Agrarian is a Way of Life

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“No one can serve two masters. He will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about your life– what you shall eat or drink– or about your body– what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

 

“Look at the birds in the sky. They do not sow or reap. They gather nothing into barns, yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they? Can any of you, by worrying, add a single moment to your life span?

 

“Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from the way the wildflowers grow. They do not work or spin. But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of them. If God so clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will He not much more provide for you, oh you of little faith?

 

“So do not worry and say, what are we to eat? Or what shall we drink? Or what are we to wear? All these things the pagans seek. Your Heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

 

“But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. Do not worry about tomorrow. Tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil.”

 

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This is Mejanomics with a Friend of Medjugorje.

 

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[MILAN WEINGARD]

The thing about Roundup is that glyphosate in that Roundup, it’s still a killing agent. That killing that it did out here, it’s killing in here as well. You might not discover it, and you might not know about it, but if you go in the shop and you get…

 

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Grandpa taught me how to ride on a buckskin mare when I was five. He told me the way of life was in my blood. And I learned the ropes, how to hold the reins. When I got thrown, had to hide the pain. He’d give me the eye and I’d get back up. And these days…

 

I don’t know if he’s rounding up a herd of cattle, or going for eight in his old bronc saddle, or teaching a young buck a hard-learned well-earned lesson. I don’t know if he’s roaming around just to pass the time somеwhere up therе on the other side, checking a fence line just as the sun is settin’. But y’all, I’m sure that he’s riding horses in Heaven

 

Stubborn, strong, thicker skin. I’m who I am ’cause of him. Teaching this girl all that cowboy stuff. And you may say may he rest in peace, but he ain’t restin’ if you ask me. If I know him, he’s up there kicking up dust.

 

I don’t know if he’s rounding up a herd of cattle, or going for eight in his old bronc saddle, or teaching a young buck a hard-learned well-earned lesson. I don’t know if he’s roaming around just to pass the time somеwhere up therе on the other side, checking a fence line just as the sun is settin’. But y’all, I’m sure that he’s riding horses in Heaven

 

Well, I think the angels must’ve wanted a helping hand, and they needed a cowboy, not just any man.

 

I don’t know if he’s rounding up a herd of cattle, or going for eight in his old bronc saddle, or teaching a young buck a hard-learned well-earned lesson. I don’t know if he’s roaming around just to pass the time somеwhere up therе on the other side, checking a fence line just as the sun is settin’. But y’all, I’m sure that he’s riding horses in Heaven

 

Grandpa taught me how to ride on a buckskin mare when I was five. He told me the way of life was in my blood.

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

What you just heard, was yesterday. We were in a classroom. The classroom was in the pastures. He is well-known among the Amish, because he and his father and his 7 brothers and 4 sisters manufacture Amish equipment. I visited their place. It is very impressive. The equipment the Amish have, they make a lot of it. We have been working with them for probably almost a year to utilize their equipment. You have heard me many times for you to get your food from your ground to your mouth as fast as you can. God is bringing us back to the soil. I have said that before. Whether you want to or not, you are going to be there. Because the economy is going to crash. I can say that infallibly. Why? Because we know the system today does not glorify God and it is going to crash. It is going to fall and many people, millions of people are going to be struck by lightning in their thoughts. Why didn’t I get ready? Not to save yourself, but to go the new way of life God has given to us. You heard on the song, she said “a way of life.” The agrarian life is a way of life and it is Godly, and God blesses it. The Amish has kept God with them. How they live and what they do. It is admirable. So, Milan, he came to Caritas with some equipment. He trained some of the Community how to use this equipment. No gasoline, no electricity, no diesel fuel, no solar. The machine is the horse. God made the horse for man and made man for the horse. They fit. It is a beautiful thing. We don’t have them here for fun, it is part of a way of life. The girl singing this song was about her grandfather is up in Heaven. He gave her a way of life. Our Lady has said in the messages, if you follow Jesus, you will experience Heaven on earth. You heard Milan was sharing his wisdom from his dad and from his grandfather. The wisdom of the Amish is very valuable for the future now, of the way we should be living. I am not saying you have to be an Amish, but what you have to do, is get close to the soil and then that way will put you close to God.

