Community helps Iowa farmer diagnosed with cancer during harvest season

HUMESTON, Iowa (KCCI) – It’s harvest season throughout Iowa, however one Iowa farmer has been stored inside as a result of a latest most cancers analysis.

Nevertheless, his hometown has banded collectively to assist, and with a high-tech software, he even acquired to look at the work being finished.

Doug Arnold has greater than 200 acres of corn and soybeans in Humeston, in south-central Iowa. He was identified with small cell most cancers final 12 months. So this season he isn’t out tending to his fields.

So the entire city acquired collectively to handle his harvest.

“It was actually, actually touching,” Doug Arnold’s son, Travis Arnold, stated. “There was individuals I didn’t even know. We had been going by means of footage attempting to call everybody. I consider my brother stated there was about 70 individuals, in all probability.”

Utilizing 10 combines, semis, and a few grain vehicles, the group was capable of get the work finished in about three hours.

And Arnold was capable of watch the entire course of from his mattress, utilizing a drone that was capable of live-stream his neighbors in motion.

“We acquired an hour of streaming for my dad to look at. My mother known as a number of instances saying he was fairly emotional seeing it,” Travis Arnold stated.

The gesture was an enormous shock to the Arnold household, who stated seeing native individuals step up on this manner is a testomony to the facility of group.

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