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  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA.  Laser leveled fields. Seeding by airplane.
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  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA. Laser leveled fields. Seeding by airplane.
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  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA.  Laser leveled fields. Seeding by airplane.
    USA_AG_CRPD_32_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA. Laser leveled fields. Seeding by airplane.
    USA_AG_CRPD_31_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA. Laser leveled fields. Seeding by airplane.
    USA_AG_CRPD_30_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA. Laser leveled fields. Seeding by airplane.
    USA_AG_CRPD_31_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA. Laser leveled fields.
    USA_AG_CRPD_29_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA. Laser leveled fields.
    USA_AG_CRPD_28_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA. Laser leveled fields.
    USA_AG_CRPD_28_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA. Laser leveled fields.
    USA_AG_CRPD_33_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA. Laser leveled fields.
    USA_AG_CRPD_33_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA. Laser leveled fields.
    USA_AG_CRPD_29_xs.jpg
  • 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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  • Almonds lay on the ground after being shaken from the tree by the machine harvester.  They will then be swept up into boxes and loaded on a flatbed trailer and delivered to the production facility for drying and packaging. Kern County, California. USA.
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  • Zaiger Genetics: Apricots in test tubes in the tissue culture lab run by Grant Zaiger, Floyd's son. Floyd Zaiger (Born 1926) is a biologist who is most noted for his work in fruit genetics. Zaiger Genetics, located in Modesto, California, USA, was founded in 1958. Zaiger has spent his life in pursuit of the perfect fruit, developing both cultivars of existing species and new hybrids such as the pluot and the aprium. Tissue culture Lab. 1983.
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  • An aerial photograph of mounds of harvested almonds at sunrise.  The almonds must dry in the sun for a few days before they are ready for packaging and shipping. Kern 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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  • Sunrise in an almond orchard in Kern County, California. Almonds lay on the ground after being shook from the tree by the machine harvester.  They will then be swept up into boxes and loaded on a flatbed trailer and delivered to the production facility for drying and packaging. USA.
    USA_AG_NUTS_01_xs.jpg
  • A wooden bowl with parched corn on the dirt floor of the Ayme's cooking house in the village of Tingo, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • A bee collects pollen from a yellow sunflower in a field of sunflowers on a cattle farm managed by Peter Menzel in rural Charlotte, Tennessee. Sunflower plants. Tennessee. USA.
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  • Papayas on display, Cuernavaca municipal market, Mexico. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • An aerial photograph of mounds of harvested almonds drying in the sun. They're dried for a few days before they are ready for packaging and shipping. Kern County, California. USA.
    USA_AG_NUTS_03_xs.jpg
  • Sorghum, a staple grain of Chad, almost ready for harvest. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • An old woman shows scavenged lentils in her hand in a refugee camp near Merca, 100 km. south of Mogadishu, war-torn capital of Somalia. March 1992.
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  • A helicopter sprays flowers grown for seed: Lompoc, California. USA. The Lompoc Valley is said to have the most consistent temperate climate in the world, which is a critical factor in the cultivation of flowers.  The valley has been a flower seed-producing region for nearly 100 years. In the early 1980's, Lompoc Valley was producing one-third of the world's flower seeds.  Lompoc is a 12-mile-long, and 3-mile-wide valley, which lies just inland from the coast of California, about 150 miles north of Los Angeles. There are 1600 acres of 600 varieties of flowers from which they harvest approximately 400 tons of seeds each year. Crop dusting of flower fields (spraying pesticides).
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  • A helicopter sprays flowers grown for seed: Lompoc, California. USA.
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  • Aerial photograph of flooded rice fields in central valley California. A biplane is seeding rice by Air. Near Richvale, California.
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  • Aerial photograph of flooded rice fields in central valley California. A biplane is seeding rice by Air. Near Richvale, California.
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  • Aerial photograph of flooded rice fields in central valley California. A biplane is seeding rice by Air. Near Richvale, California.
