Farmers Helping Farmers:A SMALL-TOWN EFFORT FOR A FELLOW FARMER AND FRIEND

摘要

In the span of six hours, 11 combines, 21 semis, and 14 auger wagons harvested 400 acres of corn just outside Brimfield, Illinois, for Randy and Bev Kingdon.Close neighbor and lifetime friend of the family Ralph Peters organized the fleet of farmers to harvest Randy Kingdon's crop after the outgoing 60-year-old farmer and trucker lost an eight-year battle to prostate cancer on September 15, 2017 — right before harvest season."Everyone volunteered to help," says Peters. "The word starting getting around that I was organizing the effort. Volunteers got ahold of me, asked what they could bring, and we all harvested his crop together."