China's Cow Town

Farmer loads feed, Inner Mongolia
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Inflation
Farmer He Erwen was a crop farmer before the big dairies came to town, offering a higher price for milk than he could earn from corn. Now, with global grain prices rising, it's becoming expensive to feed his small herd.

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