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Western Ag Life Magazine - Spring 2020
WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, THE TOUGH GET GOING
I have heard that saying as a cliché most of my life. However, now we are about to become witnesses to that saying. We all know our world was different after 911 and it will be forever changed with Covid-19. A couple days after 9-11 we knew who our enemy was. Now months after the introduction of Covid-19 this enemy is hidden in the unknowns of a virus. Consequently, making it very difficult to plan a defense and an even longer trajectory to an offense. Let us hope and pray that a cure is found quickly! I am not sure anyone could have predicted the instability that something like this could bring to the world. America will certainly be playing economic catch up for years to come. The dichotomy of bad is good and I believe there is going to be some good that will come from these challenging times. I am hoping America will learn a lesson and want to start controlling and producing more of the essential products that this country is dependent upon such as food, fuel, pharmaceutical, biologicals, and intellectual properties.
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We also have a new commonly used term “essential workers”. Most everyone in agriculture falls under the “essential workers” category. We as Americans owe a great deal of gratitude to all the essential workers.
Environmentalists have now been a witness to a case study that they never could have conducted themselves. The environment has dramatically improved all over the world in the last couple months yet, we have maintained the same agriculture animal population. Hopefully, they will remove farm animals from the hypothesis going forward. They can no longer reasonably blame the CO2 on the MOO!
I will end by saying goodbye to Judy Burruel of Marana, AZ. Judy was a champion for all thing’s agriculture. She tirelessly gave to so many youth agriculture associations for most of her life. Judy’s legacy is well secured with her family and friends. “Well done good and faithful servant” Matt 25:23
Your Friend, Paul Ramirez, Publisher
