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6/24/2019 62 Comments Hey Farmer: You are not the farmHey Farmer, I need you to hear something right now. I need you to hear this loud and clear - I’m so sorry for everything this year has thrown at you. I’m so sorry for all the things you cannot control that put so much weight on you. But hear me - YOU are not defined by this year’s crop. Or this year’s income. Or this year’s “success”. You are not the farm. You are more than the farm. I saw you leave again this morning, smiling, but still carrying the stress. I know the first thing you did was drive down by the creek to see how much the water has receded. After you do chores in flooded pastures, you’ll sit with your Dad to try and figure out what fields might dry out the fastest and what, if anything, can be done while you wait. You’ll run the numbers another time or two, to see if it all makes sense. You’ll run through the calendar a few more times, to count down how many days you have left to get caught up on work. We both know you’re never going to be caught up. You’re standing there, facing wet fields and a crop that may not generate enough income to cover its own expenses, hay fields that can’t be cut, and calves that don’t quit eating just because it’s wet. In your head, you’re hearing the clock - tick, tick, tick - counting down the hours you’ve got to do the work you’re so far behind on. I know, that even though you keep smiling and laughing, the stress is getting heavier each day. I see it in your eyes. I feel it in the way you toss and turn all night. So I need you to hear me again - YOU ARE NOT THE FARM. You are a man who works harder than anyone I know. You are a man who is honest to a fault. You are a man who always finds new ways, better ways. You are a man who can keep the big picture in mind while maintaining laser focus on the details. You are a man who quietly, and humbly, prays for God to help you on the tasks he’s laid before you. You’re a husband. A father. A son. A brother and an uncle. You are a farmer, a damn good one too, but you are not defined by the farm. Your family and friends - we love you, regardless of your corn yield or planted acres or the price you sell your calves for. We will get through this year - one, rainy, wet day at a time. Together, with the strength and guidance of God, we will get through this. Love, Your wife To keep current with the happenings at Uptown Farms, make sure and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.  Even on the most challenging years, the beauty of God’s creation is breathtaking.
62 Comments
Katie Johnson
6/24/2019 10:48:24 am
Wow! Everything I've wanted to say for weeks! Thank you so much! Sharing with him now.
Kate
6/24/2019 10:56:05 am
I’m glad I could help with the words Katie. I hope your family feels all of us right there beside you.
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6/6/2020 02:09:25 am
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Heather Lilienthal
6/24/2019 03:23:15 pm
Powerful and true.
Casey Walk
6/24/2019 04:39:09 pm
This article came up on my screen at the exact time another storm just moved in. I have tears in my eyes as I'm typing this... I needed this right now and so does my husband. To whoever wrote this...THANK YOU!!! You managed to put everything I've wanted to say to my husband into the perfect words.
Kate
6/24/2019 05:41:29 pm
Hi Casey,
Deana
6/24/2019 04:48:29 pm
Thank you for a well written message. I'm now nearing 80, and watching the young farmers and families and communities going through this - and what you've written was true for many of us years ago...and it remains true now. May you each and all pull together, and remember these words. Stay strong and may God bless!!
jackie
6/24/2019 04:54:22 pm
thank you for sharing
Robert Allison
6/24/2019 05:19:53 pm
Thank GOD he is always in control and knows our needs,losses,and handling what nature throws at us. But we love growing crops,taking care of the Earth,Humanity and the Animals,farm and nature. The story is well spoken.
Suzi Beck
6/24/2019 05:34:44 pm
This is so true. All Farmers and Farm wives need to read this. Thank you Kate!
VALERIA STRATTON
6/24/2019 06:49:59 pm
This is so much our grand-son-in-law...Bawled all the way through it
Tracy Musick
6/24/2019 09:03:24 pm
You have a great way of telling things so people understand. My Dad Jimmy Musick was 2018 president of Wheat Growers he was on stage when Trump signed the Farm Bill and he got to talk to him for a second one of the main things he told him was how important NAFTA is for the farm economy and how disappointed he was that they did away with Country of origin labeling on beef. Most people don’t understand how important these things are.
Julie Kenney
6/24/2019 09:19:29 pm
Such wise and timely words, Kate! Well done!
Shari Eckert
6/24/2019 10:27:29 pm
Your words spoke straight to my heart.
marsha warsaw
6/24/2019 10:49:46 pm
Thank you for speaking our situations as farmer's wives. God bless you! 6/25/2019 06:31:56 am
Wow, hit so close to home.. My husband , My hero.. we just had the heart to heart lastnight and I felt so horrible explaining that we are drowning, he just stood looking at me . He is the 4 generation on this farm, it’s in his blood and heart . I felt like I was deflating him. To read this was very powerful for me. Thank you
Cin Sattler
6/25/2019 08:55:34 am
Oh my,so many times I want to tell my hubby the same. He just says next year! I guess that's just the farmers mantra. - Next year will be better. Next year .... Next year ......
Mary Spearman
6/25/2019 07:42:17 am
I'm crying. Our father who farmed has passed. I would give anything to see him drive across the pasture on his ford tractor to check the cows one more time.
