When I think about all the life lessons I learned on my dad’s farm, the question he asked me late in the day 60 years ago still lingers in my heart. Although I have written about this in a previous TGN’s, God brought it back to me this morning. Today it’s hard to have a …
Tag: Harvest
Law of the Farm: What’s In Your Field?
If you don’t know what to look for, you will probably notice it. You may even ignore it but not my dad. It was an enemy...a cancer to be eliminated at first sighting. Dad was a shepherd to his crops. From the time the field was planted until harvest he watched over it. I remember …
Law of the Farm: Crop Management
Harvest reveals the brutal truth of how well you managed your crop. While there are uncontrollable variables of weather, pests & disease, a farmer must manage his time & money… choices to maximize his harvest value. In the Law of the Farm this fundamental Core Value is set out in Geneses 2:15, “The Lord God …
Lesson From The Farm: “Laid By”
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 …
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 …
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: 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: The Supplier Of The Seed
On the Farm we never wanted to run out of seed… never. But we also didn’t want to buy too much seed because we did not have a temperature-controlled storage. One afternoon dad sent one of the men to Alice-Sidney Dryer & Seed Co in Dermott, Arkansas to get a pickup truck load of rice …
Law of the Farm: The Secret Is In The Seed
This is a rice seed. It came from a field where my grandpa raised rice in the 1940’s. It’s pretty small but God uses the least likely to teach His Principles. These Principles are timeless. It’s called Wisdom. Do you find yourself working harder & longer for less? Do you find it harder & harder …
