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Moisture and Michigan Crops Struggle With Wet Spring
The article discusses how water abundance or scarcity drives farming outcomes from watercress to redwoods, focusing on Michigan where a wet spring threatened a $50 million navy bean harvest. It notes moisture lowers bean value when discoloration occurs and a broker fraudulently whitened beans with oyster-shell lime, while lakes and mist complicate farming and Daylight Saving Time further disrupts field work.
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Alert State Department of Agriculture Labs
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