Marilyn
6/25/2019 10:50:19 am
You nailed it once again, Kate.
andrew
6/25/2019 11:05:56 am
great article, farm boy here too! Keep it up.
Beth N
6/25/2019 11:24:42 am
So true, count your blessings, we are all in this together.
maureen mcleod
6/25/2019 12:17:51 pm
Is such an undeniable truth, but so many of them. past and present feel like the farm is their being. thank you.
Linda S
6/25/2019 04:20:26 pm
What a powerful message. It was the first thing I read this morning and it left me in tears because it hit so close to home. Every spring they are so excited to get back in the fields and pray for a successful crop year. This has been a very trying year to say the least. Still praying that there is still time.
Mary Scott
6/25/2019 05:52:51 pm
Thank you so much for these words. I don’t have a farming husband. My boyfriend didn’t grow up the way I did. But my dad farms, so does my brother, and most of my uncles and cousins. We had a wet year last year. Barely had enough hay to get through until this years first cutting. Then we had a bunch of rain for the last couple of weeks and one of my bottle baby goats died from pneumonia, and it was hard. I was kicking myself over it. So thank you for this, it means a lot. 💕
Sara
6/25/2019 07:08:35 pm
It’s crazy to scroll through the comments and see how many people this resonates with. Your words are so poignant and so true. And I grieve that so many farmers have to deal with so many stresses beyond just the weather.
Dirk Isley
6/25/2019 07:44:07 pm
Your husband is a very lucky man to have a supportive wife who "has his back". May the good Lord watch over you both and continue to bless your family, and may he give hope and peace to all struggling farmers out there.
Mark
6/25/2019 07:45:35 pm
Don't fret little farmer. The guv'ment will be here to help you real soon, now.
Kate
6/26/2019 03:45:31 pm
Hi Mark,
Lisa Miller
6/25/2019 10:42:04 pm
Thanks, very uplifting, for the men. :( But, I'm not a man and I'm still a farmer. My husband is married to a farmer. Thanks for leaving all the women farmers out and making us feel irrelevant. Attaboy, for just the dudes. Nice.
Shelley C
6/26/2019 09:52:45 am
I too felt left out. I farm as an equal partner with my husband. I realize that it's supposed to be a letter from a wife to her husband, but we need support too! Our burdens are heavy; sometimes heavier; because not only do we help with the farm (or work in town to support the farm), we take care of the kids, laundry, cooking, cleaning, bookkeeping, and a million other jobs. I have to be the one who has to sit down with my husband and discuss the reality of our situation. We continue to put our faith in God. We have been praying for all the farmers affected by the flooding this year. It's so heartbreaking.
Kate
6/26/2019 03:41:47 pm
Hi Shelley,
Kate
6/26/2019 03:40:25 pm
Hi Lisa,
Lynette
6/26/2019 08:46:10 am
Wow! Thank you for this! It's like you were in my head but you said it so much better than I could have!
Cheryl
6/26/2019 10:02:34 pm
Wow, just, WOW! Crying as I read this because you nailed it!! Thank you for putting words to my feelings ❤
Allen
6/27/2019 12:55:35 pm
I feel the pain of the crop farmers this year but you forgot to mention that dairy farms have suffered for four years with little hope in sight. We are so numb to the stress and pain we can't feel anything and by the way the government hasn't helped us a bit Wow! How perfectly, perfect. These words couldn’t describe my feelings any better if I would have written them myself. I don’t think this life we lead has ever worn on my husband as much as it has this year, and he’s been farming his whole life (he’s 53)!! Not much else to do, other than put it in God’s hands, which is what we’ve done. Thanks for being so raw and real!
Joe
6/29/2019 07:21:53 am
My wife forwarded this to me on Thursday. I sat in my sprayer cab in the back corner of a field and cried as I read this.
Ralph Kpngsbury
10/29/2019 06:21:18 pm
a retired farmer, but wait till they can't pay the rent, the chemical bills, the … see what will happen to your town. This year isn't just hard. This year could be a disaster. 10/31/2019 09:36:30 am
May I have permission to read this on my radio show The Good Stuff? With absolute confirmation of your authorship.
Mary Lee Cunningham
11/2/2019 08:43:08 am
A beautiful reminder of who the "farmer" is and isn't. As I read it, I thought of my son who is in a totally different profession, yet so much of his daily life is shaped by his job and career path that he has little (really no) control over. The concepts you laid out are applicable to all of us, in every walk of life. We do our best, give what we are able and then must realize that it is God who is in control of it all. He ALWAYS does His part, and our part is to work to His glory and trust Him to provide what we truly need. 11/4/2019 07:01:33 am
It's not just this year, it's every spring and fall. We farmed for over 45 years, farming is a gamble, if our belief in GOD wasn't strong we wouldn't make it. Some years are worse than others, 2019 is the wettest. I feel for all farmers, big and small, I pray that you will make it through, hopefully 2020 will be a great year. May GOD bless.
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Uptown GirlKate Lambert grew up in northern Illinois, not on a farm but active in FFA and showing livestock. 
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