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Cotton pickers from Texas and sodbusters from Oklahoma.

That it contains the grave or graves of a person or persons who were homesteaders, immigrants, prairie farmers, pioneers, sodbusters, first-generation Nebraskans or Civil War veterans.

It was industrialization that moved farming from the horse and plow to gasoline-powered tractors and combines, enabling sodbusters to turn more soil with less effort.

In North Dakota, where farmers were tearing out grasslands to plant corn for ethanol production, the law contains “sodbuster” provisions withholding insurance benefits from those who rip up lands the government wants to conserve.

Think of the plot of “Shane,” in which the ranchers do battle with the “sodbusters.”