"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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"Cow town"? Look, when I lived in Wisconsin, that was applicable.
Here in Iowa, this is PIG country -- get it right, dammit.

Okay, my bad. We have both pigs *and* cows here in the Pacific Northwest,
so I'm unaccustomed to the specialization in livestock that exists
elsewhere.

[...]
Neither of us cares. Both of us are happy. Both will profit. That's
the way we do things in Iowa.

That's pretty much what I figured. And for the record, it's not unique to
Iowa, or even to rural areas. I'm sure that, just as here in a more urban
setting we still engage in informal agreements like the one in this thread,
in Iowa people still use legal contracts for a variety of other business
agreements.

Pete