Farms: Farmers Tribute: So God Made A Farmer. Paul Harvey

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1. this speech puts chills down my spine
2. This is how our forefathers loved this earth, and it makes me sad knowing that it'll never be that same again... I know this, and yet I want to yell "this is America Goddammit! and I can persevere through anything." But it doesn't mean the same. The farmer that this speech speaks of are few and far between. Unfortunately, there are no longer people willing to put in the amount of work necessary to be a truly trustworthy and a hardworking farmer as there were be in the late 70's because there is no money to be made in that "field". It has come to an end for the little man, and to that, I have my greatest sympathies and connection. I wish the independent farmer could make it again, but I'm not sure that it is possible.
3. Cut deep into feels
4. I need someone who came shape an axe handle from a persimmon sprout
5. makes me proud to be a 4th generation farm kid, starting my own farm soon tho
6. And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker"
   
   -- so God made a Farmer.
   
   God said, "I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board"
   
   -- so God made a Farmer.
   
   "I need somebody with arms strong enough to rustle a calf and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild; somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to wait lunch until his wife’s done feeding visiting ladies, then tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon -- and mean it"
   
   -- so God made a Farmer.
   
   God said, "I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt,  and watch it die, then dry his eyes and say, 'Maybe next year.' I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make harness out of haywire, feed sacks and shoe scraps; who, planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty-hour week by Tuesday noon, and then pain’n from tractor back,' put in another seventy-two hours"
   
   -- so God made a Farmer.
   
   God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds, and yet stop in mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor’s place
   
   -- so God made a Farmer.
   
   God said, "I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bails, yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-combed pullets, who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadow lark."
   
   It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners; somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk and replenish the self-feeder and finish a hard week’s work with a five-mile drive to church; somebody who would 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 that he wants to spend his life "doing what dad does"
   
   -- so God made a Farmer.
7. This makes me so proud to be a farmer's daughter. Wouldn't my life on the farm for anything.
8. they played this at my dad's funeral he was a farmer for over 40 years
9. not all heroes wear uniforms or medals.....thank all of you for making my table a cornucopia of health and happiness....
10. to the best friend i have. his dad has dementia now ,but that man was a teacher ,a coach and four plot's of blueberrirs ,owns seven houses ,and i talked with him today ,tommy was'n't there ,mr.Floyd Riemink took care of his six son's and i would help him bundle wood ,feed the stoves to keep his house warm. If ever you needed help he was their and if he needed help i was there.Tommy got ran over by a car at sixty miles speed ,lost his leg ,almost lost his arm ,and they grafted his other foot on ,,he will always be my buddy . i would come and go ,Tommy would pick forty pounds of blueberries make muffins for all , and he has been on dialysis for six years. ,please someone with a heart give him a kidney before he passes along with his dad. ... even tho, Tommy has one leg and half the use of his arm he pulls weeds and picks the fruit, and is never givin a dime ,but his laughter goe's for miles ,help his father ,he has dementia now and Tommy takes care of him every day. I have spent many a day and weekend there,. never asked to be pay'ed anything because i love them all so much!! his father did it all ,dementia or not i love that man. because he gave all from sunup till sun down and would laugh every day at our stupidity but pat u on the back give u shelter and be glad to sea u .. take your hands out of your pockets and help .. i always did.. god bless Floyed Riemink. a man ,and a true hero as an american farmer ,pray for his release of the terrible dementia he suffers every day ,i want to help him still but cannot reverse time .love as you are with him ,and do as he asks.....
    for he alway's excepted me as one of his own!! great spirit give him strenth as he suffers thru his last day's wat a beautiful man that gave to all in need .,In his own special kind way!!! i will miss u my man!!!!!!!!!
11. + 1,000 ^^^
12. still the best commercial there is. proud to raise my own food and know where it comes from #FFA
13. Too bad that he did not turn this one into a whole sermon. It would have been good.
14. Never get tired of seeing and hearing this one. To ALL you Farmers & Ranchers.....THANK YOU!!
15. A REAL countryman!
16. Watched this originally on RFD T.V. and ordered the book.
17. As an agriculture farmer this speech means a lot. #farmlife
18. RIP  Jerry,
19. Yes he did because on the 7TH day he made somebody who would defend his country, the meek,weak and unable as well as those that could..On that day he made THE INFANTRY! on that night all hell stood at attention!