Photos: Farmers scramble to buy feed for cattle
A cow eats its feed at Durst Brothers Dairy farm in Mantorville Thursday, May 30, 2013. The farm grows its own feed for its 3,000 heads of livestock. However, the farm has replanted its alfalfa crop after losing about 900 acres to the weather. To compound matters, the delayed spring and soggy weather has prevented the farm from planting the remainder of its crop.
Photo by Alex Kolyer for MPR
Farmers in the upper Midwest are scrambling to buy feed from Colorado, South Dakota and other states. They're also stretching what they have now while they plant more seed. But even that's proving to be a challenge.
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