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Through a historic drought, Virginia cattle farmers fight to keep herds fed and farms alive

Over the last 12 months, Virginia has experienced one of its worst droughts in decades — perhaps longer. Across the state, wells dried up, reservoirs sank worrisomely low and fields turned dusty brown.

This is the story of how Virginia's cattle farmers fought to keep their herds fed and their farms afloat through a drought that still hasn't ended in parts of the state. And as climate change threatens to make drought an increasingly familiar part of Virginia's seasons, it's a story about what it might take to weather the next one.

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