they labeled it
The rest of the story is
it’s all about farming
Year of Our Lord
2015
A baker’s dozen of Ph.Ds
sharing hearts and souls
with a hundred fifty farmers
and their supporters
The very best
from one of the very best
lecturing and answering questions
Getting their minds and arms
around the issues that drive us
Dollars and sense and marketing
cover crops and all things agronomy
Inputs and insects
diseases and herbicides
Best Management Practices
spelled out, numbered out
weather and soil
Ah, soil.
We definitely don’t call it…
Dirt.
Soil. We respect it.
Live with it. Sleep with it.
Study it six ways from Sunday!
two days, thirteen hours engaged
with more to come
Two days on government
rules and regulations
laws and lawyers and courts
Legislators and bureaucrats engaging
back and forth with ideas
where we are
where we want and need to go
and how we might get there
Behind the meetings
preparing for planting
Machinery repaired and tuned
seeds and supplies filling sheds
At the ready for the coming day
Charge!
The deep, deep draughts* of farming
Like a cool drink after baling hay
all day
Information flows like rivers
from labs and test plots to the farmers
Oh, how they drink all winter!
Researchers anxious to share
audiences eager to learn
year after year after year!
Always in discovery mode
Study the problem
Figure it out! (I love that part!)
Try it out for the better
More efficient
More productive
No turning back!
The brew that is true!
Lin 2/2015
* 37 definitions of the word! I like ‘something that is taken in by drinking or inhaling’