Farmers toil in the soil and by the sweat of their brow, bring in crops each year - including those world famous onions - to feed Americans. But the Toombs County Young Farmers know that regardless of their efforts, producing a good crop also takes divine Intervention.

For the first time in several years, a Blessing of the Crops Breakfast was hosted by the Toombs County Young Farmers at the Toombs County Ag Center Thursday morning. Chairman Mitchell Pittman said such gatherings are important to the men and women who entrust their livelihoods much to answered prayers.

“Agriculture is very important to Toombs County,” Pittman said. “There’s so much more to it that people don’t realize. Not only is it how we feed families and plant products to make clothes, but farming is vital to the economy and growth of a community. No matter how hard we work, a lot still comes down to things we can’t control like the weather, cost of what we need to bring in a crop, labor, and more. And so, we know that it’s time like that that we must turn to God and ask Him to guide us and bless us so that we can have a good crop and our workers are safe.”

Pittman said when the pandemic hit, it forced the organization to stop having the annual Blessing of the Crops breakfast, but now that things are getting back to what is more routine in Americans’ lives, he hopes that it will once again become an annual event and encompass not just farmers, but the entire community.