If you’re looking for Terry Eutzy II, he’s probably out farming.
“They say farming is a job where you check in at five-years-old and never check out,” Eutzy said.
He has always supported the industry, whether that means helping farmers a couple miles up the road or more than 1,000 miles away.
“Those people lost everything,” Eutzy said. “Their homes, their animals, their buildings, their crops, and their land.”
Widespread destruction in the Midwest from last month’s historic flooding has the farming community in desperate need of supplies.
In Nebraska alone, it’s estimated that farmers will lose nearly a billion dollars worth of crops and livestock. This is why farmers in Huntingdon County are stepping up to help communities recover from the devastation.
“So I just posted on Facebook if anyone wants to get together and take some hay and supplies up to these people,” Eutzy said.
Tim Corbin was one of the first people to step up.
He owns a trucking company and without hesitation he loaded one of his tractor trailers with 40 bales of hay and drove more than 20 hours to a small town in Nebraska.
“They were really grateful for us bringing it into them because they hadn’t had any hay in the last week and a half,” Corbin explained. “One of the ladies told me she paid $140 for a round bale to keep her horses going.”
The outreach continues.
Local farmers donated enough bales of hay to fill a total of four trucks, which will be taken to farmers in need over the next couple of weeks.
“One of my dreams was to go see the Midwest,” Eutzy said. “I wanted to do my part to help save it so someday there is something there that I can go see.”
Money is being raised to help pay for fuel expenses to get the trucks to Nebraska. Anything left over will be given to the Nebraska Farm Bureau.
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