“For your kindness, for your strength, and for the love you showed our family,” her statement says.
Growers in North Dakota weren’t the only ones lending support to farm families.
Earlier in November in Buffalo, Minn., a group of producers associated with Farm Rescue helped harvest 200 acres of corn for a recovering farmer.
For Keith Lindig, one of the volunteer farmers, helping others is part of a larger calling.
“I listened to a church sermon years ago when I was a kid and it stuck with me: ‘There’s no better gift than the gift of giving,’” he told The Minnesota Star Tribune.
In addition to the combines used to harvest the corn, other community members stepped up with trucks and trailers to haul the corn to an ethanol plant in Atwater.
Farms.com has covered multiple instances of farmers helping one another over the years.
In 2022, for example, farmers in Hanna City, Ill., helped harvest 640 acres of Kevin Sipp’s crops as he battled colon cancer.
And in 2021, farmers in Illinois and Indiana took time away from their own operations to support other growers.
Like in Warsaw, Ind., where farmers brought three combines and four semis to Robert Frantz’s farm to harvest 120 acres of soybeans.