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You know Oogie, I believe I covered that.
Livestock must be cared for, but work in the fields can wait.
At least that's how we did it in "the old days" you refer to, and we NEVER lost anything because of it.

The old days, when dairy farmers skipped milking on Sunday?

Woa------Looks like I have ruffed some feathers!
To assume that I know nothing about soybeans, combines, and farming in general, would be a mistake.
I grew up on a farm in Yadkin county and was taught that on Sunday, all work that could stop, did stop, because my father believed that the Source of everything provided for those crops to flourish, demanded it.
Yes, we kept our livestock fed and such, perhaps that was wrong, but that was it. Sunday was set aside as a day of Worship and rest, and that we did. We never lost any crops because of not working in them on Sunday either. I know several farmers who still operate on that principal today, and they are doing fine.
Back then, it never even occurred to us to lock the doors at our house, because it simply wasn't necessary.
Kids didn't go in schools killing as many as possible and the morality in our nation now, keeps sinking lower and lower. Why might this be happening? I suspect that us working on Sunday is just a symptom of the much larger problem, which is our nation getting away from the teachings of the Bible.
Now, being a Muslim is accepted, but being a Christian isn't.
I'll admit, I was shocked to see those combines running on Sunday but from the responses here, it seems this is just one more thing in today's world that I must become accustomed to seeing. I honestly didn't know that farmers working on Sunday was that widespread, and for that I apologise.
I miss the old days.

stringbean, the Lord's Day is on Saturday, the Sabbath. That's my belief. But I have to work some Saturdays. Leave the hard working farmer alone. YOUR butt would be "in dire need" if it were not for the farmers.

While I firmly believe in resting one day a week (not two!) and do believe in setting aside time for formal worship, crops must be harvested when they are ready and conditions permit the harvesting.
Would String call Duke if the power went out on Sunday or wait until Monday to call them? If workers came to restore his power on Sunday, would he admonish them about working on Sunday? Food is more important than is electricity. Eating was fashionable thousands of years before electrical distribution began.

Then they work on the women under the covers the rest of the week.

most of the preachers that i know do their best work on sunday.

Most of the farmers I know are God fearing people. I know they don't want to work on Sunday but some have to. I'd rather see them out there working knowing they have to than see somebody attend a stockcar race or a freaking ball game.

bean~ Get a Life

String, why do you want to push your practice of Christianity on others? Maybe these folks are Seventh Day Adventist, or Jewish, or followers of Islam. Why were you driving on Sunday? where did you eat lunch. or buy gas or watch TV? If you did any of these you're just acting as the hypocrite you are.

String,

Those were my Cousins cutting Soybeans, Soybeans have to be cut when they are dryed out with a low moisture level. They had just finished the week before priming and curing tobacco 24/7. The barns have to be watched 24/7 during the curing season Chicken houses are 24/7, The milk cow dairy business 24/7, If you wait too long the soybeans will start shelling out of the pods.

Some of those combines you see in the fields cost over $200,000, obviously more than stringbeans net worth. My Cousin's crops cost close to $6,000,000 to put out this year. This is a business, not a religion.

I myself worked 24/7 in the computer business for 43 years, on call 24/7 when not on the job and often had to work on Sunday ,otherwise our plants would have to shutdown and put hundreds of workers out of work with no pay. Just about all textile plants run 24/7.

Worry about your own sins and stop pointing fingers at others, you shoe does not fit all of us.

Farming is a 24/7/365 job. Ever heard the saying "make hay when the sun shines"? You shouldn't judge those who have to/need to work on Sunday to get the work done and support their family.

When crops are dry and the weather is dry you must get them in. They cut christmas trees 7 days a week. They load them at night with lights. Go educate yourself on farming.

Talk to a farmer who was working tobacco.....on a sunday......His answere was ,,,WE HAVE TO. OBAMA HAS RAISED OR TAXES. WE CANNOT MAKE IT WORKING 6 DAYS A WEEK.

Down 601 where the large grain bins are. I passed through there yesterday and saw two big Massey combines cutting soybeans.
I guess he needs money so badly that he can't afford to stop the combines on the Lords Day. If anyone knows who he is, we really should help him out with a donation of some kind.
He's surely in dire need.