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The Easterdays drew a lot of water in southeast Washington. Cody Easterday was a titan of agriculture who provided Tyson food with two percent of its beef. But a series of bad investments and commodities speculation put the rancher in a desperate financial position. \n\nEasterday engineered a quarter-billion dollar hoax: tricking Tyson into paying for the upkeep of cattle that only existed on paper. When the hoax was discovered it disrupted the food supply and threatened the farming empire the community depended on.\n\nKUOW Puget Sound Public Radio and Northwest Public Broadcasting present \u201cGhost Herd.\u201d Host Anna King plows into the livestock swindle, as well as shines a light on the precarious nature of farming and the food supply in modern America