Farmers and ranchers are accustomed to occasional drought. They try to hang on until the rains return.
Used tractor tires hold an alfalfa and silage mix that when moved around the field results in the manure being spread by the cattle themselves.
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The cover crop that the Andersons planted after corn harvest last fall.
Justin Anderson shows a handful of the alfalfa and silage mix placed in the used tractor tire feeders.
Forrest Peterson is the former editor of the West Central Tribune and a former public information officer for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. He is also the author of four novels, is working on a fifth, and posts a weekly column on Substack.
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