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Farmers find multi-use Phoenix Harrow makes nice seedbed

By ANDREA JOHNSON, Assistant Editor
Dec 26, 2002
Dec 26, 2002

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Some Fargo-area farmers are discovering that a tool originally developed for Australia's semi-arid farming conditions also works well here.

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