When fellow farm families need help, they can count on neighbors to show up.
Two groups of producers in Iowa proved this point when they took time away from their own farms to support families in need.
On Oct. 16 in Kingsley, Iowa, a group of more than 70 farmers gathered at Dana Sitzmann’s farm to finish harvest after he passed away in a farming accident 11 days earlier.
A few days earlier, roughly 2.5 hours and 138 miles away in Bancroft, Iowa, another group of farmers harvested another’s crop.
On Oct. 14, neighbors brought 17 combines, 15 grain carts and 32 semi-trucks to Jim Heldorfer’s farm to harvest more than 460 acres of grain after Heldorfer died in a car accident on Oct. 1.