"Without it [irrigation], well like this year, you'd have nothing [no crops because of a dry year]. With it, even if it rains, it still pays for itself because you know it's going to rain. The knowledge that you can plant heavy, fertilize heavy – because you will have the water if you need it – is worth a lot."
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Jim Chenault was born in California. But his mother had grown up around York, Nebraska, and Jim always felt a tie to his rural roots. During World War II, Jim enlisted in the Army Air Corps and flew 32 dangerous bomber missions over Germany in 2½ months. After the war, he returned to York and became a civilian flight instructor and crop duster. Then, he went back in the Air Force in time to fly hundreds of missions in the Berlin Air Lift. Jim then went into farming back in Nebraska and still manages his farm.
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