Last fall, a friend who's in his mid 60's had heart trouble and had to have a stent put in. He had about 300 acres of corn left out. My dad ran his combine, I dumped loads, towed some wagons, and watched his drying setup, another neighbor brought a semi and trailer, another brought a combine and straight truck and we got it done in a few days.
He did have alot of other offers (mostly from big time operators, or BTO's) to "help" him by trying to rent his farm and trying to rent ground out from under him. One even lied to one of his landlords that he sent him over to talk about renting some ground because he was retiring, and was too ill to let the landlord know. None offered to help him get his crop off (without getting to rent his ground in return). It was also neat hearing him tell about the 75 year old farmer telling him (again, he's in his 60's) that he was too darn old to be farming and probably should give it up.
His stent turned out well and he's still farming, and said to many that tried to "help" him by getting ground away from him that they'll be the last to know when he isn't farming anymore.
A few years back, a BTO (who coincidentially tried to "help" the above neighbor by offering to rent his farm) helped put together a crew to help a farmer who was not well get his crops out. Probably 25 farmers came to help. Local TV news covered it, it was in the local papers, and I think it was even on AG DAY. Crops were harvested, hauled to the elevator and ground was all plowed. BTO spent his time talking to the media, got all of the credit for setting this up to "help a neighbor" and never did help one bit with the harvest. Turns out the BTO already had the farm rented and wanted these crops out of his way. He also got his fall plowing for the next season done for free. Swell guy.
AG
This post was edited by AG in IN at 11:39:00 10/19/11.
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