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Voss kids show off animals as hay barley/peas seeded at farm

By SUE ROESLER The Prairie Star
May 24, 2018
May 24, 2018 Updated Jun 8, 2018

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The Voss family in front of grain bins on the farm south of Circle Mont.: (from left to right) Luke, Rhonda, Briel, Kurt and Brent.

Kurt scouts his pea fields as the new seedlings come up in the nice stubble.

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By SUE ROESLER The Prairie Star

CIRCLE, Mont. – Calving was finished and seeding was progressing when we visited the Voss farm/ranch on Saturday, May 12.

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