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  • Grain bins and hay stacks at Joel Salatin's farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. (Joel Salatin is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Farmer Joel Salatin goes about the day's chores at his farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. (Joel Salatin is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • After moving the portable henhouses to a fresh pasture with his tractor at dawn, Virginia farmer Joel Salatin heads back to the barns to help rotate cattle from one pasture to another. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a day in the month of October was 3,900 kcals. He is 50; 5 feet 11 inches and 198 pounds. Much of his daily fare is from his own farm, including applesauce and apple cider canned by his wife, Teresa, who fills the basement larder with the bounty of their farm each year.
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  • A farmer prepares rice fields for planting in  Ha Tay Province, outside Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • A farmer prepares rice fields for planting in  Ha Tay Province, outside Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • A farmer prepares rice fields for planting in  Ha Tay Province, outside Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • Grain Farmer Gordon Stine (far left) and his brother harvest corn with his John Deere eight-row combine on leased land in St. Elmo, Illinois.   (Gordon Stine is featured in the book What I Eat; Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A grain cart driven by Illinois farmer Gordon Stine's brother Stanton, offloads corn into one of their 10-wheel trucks, which will transport it back to their silos for drying and storage. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Gordon Stine harvests corn with his John Deere eight-row combine on leased land. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of September was 4,100 kcals. He is 56; 5 feet nine inches tall,  and 245 pounds.
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  • Neighbors of widowed farmer Lan Guihua make soymilk with a hand-powered stone mill at their home in Ganjiagou Village,  Sichuan Province, China. (Lan Guihua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets).
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  • Farm across the road from Ralph Rohrer's turkey farm on Dry Creek Road, Dayton, Virginia
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  • Farm across the road from Ralph Rohrer's turkey farm on Dry Creek Road, Dayton, Virginia
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  • Aerial of John Harris flying his Cessna over his fields where workers are harvesting lettuce at Harris Farms in San Joaquin Valley, California. Two large trucks pull conveyors with farm workers sitting low to the ground, enabling them to cut the lettuce as workers on the trucks pack it in crates as they move through the fields, harvesting 16 rows at a time. USA.
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  • Aerial of harvesting lettuce at Harris Farms in San Joaquin Valley, California. Two large trucks pull conveyors with farm workers sitting low to the ground, enabling them to cut the lettuce as workers on the trucks pack it in crates as they move through the fields, harvesting 16 rows at a time. USA.
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  • Aerial of harvesting lettuce at Harris Farms in San Joaquin Valley, California. Two large trucks pull conveyors with farm workers sitting low to the ground, enabling them to cut the lettuce as workers on the trucks pack it in crates as they move through the fields, harvesting 16 rows at a time. USA.
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  • Farm across the road from Ralph Rohrer's turkey farm on Dry Creek Road, Dayton, Virginia
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  • Aerial of harvesting lettuce at Harris Farms in San Joaquin Valley, California. Two large trucks pull conveyors with farm workers sitting low to the ground, enabling them to cut the lettuce as workers on the trucks pack it in crates as they move through the fields, harvesting 16 rows at a time. USA.
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  • Butte City, California. Hussain family by his John Deere tracked tractor. Mr. Hussain, a rice farmer, is blind. He is accompanied by his farm manager, his wife and son and daughter. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Aerial photograph of harvesting lettuce at Harris Farms in San Joaquin Valley, California. Two large trucks pull conveyors with farm workers sitting low to the ground, enabling  them to cut the lettuce as workers on the trucks pack it in crates as they move through the fields, harvesting 16 rows at a time.
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  • Aerial photograph of harvesting lettuce at Harris Farms in San Joaquin Valley, California. Two large trucks pull conveyors with farm workers sitting low to the ground, enabling  them to cut the lettuce as workers on the trucks pack it in crates as they move through the fields, harvesting 16 rows at a time.
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  • Two large trucks pull conveyors with farm workers sitting low to the ground, enabling  them to cut the lettuce as workers on the trucks pack it in crates as they move through the fields, harvesting 16 rows at a time.
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  • Central Valley, California near Fresno. Aerial of a tractor pulling a disc to prepare a farm field for planting.
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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Reading fat layers by sonogram at the Dee Brothers hog farm, State Center, Iowa. USA.
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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Farrowing pens at the Dee Brothers hog farm, State Center, Iowa. USA.
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  • Aerial of a tractor cultivating rows of flowers in Lompoc, California.
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  • Napa Valley, California. Hand harvesting of red grapes that will be made into wine. The field boss watches over the pickers and keeps track of how many bins of grapes each worker picks, which is the basis of how much each worker is paid.
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  • Aerial view of a tractor cultivating rows of flowers in Lompoc, California.
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  • Napa Valley, California. Machine harvesting of chardonnay grapes at pre-dawn hours when it is cool. Trefethen Vineyards.
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  • Flowers: Lompoc, California.
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  • Rice: rice harvesting equipment in the field. Butte County, California, USA.
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  • Pistachios harvested by machine.  The harvester machine passes through the pistachio orchard and shakes each tree so that the ripe pistachios fall into an apron. A conveyor at the bottom brings them up to a loading bin after they pass through a blower to remove leaves and debris. Kern County, California. USA.
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  • Maddox Dairy in Riverdale, California.
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  • Tomatoes: Blackwelder tomato harvester, near Stockton, California, USA.
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  • Tomatoes: Blackwelder tomato harvester, near Stockton, California, USA.
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  • Tomatoes: Blackwelder tomato harvester, near Stockton, California, USA.
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  • Rice: rice harvest. Richvale, California, USA. 1980.
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  • Rice: aerial of 3 rice harvesters near Richvale, California, USA. 1980.
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  • Rice: aerial of 3 rice harvesters near Richvale, California, USA. 1980.
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  • Boxes of freshly harvested pistachios being loaded onto a truck-trailer prior to delivery to the production plant where they will be dried and packaged. Kern County, California. USA.
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  • Irrigation: Tenneco West, Rosedale Ranch, Kern County, California.  The agricultural fields are irrigated as the automatic pumping and sprinkling machine rolls through the field drawing water from the small canal below. USA.
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  • Sweet Pea Flowers: Lompoc, California.
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  • Aerial photograph of fields of flowers grown for seed in Lompoc, California. Today, some of the fields in Lompoc have been converted to wine grape production.
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  • Tobacco - cultivating tobacco with a mule near Charlotte, Tennessee. The farmer's broken down tractor is in the foreground. USA.
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  • Tomatoes: Blackwelder tomato harvester, near Stockton, California at dusk with moon. USA
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  • Rice: rice harvest. Richvale, California, USA. 1980.
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  • Rice: rice harvest. Richvale, California, USA. 1980.
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  • Maddox Dairy in Riverdale, California. Maddox Dairy is currently home to 3500 milking cows, calves, heifers and bulls. The dairy is a "birth to milking operation", with four, double-12, pregnant herringbone-milking parlors, free stall barns, calf raising barn and calving facilities. The dairy does their own embryo transfer work and markets their genetics worldwide. The Maddox Dairy was honored in 2001 with the Distinguished Dairy Cattle Breeder award for being a "Visionary Holstein Breeder", having bred more than 330 Gold Medal Dams, 502 Excellent cows, and their advancements in gene research for the Dairy industry. .
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