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Commentary: Independence Day bills and hilltop memories 

By Janet Adkison, Director, Public Affairs, Missouri Farm Bureau
Posted 7/6/24

During July in the Ozarks, you’ll see a few combines rolling through the hills and valleys of cattle country. Farmers are harvesting fescue seed that will eventually seed someone's yard or hayfield. The small combines, Gleaners and an old pull behind Allis-Chalmers in our case, were once a beast in their own right, but they pale compared to the size and power of new harvest equipment. When these old machines were "put out to pasture," they found a second life harvesting fescue. 

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