Hey, this is Stephen Jackson, one of the curious city producers.

We're back with another episode of Life Interrupted.

Audio snapshots of daily life under Illinois's stay-at-home order.

Today, we meet Kate Huffman, a sixth-generation farmer weathering the pandemic in Kiwani, Illinois.

My parents built a house on the home farm,

and that's the farmhouse I actually grew up in.

I now live across the street in the house my dad grew up in,

in my grandparents' house.

My dad worked full-time on the farm side-by-side with his dad.

The legacy is a really big part of who I am and the character behind me. I can remember all the way back.

My grandfather was out doing some tillage, and I ran over to what was the big tractor at that time of John Deere

4230 and I jumped up in there and I sat on the window sill next to him and just going down the

field together. One of my favorite things about the farm is as as funny as it sounds, is just the smell of the fresh-turned dirt.

It just evokes hard work, knowing how many people before me as a sixth-generation farmer have done exactly what I'm doing today, maybe in just a little different manner.

Farming isn't just a job. You can't clock in and clock out.

It's really a livelihood, you know, it gets ingrained into your blood and system.

It's definitely a hard time.

We're going on six years of a downturn economy for the ag industry.

Last year, 2019, Mother Nature wreaked havoc across the entire countryside.

We had this trade war going on.

Now we have an oil war going on.

The demand is declining quickly for a crop

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