Yes, there is also an Agricultural Hall of Fame... (KS)

Not wanting to miss anything exciting, we turned off and visited the National Agricultural Center & Hall of Fame ($6 senior). Marcia, granddaughter of a farm family, was underwhelmed and stayed in the car, reading, so I made the visit quick: Lots of farm equipment from wooden implements to modern powered harvesters, and an interesting original farm home. The obligatory barbed wire collection, but missing (or I didn’t spot it) the obligatory branding iron exhibit. These, to me anyway, are as uninteresting as they sound, but they keep popping up here and there. Neither as interesting as a good telephone insulator collection, or early computing collection.

Bob Dole is about the only name I easily recognized in the Agricultural Hall of Fame. He is heralded for originating and/or voting for every imaginable bill favorable to farming, and of course is from Kansas.