Thought Question: What’s one of the most meaningful ways someone has shown love or appreciation in your life? If Sarah Blassi of Pratt, Kansas, needed a sign that her husband Jesse loved her, she just got a big one. Without Sarah's knowledge, Jesse, a wheat farmer, had been hard at work coming up with a way to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary this month. His scheming actually began in the fall of 2024. That's when he used a computer program to plan how he’d plant his wheat crops this spring. Normally, the job is pretty straightforward. Farmers just need to plant neat rows of white wheat, then harvest them come fall. But Jesse’s plan this year involved two distinct colors and three types of the crop. “There’s actually two different varieties of the white color, it’s a blend of two and like I said, this is just a red chaff wheat,” Jesse told Fox 22 KQFX News. Mixing the two types of wheat with precision required a special technique. It's called multi-varietal prescription planting. Jesse carefully mapped and planted more than 320 million wheat seeds over a mile of his farm. Sure enough, when summer arrived, Jesse’s plan worked. The three types of wheat spell out a massive message: “Jesse + Sarah 20 Years.” Last week, Jesse took Sarah up in a small aircraft to view the message. The gesture had her beaming but speechless. Later, on the ground, Sarah was able to put into words what the effort meant to her. “Farmers are more apt to do, like, acts of service to show their love. Just him doing something like this shows — it’s just extra,” she told KQFX, “it’s just a little bit extra!” Gif of wheat field from GIPHY.
