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Article: Drought turns into harvest of hardship for Sooner farmers
- Article from:
- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- June 19, 1996
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Journal Record. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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BEAVER -- C.J. Rose squints beneath his sweat-stained cap and
scans the sun-scorched wheat fields that support his family. What he
sees scares him.
Dead tired and coated with dust, the lanky farmer-rancher has
little to show for months of plowing and planting but a stretch of
shriveled stalks of wheat embedded in crusty, parched earth.
"It's been like the dream you always had has come to an end in a
cloud of dust," Rose says, his voice husky, his shoulders slumped in
dejection. "What people don't understand is I can work all year as
hard as I can and I'm not going to get paid for it."
Harvest has come to the Great Plains and fears of failure -- or
even total collapse -- loom for thousands ...
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