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Combining for a cause Seven farmers bring in harvest for ailing friend day. Shippert grows corn and soybeans on his sixth-generation family farm at U.S. Route 30 and Pump Factory Road. Each farmer drove a combine; the harvest took about 6 hours to complete. “Everyone came to help, so he can focus on getting better and getting healthy,” Pratt said. “This is one less thing he has to deal with.” Mike Book, 28, who went to Amboy High School with Brad, said harvesting 240 acres would have been “an enormous task” for one farmer. Erin continues to receive
BY JERMAINE PIGEE
DIXON – It’s the way of the Midwest. Seven farmers combined this weekend to harvest more than 200 acres of corn owned by Brad Shippert, 30, hospitalized with meningitis. Shippert’s wife, Erin, 31, was diagnosed last year with pancreatic cancer that has metastasized to her liver. They have a 2-year-old daughter, Reagan. “The farming community will come together to help each other out,” said Peter Pratt, 35, of Dixon, one of the farmers who donated his time Satur-
treatment in Galesburg, and Brad is recovering at KSB Hospital in Dixon, although he’ll need to be on an IV for 4 to 6 weeks, Book said, adding “he is still in good spirits.” This is not the first time the farming community has rallied around the Shipperts. In June 2013, a Alex T. Paschal group of farmers remod- Mike Book of rural Amboy is one of seven farmers who harvested 240 acres for eled the Shipperts’ patio into a sunroom for Erin. They replaced exterior light fixtures, planted flowers, stocked the freezer, cleaned the house and did laundry. “People just wanted to come together and help each other out,” Pratt said.
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