A glimpse of the farmers, their equipment, the landscape, bovines, buildings and tools and a few thoughts from the outsider with a camera.

30th August 2011

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Weather

Irene came inland and wreaked havoc on farmers. Thousands of acres of cropland was affected, entire barns and herds in some cases washed downstream. Washed-out roads made farms inaccessible to milk trucks forcing farmers to dump milk. The effects will affect for a long time. The farmers live hand-in-hand with nature every minute through every season; they are often at the source of the enormous impact these storms produce.

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