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NYC_SKP (48,810 posts)

"So God Made a Farmer"

Struck a nerve with my farm roots, the religion part notwithstanding:

http://farmersforthefuture.ning.com/profiles/blogs/so-god-made-a-farmer

So God made a Farmer

Posted by Tracie Kruger on February 6, 2010 at 9:01am
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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 to get up before dawn and milk cows and work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper and then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board. So, God made a farmer!

I need somebody with strong arms. Strong enough to rustle a calf, yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild. Somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry and have to wait for lunch until his wife is done feeding and visiting with the ladies and telling them to be sure to come back real soon...and mean it.

God said "I need somebody that can shape an ax handle, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire make a harness out of hay wire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. And...who, at planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty hour week by Tuesday noon. Then, pain'n from "tractor back", put in another seventy two hours.

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 on mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor's place.

God said, "I need somebody strong enough to clear trees, heave bails and yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink combed pullets...and who will stop his mower for an hour to mend 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 and weed, feed and breed...and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk. Somebody to replenish the self feeder and then finish a hard days work with a five mile drive to church. Somebody who'd bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who'd laugh and then sigh...and then respond with smiling eyes, when his son says he wants to spend his life "doing what dad does". So, God made a farmer!

(Author Unknown. Article reproduced from Paul Harvey radio show, but unable to trace the source.)

