So God made a Farmer

Merry Christmas everybody. David Sparks, Idaho AG today. You know, years ago, famous radio broadcaster Paul Harvey gave all of us in the ag community a fabulous gift. And I invite you to listen right now. Speaker2: God looked down on his planned Paradise and said, I need a caretaker. So God made a farmer. God said, I need somebody willing to get up before dawn. Milk cows work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board. So God made a farmer. God said, I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt and watch it die and dry his eyes and say, maybe next year. I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout shoe, a horse with a hunk of car tire who can make harness out of hay wire, feed sacks and shoe scraps through planting time and harvest season, will finish his 40 hour week by Tuesday noon and then painting from tractor back. Put in another 72 hours. So God made a farmer. God said, I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bales, yet gentle enough to yield lambs and weaned pigs, and tend the pink combed pullets who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadowlark. So God made a farmer. It had to be somebody who'd plow deep and straight and not cut corners, somebody to seed weed, feed, breed and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk. Somebody who'd bail a family together with a soft, strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh and then sigh when his son says that he wants to spend his life doing what dad does. So God made a farmer. Speaker1: Yes, he certainly did have a blessed Christmas, everybody.