NeonNettle
For even the fittest of farmers, harvesting the crops on thousands of acres of farmland is tough, tiring, time-consuming work.
A farmer from Ritzville, Washington, was diagnosed with Stage IV melanoma and found himself unable to get his work done on his own.
However, the other farmers in his area came together and selflessly added some extra work on top of their own.
They said they wanted to make sure that their neighbor didn’t have to struggle any longer. More
I love these stories. We really need them in these times. We need the all the time.
Farmers and country people don’t wear tee shirts or carry resuable grocery bags to signal their Godly virtues.
That is certainly a good news story! I hope that poor guy with cancer can take this gesture of goodwill and use it to make a miraculous recovery. For his friends and neighbors to come out like this tells me he has probably been the first to help others himself.
More hands make less work.
I can’t remember ever seeing a farm lost because of lack of help when needed.
Must be dust in my eyes again today.
What community is all about. God bless them all.
I don’t own a cotton harvester or an 18 wheeler but I have helped cook for people helping a farmer who need help harvesting his crop. There are still good people wiling to help others in need and for that I am thankful.
Great post!
I love this story.
Beautiful to see the kindness by so many and without hesitation.
America!!! It is who we are!
Back in the day (50’s), that’s just the way it was done.
But here in fly over country all the farms were under a section (640 acres). If you had the family to work it you’d lease and plant ground on your neighbors land. Most with dairy herd that also made it harder to work the land playing nurse maid to the cows milking twice a day, seven days week.
Remembering the results of helping when “Charlie” who got tangled up with the power take off.
You call this good news? HA! Just another example of patriarchal white supremacists taking care of their own, while businesses remain unlooted, police stations remain uncharred, and proud boys remain uninjured. I weep for the State of Washington.
VIVA LA REVOLUTION!
I imagine this kind of stuff happens a lot. It’s just that no one notices because it’s ‘just farm people’.
A great time saver for farmers…
Have local farmers join together at harvest time,
Have the entire group focus on harvesting one farm at a time,
Less time spent by individual farmers, crops are harvested in less time,
Less wear and tear on the machinery, less fuel, equals higher profit,
Planting could even be done the same way.
Am teared up. Beautiful. City peeps have a disconnect that is foreign to farm people and church community and ethnic community people. I’ve seen this for the 50 years in living in what was formerly rural, farm, but now suburban area.
That is what the demoncrats want to spoil by urbanizing rural/suburbia America.
@Extirpates
This makes absolutely no sense:
“A great time saver for farmers…
Have local farmers join together at harvest time,
Have the entire group focus on harvesting one farm at a time,
Less time spent by individual farmers, crops are harvested in less time,
Less wear and tear on the machinery, less fuel, equals higher profit,
Planting could even be done the same way.”
If all the crops have to be harvested at some time, how does it save any time, fuel, wear and tear, etc.?
What you are talking about is a socialist commune. That is not what this is about.
This happens every year in farming country, it is honorable people that look out for their friends.
If you want to live on a commune, go ahead, don’t try to force it on the amazing people that feed the world.
@MJA – last summer when I was undergoing cancer treatment, my neighbors mowed my grass every week and made sure my yard was maintained and wouldn’t take any payment (and took care of my dog when
I was in the hospital). There are good people everywhere, it just gets overshadowed by a smaller percentage of the worst among us. Can’t remember where I saw it recently, but a twitter comment that said basically if the MSM was shut down for 30 days, a lot of the world’s problems would go away.
Dang lazy farmers should have called the government to harvest his crops.
Government can do it a lot better anyway.
I live about an hour away from Ritzville as it is approximately 60 miles West of Spokane. This is not unusual for a lot of the farm communities around here with all the neighbors helping one another in times of need. This is why I like living in this part of the country surrounded by abundant farmland and lots of forests and lakes where people care about one another more so than they do in large cities. Good for the good people of Ritzville to help one another like this. And I’m sure they would do it again gladly if someone else has a need like this. And it might also be because I’m the descendent of small farmers who worked the land and proud to live in a rural and semi rural area of this great country. We may be a one horse town part of the country (it’s not as bad as it used to be when I was a kid) but we have big hearts just like most of the American people do no matter where they live.
That same exact thing is happening in so many farming communities this week that if a paragraph on each were published the paper would have to be three inches thick and have nothing else in it. How do I know? Been there, done that. That is normal. I’m in central Washington more than I am home this time of year and that is just how it works. Not only that, people they don’t even know and have never met will drive over from the next county to lend a hand.
It won’t work any other way.
Ritz Roadhouse – Damn Good food! Just up the road in Lind they have an annual Combine Demolition Derby. I think it is the Lion’s Club that puts it on. Great fun.
Farmers are like that they help when needed
Who needs stinking farmers when we have grocery stores?
Yes, Nancy.
We have incontrovertible proof that farmers are stinking.
This is what farmers and rural residents have always done.
City folks come together to riot and hate one another.