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"So God Made a Farmer" (Original post)	NYC_SKP	Feb 2013	OP
God made a farmer, here's an over priced truck to drive to the supermarket.	Warren Stupidity	Feb 2013	#1
We keep a 57 and a 66 Chevy long bed and two 69 El Caminos still running... I see your point.	NYC_SKP	Feb 2013	#2
Well it didn't really do that, it claimed all the credit for "god".	Warren Stupidity	Feb 2013	#8
art	NYC_SKP	Feb 2013	#12
I listened to the message that accompanied the visual narrative.	Warren Stupidity	Feb 2013	#15
You apparently missed the point that Jesus drove a Dodge Ram. (nt)	NYC_SKP	Feb 2013	#36
A Gas Guzzlin Truck at that	rsmith6621	Feb 2013	#3
Nice tribute until last second or two	Hoyt	Feb 2013	#4
Just saw the commercial...	greytdemocrat	Feb 2013	#5
I have farm roots also and found	DURHAM D	Feb 2013	#6
i came here	ag_dude	Feb 2013	#17
Guess you missed what was obviously missing.	DURHAM D	Feb 2013	#26
you got me	ag_dude	Feb 2013	#50
I would say that in the context of farming, women aren't a 'group'. They're half of humanity.	randome	Feb 2013	#63
You got me again. I apologize for being so offensive.	ag_dude	Feb 2013	#65
Predictable as the sunrise.	Union Scribe	Feb 2013	#100
It's advertising and it's called a target audience.	aptal	Feb 2013	#76
What a stupid comment.	DURHAM D	Feb 2013	#77
Just because you disagree doesn't make my comment stupid.	aptal	Feb 2013	#82
Totally, man! "Advertising"? "Targeting markets"? It's like he's just makng up words as he goes.	Bucky	Feb 2013	#95
Chah! Next he'll suggest that guys buy more trucks!	lumberjack_jeff	Feb 2013	#104
Wow. Just wow.	October	Feb 2013	#79
Do you surmise that women farmers were offended? n/t	lumberjack_jeff	Feb 2013	#89
Old Thai joke	grantcart	Feb 2013	#91
A white male farmer that is?	oberliner	Feb 2013	#7
whu?	NYC_SKP	Feb 2013	#9
Coulda been more diversity in the ad, no?	oberliner	Feb 2013	#13
I bet	ag_dude	Feb 2013	#19
Huh?	oberliner	Feb 2013	#22
Coulda had Germans and Dutch and Hispanics and Italians and Blacks, etc., I suppose.	NYC_SKP	Feb 2013	#28
Again, I ask as I ask so many times...	zappaman	Feb 2013	#93
it was reflective of the usa	farminator3000	Feb 2013	#39
I didn't think that until I saw the flub on here.	ag_dude	Feb 2013	#59
Not obsessed and do appreciate the commercial for what it was	oberliner	Feb 2013	#62
Nobody who is obsessed about such things admits it.	ag_dude	Feb 2013	#64
OK	oberliner	Feb 2013	#78
I loved that ad	Tumbulu	Feb 2013	#114
If I remember the ad correctly..	Boudica the Lyoness	Feb 2013	#47
There was one image of an African American farmer and two of women....	Jeff In Milwaukee	Feb 2013	#57
They tossed in one African American farmer.	Warren Stupidity	Feb 2013	#10
and no farm workers.	Mosby	Feb 2013	#33
how do you know who was a worker and who was a boss?	farminator3000	Feb 2013	#42
well, there is the reality of the situation	farminator3000	Feb 2013	#37
.	Nye Bevan	Feb 2013	#80
SO GOD MADE A FARMER	jjfuzzy2001	Feb 2013	#11
As we just to say back home...	Jeff In Milwaukee	Feb 2013	#56
Am I allowed to appreciate the hard work of farmers	MattBaggins	Feb 2013	#66
Here's the clip	ProSense	Feb 2013	#14
Thanks. Leaving out the God and the Dodge, it's a rare tribute to Farmers...	NYC_SKP	Feb 2013	#23
Yeah, pretty much all workers are "shit upon" these days.	ProSense	Feb 2013	#30
yeh. but women were mostly left out	Whisp	Feb 2013	#92
No idea what all the hub bub is about.	Le Taz Hot	Feb 2013	#49
Family farmers	tblue	Feb 2013	#16
Conservative a-hole Paul Harvey	DURHAM D	Feb 2013	#25
Yeah, playing to that crowd. n/t	ProSense	Feb 2013	#27
So the message must suck if the messenger isn't on your friend list.	NYC_SKP	Feb 2013	#31
The message was "buy our sucky truck because god, and farmers".	Warren Stupidity	Feb 2013	#32
In 1903 my great grandfather died leaving	DURHAM D	Feb 2013	#34
Women were excluded, true, yet at least 50% of the effort of farms.	NYC_SKP	Feb 2013	#41
there were women in the ad	farminator3000	Feb 2013	#43
I saw one little girl standing in a field and	DURHAM D	Feb 2013	#45
the men were all sitting around, too.	farminator3000	Feb 2013	#46
"...come home hungry and	Hatchling	Feb 2013	#67
Observing that millennia of Farmers managed to work without a Dodge Ram truck...	brooklynite	Feb 2013	#18
I grew up in a farming community. Very few used Dodges...	cynatnite	Feb 2013	#20
Rarely saw a Dodge. International Farmall, John Deere, Chevy/GMC, a few Fords...	NYC_SKP	Feb 2013	#21
He first delivered 'So God made a Farmer' at the 1978 National FFA Convention.	Brother Buzz	Feb 2013	#24
i was VERY happy it wasn't a monsanto ad!	farminator3000	Feb 2013	#29
I watched it with the sound off so I missed the God part	tularetom	Feb 2013	#35
I loved the ad	Tumbulu	Feb 2013	#87
If you are married to or partnered with a farmer than	DURHAM D	Feb 2013	#110
Well, it was my dream to be a farmer	Tumbulu	Feb 2013	#113
"And the devil killed him with corporate agribusiness."	moondust	Feb 2013	#38
Loved it ... warts and all.	libdem4life	Feb 2013	#40
I loved it too, and I loved the Budweisser commercial! nt	Tumbulu	Feb 2013	#85
Ditto that ... there is a longer version of it which was even better.	libdem4life	Feb 2013	#86
"In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these."	farminator3000	Feb 2013	#44
The ad did nothing for me, and I've worked as a farmer / rancher on the family farm	Demo_Chris	Feb 2013	#48
Message auto-removed	foxman007	Feb 2013	#51
Sorry, put my reply in wrong place	HereSince1628	Feb 2013	#52
It bored me into a coma.	apnu	Feb 2013	#53
Chrysler company ads are the fucking worst!	JVS	Feb 2013	#54
DU wasn't saying that last year.	lumberjack_jeff	Feb 2013	#103
That was shit too.	JVS	Feb 2013	#105
Sorry, Mr Scorsese.	lumberjack_jeff	Feb 2013	#106
Agree	whatchamacallit	Feb 2013	#107
But god loved the herder BETTER...god hates vegetable offerings	HereSince1628	Feb 2013	#55
My Latin prof discussed this with the class one day.	JVS	Feb 2013	#58
Don't question the writings of a primitive desert-dwelling people from 2,000 years ago.	Arugula Latte	Feb 2013	#74
I've moved on to the critical matter of celestial love for cowboys vs shepherds.	HereSince1628	Feb 2013	#81
Lol...	Union Scribe	Feb 2013	#97
Oh I'm not bitter.	Arugula Latte	Feb 2013	#112
This FEMALE farmer objects...	riderinthestorm	Feb 2013	#60
Demographics	MattBaggins	Feb 2013	#68
I wonder who made a bankrupt farmer or a cattle rustler, or a marijuana grower, or	Bandit	Feb 2013	#61
I thought it was a cheesy, schmaltzy appeal to nationalism and religion.	EOTE	Feb 2013	#69
+1 My exact reaction.	forestpath	Feb 2013	#70
and a sexist one	OldEurope	Feb 2013	#71
Yep. A very creepy ad, IMO.	Arugula Latte	Feb 2013	#73
Lol.	Union Scribe	Feb 2013	#98
the spot used coded language	Mosby	Feb 2013	#90
Did he also make bankers, politicians, burglers, rapists, lawyers and insurance salesmen?	Tierra_y_Libertad	Feb 2013	#72
I'll ask her.	NYC_SKP	Feb 2013	#75
+1	Go Vols	Feb 2013	#83
Lol.	Union Scribe	Feb 2013	#99
I loved the ad	Tumbulu	Feb 2013	#84
Watched the SB with family yesterday. This commercial was the only point they all shut up to listen.	lumberjack_jeff	Feb 2013	#88
Same here. Only time that everyone was silent.	bigwillq	Feb 2013	#101
The farmer was old and tired. So God made Monsanto to drive him out of business.	Bucky	Feb 2013	#94
.	DURHAM D	Feb 2013	#111
Americans, so emotional, so easy...	whatchamacallit	Feb 2013	#96
Everyone on my crews today called it the best ad of the game	randr	Feb 2013	#102
The point of an ad is to sell shit, not to score cultural sensitivity points.	lumberjack_jeff	Feb 2013	#108
manipulative propaganda	HiPointDem	Feb 2013	#109
Farm Subsidies Database	B Calm	Feb 2013	#115

