BUCKLEY, Ill. — Corn and soybean farming in eastern Illinois initially brought Todd Shively and Bill Watts together as friends. Later, an entirely different experience in Texas made their friendship even stronger.
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Todd Shively of Buckley and Bill Watts of Rankin look over Watts’ Iroquois County farm in advance of spring planting. The connection between the two eastern Illinois farmers has become stronger in the last couple years as they fight the common enemy of cancer.
- IFT photo by Phyllis Coulter
This photo was taken Aug. 25, 2016, the day Bill Watts had surgery in Texas. At home in Illinois, his friends gathered to plan help for his fall harvest. He was able to do his harvest, and is ready to do his own spring work this year.
- IFT photo by Phyllis Coulter





