Kevin Pelko has grown accustomed to watching the cottontail rabbits run from his hulking green combine during harvest season.

On a recent cool and sunny October day on Pelko's Franklin Township farm, rabbits darted through narrow corridors between rows of soybeans as the machine crawled along behind them, reaping and threshing the crops. Only once the animals burst out from the crop cover do they seem to panic, running zigzag across the open field to throw off any looming threats.

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