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US Farmers Dial Crop Adjusters as Wild Weather Hammers Wheat
May 19th, 2026 • 5 min • View Source
From drought to ping-pong size hail and unseasonable warmth, weather extremes have wheat farmers reaching for their phones to ring their insurance adjusters to assess the viability of their crops. Oklahoma farmer Dennis Schoenhals made the call a few weeks …
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