 

Milan was so interesting, I asked him to come to the studio.

 

You are going to hear wisdom and things you never heard before. Amazing. Our food chain is poisoned. Everything you eat has chemicals in it because they have been spraying everything, like Roundup, and it is in the soil. He explained how much is in the food chain and how come people are so sick and why they are sick.

 

Milan, you were talking up in the classroom out there in the pasture like that. Everybody was paying strong attention to the wisdom that you were telling us was amazing. And as you started talking about Roundup and pesticides, how it gets into your body, virtually, it is everywhere in everybody. So now that we are in the studio, tell us some of the things to our audience that you told us in the classroom outside.

 

[MILAN]

So back to your question on Roundup and some of the things about Roundup. I will tell you the details today, I am not going to say they are factually all correct. It is some of my opinions and some of our experiences. So, to start off, okay, why Roundup. A lot of people ask the question: okay, why? Why do we go to Roundup? Well, if we go back to our ancestors, it’s our grandpas, they were the introduction to a lot of these chemicals. It looked like a quick fix. Weeds were a pest, and it was from the beginning when Adam came out of the Garden, by the sweat of thy brow. Okay, this almost looked like we can get rid of this without sweating, right? Okay, that’s when a lot of people were so excited, and I think that’s why this Roundup whole thing got it’s so exciting to a lot of people because it is a quick fix. Well, what a lot of people didn’t realize is – okay this Roundup that we think stays out in the field, doesn’t necessarily stay in the field. Because if we have, and a good example is: Yesterday, we were working with the horses. We had an issue with flies. So guess what we did? We got the fly spray and you could smell it. It was a very strong oily diesel fuel smell to it. We ran out, so one of the guys just grabbed the diesel fuel jug and sprayed it on the horses. Okay, it worked. Okay, if I took my hand, and I had some diesel fuel and I am out filling the tractor up or car or whatever and I come in the house, what is the first question my wife asks me? Were you handling fuel? Okay, after all, that was two hours ago, why can you smell it? Right? Well, that oil that was on my hands, transferred to my pants or whatever I rubbed, and that will stay in there. It will not just disintegrate. That same principle applies to when we talk about glyphosate out in the field. That oil, that resin, will stay on the plant as the seed hits, whatever shape or form, that will stay in the field. That is a chemical and it will not just go up in fresh air all of the sudden. It will stay in that field and we see the effects today because – okay, remember, our grandpas did this way back when. Today, we have weeds that no longer die because of Roundup. They are immune to it. Okay, now we need to go stronger. We need to even get smarter, we need to get stronger repellents to take care of certain species of weeds, so we just up the power, right? Okay, we are carrying more chemical into the food industry. And a classic example is corn. Corn and soybeans, but corn is probably the number one trade-it commodity in the agricultural industry. One of, I’m not saying it is “the” one, but one of them.

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

For the whole world?

 

[MILAN]

That I can’t speak to, but it’s a nationally traded product. Well, if you do it on a commercial scale, most people will go with Roundup. They do GMO and they do Roundup. Okay, when they spray that Roundup on there, that product that is genetically, it has to be genetically modified in order to do that. So we spray Roundup in our field, from last year, so that is in the soil. We spray the crops, so we have it on our stocks, and it is going to come into the ear. Now your soil can only produce what is in it. Your soil can’t produce a nice red tomato if you don’t have a rich good soil. Okay, that same thing with an ear corn. Now, you can manipulate that, there is enough research being done, we know corn needs certain ingredients. It needs nitrogen, it needs a certain amount of chemical fertilizer, we can actually still produce 200 bushels an acre. We can manipulate that, that we don’t necessarily need a good soil to produce that ear. The thing that we keep in mind here is that ear, that ear of corn that we are all going to eat someday, can only grow, it can only become what it has to grow out of. Okay, so if we have nitrogen, if we have Roundup in our soils, if we have chemical fertilizers, we are eating that stuff, like it or not. And if, just for an example, if you look at old fertilizer’s spreaders, chances are they are all rusted out. Why? Because that chemical fertilizer is corrosive. Okay, that is what is in our soil and that is what is going in the food chain.

