Northern Farmer

Things should be getting back to normal around the farm now that the silage harvest is wrapped up for another year. Praise the Lord that it went well and safe. We were done chopping yesterday evening but covered the pit today and put away equiptment. It’s almost strange to be able to think of the dozens of other things there are to think about around here. Summer’s almost over and it was in the 80s today. But cool weather should be coming in a couple of days, right on time for Fall’s arrival.With a little luck I should be able to take care of this blog a little more from now on. And to answer some e-mails that I haven’t gotten around to because of harvest.

Well, the big lie from big ag got officially blown away during chopping because nothing, and I mean nothing compared to the Open Pollinated corn that I’ve written about in the past here. What a success!! In a few more weeks we’ll be going back to some of the “old ways”, selecting ears of corn for seed. Who’da ever thought? I’m so tired of the lies that Big Corporate Ag keeps telling farmers. Also feel sorry for anyone that still believes these lies. I wish more would see how these parasites are bleeding their farms dry. But more and more folk out in the country are waking up and seeing these lies for what they are. Years ago the farmers had huge problems with corporate giants bleeding them dry also, and in response they, the farmers, started forming their own local co-ops. These worked wonderful for decades, farmers banding together for their common good. But in the last part of the twentieth century many of these co-ops became giant monsters devouering any competition and becoming the enemy to the family farms. And the bigger they got the more they were even eaten up by larger corporate giants. Now many family farms are little more than the serfs that their ansestors were in Europe. We have a fight coming right here next week with a large co-op trying to take over our local one. Well, I’m ready for a good fight!

Anyway back to the OP corn. There has been considerable interest from some of my neighbors in it, and they want starter seed for next year. My Dad was telling me yeasterday that with all the farmer interest in it here locally, us farmers should start our own little seed co-op just to take care of ourselves and anyone interested in farming in a non serf way. What a novel idea! Wonder what it would be like in this small area if the big ag boys were short changed a few tens of thousands of dollars for their overpriced seed. Imagine the extra income these family farms would have for themselves instead of some investors from around the world taking the hard earned money. This is getting interesting thinking about families making a decent living on the farm again. One thing a person has to remember when talking about how farmers made a better living years ago is that they didn’t give their money to corporate ag giants, probobly not one penny. They lived like what we call homesteaders now and they lived pretty darn good. They didn’t have “modern churches” that taught them to follow materialism and the ways of a fallen world.They ate their meals together as a family, said grace before meals from the heart. Eveyone had a job to do on the farm.

I do think it’s getting close to a time, if it’s not already here, that we Christian Agrarian minded folk start banding together to help each other stay out of the clutches of Big Ag and a fallen world. Wether it’s just communication or sharing seed stock, it has to get started. And it doesn’t matter if a persons farm is large, a small homestead, or living in the burb’s or city. It’s a common vision with all likeminded folk. This is the “only” reason I have a computer yet! And is also the only reason this blog is running yet. No matter what evil the world has in store, the Christian Agrarian vision is a sure path to follow. And I Praise the Lord for it!

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