We are closing out this year of celebrating our centennial at the American Farm Bureau. We stand at the start of a new decade, and a new century of Farm Bureau. Many of us are ready for a new year and a new season. Farming is always about looking to the future with the hope the next season will be better than the last.

I am amazed and humbled by how much has been accomplished through generations of farmers and ranchers working together. Some years — or decades — are tougher than others, but we...