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Gusty last evening, it rained steady until midnight. Showers & T-storms possible today.
What a year!! Grass belly-high, prices sky-high. My Dad said you only get a year like this once in a lifetime. So after a great grass season when cattle prices nearly doubled in 1978, after the disastrous 1976-’77 drought, he got out of the cattle business noting that he’d had two. His first was in 1951.
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