Today is National Agriculture Day, a day that is intended to
recognize and celebrate the abundance that agriculture gives to each and every
one of us. This day is really special for me because my entire life each and every
day revolves around agriculture, at home, at work, in the car pretty much
always. I feel we need to celebrate this industry that is the foundation of our
country every day, and I do my best to do that. As a nation I think one day is
great as well.
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| Her first litter of pigs for the year. |
The thing is in recent years it seems that the agriculture
industry is fighting an even larger uphill battle than ever before. Farmers and agriculturalist
alike are being made into these people that no one trust and can’t seem to
understand. And by no one I mean your average consumer. So today I want to share
with you and anyone who seems to care why agriculture is so important to me. Besides
the obvious that I like to eat.
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| Headed to the sale barn on a Saturday with Daddy |
To me agriculture is a time honored tradition that has been
passed down from generation to generation in my family. I fell in love with
agriculture before I even knew what it was, the first time I laid eyes on Lady
the ewe my dad was buying for me. And the first time she lambed and I saw those
twins I didn’t know if I would ever want to leave that barn. This is something I
can’t explain to most I just knew from that day forward that I always wanted
that feeling. And I still get it each time I see a baby pig being born or
witness a momma cow searching for her calf, or even the sight of the first a
planter in the field in the spring. It’s a feeling of pride and responsibility
that I don’t get anywhere else one that I want to pass on.
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| Learning to drive not in drivers ed but in a pasture. |
Today I wanted to share some of my favorite pictures of
Charlot learning the love of this industry. I want people to realize that there
are people behind this industry trying to pass it on to the next generation and
the generation after that. We want our industry to be strong and robust we want
to be trusted. Each time I see something on social media or the media in
general that shines a negative light on this industry I love I feel a little piece
of my heart being pulled with it. I know that the further removed people are
from the agriculture industry the harder it is for them to understand but
please if I can ask you one thing it is this… if you have questions ask a
person directly involved in the industry and please please please don’t believe
everything you see and read.
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| Washing her summer show gilts |
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| Learning some school lessons at the State Fair |
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| Checking Cows |
There are so many families out there just like mine, these
are the people that feed you each and every day and would give up everything to
make certain they can keep doing it.
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| Eating supper on the tailgate of a pickup |
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| Visiting daddy and poppy in the hay field |
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| Falling in love with her first gilt Daisy |
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| Learning the love of the show ring |
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| Being Daddy's gate assistant |
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| And one day she will see this and know she was born into this industry. |
Today I am leaving you with this my favorite quote from Paul
Harvey’s So God Made a Farmer Speech and my favorite quote about farmers in general.
"Somebody who'd bale a family together with the soft
strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh and then sigh, and then reply, with
smiling eyes, when his son says he wants to spend his life 'doing what dad
does.'" So God made a farmer.
"In the Winters Chill or the Summers Heat Farmers and Ranchers Work so the World Can Eat"
Happy National Agriculture Day!
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