Beatty & Cordell Farms, Inc.

12/26/2020

From our families to yours - Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

04/09/2020

They ran to the groceries, they filled up their carts,
They emptied the Tops and Price Chopper and Walmart,
They panicked and fought and then panicked some more,
Then they rushed to their homes and they locked all the doors.
The food will be gone! The milk eggs and cheese!
The yogurt! The apples! The green beans and peas!
The stores have run out, now what will we do?
They’ll be starving and looting and nothing to do!

Then they paused, and they listened a moment or two.
And they did hear a sound, rising over the fear,
It started out far, then began to grow near.

But this sound wasn’t sad, nor was it new,
The farms were still doing what farms always do.

The food was still coming, though they’d emptied the shelves,
The farms kept it coming, though they struggled themselves,

Though the cities had forgotten from where their food came,
The farms made them food every day, just the same.
Through weather and critics and markets that fall,
The farms kept on farming in spite of it all.

They farmed without thank yous.
They farmed without praise.
They farmed on the hottest and coldest of days.

They’d bought all the food, yet the next day came more,
And the people thought of something they hadn’t before.
Maybe food, they thought, doesn’t come from a store.
Maybe farmers, perhaps, mean a little bit more.

*Borrowed from a fellow farmer *

03/15/2020

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11/15/2019

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10/23/2019

09/13/2019

Never Forget: WNY farmer Dave Meisenzahl, along with his son Jeremy and family, have been busy this morning setting up their patriotic combine harvester just west of the town of Honeoye Falls. There’s no piece of farming equipment quite like this, a touching dedication to the events of September 11, 2001. The harvester will remain outside here tomorrow and for the remainder of the week, their way of keeping alive the memories of those lost that day. It’s a touching tribute and one the public is welcome to come see on Rush-Lima Rd. (Route 15A). You can park near their roadside stand as the intersection is quite busy. In a few weeks, the harvester will be busy cutting down soy beans and wheat in their vast fields. They’ve been farming for nearly 100 years in the family, I always enjoy stopping here.