts on the farm. cows are about the crack of dawn and horses are in the pasture grazing and they have had to adjust their practice time two hours.

farmers like their animals at their body clock on daylight and dark. now on the job in town, we eat when it's new, not when the hungry. we put one inside, but when you're tired. we aren't traipsing around the neighborhood begging for candy anytime we feel like it, we wait until october 30 first. it's very convenient. when nature is able to do the equation, the season and the chaos that goes with it, the clock goes off the window. ask anyone who cards and have day jobs. going out to feed, checking the stock, getting the kids off to school and getting out of the house by 7:30, anything could happen. defenses down and the cows are out. again is left open and the

horse is in the green barrel. there are two dead sheep surrounded by coyotes. account is calvin, someone left the stock water running, the big truck has about tire and you don't have time for this because you will be late for work. in conclusion, if there is any blessing on moving light on features gone to dusk schedule, it's the farmers never have to worry about overtime. this is baxter black, from out there. >> you can catch baxter every other week on us foreign report. in the meantime check out his work online at baxter black dcom. when we come back, but john deere with the one-of-a-kind week on u-s farm

report we feature classic iron and the 's. >> welcome back. each and every week on us foreign report the future classic iron and collectors to bring them back to life. today we have much on here that's missing its stripes. why? because the owner could not bring himself to paint its treasure. >> this isn't 1937 john deere b. i just bought it online. i got it from down in indiana. it's not out in the backyard for along time but the guy kept it covered up and when i got it home in about 20 minutes we had it running and it blends well. i kind of think i would like this instead of painting it. i like stuff like that. >> most people know what these are but this one is unique because it's all original and has the original steel wheels. the plow and cultivated with it and on hard ground they pulled

one plow and on soft ground they pulled two. then they had the pulley for sewing work or grinding beat or whatever. it used to be green with yellow trim and yellow wheels but it's not outside town in southern indiana, and most of the paint is gone. but it didn't ruin it. i like tractors to run nice and they run nice i like to leave them alone. because there is always the story there. the fellow i bought it from was our collector and this was the only tractor he had, he collect gas engines. he had this applaud his garden for years and by the way he talked he had owned it for 20 or 25 years and i don't have the clue where it came from before that. i wanted it to be with all the original steel wheels and that's why i bought it. everyone comments about the perfectly restored ones but a lot of people are interested in the ones that are not restored.

i think i will just leave it be. >> remember, you can watch some of your favorite tractor tables on us farm report.com or download them as podcasts. go to the itunes store and search tractor tales. never been wild

about studying geography. we have a pretty big and varied country, so many of us didn't >> americans have never been particularly big about studying geography. we have as big and varied country so many of us did not learn much about the let alone the baltic states. this blind spot does not serve us well as we are woven more tightly into the global economy. just as many of us have pulled out of nablus to learn where

and if you or sister will be staged during their tour of service, it might be time for us to make the globe in the picture in our house. i stayed globe because we have the age-old dilemma on how to pick the ball on which we live with two-dimensional maps. this could be because of the looming new star on the global stage. africa. americans no next to nothing about the convent as we discovered when trying to understand the recent pair of spring uprising. but even when we look at maps we are usually misled. virtually all our mercator projections which grossly distort the size of the land masses. for example, usually greenland looks about one fourth the size of africa when in truth it's only about one 14th as bait. the chinese are already focusing on its potential.

poor farmers, the important point is africa is the last great source of new farmland. those who remember frantically studying maps of south america 30 years ago may want to shift there attention of the thousand miles east. let us know what you think. send e-mails to mailbag at us farm report.com .com .com will call the so voicemail. coming up next half hour, out two choppers help us the company celebrate an important anniversary. stay with us, the second half- hour of us farm report is coming up.

today on us farm report. how do you stay happy 70 fifth sex to custom choppers is one way to go. accustomed to country music star joins us for our day of fun and hunting in northern michigan and the classic theater uses corn to keep its customers warm. us farm report, brought to you by the 2012 chevy silverado. >> hello and welcome to the special edition of us farm report. i'm john bits. each year we are fortunate to visit all corners of farm country and this week we are featuring some of our favorite

stories. we begin in the hoosier state forest the company celebrated its 70 fifth anniversary of high-powered way. >> powerful engines and sleek chrome lines and unique artistic flair. all the makings of accustomed bike tour on orange county choppers. they were commissioned to mark the 70 fifth anniversary of the indiana state company. >> my husband would love it if we did, and so with my three is. >> not everyday you see mechanical high-powered pieces of art like fees. orange county chopper was made famous by the popular discovery channel tv shows. we watched the show on lott and see a lot of the things they do

