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Walt Bones: “Farmers are very independent. Sometimes things get in our head and we don’t know how to fix it. And that creates a whole other stress.”
As a health professional who also farms, Karl Oehlke knows firsthand the ups and downs of farming. “You know, this is a hell of a lot of work for not a lot of income.”
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