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July rains help oats head out, complicate haying plans

Janelle Atyeo
Jul 31, 2023
Jul 31, 2023

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Oats on the Burggraff farm benefited from July rains. They will be swathed in the next couple weeks.

Submitted photo by Blake Burggraff

A new portable chicken coop is helping protect birds from predators and rotate pasture areas.

Submitted photo by Blake Burggraff

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Janelle Atyeo

Crop Watcher Blake Burggraff’s third cutting of alfalfa was rained on by a pop-up thunderstorm that brought over an inch of rain to some areas near Hartford, South Dakota. Burggraff’s farm had only 0.11 of an inch. Thankfully it came the day after cutting, so the quality shouldn’t be impacted as much as a late rain.

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Blake and Sarah Burggraff raise small grains, hemp and other crops using regenerative methods near Hartford, South Dakota.

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