Ohio Farmers Use Old-Fashioned Methods to Turn Degraded Land into Green Pasture

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By Yale Climate ConnectionsNov 8, 2019, 2:47 pm253 pts
Twenty years ago, Shawn and Beth Dougherty had trouble finding land to farm, so they bought a plot that was designated by the state of Ohio as unsuitable for agriculture. "And we just had to set about disproving that," Beth Dougherty says. None The land was overgrown but too steep for a tractor, so the couple…

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