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Winter weather taking toll on Minnesota farmers
Mar 11, 2019, 12:23 PM
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More than 30 livestock buildings in Minnesota have been
damaged or destroyed by snow in recent weeks.
Minnesota Milk executive director Lucas Sjostrum tells Brownfield the state has verified 35 individual farms have been affected by some sort of roof collapse this winter.
“I think 33 of them are dairy barns, or free-stall barns of some sort. There’s a couple other calf barns and one holding pen that (also) went down.”
He says five of those collapses happened in the past 48 hours, but the majority occurred following a snowstorm two weeks ago.
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