Jump-starting the growing season
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June 1, 2015

Jump-starting the growing season

On an unusually hot spring afternoon, Brent Barnhart was working on a reducing the size of a corn planter so it would be more suitable for his needs. Barnhart is a young farmer who started farming in 2007, but is already seeing some

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