Greg Galbraith
For Agri-View
It was a mid-October day in central Wisconsin. A patchwork of fields reduced to stubble by harvesting machines were bordered by the reds and golds of autumn’s maples, basswoods and oaks. Other fields with dropped ears of corn and drying pods of soybeans awaited the knives of combines.
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