Ticks bite him several times a week from May through November. Some days, he’s removed as many as 60 from each of his two working dogs. “It’s brutal out here,” he said. “You talk to other farmers, and they don’t talk about the weather anymore. They talk about how bad the ticks are that day.” […]

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