Farm Rescue and our Family Farm

My husband is a part owner of North Dakota farmland that was passed down to him from his grandparents who were homesteaders beginning in 1905. He gets a subscription to the Glen Ullin Times, the local newspaper out there, to keep track of what's happening. We were suprised to read in the latest weekly issue that the farmer who rents the land had been sidelined recently by emergency heart surgery, but that Farm Rescue had stepped in to plant his spring wheat. Here's an excerpt from their online log:

Week of May 4: Our volunteers are now in the fields, dodging rain showers, in one of the wettest springs on record!

But the crop is in the ground at Hebron, where Gene, Warren, Bill K., Lowell and Charles spent four days planting spring wheat. They put the last 100 acres in the ground on Tuesday afternoon. After a good home-cooked meal from the family they assisted (the husband had open heart surgery), the crew headed to Flasher.

This is a marvelous organization that has saved many a family farm. Read the stories of some of the farmers - you'll feel good!