Farming on the Mother Road - 5

Oklahoma Rebounding, But Still in Drought

Chris Clayton
By  Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor
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Aaron Base is a fourth-generation farmer whose family settled near Geary in west-central Oklahoma in the early 1900s. Base mainly raises wheat, cattle and hay, but he also grows winter canola and some sorghum. (DTN photo by Chris Clayton)
Aaron Base is a fourth-generation farmer whose family settled near Geary in west-central Oklahoma in the early 1900s. Base mainly raises wheat, cattle and hay, but he also grows winter canola and some sorghum. (DTN photo by Chris Clayton)
Chris Clayton has been continuing his trip looking at the state of agriculture along historic Route 66, dubbed "The Mother Road" by novelist John Steinbeck. In his fifth installment, Clayton examines how modern-day Oklahoma farmers still battle droughts that once...

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Chris Clayton

Chris Clayton
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