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Friends, Neighbors Expedite Halpin Harvest


Breaking News ScreenMore than 100 friends and neighbors worked Saturday to harvest crops for Mike Halpin, of Buckingham, IL. That’s what one of the organizers, William VanWassenhove, of Cabery, reported Monday in an update of reports from the field.

Halpin, 35, was severely injured on Oct. 5, when he fell from his truck while unloading hay for his cattle at the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis.

Local farmers and others were involved in the group harvest of 620 acres beginning at 6:30 a.m. Saturday.

“We had 19 combines, 20 grain carts, 32 semis, nine sets of tractors and wagons,” VanWassenhove said.

“There were at least 20 women making lunches and delivering them to the fields,” he added.

The harvest only took five hours, then the volunteers gathered for lunch at the machine shed of co-organizer Roger Birch, of Cabery.

Corn yields were reported at a little more than 200 bushels per acre and soybeans in the 48 to 55 bushel range. Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture raised its already record average yield estimates for this year’s Illinois crops to 202 bushels per acre for corn (up two) and 62 for beans, up one.

 

Source: The Kankakee Valley Daily Journal


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