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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“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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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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Maybe you are like me. I love fresh corn on the cob. If you are lucky enough to get Esau Farms corn, you will be Blessed. It comes right out to the field in a huge sack. Ready for shucking & eating. But the sack of corn didn’t just happen. Did you know, “corn takes …
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I remember singing the old hymn, “Bringing In The Sheaves,” in the Hamburg Methodist Youth Choir. My buddies and I could really belt out the chorus. Even though I grew up on the farm I didn’t get it. I didn’t understand the process…the hard work of harvest. Picture 1: Harvest began with cutting the wheat, …
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