Category: News
The Cow in the Trough The call came just after dawn — a dairy farmer on the north road, his voice thin with worry. One of his cows hadn’t come in with the herd after the storm. He’d searched the fields in the dark with a flashlight and found her, he said, “in the old trough, and she can’t get out, and I think she’s giving up.”
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he Goat on the Tin Roof The rain had been falling for nine hours when the call came in — a farm on the edge of the district, water rising past the fences, livestock unaccounted for. I ride with the flood response team, and by the time our boat turned into the farm lane, the rain was still coming down in sheets, hammering the water into white foam. There were three of us in the boat
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