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Kurt Nelson looks at an irrigation rig he blamed for causing his well to go dry in the fall of 2012 about 20 miles from Glenwood in western Minnesota in an undated photo. As irrigation booms in Minnesota, hundreds of farmers appear to be pumping groundwater for their crops without the required state permits. (AP Photo/Minnesota Public Radio, Mark Steil)