"So God Made a Farmer"

[RCW]

I was born and raised on a small dairy farm. Many generations of lineage.

Family sold the cows when I was a young man. Property sold several years later. None of that 550 acres is in production agriculture anymore...

Several years ago, I posted here that I had heard the "So God Made a Farmer" verse.

Never heard it before. Didn't know its origination, etc.

Several OTT members gave me the source, etc. Some of them are farmers today.

Paul Harvey's speech to the FFA, Kansas City, Missouri, November 1978.

Just heard it again on RFDTV Classic Tractor Fever.

Powerful message. If anyone hasn't heard it, they need to.

While no longer a farmer, I remember those guys well. I live in another nearby rural/agricultural area, and share my community with those guys today.

We need God to keep making farmers.....and thank the ones we have.

(I wish I was smart enough to link an audio of it, but alas..... )

 

[Shawn T. W]

Here you go ... I miss Paul Harvey!

American Rhetoric: Paul Harvey -- So God Made A Farmer FFA Speech (transcript-audio)

Full text transcript and audio of Paul Harvey Farmer Speech to the FFA

www.americanrhetoric.com

 

[TheOldHokie]

I was born and raised on a small dairy farm. Many generations of lineage.

Family sold the cows when I was a young man. Property sold several years later. None of that 550 acres is in production agriculture anymore...

Several years ago, I posted here that I had heard the "So God Made a Farmer" verse.

Never heard it before. Didn't know its origination, etc.

Several OTT members gave me the source, etc. Some of them are farmers today.

Paul Harvey's speech to the FFA, Kansas City, Missouri, November 1978.

Just heard it again on RFDTV Classic Tractor Fever.

Powerful message. If anyone hasn't heard it, they need to.

While no longer a farmer, I remember those guys well. I live in another nearby rural/agricultural area, and share my community with those guys today.

We need God to keep making farmers.....and thank the ones we have.

(I wish I was smart enough to link an audio of it, but alas..... )

Now bulldozed to the ground and home to to a massive nat gas compressor station. Somebody got rich but it wasn't Grandpa and Grandma

Dan

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

I grew up on a ranch in Colorado, rode fence all summer and half the time over the fall winter and spring.
The ranch has long gone to track homes and a golf course, all the range land has gone to Ski resorts and an airport.

 

[skeets]

And the government and big business is doing their lever best to destroy the American farmer

 

[RCW]

And the government and big business is doing their lever best to destroy the American farmer

skeets - my area is a lot of dairy. many have folded up just like my family did years ago.

A lot of it is government regulation, but in the dairy industry milk pricing is really an oddity.

From my understanding, the Secretary of Agriculture could in fact fix some of the Farmers’ problems with the price they receive. The

government is reluctant to do so. I don’t know why.

Political I’m sure, but it’s happened when both the Elephants and Jackasses have controlled Washington…..

I don’t know enough about it to say what’s right or wrong.

When we can’t buy milk or cheese we’ll all complain…..

 

[skeets]

Follow the money always follow the money,,,, and the farmer isnt the one getting any of it

 

[jaxs]

When I was a kid my Grandfather was always ready to talk fishing,fighting and f,,,,,, unless it was time for Paul Harvey's broadcast. I realized Mr Harvey must be special at the time but it wasn't until I was an adult I realized the significance of Granddad listening that closely to a man less than half his age. THIS BROADCAST sounds like it could have been last week instead of over half a century ago but he did it in 1965. IMO it almost puts him in the category of prophet.