On a sunny, cold autumn day, Chris Martin drove the combine on the family farm with the biggest smile on his face. The monitor showed 302 bushels per acre. The smile wasn’t just because of the “best yield ever” on his Logan County farm, but because Martin was combining at all. When this cornfield was planted, he was lying unconscious in a hospital bed with a brain injury after a serious car accident. While Martin calls it “unbelievable” to be harvesting his family’s best yields yet, his father calls it “a miracle.”
