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North 40 Ag: Producing cover crops for healthier soils

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BALLANTINE — On her husband’s farm 25 miles east of downtown Billings, Kate Vogel is standing amid green blades of annual ryegrass on what would normally be bare soil between silage stalks. She is holding a forage collard plant, its tangled roots clinging to a big mass of black dirt. The collard was part of a cover crop her husband, Marc Vogel, planted last fall, after harvesting a crop of silage corn. (more…) Continue Reading →

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In Ballantine, ‘We’re the church that feeds the children’

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BALLANTINE — It was a jar of pickles that convinced Doug Oltrogge that something needed to be done. Late last July, grant funding for a summer-lunch program served at the Ballantine Congregational United Church of Christ ran out three weeks before the start of the new school year. (more…) Continue Reading →

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