More Than 100 Farmers Step Up to Harvest Fields for Father Diagnosed With ALS

WDAY via CNN Newsource : Sep 30, 2025
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(Sherack, MN) — [WDAY / KBTX] A Minnesota farming community joined together to help one of their own struggling with an ALS diagnosis to harvest more than 400 acres of sugar beet fields. More than 100 farmers from all across Polk County paused their own harvests Wednesday to help Mark Holy, a farmer who received a diagnosis this summer of ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. The Holy family watched as their helpers made quick work of more than 400 acres of beets. "It is bittersweet. I wish I could do it, but God has a plan," Mark Holy said. "I just want to say thank you to everybody... who is helping my family at a time when we are hurting," he said... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Click Here to read and watch the video report. (Screengrab image: via WDAY-CNN /KBTX)