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 …
Continue reading Law of the Farm: Responsibility Means Do It Anyway.
I was a freshman in college when I learned this lesson. I was helping dad on the farm that hot summer. I remember the morning I slipped quietly into the house. Everyone was sleeping, I thought. It was still dark when I eased into bed. That was precisely when the alarm clock went off. Time …
To be a rice farmer you understand the Principle of Being Proactive. Years ago, Stephen Covey used this phrase to describe getting in front of a situation rather than reacting to the situation. Such it is with controlling the water in a rice field. A farmer controls the water in the rice field so the …