but the trike is unbelievable. >> an eye-catching display no doubt, if the salute to american agriculture with the flair to hollywood. from the custom painted body to the cornhusker head. >> the use of old planter played as the design for the rams. >> talk about precision ag, this is precision. >> when we talk about building the bike like that, it's about precision. so that really stands out to me as the unique feature that sounds pretty cool. >> there are actually two bikes. there is to reverse trike that will stay at company headquarters. the other bike, but to live there and no less impressive, will be ruffled off. >> they had the idea that they

need to help other people. so they will collect money from this and you gain the chance to join the sweepstakes. >> twilight winner will right away within the machine, the real winner art to children in need of loving homes. the choppers will be used to raise money or do we care for oregon's programs. >> we care for children who are not able to be adopted by provided some of the financial support that they need. >> this is something that he and his wife chantelle practice. they have poor children of their own that they felt the need to reach out. >> we said we would pray about it and give it some time and over the course of the next two months it became an idea that we realized wasn't our idea about an idea that god put on our hearts. >> it wants later they were in the ukraine, picking up their baby girl now known as jaded.

>> he gives you the grace and capacity to do it and that was the exciting thing and probably one of the most important things i think i have done in my life. the reality was, i didn't do it, it was him. >> now they are sharing the blessing of hope in this beautiful bike will help lower families find the beauty of loving eight child. >> time now to head outdoors on the farm. what's up with hunting segment without the memorable teams on? we have that covered thanks to justin moore and up and coming country music star who joined us on the hunt in michigan. >> unjust and more with my buddy chip flory. go ahead and roll that awesome

theme song. ♪[music] >> he's up here on the hill behind us and hopefully he has a few behind us. we are just going to have to be patient. we know they are here, we just have to get them to come up. they are going to hang out down there for a while. >> this is the really pretty

spot. >> i have to ask you and i think you probably been asked this before by someone at our internal or ad today, why did you do this? we have the best theme song of anyone out there. >> i don't know about that. it was good to get to know you guys, and anytime i have the opportunity to mix two things that i love, music, hunting and fishing and everything in the outdoors, i am in. we had fun doing that and i'm glad that it could fit for you all. >> it's absolutely killer. jeremy wrote that and then you guys put on one heck of it show. >> i get to play for a lot of

big crowds and plug it in and it's really fun for me especially with being the songwriter. it's fun to play the smaller and more intimate crowds that help me listen to the lyrics. that's how we started to be honest with you. >> we started over there just playing around, but that's what it's about right there. >> justin, i wish that we have more than just not on this truck, i wish we had more feathers, but that's hunting. >> that's why they call it hunting and not killing. >> lots of fun. we had them coming towards us and somebody cut us off. we will have to do it again. >> to learn more about just including upcoming appearances, at two big machine music.com .

still to come, ♪ grew up in a small town and when the rain would fall down ♪ ♪ i'd just stare out my window ♪ ♪ dreaming of what could be and if i'd end up happy ♪ ♪ i would pray i could breakaway ♪ ♪ i'll spread my wings and i'll learn how to fly ♪ i'll do what it takes till i touch the sky ♪

♪ i gotta make a wish, take a chance, make a change, and break away ♪ ♪ out of the darkness and into the sun ♪ ♪ i won't forget all the ones that i love ♪ ♪ i gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change, and break away ♪

each weekend on "spirit of the heartland" we feature the people and places unique to rural america. >> each weekend on spirit of the heartland, the beach or the people and places you need to grow america. one such place as the borg and peter in illinois which has turned to corn to keep its patrons warm. ♪[music] chuck gomes is the musician by training but this theater is his passion. he put his heart and soul into

the renovation of his 80 -year-old architectural and ♪[music] up. >> this was designed and built by louis skidmore. he also designed the united nations building, hancock center, the sears tower, of very well-known architect. and if you were in the vaudeville circuit this was one of the circuit theaters. if you played, bob hope was here in the marx brothers was here. we had :-) barnett sitting on stage, where rogers and trigger word here. >> at eight decades can be tough and the building show that. >> the seats had rusted through, but they said had 6 feet of water that had been sitting down there for 10 years, and hundreds of dead pigeons and broken windows.

the curtain was dry rotted. >> when the curtain opened after i hear bob renovation, they welcomed the showplace for on corporate bonds, restored to its former glory, glory reminiscent of his art deco design. renovating the heater was one thing but running it and paying to heat it was another. the tab hit $15,000 and chopped at that place he'd go broke. the solution with heat, locally the stove stoked by corn. >> the most efficient corn stove built right here. i would not be in business today without these corn stoves. >> the rhythm of kernels dropping from the other into the paradoxes like music to chuck's ears and dollars in the bank. >> her heating bill went from $15,000 for the first five

weeks now to under $1000 for the entire heating season from october through about march or april. >> there is no shortage of fuel, chuck buys leftovers from cd lives, paying about that dollar per bag. there is more work, carrying the fuel and heating, cohen -- ben. total effort is about 20 minutes per week. >> this building is the only renewable resource he did theater in north america and re: the local resource is corn. we have based our theater and it's wintertime operation on american ingenuity of the american farmer. >> wow cool jazz fills the air, gomes says, don't worry about the smell of burning greens after the show. >> there is no odor in the building but outside there's the slight burnt popcorn smell.

but as i always say that the smell of saving money. >> and there could be sweeter scent. >> thank you. baxter black is next, please stay with us.

