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  • A grandmother and her granddaughter collect grasshoppers in a Oaxaca cornfield. Fried, the insects make a tasty dinner dish.
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  • Some prized horses live a pampered life in retirement and command large amount of money for breeding rights in the hopes they’ll pass on the best qualities of their bloodline. An Irish farm, Ashford Stud which is part of international horse racing business Coolmore, was built in recent years and features stone barns and bridges creating the charm of an earlier era. Stalls are filled with plush straw for bedding under chandeliers that shine in the cupolas.  <br />
Past Kentucky Derby winner Thunder Gulch's stud fees are as high as $125,000 per mating. A farm worker leads the stallion to a breeding barn.
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  • Some prized horses live a pampered life in retirement and command large amount of money for breeding rights in the hopes they’ll pass on the best qualities of their bloodline. An Irish-owned farm, Ashford Stud which is part of international horse racing business Coolmore, was built in recent years and features stone barns and bridges creating the charm of an earlier era. Stalls are filled with plush straw for bedding under chandeliers that shine in the cupolas.  <br />
Past Kentucky Derby winner Thunder Gulch's stud fees are as high as $125,000 per mating. A farm worker leads the stallion to a breeding barn.
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  • A Thoroughbred mares sniffs her foal on Waterford Farm. April and May are foaling season and most are born between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. under the cover of darkness.  They are turned out into a pasture daily where foals eat dandelions and clover.
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  • Mares and foals gallop across the pasture on an Irish farm, Ashford Stud which is part of international horse racing business Coolmore.
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  • Farmhands that care for the horses take a break from chores with games and refreshments. The workers become close like family and get together for informal parties and pot luck dinners where they bring dishes from their countries Columbia, Lithuania, Australia, Mexico, Ireland and the U.S.
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  • Farmhands that care for the horses take a break from chores with games and refreshments. The workers become close like family and get together for informal parties and pot luck dinners where they bring dishes from their countries Columbia, Lithuania, Australia, Mexico, Ireland and the U.S.
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  • Farmhands that care for the horses take a break from chores with games and refreshments. The workers become close like family and get together for informal parties and pot luck dinners where they bring dishes from their countries Columbia, Lithuania, Australia, Mexico, Ireland and the U.S.<br />
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DARBY DAN
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  • Farmhands that care for the horses take a break from chores with games and refreshments. The workers become close like family and get together for informal parties and pot luck dinners where they bring dishes from their home countries Columbia, Lithuania, Australia, Mexico, Ireland and the U.S.
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  • An adopted former wild horse now works the Wyoming range with a sheepherder and dogs.<br />
Dot, white mustang, was trained by prison inmates and then bought by rancher owners at a public auction. The docile horse earned his keep one week later when he saved the life of a shepherd who was lost in a blinding snow storm. The rider dropped the reins trusting the horse to find his way back home in spite of the blizzard.
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  • Men and a teenager remove trays of honeycombs from bee hives so they can collect the honey.
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  • Pin Oak Farm owner and breeder Josephine Abercrombie ran a prominent 4,000 acre farm near Versailles. A horse lover in her childhood, she bred of highly-trained successful race horses. Racing season brings on a flurry of parties and social events. Abercrombie was philanthropic and highly respected. She died in 2022.
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  • Fields are cleared and then burned in preparation for planting.
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  • Fields are cleared and then burned in preparation for planting.
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  • Fields are cleared and then burned in preparation for planting.
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  • Spirited Thoroughbred foals romp and play in a pasture on Waterford Farm.
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  • As part of a pilot program, men test fish for disease at a fish farm.<br />
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The local Hong Kong aquaculture industry is also facing challenges from competition with imported aquatic food products and concern of fish and seafood safety.
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  • A farmer herds his cows off the steep hillside back to return to the barn for a morning milking. Some alpine farms attract young people who desire a simple and rustic lifestyle.
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  • Stone Farm, a 2,000 acre horse-breeding farm with a private track to train Thoroughbred horses is owned by Arthur Hancock III, a member of one of the pre-eminent American horse racing families.  Hancock has bred, stood, and sold some of the best horses of all time and two Stone Farm-raised, co-raced colts won the Kentucky Derby. Hancock and his wife Stacie, are outspoken about the ethics of the horse racing business.
