Sunday, October 5, 2014

Matters Of The Heart

Have you ever wondered why you do what you do? Are you effective? What motivates you? Do you have integrity? Does what you do benefit others?
Do you have a story to tell? We are living in the season of political ads where folks are talking more about their opponents shortcomings than their own goals. What tells more about a candidates heart, their message or their past actions?
It will soon be time to see folks about next years crop seed needs. Crop prices make planning uncertain. In the picture below is a seed dealer, his boss, and his bosses boss. Actually the real bosses in the pic are the other 4 guys, the customer. The customer is the one who pays salaries and keeps companies in business. If a business takes care of it's customers honestly, the bottom line will take care of itself. 
Food is usually effective at our house when folks want to show they appreciate our business. Thanks Brent and Randy for lunch in the field.
Due to harvest Karl was getting behind in his hog work. So Friday morning while the A team harvested the B team vaccinated 2500 pigs.
Cargill/Eddyville opened in the late summer of 1985. It is Cargill's second largest facility in the world. It put a small river town of 1100 people on the map. It changed the way surrounding grain elevators do business.
Cargill uses 300-400 semi loads of corn a day. Back when they were first open there were times when they would dump corn 24 hours a day. I remember taking my 300 bushel straight truck. Today a combine holds more than that.
Ray is the merchant responsible for purchacing the 90 million bushels of corn/year it takes to keep the plant operating. Running out of corn is not an option. This past week Ray's boss Rich came from Minneapolis for a visit.
75% of Cargill's corn is bought directly off of farmers. 25% is purchaced from grain elevators. Delivery is all trucks. Trains haven't delivered corn from up north for years due to more ethenol plants and feed mills up there.
I took Mike to a field to show him a possible terrace to build and we got stuck. Had to walk a ways to get the dozer. This field received an inch of rain mid week.
Then last evening Matt got stuck in the same field mowing field borders. I was thankful Mike's dozer was still there.
What we do for a living is a gift from God. Hopefully by how we handle that responsibility, we can benefit and be a gift to others.
"Man looks at the outward appearences, but the Lord looks at the heart."  1 Samuel 16:7

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