How Great The Yield From A Fertile Field

Random musings from an old farmer about life, agriculture, and faith

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Better Week

We had a good, productive week! Our rental combine performed admirably and we were able to finish five fields this week and get a good start on another. We have two big days left to finish harvest. I definitely said a prayer of thanksgiving as we finished each field.
The wheat is coming up and looking nice. Our Tandem truck is still in the shop, but we should be able to finish without it. My cousin brought a Caterpillar employee from India, his fiance and his parents out to the farm for a combine ride. The young man's parents and fiance are here in the States for the wedding. They were in awe of our productive capacity here in the States, and the size of our grain elevators.
All the local grain elevators are full to capacity and are piling grain on the ground for temporary storage. Its unfortunate that because of political problems in third world countries our abundance can't be better distributed to meet human needs. World hunger isn't a production problem or even a financial problem as much as a problem of evil leaders and governments misusing finances and prohibiting benevolent distribution of resources.

We had a blessed day in church and I got my nap in this afternoon.

And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.
And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.
And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.

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