It has been a golden harvest; moisture is down, weights are high, prices are up. What could possibly go wrong for the farmers this year? Elijah is working at the Co-op. (Farmers' Cooperative) His good friend Ray is working alongside and staying--for the duration of harvest--in our guest room. They works from 8 in the morning until 1 or 1:30 the following morning, and they have been doing this for three weeks with very few breaks. They only take off on Sunday morning for church, then go back to work. Wheat is pouring in. The biggest problem is where to put it all. They have filled up all the silos. The train cars which usually take the wheat north have been slow because a section of the railroad was destroyed in a recent rain, so they have been loading and sending truck after truck to bigger elevators. As soon as each truckload of wheat leaves, another farmer arrives with more wheat to take its place in the stuffed silo. The farmers are all insistent that there is room for their wheat in the silos, but it is possible that they will resort to unloading it onto the ground. After a couple of miserable years of harvest, however, this is a great problem to have. I pray the farmers will be able to recoup their losses from last year and make some extra profit.
2 comments:
Thank goodness for the good harvest.
I love the photo, the country side is beautiful, and the little white church in the background is lovely.
We've been hearing about it from both sides here (farmer and co-op) and yes, the farmers say, "Oh, they'll have room because they'll have planned for my crop."
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