‘”Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man.” ~George Washington<\/p>\n
“O beautiful for spacious skies ~Katherine Lee Bates<\/p>\n Ok, so these fields aren’t amber, yet. They need to be green before they can ripen to amber.<\/p>\n These are the farmers fields that feed this nation. Owned mostly by farmers, no matter what ‘they’ want to tell you. Supported usually by a job in town. Clung to tenaciously despite low markets and hatred from the very ones they strive to feed.<\/p>\n “It had to be somebody who\u2019d plow deep and straight\u2026and not cut corners. Somebody to seed and weed, feed and breed\u2026and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk. Somebody to replenish the self feeder and then finish a hard days work with a five mile drive to church. Somebody who\u2019d bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who\u2019d laugh and then sigh\u2026and then respond with smiling eyes, when his son says he wants to spend his life \u201cdoing what dad does\u201d. So, God made a farmer!” ~Paul Harvey<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nFor amber waves of grain
\nFor purple mountain majesties
\nAbove the fruited plain!
\nAmerica! America!
\nGod shed his grace on thee
\nAnd crown thy good with brotherhood
\nFrom sea to shining sea!” <\/span><\/p>\n