So god made a Farmer.

[Lloyd Blankfein]

That ad on Harvey's 1978 speech at the FFA convention was on point. I thought I'd post a transcript here:

"So god made a farmer.

And on the eighth 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 field, milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the township board.” So God made a farmer.

“I need somebody with arms strong enough to wrestle a calf and yet gentle enough to cradle his own grandchild. Somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to wait for lunch until his wife’s done feeding visiting ladies, then tell the ladies to be sure to 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 an ash tree, shoe a horse, who can fix a harness with hay wire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. Who, during planting time and harvest season will finish his 40-hour week by Tuesday noon and then, paining from tractor back, up in another 72 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 bales, yet gentle enough to help a newborn calf begin to suckle and tend the pink-comb pullets, who will stop his mower in an instant to avoid the nest of meadowlarks.”

It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners. Somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed, brake, disk, plow, plant, strain the milk, replenish the self-feeder and finish a hard week’s work with an eight mile drive to church. Somebody who’d 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 family says that they are proud of what Dad does. “So God made a farmer.”"

[100 watt]

I miss listening to Paul Harvey. I used to hate listening to radio stations BC of the crap music & countless commercials, but I'd turn it on to listen to Paul Harvey. How long's he been gone now?

[Lloyd Blankfein]

Edit: 4 years on the 28th

[Dickarms]

paul harvey ftw

[100 watt]

I had a guy at work in hysterics one day. I was talking dirty like Paul Harvey.

[TurboPablo]

Paul Harvey was brilliant. I miss hearing him on the radio.

I thought that ad was stellar. More so because all the other ones were so sub-par.

[Lloyd Blankfein]

That ad could not be any truer. Sometimes I really hate waking up knowing what needs to be done. But I always love going to sleep knowing what I do.

[ovid9]

And as someone on my twitter feed posted after that commercial

"And that farmer went and bought an F-150."

I remember listening to Paul Harvey at home and my grandparents growing up. He'd be on during lunch.

[indienoise]

"And that farmer went and bought an F-150."

lol, but truf really. I guess that ad is what you resort to when you're the red-headed stepchild of American-made full-size trucks.