(Union County, Iowa) – Dozens of Iowa farmers came together in Union County to harvest 550 acres in a single day. It happened just one week after Paul Baker of Creston unexpectedly died at the age of 66. KCCI reports five fields at the Baker farm needed work, and Baker’s friends readily accepted the challenge. They used 18 combines, 40 tractor-trailers, and 20 grain carts to get the job done by noon.

Baker’s daughters were touched but say they aren’t surprised, because they said, parents want to set good examples for their children and future generations. A local business provided sack lunches for the farmers. Students from the Saint Malachy School in Creston decorated the lunch sacks and wrote every farmer a thank you note.

There have been other reported gatherings of farmers and their equipment in Iowa and across the Midwest, who rose to the occasion and helped another farmer in need, even while their own crops still need to be harvested.