Farmers Wendy and Jamie Yeager welcomed Alabama Agriculture Commissioner Rick Pate to their Orrville row crop farm Sept. 4 as part of the commissioner’s Ag Listening Tour. Pate also visited the farms of Sam Givhan in Safford and Ken and Gray Cogle in Marion Junction. Following lunch with Dallas County Farmers Federation board members at Central Alabama Farmers Co-op in Selma, Pate discussed issues like trade, labor and disaster assistance.