Michael Peters stands in a hay field at his farm in Okarche. By mid-July, the wheat should be up to Peters’ chest. Instead it’s only knee-high at best and the field is dotted with barren patches where nothing sprouted. Peters said this wheat will never be harvested. DYLAN GOFORTH/The Frontier
By Garrett Yalch readfrontier.org Michael Peters is crouched in the red Okarche dirt in what should have been an abounding, chest-high field of hay. But…