We've Surpassed 100 Members

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A huge thank you to everyone who has joined and contributed to the Northeast Livestock & Grazing Link! I am thrilled to announce that our community has grown to over 100 members. This is a fantastic milestone, and it’s all thanks to each and every one of you.

For our new members, I encourage you to head over to the Introductions and Icebreaker post to tell us a little about yourselves and your operations. It’s a great way to connect with fellow livestock and grazing enthusiasts in our region.

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To make this community a truly valuable resource, we need to continue to grow. I encourage you to spread the word about NELGL.com to others in the livestock and grazing community. The more members we have, the richer the discussions and the stronger the network we can build together.

Thank you again for being a part of this community. I look forward to seeing it continue to grow and flourish.

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That is super awesome.

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.

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This is fantastic! Let’s keep telling our friends, folks!

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Paul Harvey! I remember that well!

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