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The Daily Reporter As farmers worked in their fields early this spring, plumes of dust rose from behind their equipment. It looked like the dust bowl for good reasons. Eric Anderson, field crop educator with MSU Extension, said this area of the state was rated a D2 drought severe drought. It started when then snow falls were below average during the winter. But at least they could to get crops in the field, said Bob Mayer of Mayer s Great Lakes Glads, Bronson. This season, Mayer’s planted roughly 550 acres of corn, 900 acres of soybeans and 300 acres of flowers. Typically, they plant nearly 1,000 acres of gladiolus, but due to pandemic-related challenges they changed things up this season. ....