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Yes, that is profound to have that knowledge. Continue.

 

[MILAN]

So we talked about Roundup, but now let’s talk about we harvest that corn. It goes into the food chain. Now that ends up in our stomach, in our belly. Okay, again, that glyphosate, you drink that glyphosate cup, just like you said this morning, the commercials that were being aired way back when, in our grandpas’ time, they were drinking the glyphosate, it’s safe, right? It is safe for everybody. Okay, a lot of people say that and it actually is. If you drink it, its’s not going to hurt you.

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

So, Roundup, they used to have a commercial on TV years ago. They showed its not dangerous and the guy drank it on TV and so, you’re saying…

 

[MILAN]

Just for an example, back about 10 years ago, one of my little nephews, he was just crawling on the ground, my sister-in-law was out spraying Roundup. Okay. She was spraying out in the driveway, one of my nephews came behind her, she didn’t realize he was out there, and he was putting the rocks that she’d just got done spraying, in his mouth. What did they do first thing? They called the poison control center. Oh, its Roundup, it’s not big deal, you’re okay. You don’t have to do anything about it.

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Wow.

 

[MILAN]

Okay. And the reason I like to refer to it as a killing agent, ah, Roundup, the glyphosate and the Roundup, is it’s a killing agent, it actually, like, when you spray Roundup and you spray it out in the grass, as soon, its literally, as soon as that evaporates the killing power is gone. Okay. So, that’s, it’s a comfort to a lot of people. Like for example, in the no-till industry, it’s very common that you spray Roundup and you follow with a no-trill drilling and the seeds grow. And they do. Works every time. However, that chemical, that glyphosate, still will enter the food system through the ear of corn, that we talked about, okay. Now that ear of corn is going to be in the fall, they’re going to harvest it. It’s going to go to the chip factory, it could become gummy bears, it could be anything that has corn syrup. You name it, that glyphosate will become in our gut. When we eat it as a corn chips, Doritos, we all like those, if we eat that stuff, that sets in our gut. Keep in mind glyphosate and Roundup is the same thing. Roundup, that’s the marketing term that everybody talks about. Glyphosate is the number one ingredient in Roundup. Okay? So, as I say, we eat that in our gut, and if we have a good gut, you might never have an issue. But that will reside in there and your gut, the micro-organisms in your gut, to keep your gut healthy, to keep your food processed that you can stay healthy, that glyphosate, the killing agent in that will also those. In my opinion, that’s why we have people with ADHD, some of those disorders, are a direct result from is it glyphosate, is it the chemical fertilizer. Different people’s bodies will respond in different ways. But one of the things, just a classic example of that is how your gut is affected. If you take, let’s say, milk for an example. We’ll shift the focus here a little bit, away from glyphosate, we’ll come back to that then. But if you take a glass of milk. If you go to Walmart and you buy a glass, let’s say its 2%, for an example. When you drink that milk, your body takes that milk, and it receives it as food. Okay? So, but it entered, if you have that 2 % milk, it enters your gut more in a liquid form like a glass of water. Okay, if you in exchange of that, if you have a good healthy cow. It’s good cream milk. It’s not been de-homogenized. It’s not all that stuff’s been done to it, processed. Now, your body takes that, and it takes it and you take it in as food. Your body distinguishes that. And to my knowledge that’s the simplest, easiest way, again it’s a gut thing that some people say they can’t have milk, they’re allergic to milk, well, yes, they are maybe but it’s a cause and effect and we’ve had numerous situations where we’ve had people that were allergic to store bought milk and we were able to switch them over to either goat milk or even just a better, like in your situation, in cows with cream, that you don’t process it, it’s not homogenized, that are able to drink that and they are totally fine.

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

So, when it gets in your gut, it kills your bacteria and that’s basically, everything that we’re eating.

