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The article reports on the move of the farmer couple Donnie and Tammy Lawson in providing opportunity to their children Clayton and Kay Leigh to return to Prairie Creek Cattle Co. in Thorntown, Indiana. Donnie says that she wants to produce opportunities to her kids, but not force them to return to the farm. It notes that Kay and Clayton have not made any decision yet.

The article focuses on the regulatory issues confronting the cover crops practice. It mentions one area of possible concern over cover crops, which is in acreage and the planting date that is being reported to the U.S. Farm Service Agency (FSA). It says that challenges for the growers of cover crops in Indiana are being presented by the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program. It adds that the Plant Variety Protection Act (PVP) may even restrict seed's sale and production from cover crops.