>> baxter black on us farm report is brought to you by your beef checkoff. to learn more about how beef and dairy producers like you invest the dollars and promote your products, visit might choke off economic. >> life on the arizona ranch requires all types of equipment, some new and some not so new. baxter black tells us about an old trailer that has served him

well. >> several years ago there was dissension at the ranch. i had overheard murmuring some of barnett regarding the stock trader. the grumbling animals enlisted my teenage daughter to peers that their complaints. in my defense, but they described to trailer the way it used to be. i don't like it was the real bargain when i bought it. it was an 18-foot hail with the bumper hitch. upon purchasing it and made a few minor repairs. three of the wheel bearings is replacing that the left front still spun good. we put plywood over the rotting core. i put down the rubber mat on the plywood after or scheme was in transit and slick from front to back going up the steep grade. every improvement and

investment i always say. by doctors complaints seemed trifling. the horses she claimed were embarrassed on voting. see shih suggested i take it. i pulled it down to the sandblasting guide for investment and he recognized the mac recommended against it, he apparently was afraid it would cost structure will damage. admittedly, there has been solution to this complaint was brought up by the cows. they worried about sliding up to it through the portage cap that surrounds the tree trailer. i always thought of that as good drainage, and i take it the voice of the stillborn did to because they need my trailer the valdez. my daughter had her home motives. she wasn't even tired her horse to trailer. i offered to give her some private ownership and she said no thanks.

being the good ranch boss, i had good reason to avoid hasty decisions. the valdez was perfectly suited to my pickup, and, this is baxter black, i'm out there. >> baxter joins us every other week on us farm report. meanwhile, check out his work online. tractor tales is up next on this special version of us farm report.

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i end up whining like jackson! jackson! man i'll tell you, that dude was a trip. that's the truth. how about you man? how you doing? well it's like you said , sessions are tough, but i gotta' get back on track. so, it is helpin'? yeah, man. i've been sleepin' like a baby. i even went easier on the class six. alright man. i'm glad you made that call to the hotline. yeah man, me too. i'm a veteran and these services are for us. we've earned them. whether your wounds are visible or not treatment works. treatment works. treatment works. and calling the confidential veterans hotline can help. i know. call 800-273-8255 and press 1. machines of all makes, models and sizes. today, we introduce a 'case' wheat thresher fr >> tractor tales peters machines of all makes, models

and sizes. today we introduce kay sweet pressure from the early 19 hundreds that's really big for it's size. >> this is the model age steam 64 structure. it was made between the use of 1910 and 1924. this tractor was swimmingly threshing, grain and that type of work years ago. i made every part on this with the exception of two castings which was on the governor and the heat exchanger. everything else was made by what i mentioned myself. i've gone through tears and two months so far but i'm not quite done yet. the spokes and back wheels are made out of welding rods and all the other stuff was made

out of bar stock and stock bread. everyone seemed to have an nice complement. they seem to think it looked really neat. i'll give it throttle and i'll make it work and i want to watch the governor. it sounds like the old ones. >> what made you decide to do this? >> because i'm not farmer and vibrant instructors ever since i was the little boy. my father had threshing machine in the neighborhood and use to thresh with an l case, and we ran. >> remember. you can watch some of your favorite tractor tales on us farm report.com , or you can download

these as podcasts. just go to us farm report.com and search tractor tales. the mailbag is next.

we received this simple question from david schafer that is frankly worrying many economists and political >> we have received this deceptively simple question from david shafer that frankly worried many economists and political leaders. it tractors drive themselves

and robots do the milking, where are all the people going to work backs the proper answer to that question is people will move on to other jobs or work building machines that replaced them but that doesn't seem to be working out. the new jobs are always much smaller than the number of jobs that disappeared. those jobs often are specialize which makes the transition harder. our housing market right now they labeled the labor market bubble. it can't move easily to where jobs are because selling the home is often very difficult. finally the areas where technology is eliminating jobs is expanding into the service sector. the old such as law and accounting or binding computers enable many to do without their services. the short but worry some answers are that we don't know. one idea is that we will

actually work less. the other answer is that more of us who work in healthcare, tourism and technology. one other possible source of jobs as the possible breakthroughs such as nanotechnology. many of these areas will likely be of wide range of the future. as always, i want to hear from you. send comments to us farm report.com on the bus of the voicemail. for everyone on the us farm report, i'm john phipps, say, thank you for watching. stay tuned next week, we are working to do even better.