BY JANE FYKSEN, CROPS EDITOR
Lance Meier juggles his own crops, custom work, beef cattle and a feed and pulp wood trucking business. This cropping season, this 39-year-old Ogema farmer will also be serving as one of five “From the Fields” producer/reporters, sharing what’s happening on his farm and area of the state in Agri-View every other week.
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