Quantcast
breaking news

Local Farmers Harvest for Neighbor in Need

By: Danielle Todesco
Updated: November 17, 2009
watch video

Several local farmers got together Monday to help out a neighbor in need. 

Allen Barrett was run over by his tractor a few weeks ago and is still recovering with a leg infection.  So Monday, farmers from as far away as Edinburgh came out to harvest Barrett's 800 acres of cotton.  18 cotton strippers, $5-million dollars worth of equipment, and donated diesel fuel meant they could finish the job in just one day.  Those farmers tell us, they didn't think twice about helping Barrett.

"It's just something that we do down here.  We just all got together, Brad Williams made a few phone calls and we just got together and we decided we was going to do this and we're going to do it today." 

Comments

Readers Feel...

hello
Related Content

The organizers behind a petition to recall Councilman Victor Hernandez submitted 586 signatures to the Lubbock City Secretary on Friday....

As crews put on their work boots and begin the clean up after the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, a group of local students are putting on mustaches to help raise money....

The cracks of lightening and rumble of thurnder was mixed with the sound of power tools and power linemen shooting at one another along Telephone Road on Tuesday as crews began basic cleanup in...

REDWOOD CITY -- A Peninsula basketball star was arrested on a murder charge earlier this month and extradited to Georgia, authorities said....

A Minnesota contractor who was gutting a dilapidated home he'd bought to renovate got more than he bargained for when he opened up the walls: He came across a 1938 comic book featuring a new...

Upcoming Events for Lubbock Public Libraries....

Texas shoppers can get a tax break this Memorial Day holiday weekend when buying certain power-saving appliances....

An industry group says insured damage from last week's deadly tornadoes in North Texas could reach $250 million....

For the first time, he talks about Midland parade deaths....

For many people Memorial Day weekend means finally getting to kick off summer by striking up the barbecue, taking a dip in the ocean or simply basking in the sunshine during a long weekend....

 
 
 
 
 
©1998 - 2013 Everythinglubbock.com
Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.
All Rights Reserved