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  • Aerial view of Stone Farm, a 2,000 acre horse-breeding farm with a private track to train Thoroughbred horses. Stone Farm is owned by Arthur Hancock III, a member of one of the pre-eminent American horse racing families.  Hancock has bred, stood, and sold some of the best horses of all time and two Stone Farm-raised, co-raced colts won the Kentucky Derby.
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  • Stacie Hancock, co-owner of Stone Farm, a 2,000 acre horse-breeding farm with a private track to train Thoroughbred horses. Stone Farm's Arthur Hancock III, is a member of one of the pre-eminent American horse racing families.  Hancock has bred, stood, and sold some of the best horses of all time and two Stone Farm-raised, co-raced colts won the Kentucky Derby.
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  • Yearlings stand in a pasture surrounded by white fences and a historic Thoroughbred horse farm. Located in the heart of the Bluegrass, next to Keeneland Race Track, Manchester Farm holds the distinction as one of the most recognizable farms in Kentucky. What makes Kentucky special is that it is geologically favored for horses. Millions of years ago, layers of shells were buried and the crushed limestone makes the grass rich in calcium. As the land sinks, hills and valley are formed which make a perfect terrain for building strong muscles when horses run.
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  • The Bluegrass Region is rich with lore and traditions like the lawn jockey, a small statue prominently positioned on every farm with a lantern or hitching ring in one outstretched hand. Local legend says it memorializes Jocko Graves, who stood guard over horses for George Washington and froze to death holding a lantern in his hand. He was known as the faithful guardsman.<br />
Modern day watchman and farm owner Dr. Smiser West walks out his office door toward the lawn jockey painted with the colors of Waterford Farm.
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  • Flowers and stones mark Calumet Farm's horse cemetery. Successful horses are so important to the culture that each farm has a cemetery honoring their Thoroughbred champions, although few are as elaborate or carry the prestige as the stones marking Calumet’s winners.
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  • Flowers and stones mark Calumet Farm's horse cemetery. Successful horses are so important to the culture that each farm has a cemetery honoring their Thoroughbred champions, although few are as elaborate or carry the prestige as the stones marking Calumet’s winners.
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  • Dr. Smiser West waits for birth of a Thoroughbred foal on his Waterford Farm. April and May are foaling season and most are born between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. under the cover of darkness.  A night watchman calls Dr. West who at age 94 still jumps out of bed and comes to the barn to wait for the blessed event of a baby that is born to run.
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  • Flowers and stones mark Calumet Farm's horse cemetery. Successful horses are so important to the culture that each farm has a cemetery honoring their Thoroughbred champions, although few are as elaborate or carry the prestige as the stones marking Calumet’s winners.
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  • Flowers and stones mark Calumet Farm's horse cemetery. Successful horses are so important to the culture that each farm has a cemetery honoring their Thoroughbred champions, although few are as elaborate or carry the prestige as the stones marking Calumet’s winners.
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  • White barns with red trim are characteristic of Calumet Farm, a 762-acre Thoroughbred breeding and training farm established in 1924 in Lexington, Kentucky. William Monroe Wright, founding owner of the Calumet Baking Powder Company created Calumet farm located in the heart of the Bluegrass, a well-known horse breeding region.
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  • Flowers and stones mark Calumet Farm's horse cemetery. Successful horses are so important to the culture that each farm has a cemetery honoring their Thoroughbred champions, although few are as elaborate or carry the prestige as the stones marking Calumet’s winners.
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  • A stallion is surrounded by white fences lined with spring flowering crabapple and cherry trees creating an idyllic, picturesque setting for a Thoroughbred horse farm. What makes Kentucky special is that it is geologically favored for horses. Millions of years ago, layers of shells were buried and the crushed limestone makes the grass rich in calcium. As the land sinks, hills and valley are formed which make a perfect terrain for building strong muscles when horses run.
