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Ron Kibble, owner of Mankato Implement, has used surveillance cameras to deter crime at his business for several years. Now some Blue Earth County farmers are considering using the same technology to protect barns, outbuildings and expensive equipment in the field.
John Cross

A grain cart from Bob Nienow’s property near Mapleton tipped its load into a drainage ditch last fall after vandals took the tractor it was hooked to for a joy ride.
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Five months later, Travis Roelofs is still doing repair work on farm equipment damaged during a rash of vandalism last fall. Blue Earth County farmers are looking for ways to fight crime in rural areas.
John Cross

Travis Roelofs (left) and Chris Hoffmann were kept busy last fall traveling to area farms to fix farm equipment that had been damaged by vandals.
John Cross