1.   I thought I had handled the chicken crisis nicely until we got the news from our farmer friends.

2.   Just ask Dennis Clarey, a farmer from El Paso, Ill., who was there with his two grown sons and their farmer friends.

3.   My farmer friends tell me not to feed him because woodchucks are destructive.

4.   My retired farmer friends are acting like a bunch of drugstore rowdies, grinning and giggling and passing the front page of the paper from table to table.