More than 40 farmers volunteer to harvest their ill neighbor's crop

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Last Tuesday, dozens of farmers rose early, and rolled out with their combines, grain carts, and other equipment ready for the 360 acre harvest. But this time, they didn't work their own fields; instead, they gathered at City Hall to plan and finish the harvest of Robert Thompson's crop, another local farmer who's hospital-bound.

This isn't even the first time these farmers have helped each other out: “There’s been four or five times, since I’ve started farming, that things like this have happened and every time word gets out everybody drops whatever they’re doing and comes running,” Tim Velde remembers.