Early the next morning more than 15 farmers arrived at Voytas's fields with their tools and trucks.They came without anyone asking them to."this is a small community,"Keith explained. "hard to say how the news gets around.it just does."There was so many that
Keith had to refuse some of their help.
The neighbors harvested the corn and soybeans and planted wheat.They worked into
darkness and were back at 6 a.m. After five days the jobs was done.
This is a farming thing,the workers said. Thereis a sense of community when everybody is dependent upon the weather ans the soil. But it was more than that ."Bernie is always the first to help others,"Keith said,"He lends his equipment to others .He does things for people that he doesn't have to do .It's why we had to turn people away."
Voytas has resumed farming--with the continued help of his friends.