Hay in short supply

David Matejcek is afraid he’ll have to buy hay this fall to feed his 110 head of cattle. Even after taking about 300 acres of land out of the federal Conservation Reserve Program when the contract expired, the farmer from the western Walsh County town of Lawton, N.D., doesn’t think he’ll have enough of a hay crop to feed his herd.

By: Kevin Bonham, Grand Forks Herald