Farmers like you wake up each day prepared to tackle the challenges of this lifestyle head-on. Nevertheless, you may find yourself worrying as you look around and see your crops struggling or neighbors you’ve known for years closing up shop and moving on. You may feel discouraged, even as you promise yourself your operation will survive these trying times, and you may feel stressed. After all, there is always something more to be done: the work of a farmer is never finished and the burden is yours to bear.
October has arrived. It is the season for football, harvest, hunting and of course breast cancer awareness. For those of us whose lives have been touched by cancer, it takes on a whole new meaning.
During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.
Our lone apple tree has outdone itself this year. All the high winds we have had, the hard rains, nothing has deterred it from producing what I would call a giant bumper crop of wealthy apples.
Wyoming’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose slightly from 2.9% in July to 3.0% in August, according to the Research & Planning section of the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services. Even at 3.0, the state’s unemployment rate is much lower than the current U.S. unemployment rate of 4.2%.
