Wayne Pike, author of Township Roads, grew up on a dairy,
hog and crop farm near Rochester, Minnesota. He has a Master's Degree in Agricultural Education from the University of Minnesota and currently works as a farm management instructor for Riverland Community & Technical College. Wayne and his wife, Deb, have three sons, ten hens and two cats. For twenty years, they lived on an 11-acre farm in "suburban" LeRoy, Minnesota, right on the Iowa line. In 2003, he and his family moved back to the farm where he grew up.

Wayne started writing Township Roads in 1997 as a bi-weekly column for the Fillmore County Journal. Township Roads placed third in the 2002 Iowa Newspaper Association's Master Columnist competition and second in the Minnesota Free Newspaper Association's Personal Column contest.

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