MPR documentary: 'Blessings of the Fields'
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An MPR documentary by Mark Heistad explores old-fashioned farming with horses, and how machinery and technology have remade American farms and transformed rural society itself.
Heistad, former MPR host and documentarian, produced "Blessings of the Fields" in 1985. He now teaches journalism at Morningside College in Iowa.
Farmer Clarence Nordstrom of Pine City died in 2001 at the age of 86.
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