 

[MILAN]

If you, if you go, let’s say that you go to Walmart or wherever and you’re shopping, is it candy, is it a Snickers candy bar, is it a bottle of Pepsi, is it you-name-it, whatever you buy for candies to snacks, if you look on the ingredients list its very seldom that you find something that doesn’t have corn syrup in it. And if you have corn syrup in it, it’s a pretty good chance, if you test that for glyphosate, then you get positive test for it. For example, here we have, it’s a Simple Mills cookie, of some sort, it’s a crunchy almond flour cookie, toasted pecans, the flavor. Okay, it says non-GMO, gluten free. If you look at the ingredients here, nut flour, almonds, pecans, coconut, tapioca starch, it’s organic coconut sugar, organic coconut oil, vanilla extract, baking soda, sea salt, cream of tartar, rosemary extract for freshness. The question that I always have here is, okay, it was produced in Chicago, Illinois. And, let’s see if they have an expiration date, Best buy 9-21-2023. So, for an example, my first question, when I see something like this, it’s all great, it sounds actually really good, and it probably is. But, I like to think about, okay, we have nut flour. Okay, those nuts had to be growing somewhere. Somebody had to pick them up. Somebody had to take them to the processing facility. Somebody had to process them. Somebody had to gather the flour. Somebody had to mix that cookie. If you follow the churning that this food had to take, we all know people will be compromising somewhere. And its okay. I get it. We have to. But I would much rather see, and like for us at home, that’s what we do a lot. I don’t say we don’t buy this stuff, but my wife makes the best granola bars. It’s a chocolate chip, oat, various heavy oats, I’m not sure of what all the ingredients are, but they are the best in my opinion. For an example, it’s in a bar form, we keep them frozen and the best way to eat them is you have a good strong cup of coffee that’s very black and that granola bar goes hand in hand. But, my point is, if I eat one of those in the morning, okay so I eat it and I feel good, everything is good. If we don’t have those at home and I go to work, we have, at work we have the Sunbelt brand granola bars. They’re a good brand, better than some of the others, Quaker, or whatever. Okay, if I eat one of those, I eat it and I’m still hungry. I still fill I’m hungry. It’s almost like I feel like I didn’t eat anything. If I take one of my wife’s along, and I eat it. I eat it and I feel like a ate something. I’m ready to go to work. I’m ready to start. Personally, I feel that is a huge part of the blame of the obese in America. Because if you eat it, it’s almost doesn’t feel like you ate anything, you’ll want to go right at it again. If you have a good healthy grainy, cookie, granola bar, whatever, if you eat it, you feel like you ate something and you’re ready to do something. You can work off of what you ate.

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

When I was there at your house, I tasted that, and it was very good. Going from there, what’s your advice for people to avoid these things?

 

[MILAN]

Well, one of the first things that we do at home in our house is we have specialties, don’t get me wrong. We do. But we like to look at, you want the lowest amount of ingredients on your products if all possible. And I feel if we can, like take a cookie. I would much rather buy sugar, buy my cane sugar. We know where it’s coming from. We buy our flour, we know where its coming from, buy your ingredients and put them together. In my opinion that’s a lot safer and its less preservatives, it’s a lot less if for your health-wise, that’s a lot healthier than if you buy a cookie at a store, or a donut or whatever.

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Tell us a little bit about your family and what you all do and the equipment that you manufacture. We’ve been working for the last two days; you’ve been training us. We’ve just, in the last several months, we’ve bought 16 pieces of equipment for the future of what I’ve been talking about for years and years of what’s going to happen, that you’ve got to get your food from your ground to your mouth as fast as you can. You can’t depend on gasoline, electricity, diesel fuel, all these things. God is going to bring us back to the soil, whether or not you want it or not. So, give us a capsule of what you do as far as your equipment.

