By RYAN CROSSINGHAM
Farm & Ranch Guide
MANDAN, N.D. – Leann Schafer, a partner on a farming operation west of New Rockford, N.D., has been selected as Farm & Ranch Guide's Country Woman of the Year 2016.
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