The Farmer Who Planted Before the Rain
In 2012, a wheat farmer named David Brandt in central Ohio faced a brutal drought. Neighbors held off planting their cover crops — why waste...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Proverbs 16:3.
In 2012, a wheat farmer named David Brandt in central Ohio faced a brutal drought. Neighbors held off planting their cover crops — why waste seed when the forecast showed nothing but dry heat for weeks? But David did something that looked foolish. He planted anyway. He had committed his farming methods to the Lord years earlier, adopting no-till and cover-cropping practices he believed honored the land God gave him.…
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