She Traded Her Wedding Ring for a Broken Combine…It Changed Her Farm Forever

In 1977, newly divorced Diane Mercer shocks a Nebraska farm auction by buying a “dead” Massey Ferguson combine for $100, paying with her wedding ring. The town thinks she’s desperate, but Diane knows her late father’s journals reveal the engine’s failure may be fixable. Alone and buried in debt, she spends months rebuilding the machine while everyone expects her farm to collapse. Instead, the combine runs, the harvest succeeds, and Diane slowly saves the family land. When the 1980s farm crisis wipes out heavily indebted farmers, her old paid-off equipment and careful way of farming become her survival. What others mocked as foolishness becomes the reason she endures.

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