Third-generation farmer Byron Richard seems to always find himself in the center of big changes in his tiny community.
The rolling prairie hills near his Belfield, N.D., home were once dominated by wheat and fallow fields edged by pastures with grazing livestock. Grain trucks at harvest were about the only time one could complain about traffic.
But today, the once farming-dominated community is now buzzing with activity as it rests inside the headline-making Bakken oil…