The Farmer Who Refused to Panic
In 2019, wheat farmer Dale Crenshaw watched his neighbor in western Kansas sell out to a corporate agriculture company. Within months, the corporation planted fence...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 37:1-11, 39-40.
In 2019, wheat farmer Dale Crenshaw watched his neighbor in western Kansas sell out to a corporate agriculture company. Within months, the corporation planted fence line to fence line, bought GPS-guided equipment Dale could never afford, and harvested a jaw-dropping first yield. Local papers ran the story. Dale's own kids asked why he didn't sell too. Dale kept farming his 800 acres the way his father taught him — rotating crops, resting fields, reinvesting slowly.…
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