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It's harvest time in the heartland, but not just for apples and squash. In small, back-lot ponds on farms across the Midwest, a different crop has been growing all summer. They're substantial, ...

Throwing a casting net is very different from growing cotton to Tom Hollowell. It's his first year at freshwater shrimp farming. "I'm very nervous," Hollowell said. Hollowell built a two-acre pond and ...