COOK, Neb. (KOLN) - On a farm near the village of Cook, 19-year-old Nolan Wellensiek raises Pacific White-Legged Shrimp - a type of livestock that’s hard to come by in a triply landlocked state.

“So this vein is their large intestine,” Wellensiek said, gesturing to the dark-colored line along the shrimp’s back. “So when I come in here to feed them, I pull some (shrimp) out. And if there’s a break in that vein, that means at a period in time, they were not eating, which means something’s wrong.”

Before Wellensiek’s shrimp ends up on your plate, he monitors the oxygen, temperature and other factors in the ecosystem he’s rigged up in a swimming pool.

“The more oxygen they have in there, the better they are going to do, and the faster they are going to grow,” Wellensiek said.

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