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  • Floyd Zaiger cuts open a "Pluot", a cross between a plum and an apricot, in his orchard. Floyd Zaiger (Born 1926) is a biologist who is most noted for his work in fruit genetics. Zaiger Genetics, located in Modesto, California, USA, was founded in 1958. Zaiger has spent his life in pursuit of the perfect fruit, developing both cultivars of existing species and new hybrids such as the pluot and the aprium. Pluot fruit (plum & apricot) - MODEL RELEASED. 1988.
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  • Fruit crosses: Pluots (a cross between a plums and apricots at center), plumcots (samples of the first stage of crossbreeding an apricot with a plum, at right), and apriums (a cross between plumcots and apricots, at left). Floyd Zaiger (Born 1926) is a biologist who is most noted for his work in fruit genetics. Zaiger Genetics, located in Modesto, California, USA, was founded in 1958. Zaiger has spent his life in pursuit of the perfect fruit, developing both cultivars of existing species and new hybrids such as the pluot and the aprium. Pluot fruit (plum & apricot) - 1988.
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  • York Cliffs house, Cape Neddick, Maine
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  • Plant biotechnology research into the cultivation of disease-free potatoes, showing coated (white) & uncoated potato seeds. Scientists are working to provide growers with the ability to plant an acre with no more than one pound of seed, instead of the tons of tubers (seed potatoes) presently required to do the job. Seed also has the advantage that it is less likely to rot in storage: the resulting reduction in waste is projected to reduce growers' costs by $100 per acre. Photo taken at Escagen Corporation, San Carlos, California. .[1987].
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  • Flowers grown for seeds being irrigated. Gilroy, California.
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  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seeds with pesticides.
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  • At dawn, the chickens in an eggmobile (portable henhouse) at Joel Salatin's farm in Shenandoah, Virginia are released to spend the day pecking in the pastures that cattle have just vacated. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The chickens spend the day eating insects, grass, seeds, and undigested bits in the cattle manure (helping to scatter it in the process).
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  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seeds with pesticides.
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  • Mountain View, California.Vials of chemicals known as P.A.H. (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons) luminesce in ultraviolet light. These molecules, naturally occuring throughout the depths of space, are believed by these and and other researchers to be possible origins of life on earth. P.A.H.s have been found to become chemically modified when surrounded by ice and exposed to ultraviolet radiation -- a situation likely to occur in space.iOnce molecularly altered, the modified P.A.H.s closely resemble known organic molicules that are found in abundance on earth. Thus P.A.H.s may be found to be the first stage in a chain of molecules that led to life on earth. Researchers at NASA/Ames are simulating the conditions in space in order to study these alterations in the molecular structure of P.A.H.s. They also track P.A.H.s as they travel through interstellar space towards developing solar systems where they may become transformed into the seeds of life, all to hypothesize about the origins of life on earth..[1999]
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  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of marigold flowers grown for seeds with pesticides.
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  • At agricultural research station near Oaxaca, Mexico (INIFAP: National Institute of Forestry, Agriculture, and Animal Husbandry), the annual "milpa" survey includes cataloging and photographing hundreds of samples of corn, beans, and squash seeds (grown together and known as a "milpa") in this part of Mexico.
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  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of marigold flowers grown for seeds with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_11_xs.jpg
  • Akbar Zareh, who has worked in a bakery seven days a week since he was a young boy, spreads dough and makes finger impressions in it to hold seeds in his bakery in Yazd, Iran. (Akbar Zareh is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • CIMMYT: The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center outside Mexico City, Mexico has a huge concrete refrigerated gene bank with thousands of corn seed samples. Here, Jaime Diaz collects jars of seed. This is the largest such Germplasm bank in the world..Near Mexico City. .
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  • Flowers grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • Flowers grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • Farm workers cull variant marigold flower plants grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • Farm workers cull variant marigold flower plants grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • Farm workers cull variant marigold flower plants grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • Farm worker in flower fields grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • Flowers grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • Flowers grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • Aerial of farm workers culling variant marigold flower plants grown for seed, the shadow of the photographer's plane is lower left: Lompoc, California.
