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North Dakota Credits:
Producer/Editor – Matt Clement
Camera Ops – Bill Bowles and Matt Gulley
Production Notes:
If you ever wanted to know where to find the middle of nowhere, just head north and you will stumble upon Finley, ND… the “F” in B.F.E.
I arrived the first week of October to 40mph gusts and temps dropping below freezing. By the time I awoke for our 6:00 A.M. call time the ground had collected 5 inches of snow. The north wasted no time in welcoming this southern boy to all it’s glory. At first I was thinking I drew the short straw for this assignment, but North Dakota was handing me a great story and I couldn’t wait to tell it.
Cameraman, Bill Bowles had already planted boots on the ground a few days before I arrived to capture the frenzy of the harvest season. Bergstrom Ranch knew this weather system was zeroing in on Finley and frantically tried to pull as much corn out of the ground before mother nature could do her deed.
With corn at record high prices, the Bergstrom family couldn’t afford to miss out on a potential record-breaking crop.
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