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Working with a local crop-dusting service, a young parishioner, 70 other parishioners and their pastor, Father Matthew Barzare, coordinated to have holy water sprayed Dec. 21 over the unincorporated community and nearby farms about 30 miles southeast of Lafayette, Louisiana.

Many family farmers in the United States are facing the worst combination of events since the “farm crisis” of the mid-1980s.