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  • Farm workers cull variant marigold flower plants grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • Row irrigation of flower plants grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • Eight farm workers cultivate and cull variant flower plants grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • Flowers grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_14_xs.jpg
  • Native corn seed examples (known as "landraces") from Oaxaca State, Mexico. Oaxaca is thought to be the corn cradle of the Americas: the origin of corn species that were domesticated and that spread all over the world.
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  • A betel nut vendor takes a drink of water between customers in Varanasi, India. Betel nut is a mildly narcotic seed eaten with lime paste and a green leaf. Over time it decays the teeth and dyes the mouth of the user red. Although its not considered a food, it is a plant item chewed by many all over Asia, and kept in the mouth like chewing tobacco. (From a photographic gallery of street images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 131).
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  • Rows of flower plants grown for seed in Gilroy, California.
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  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fungicide on fields of marigolds grown for seed.
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  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
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  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_14_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_13_xs.jpg
  • 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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  • 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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  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fungicide on fields of marigolds grown for seed.
    USA_AG_CRPD_17_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
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  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
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  • Intended to provide 360-degree images of its surroundings, Omniclops, the robot "omnicamera," is being developed by Hagen Schempf (holding Omniclops) of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Schempf is now with the Robotics Engineering Consortium in Pittsburgh, PA. Founded in 1994 with seed money from NASA, the consortium is located off the Carnegie Mellon campus and operates with great autonomy in this enormous facility. Behind Schempf on the main floor are autonomous forklifts; out of sight, other rooms are chockablock with robotic harvesters and mine diggers. The forklift, which can understand commands like "unload the truck in bay 4," should be deployed in Ford factories by the end of 2000. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 144.
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  • Nicasio Huaman cuts the mature seed head stems of the arawanku plant to reach the tanyo kuro worms, Urubamba River Valley, Chicón, Peru. (Man Eating Bugs page 152.)
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  • Betel nut vendor takes a drink of water between customers in Varanasi, India. Betel nut is a mildly narcotic seed eaten with lime paste and a green leaf. Over time it decays the teeth and dyes the mouth of the user red. Although it's not considered a food, it is a plant item chewed by many all over Asia, and kept in the mouth like chewing tobacco. (From a photographic gallery of street images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 131).
    IND04_0008_xxf1.jpg
  • Betel nuts for sale at the Sunday market in Wangdi Phodrang, Bhutan, a two-hour walk from Shingkhey village. Betel nut is a mildly narcotic seed eaten with lime paste and a green leaf. Over time it decays the teeth and dyes the mouth of the user red. Although it's not considered a food, it is a plant item chewed by many all over Asia, and kept in the mouth like chewing tobacco. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Irrigation: flood irrigation of flower fields grown for seed in Lompoc, California. USA.
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  • Row irrigation of flower plants grown for seed in Gilroy, California.
    USA_AG_FLWR_36_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_16_xs.jpg
  • 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.
    USA_AERL_15_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_16_xs.jpg
  • Hector Diaz Castellano, a Zapotec Indian farmer in El Trapiche (Oaxaca State), Mexico, checks pollination of corn plants he is growing for seed corn for the Itanoni Tortilleria.
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  • Row irrigation of flower plants grown for seed in Gilroy, California.
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  • The spit-out remains of a chewed-up betel nut, found at the Sunday market in Wangdi Phodrang, Bhutan. Betel nut is a mildly narcotic seed eaten with lime paste and a green leaf. Over time it decays the teeth and dyes the mouth of the user red. Although it's not considered a food, it is a plant item chewed by many all over Asia, and kept in the mouth like chewing tobacco. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
    BHU01_0027_xf1bs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice by air in Richvale, California, USA.
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  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice by air in Richvale, California, USA.
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  • Street vendor sells hard seeded biscuits from a wheeled cart on the street in Istanbul, Turkey. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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