{"id":445,"date":"2018-12-21T17:37:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T22:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/?p=445"},"modified":"2018-12-21T17:38:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T22:38:43","slug":"cows-form-sign-cross-reminding-us-true-meaning-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/2018\/12\/cows-form-sign-cross-reminding-us-true-meaning-season.html","title":{"rendered":"Cows Form the Sign of the Cross in Open Field, Remind Us All of the True Meaning of the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_448\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-448\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-448\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/409\/2018\/12\/cowsformcross-1-e1545431908213.jpg\" alt=\"ShantiUniverse\/YouTube.com \" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShantiUniverse\/YouTube.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>North Dakota Farmer Gene Hanson is known for plowing creative messages. This particular message was different than anyone he had done before.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of using his plow, he used his neighbor\u2019s cows, approximately 150 young black Angus cattle. He wanted to send an important message, a powerful message.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the Christmas season,\u201d Hanson told <em>Fox News<\/em>, \u201cand I thought that would be really nice if he put the feed down in a sign of the cross and he did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He wanted to share a reminder to people of \u201cthe birth of Jesus\u201d as the true reason for the season.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time this farmer has sent a Christian message. Hanson also has a large cross erected in his own cow pasture, 25 feet tall and 15 feet wide, along U.S. Highway 281. He put solar lights on the cross so people can see it at night.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, he plowed the message \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d the size of a football field. He also gained national attention, including the attention of President Trump when he plowed the message: \u201cWe stand for the national anthem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f6ATuhzNWPA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Dakota Farmer Gene Hanson is known for plowing creative messages. This particular message was different than anyone he had done before. Instead of using his plow, he used his neighbor\u2019s cows, approximately 150 young black Angus cattle. He wanted to send an important message, a powerful message. \u201cIt\u2019s the Christmas season,\u201d Hanson told Fox&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":565,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[280,279,282,281],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-news","tag-christmas","tag-cows","tag-gene-hanson","tag-jesus-is-the-reason-for-the-season"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cows Form the Sign of the Cross in Open Field, Remind Us All of the True Meaning of the Season<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/2018\/12\/cows-form-sign-cross-reminding-us-true-meaning-season.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cows Form the Sign of the Cross in Open Field, Remind Us All of the True Meaning of the Season\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"North Dakota Farmer Gene Hanson is known for plowing creative messages. 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