SHERACK, Minn. (WDAY) - 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.

It was just in July that Mark Holy was diagnosed with ALS, and it has progressed quickly. Time is short, and while it has robbed so much, the disease hasn’t taken away his grateful spirit.

“I just want to say thank you to everybody… who is helping my

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