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MORNING Midwest Digest, Oct. 1, 2019

Max Armstrong talks about the opioid crisis, grain stocks, harvest completion rates and angry farmers in Holland.

The opioid crisis continues as there were 10 drug overdoses in Franklin County, Ohio, in 26 hours. 

There's not as much grain in bins as the government statisticians thought. So the yield this yera matters more now.

Only a little over 10% of the overall corn crop has been harvested so far, compared to three-quarters of the crop on average.

In Holland, thousands of farm tractors jammed roads in protest by suggestions to cut back animal agriculture.

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