Eastern Iowa Farmer Spring 2021
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mother nature<br />
In that phone call<br />
Leah’s words<br />
echoed catastrophe,<br />
disaster, and<br />
heartbreak as she<br />
frantically told her<br />
dad, “You won’t<br />
recognize the<br />
place!”<br />
— Leah Crock<br />
Lee headed to town to attend<br />
a few meetings, including<br />
a stop at the local FS office<br />
and the bank, while his wife,<br />
Lori, and oldest son, Luke,<br />
headed to Mt. Vernon. Their<br />
three other children – Lindsay,<br />
Leah, and Logan – stayed<br />
home.<br />
Lee was excited about his<br />
corn crop and felt strongly<br />
about the potential yields he<br />
was going to harvest in the<br />
fall. But, as he sat in his truck<br />
waiting to go into the bank<br />
and tell them his good news,<br />
he noticed the wind picking<br />
up and a tree going down on a<br />
truck nearby.<br />
Within 20 minutes he<br />
received a phone call from his<br />
daughter that will be forever<br />
etched in his mind; one that<br />
will forever change his life,<br />
the landscape of their operation,<br />
and the future of Crock<br />
Farms.<br />
<strong>Eastern</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong> <strong>Farmer</strong> photo / ashley Johnson<br />
Lori Crock adds lumber to the pile of junk collected as they combined<br />
the field last fall.<br />
In that phone call Leah’s<br />
words echoed catastrophe,<br />
disaster, and heartbreak as she<br />
frantically told her dad, “You<br />
won’t recognize the place!”<br />
After arriving home, a trek<br />
made challenging by downed<br />
trees and power lines, Lee<br />
recalled he immediately<br />
thought it looked like a “hurricane<br />
went through.”<br />
Turns out he wasn’t wrong.<br />
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