A farmer decided to plant a new field. He hired skilled workers to help him put in the crop. He divided them into groups according to their abilities. There were soil tillers, seed planters, fertilizing and irrigation folks, plant tenders, harvest reapers, and tractor/tool maintenance crew.
The soil tillers broke up the ground but left it in dry chunks. One of them asked the tiller superintendent about the soil, he replied, “that’s not our job; just break it up so we can get out of here.”
The seed planters were disturbed when they arrived, to begin planting. “Look at the soil!” they said. “Oh well, were hired to plant, not mess with the soil, so let’s get on with it,” They worked hard all day planting the seed in the dusty, clods of earth.
Next, the irrigation crew flooded the field with water because they had three other fields to water and were pushed for time.
A month later a few weak plants began to grow, and so did hundreds of weeds. The weed pullers were mad at the tillers and seed planters for not heading off the problem with herbicides. They worked with furious intensity yanking weeds out right and left trying to get that field cleaned up. Unfortunately, in their zeal, they pulled out a lot of young plants along with the weeds.
The plant tenders were exhausted running from plant to plant trying to help save the injured and dying crop.
When harvest came there was hardly anything to harvest and sell. The farmer couldn’t pay expenses and had to lay off all the workers. He decided the field was a losing proposition and gave up on farming.
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