Northern Farmer

When a person travels through farming country in summer time it’s a beautiful site to behold. Beautiful fields stretching sometimes to the horizon. In the Midwest you see hundreds of miles of beautiful corn and beans almost everywhere a person travels. But this beauty is about as real as a supposedly beautiful movie star, that’s had more plastic surgery and work done on her than one could imagine and is about to die from drugs.

I look over the Midwest and see a desert. And that’s exactly what it will be if it doesn’t get it’s “fix”. The land is mined out, in many places, totally. If a person planted these fields with seed and tended them they would yield next to nothing without their fix of petroleum based fertilizers. I don’t know if people are aware of what a huge disaster looms not far away on the horizon. It’s so real and one very seldom hears anyone shouting out the warning. Awareness surfaced a little bit after the New Orleans hurricane when the river traffic was disrupted but was quickly forgotten and now on the news all one hears is “happy days are here again”. I look at all the information and shudder, I don’t know, maybe I’m way off base, but it sure looks to me like we are walking on one heck of a flimsy tightrope in this society. I “know” what it takes to run a farm the modern way and I know how extremely vulnerable everything is. For those that really don’t have much experience in general farming I will say that it scares the heck out of me how serious this is.

The only thing that will avert these disasters that are coming is to turn the farming areas back to the Christian Agrarian society that was there many years back. If the countryside were full of small diversified farms that used sustainable methods this disaster could be stemmed, although my fear is many of the lands would need a long time to regenerate them to the way God intended. Foods would be so much healthier, and people would be too. Personal liberties would strengthen because that is the agrarian way, industrialism is the one that’s goal is to dominate. Food production would rise because of careful tending of the land. Instead of fields by the section there would be small farms that could be run simply and ”more efficiently” by God fearing families. Industrial feedlots would be a thing of the past, with no more hormoned up meats being raised in huge filthy feedlots. There would be no more multi national ag companies running the government, paying off the losers in office.

And when the disaster does strike, ready or not, the Christian Agrarian way is the only answer, because quite simply nothing else works anywhere as well. If industrialism tries to hang on it would have the efficiency of Soviet Russia. It would be mindless workers looking for the next bottle of vodka, with no interest in the farm. The Christian Agrarian way is the only one that keeps personal liberty. No others will. The only reason we still have a remnant of liberty in this country is because of the Christian Agrarian forefathers that began it. It’s been eroding steadily to industrialism and the industrialists are picking up the pace to destroy all liberty. But they will implode, there’s no doubt. Every decision I make on this farm has this foremost in my thoughts. And I pray we are ready.

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