Ailing Farmer

Northern Indiana farmer has leukemia, friends and neighbors step up.
Farmer Gets Help

good folks!

That is what is so great about the farming community. Neighbors/friends helping each other out. Especially in tough times.
Kow Farmer Kurt

Nice to see there are still great people with values out there. The way things are going in this country you would think they all have disappeared.

My BIL and nephew went together with several other neighbors to plant the crops for a neighbor that had been injured. When they asked one of the neighbors to join them for a day, he said: "No; I don't have all of my own crops seeded and I don't believe in doing that anyway".

The very next year, guess who got sick and needed help? A couple of the neighbors did go help him, but most of them declined.

Great folks to say the least!

Makes you feel good inside. We did this for a farmer in our community. As it is stated in the bible it is more blessed to give than to receive. In the world that we live in where there is not a lot of positive things going on, this is good. Just think it is being done by some of us farmers who helped make this country great.

I"ve been involved in two of those over the years. Makes for a nice get-together in the neighborhood.

I Glad to see he got some needed help. I hope he recovers.

I also hope he still has land to farm next year. If someone has trouble around here all the BTOs are calling the landlords ASAP. They will promise the sky an moon to the landlord.

Had a local farmer killed here last week they had aharvest bee for them wed this week 25 combines and about 50 smias took out 1300 acres of beans in 4 hours

This is a link to a wonderful video from 1962 where the same thing was done. A great lie up of old iron.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T5TWb3NBqY8

A couple years ago Joan and I found some used JD parts for a
neighbor who needed them and hadn't been able to find them.
We went to pick them up as a little surprise for him.
We had to wait a while for the seller to show up at his house.
When he did he apologized for being late, said he was at a wood
cutting bee for a neighbor lady who's husband had past away.
Man was only 40, wife left with young kids and wood heat.
We went back the next day and helped them cut wood.
Funny some times how the right people just come together.
I'm glad there's still people like that left in the world.

God bless everyone of you

There's probably a lot more things like this happen than we realize, The media just doesn't deem it newsworthy.

Great video Matt.

I'd never heard of a plowing/planting/harvest bee while living in NJ. When we moved to MN I was 16. At 18 I was working for a farmer full time. A local guy got cancer and was fading fast. He had a 15 year old son who wanted to stay on the farm and take it over. So a plan was made for a bee to till and put crops in. About 4 days before the event the farmer across the road had a heart attack. First thing that happened was my boss sent me over there to milk and do chores and take care of things while the guys wife was with him in the hospital. I got paid by my boss to milk this guys cows for 2 weeks until they decided to sell the cows. Plus I participated in the bee. We had a total of 48 tractors plowing, disking, digging and planting. We did both farms in one day. When the old guy got out of the hospital he tried to pay me for milking and doing chores. I told him I'd already been paid by my boss for that and if he wanted he could try to reimburse him knowing full well my boss wouldn't take it. Several years later I got paid back for that when my own father was sick. They came in and did a bee for him and a couple of farmers with empty slots in their barns took in dads cows until he recovered.

Rick