"Covering agriculture — that's got to be a pretty good gig," said the man who accidentally sat down at a table filled largely with Agweek personnel.

Covering agriculture as a journalist means not having to write about the late night basketball game, he pointed out. And you don't have to worry about politics.

While we nodded a little on the basketball game front, the politics comments brought on some laughs from our little group. It was a happy occasion, so we didn't bombard the friendly man with all the details of how agriculture and politics are hopelessly intertwined.

"I cover more politics now than I did as a regular old newspaper reporter," was my response.

He acknowledged not thinking about such things as a farm bill.

The man, though he grew up in a family with close farm ties,

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