Madeline Heim
Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk
SINSINAWA, Wis. 鈥 Rick Bieber reached into the soil, pulled out a handful and took a sniff. Around him stretched fields of green 鈥 an unusual sight for late October in Wisconsin, when harvest is ending and farmers are preparing for winter. Oat and barley grasses, sunflowers, purple-top turnip and radish plants blew under a gentle breeze. In the soil in his palm, an earthworm wriggled.
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Madeline Heim is with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. This story is a product of the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, an independent reporting network based at the University of Missouri in partnership with Report for America, with major funding from the Walton Family Foundation.
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