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Chris Hardie For Agri-View
Jul 12, 2021
Jul 12, 2021

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A branch drop is a near miss for Hardie buildings; there are just a few scrapes on the storage shed.

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One branch is almost sheared off the tree.

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Two large branches actually fall off the tree.

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Two large branches lie where they came down near a storage building on Chris Hardie’s farm.

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Chris Hardie For Agri-View

It was a peaceful Sunday afternoon on the farm the day after a much-needed late-June rain. Suddenly the sleepy midday was shattered by two loud bangs.

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Chris Hardie and his wife, Sherry, raise animals and crops on his great-grandparents’ Jackson County farm. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2001, he’s a former member of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council and past-president of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association. Email chardie1963@gmail.com with comments.