ON THE WINGS OF GODS-A FARMERS PRAYER

CORN IS OUR CURRENCY and SOYBEANS REPRESENT THE SECOND SISTER, THEY REPLACE THE LOST NITROGEN IN OUR FIELDS.

Corn as a religious totem is exemplified in this simple but exceedingly effective logo-DeKalb Seed Corn.

We are agrarians , our society has grown, our population is expanding because of mass produced food.

There was a time when we left our hunter gather clans behind and began to farm.

It didn’t go that well, we shrank in size because of limited diets of monoculture crops.

Our teeth decayed because we were stone grinding the shatter grains we were producing.

Our age reversed , we died at younger ages.

Farming was not a healthy lifestyle.

The cattle upstream pooped in our water, it was the beginning of pollution.

It required approximately 5,000 calories per day to be a farmer.

Selecting grains, planting grains, plowing fields, planting fields, weeding fields, harvesting fields, storing grains, etc.

Your backward friend that had been a hunter and gatherer required only 2,500 calories per day to survive , one half of your farming efforts.

He had a seasonally varied diet that kept him fit and healthy and he spent precious little time hunting and gathering, maybe a total of two or three days out of a week.

However, the farmers won out in this terrestrial battle because of fecundity. Hunters and gathers could not out produce offspring while in route.

Our farmers today benefit our society because of mass production but more so because of the mass transport of farming produce from all parts of the world.

We have become healthier because of the accessibility of transport. Our lives are healthier because we have access to an abundance of food products.

Yes, farmers grow food and we eat, but our trains and truck drivers supply us with diversity of food and that is what creates a diverse diet and allows us better lives.

The Logo, the myth, the legend. DeKalb says it all.

This logo exemplifies our goals and aspirations.

Corn represents our sustenance, it is our life, it is our currency.

The Wings represent….upward transport. The wings represent aspirations, the wings represent heavenly aspirations.
The Wings represent something given to God or perhaps God given.

It is spring and the crops have been planted. One man only has the ability to participate in perhaps 50 harvests in his lifetime.

On some level, We have seasonally harvested for 10,000 years and to show for it, I have a DeKalb cap.

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