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 …
Category: Lessons From The Farm
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 …
Law of The Farm: Part 1
God is so cool. He really made life simple. We make life complicated. His life strategies go all the way back to the farm, The Garden of Eden. After “He created” the Garden and man, He “took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and keep it.” Genesis 2:15. Principle …
Law of The Farm: Plant The Straight Rows
In a few weeks, the fields will be full of tractors pulling discs, harrows, and planters. It’s spring. It’s “plantin’ time.” It’s an exciting time. The smell of fresh plowed ground. It’s time to leave the cold and drab of winter and start fresh and new. It’s a new opportunity. It’s new life and the …
Law of the Farm: What Is It?
Unlike many of the “world’s laws, God’s Law of the Farm is simple and works every time. It has been in existence since creation. It has never failed. And like God’s Word, never changes. The law says, “A man reaps what he sows.” Galatians 6:7 When my dad wanted to harvest rice in one field, …
The Law Of The Farm: The Soil
The remarkable thing about soil is that it does not care what is planted. It will give as much effort to grow weeds as rice, soybeans, or corn. Dad’s seed supplier provided him with the ancestry of the seed and the confidence that the seed was not contaminated with weed seed. A bad batch of …
Law of the Farm: Is Your Soil Friendly?
It depends on what you want to harvest. But first, why is this important? The soil condition or pH measures the acid – alkaline levels of the soil. This will determine if the plant can draw nutrients (food) from the soil. Plants, like people, are different. Blueberries & potatoes like low pH acid soil of …
Law of The Farm: Confidence
This is what a newly planted rice field looked like when my dad finished. After all the work and money, when he pulled the equipment & men out of the field there was nothing to show for it. Or was there? I never saw dad come home from planting all day and worry all night …
