it's yamaha's newest model couplingcompact size with plenty of 'muscle' -- fit for any terrain.it also sports a 13-hundred pound towing capacity. to win,you have to enter online at us farm report-dot-com. look forthe kodiak 700 on the homepage. entries close soon. we'llannounce the winner the week of december 18th. good luck. whenwe come back, tractor tales and our country churchsalute...please stay with us. report. for today's tractortales, we're heading out to the pacific northwest for a look atsome classic iron. getting this john deere 50 looking good andrunning properly was no easy modifications along the way, hemade this tractor something to remember. i got a john deere 50here i restored oh about 5-6 years ago. it had a tricyclefront end on it when i bought it. and when i pretty well gotit ready to paint and everything a gentleman from waptu countybought a corn picker and he had a tractor he wanted to put on itbut he didn't have a wide front end and i said hey, we tradedthis straight across and that was a good deal for me and gooddeal for him. had to get the engine bored out, had

enter to win this yamaha kodiak 700 eps a great tool to have on the link to get details. deadline is december 16 so don't delay. we wrap things up this week with cropwatch. lets start in jackson cououy iowa. farmers tete our partners at agwgw that in east central iowa the 5 to 10 percent of corn harvest is dragging on. first it was 10 inches of snow now several decent rains are keeping fields wet--even in theheild tempmpatures. this farmer r ys folks are pushshg hard to try and get done. scott simmons sent us a photo of some cotton left on the south plains. he says there isn't a lot left in the fields, but more than he expected. simmons says the area received some rain over the last couple weeks. now growers are running hard to finish the harvest. more than 80 percent of tetes cotton is now harvested. brenda cox sent this photo to our facebook page. she lives in mountain home arkansas...where life is obviously harmonious. she snapped a picture of her dog enjoying a little chow with resident chickens. jan hoadley also caught a a rfect pet picture... her kitty cat on a than

enter to win this yamaha kodiak 799 eps, a great tool to have on the farm. just go to usfarmreport dot com and click on the link to get details. deadline is december 16th, so dont delay. we've talked a lot about market volatility in recent years and this that's especially true for cattlemen. and as baxter black tells it, sometimes its awful hard to separate our emotions from the business and our daily lives. there is an old story that claims that the last two old fellers left on board the titanic when it hit that iceberg and sank were cattle feeders. as the clung to the stern one was heard to say just hang on tommy it is bound to come back up. the law validity thee market in the cow business is legend. the cow is kind to his wife when the market is up his children think he is neat . the implement dealer sits by him in church. his banker waves on the street, salesman treat him like he was a king. the hired man, ask for a raise and press is reporting absorbent gains and the banker is singing his praise. a genius he humbly admits to himself smart as a tree of a

hondae we want to welcome and yamaha, too. >> i would not put that because hogs is usually for harleyod too. that would've been good too. thank you. god bless you. drive safe. ♪ nicolle: joni ernst for president, in my humble opinion. if only they knew the iowa straw as well as aed, handful of candidates in that piece. up next, we have david axelrod and the obstacle course. ♪ ♪ john: as my esteemed and beloved cohost can corroberate, the revolving door between the press and politics is like a grand central station terminal. case in point, david axelrod. he started as a reporter at the "chicago tribune." left to become a political consultant and ultimately the message he made for barack obama. now he has returned to the media. to put that in perspective, when he came on the show earlier this year we put together an obstacle course for him. we combined the key elements of his life as an iconic chicagoan, which would be titanic a deli sandwiches. what i hear about axers, david axelrod is here to promote his new book, it is called "believer: my 40 years in politics." it is about the life