Not everybody would care to drive a tractor across a cornfield with a 30% grade. Some might even say, "You'd have to be crazy to farm these slopes!" says Joe Bragger, a dairy farmer from Independence, Wis. Bragger and his family raise crops and livestock on the steep hills and narrow, stream-laced valleys of west-central Wisconsin's Driftless Region. His immigrant parents started a dairy farm here in the 1960s, drawn to a landscape that reminded them of their Swiss homeland.
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