I couldn’t wait for dad to say the beautiful words, “We are laid by.” It happened from mid-July to mid-August. It’s when the soybeans are too big to cultivate and the rice is weeks away from harvest. In short, it’s when the pressure of time gets a relief. Normally we went fishing, visited relatives and …
Category: Lessons From The Farm
Lessons From The Farm: The Farm Shop
Mary & I went home to Hamburg last week for the 4th of July Celebration on the Square. The first place I had to check out was where my dad’s heart was... the farm. Dad called it headquarters. There were no tractors or farm implements present. The huge old oak tree that provided shade on …
Law of the Farm: Responsibility Means Do It Anyway.
Oh, how I identify with this picture. July days in a hot steamy rice field. We always started the day as the sun came up because the rice field was like a sauna in the afternoon. The moisture rising from the flooded field and the scorching sun made it almost unbearable. I remember as I …
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Law of the Farm: Asleep and Drifting…
I started cultivating when I was in the 10th grade. By then I had been driving a tractor for a couple of years. It was exciting. But as I got older and started staying out all night… well the fun wore off. There were lessons in this hot, boring job but I was young, and …
Law of the Farm: God’s Unchangeable Law
These 3 pictures capture almost a hundred years in farming. The top picture is my mom & dad in their early years of farming. Note the steel tractor tires. When I first started going to the farm in the late 50’s we had rubber tires as seen in middle picture of my dad on his …
God School: Just Sitting In Class, Sucking Air
Do you ever look back and mentally kick yourself? It was 60 years ago, my Spring semester at Arkansas A & M (now UAM) when I was sitting in Dr. Culpepper’s Botany class. I had chosen Ag-Business as my major. Little did I know how the events & choices over the next 60 years would …
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Law of the Farm: The Farm Shop
Every farm has a shop. This is where everyone assembles at the beginning of the day. In the winter dad would bring the equipment in that needed repairing or updating. The shop had all the necessary tools and equipment to make the repairs throughout the year. My favorite tool was the acetylene torch. When a …
Law of the Farm: Seed Explains Dead-To-Self
“If only” I had taken advantage of the opportunity I might have recognized what God was telling me. One of my majors when I went to college, the first time, was Ag-Business. I remember sitting in Botany class thinking, “Nothing exciting here!” How wrong I was. Over the last 20 years God has been revealing …
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Law of the Farm: The Soil – Part 1
A few weeks ago, I went to Carlisle, Arkansas where my grandpa raised rice. This is one of his fields. Not only did this immigrant from Denmark learn to raise rice, but this is where he taught my dad to be an incredible farmer. The soil, or as my dad affectionately called it, the ground, …
Law of The Farm: Part 2
Did you know, “The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), which contains the general and permanent rules of federal agencies, exceeds 188,000 pages as of late 2021.” And “Print Volumes: The printed version, often updated by annual supplements, spans over 370 volumes…contains roughly 22 million words, which would take an average reader about 46 work weeks …
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