"Rye? Who would be growing rye in Iowa?" Gil Maier asked. "It's more common than you might think," replied Caitlyn Swenson, the new merchandiser at Northern Star Farmers Cooperative, known to everyone in the office and around town as Kate. "It makesa real good cover crop. You plant it in the fall and plow it down in the spring as a green fertilizer. A lot of the organic guys like it."
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