 

[MILAN]

Sure. So as to get started as far as what we do, I’m going to start it back, my father started pioneer equipment back in 1978. The reason he started pioneer equipment was back then it was a supply and demand issue. We were farming with horses and a lot of the equipment that we had back in the 70’s came out of the Midwest because the Midwest farmers were going from horses to tractors. So, a lot of these horse-drawn equipment got put in fence rows because of the humidity out west, a lot of that equipment didn’t, it didn’t rust. So, there was a lot of equipment dealers hauling semi-loads upon semi-loads of this equipment to the east and they were selling it. Well, the supply was very good. Fifties and Sixties stuff kept coming in. The Seventies and Eighties the supply was going downhill. The demand was going up. Okay, guess what happens? There is a price war in there. The price goes up to the point where you could actually, Dad saw the opportunity to start manufacturing equipment and you were able to manufacture new equipment for less money than this used stuff was coming from the West. So that’s why my dad started Pioneer Equipment. We manufactured equipment for over 40 years and our focus was horse-drawn farm equipment. That was our focus. That was our bread and butter, that’s what we did every day. We had about 150 dealers across the United States and Canada we served. Our goal was, my family, we enjoy talking, we enjoy people, we enjoy relationships, back in 2015, we had a family meeting. In that meeting there was 7 of my brothers and 4 of my sisters were present in the meeting. Our conclusion was we need to look at our future. How does it look in five years? Because we like people, because we like talk, and we had, we use a term, we need a bigger sandbox for everybody to play in. So, our conclusion was we would like to have our own retail store. Long story short, in 2018, that’s when we started Ackerman’s and that’s who and where you bought your equipment from that you have. When we started the Ackerman’s, we saw the need, just for like you guys. Okay, we were manufacturing equipment for horses, and we were very strong in tillage, but we had big gaps in the market. We didn’t have manure spreaders. We didn’t have a lot of planter units. We didn’t have a disc. We didn’t have mowers. We didn’t have hay balers. Our conclusion was a lot of our customers out there, they need equipment, but they actually need solutions. In your situation, everything is ground dry, there’s no hydraulic, there’s no power, okay, we might have someone else next week that has a tractor but it’s only 50-horse [power]. Okay, he needs other solutions. So, our theory has always been, listen to the voice of the customer, provide solutions based in his needs and that’s really have done in this situation and that’s what our focus has been. We started our dealership in 2018, we were a dealer for Pioneer Equipment, and we also had a rental center. The rental center has benefitted us because we rent all this equipment out so therefore, we gain experience, we service what we sell, and we learn more of how the equipment actually works. Our service people, if you have issues, you can call our service guys, we can talk about it, whatever. But back to in 2022, in December of 2022, we chose to sell off the Pioneer Equipment line. I’m not going to go into detail of that story of why we all did that, in a nutshell, competition become more, our family chose to walk away from the market rather than stay in and compete. We had a lot of friendly competition from all mom-and-pop stores started. Great manufactures and that’s some of the equipment you have today is from those manufacturers. They do a good job. Instead of competing against them, we chose to support them. So, we have plenty of work. We’re more the commercial market. It’s served us well for 40 years. We chose to walk away from it. We still interact with people, especially with Ackerman’s, we can still service all the equipment we had in the past.

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

For our listeners, to contact you, how do they do that?

 

[MILAN]

The best way to contact us is look up Ackerman’s Equipment on the website [ackermansequipment.com] and you can email us. Our phone number is on there. Call us. Email us. Our team will be glad to take care of you.

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Tell them you learned this from Caritas, in Alabama. People. We’re stupid. We are dumbed down. We’re eating wrong things, we live in a wrong way, we aren’t living what God had planned for us. Like Genesis says, by the sweat of your brow you will eat. Not from Walmart. Not from Publix. This is not the future. You have to step out of the this radically and quickly. You have to be praying and get on the right road because the world is going the wrong direction. We’ve had several community conferences about this. Maybe this fall we could put something together. Be praying, be thinking, be fasting and let Jesus and Our Lady, what She is raising Jesus, because He was in an agrarian life. If it’s good enough for Him, that is what we are being led to now. We ask you to help us. We need to sign up more people to Project 50 people to spread so many things yet to come. Support this mission. We are a witness of the first witness, I say, of turning Medjugorje into a way of life and that’s the road you are supposed to be on.

 

We wish you Our Lady. We love you. Good night.

 

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This ends the Mejanomics broadcast with a Friend of Medjugorje. These broadcasts are available as CDs, which are sent directly to your doorstep on a monthly subscription. For information, contact Caritas in the U.S. at 205-672-2000.