Response to NYC_SKP (Original post)

Sun Feb 3, 2013, 10:04 PM

"So God Made a Farmer"

1. God made a farmer, here's an over priced truck to drive to the supermarket.

2. We keep a 57 and a 66 Chevy long bed and two 69 El Caminos still running... I see your point.

8. Well it didn't really do that, it claimed all the credit for "god".

12. art

15. I listened to the message that accompanied the visual narrative.

36. You apparently missed the point that Jesus drove a Dodge Ram. (nt)

3. A Gas Guzzlin Truck at that

4. Nice tribute until last second or two

5. Just saw the commercial...

6. I have farm roots also and found

17. i came here

26. Guess you missed what was obviously missing.

50. you got me

63. I would say that in the context of farming, women aren't a 'group'. They're half of humanity.

65. You got me again. I apologize for being so offensive.

100. Predictable as the sunrise.

76. It's advertising and it's called a target audience.

77. What a stupid comment.

82. Just because you disagree doesn't make my comment stupid.

95. Totally, man! "Advertising"? "Targeting markets"? It's like he's just makng up words as he goes.

104. Chah! Next he'll suggest that guys buy more trucks!

79. Wow. Just wow.

89. Do you surmise that women farmers were offended? n/t

91. Old Thai joke

7. A white male farmer that is?

9. whu?

13. Coulda been more diversity in the ad, no?

19. I bet

22. Huh?

28. Coulda had Germans and Dutch and Hispanics and Italians and Blacks, etc., I suppose.

93. Again, I ask as I ask so many times...

39. it was reflective of the usa

59. I didn't think that until I saw the flub on here.

62. Not obsessed and do appreciate the commercial for what it was

64. Nobody who is obsessed about such things admits it.

78. OK

114. I loved that ad

47. If I remember the ad correctly..

57. There was one image of an African American farmer and two of women....

10. They tossed in one African American farmer.

33. and no farm workers.

42. how do you know who was a worker and who was a boss?

37. well, there is the reality of the situation

80. .

11. SO GOD MADE A FARMER

56. As we just to say back home...

66. Am I allowed to appreciate the hard work of farmers

14. Here's the clip

23. Thanks. Leaving out the God and the Dodge, it's a rare tribute to Farmers...

30. Yeah, pretty much all workers are "shit upon" these days.

92. yeh. but women were mostly left out

49. No idea what all the hub bub is about.

16. Family farmers

25. Conservative a-hole Paul Harvey

27. Yeah, playing to that crowd. n/t

31. So the message must suck if the messenger isn't on your friend list.

32. The message was "buy our sucky truck because god, and farmers".

34. In 1903 my great grandfather died leaving

41. Women were excluded, true, yet at least 50% of the effort of farms.

43. there were women in the ad

45. I saw one little girl standing in a field and

46. the men were all sitting around, too.

67. "...come home hungry and

18. Observing that millennia of Farmers managed to work without a Dodge Ram truck...

20. I grew up in a farming community. Very few used Dodges...

21. Rarely saw a Dodge. International Farmall, John Deere, Chevy/GMC, a few Fords...

24. He first delivered 'So God made a Farmer' at the 1978 National FFA Convention.

29. i was VERY happy it wasn't a monsanto ad!

35. I watched it with the sound off so I missed the God part

87. I loved the ad

110. If you are married to or partnered with a farmer than

113. Well, it was my dream to be a farmer

38. "And the devil killed him with corporate agribusiness."

40. Loved it ... warts and all.

85. I loved it too, and I loved the Budweisser commercial! nt

86. Ditto that ... there is a longer version of it which was even better.

44. "In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these."

48. The ad did nothing for me, and I've worked as a farmer / rancher on the family farm

52. Sorry, put my reply in wrong place