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  • With ears pricked forward, a yearling thoroughbred curiously awaits at a white fence on Manchester Farm, a Thoroughbred horse with a barn that is located on the backside of Keeneland Race Track. What makes Kentucky special is that it is geologically favored for horses. Millions of years ago, layers of shells were buried and the crushed limestone makes the grass rich in calcium. As the land sinks, hills and valley are formed which make a perfect terrain for building strong muscles when horses run.
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  • Calumet Farm's mares and foals graze in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky. Successful thoroughbred race horses are so important to the culture that each farm has a cemetery honoring their Thoroughbred champions.
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  • Morning fog rises over Donamire Farm's fenced pastures and pastoral setting in Lexington, Kentucky
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  • Aerial view of a single horse grazing in picturesque, curved-fenced pastures. Once all farms were lined with white fences, but many now are black—easier to maintain. Lane's End is one of the most important stallion farms and breeding operations in the U.S. and also one of the top operations globally.
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  • A religious Ladin man reads a newspaper while watching a Catholic funeral on television in the kitchen of his farm house in the Dolomites. The community is close-knit and have a language unique to their region in LaVal in the Italian Alps.
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  • A farm family heads home after working in the fields in LaVal under the vista of the Dolomites.  The mountain cliffs are so steep that no glaciers formed on them. The Alps thrust up when tectonic plates collided between Africa and Eurasia.  The Ladin people living in the mountain region have a close bond with nature and the outdoors.
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  • A farmer stands with his child in a cornfield.
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  • A farmer leaves muddy footprints in a taro patch.
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  • The Rohe family picks sweet corn on their family farm.
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  • A woman harvests taro leaves on the family farm.
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  • Sugar workers harvest cane in the heat after fields are burned.<br />
Workers are covered with black char when they cut sugar canes with a machete. The sharp leaves destroy workers and tools, so they are burned before the raw sugar is harvested. The stalks are then loaded on a truck, taken to a mill to be processed into white and brown sugar. <br />
The Pomalca sugar cane coop located at Campo Rosaliais, Peru.
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  • Sugar workers chew cane during a break from harvesting charred cane in the hot sun. Canes are burned before they are cut because leaves from the plant are so sharp they dull blades of their machetes. The stalks are then loaded on a truck, taken to a mill to be processed into white and brown sugar. <br />
The Pomalca sugar cane coop is located at Campo Rosaliais, Peru.
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  • Sugar workers are covered with black char as they harvest cane in the hot sun after fields are burned. Canes are burned before they are cut because leaves from the plant are so sharp they dull blades of their machetes. The stalks are then loaded on a truck, taken to a mill to be processed into white and brown sugar. <br />
The Pomalca sugar cane coop located at Campo Rosaliais, Peru.
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  • A farmer carries milk cans into the barn twice a day to milk his cows in a Ladin village of LaVal in the Dolomites. Small dairy farms support local economy in mountain regions of northern Italy.
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  • Aerial view of Donamire Farm's fenced pastures. Once all farms were lined with white fences, but many now are black—cheaper to maintain. A Thoroughbred horse farm doing well financially still follows the tradition with white paint.
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  • Pin Oak Farm owner and breeder Josephine Abercrombie ran a prominent 4,000 acre  farm near Versailles. A horse lover in her childhood, she brought sugar cubes to her thoroughbreds hoping for a kiss on the cheek from a gentle mare and foal. Abercrombie died in 2022.
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  • Trophies line the walls in an office at Pin Oak Stud, a prominent 4,000 acre  farm near Versailles.
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  • Evening sunset light illuminates a fence on an Kentucky horse farm in early spring.
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  • A farm worker drives his pickup truck into the field to herd cows to the barn for morning milking in the rural, northern Austria's Alpine region.
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  • A young girl carries a heavy load as she cuts and plants asparagus shoots and buries them with sand in an agricultural area south of Lima. The plants are deeply covered with soil and remain white from lack of sun light, which some find a gourmet delicacy.
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  • Apples are harvested in an orchard on the Klein-Kill Farm by Jamaicans hired to pick the fruit.
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  • Thoroughbred mare runs along side her foal in a pasture on a Kentucky horse farm. Kentucky is famous for bluegrass and rolling hills where over 450 farms breed and train race horses.
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  • A farm outside of Harappa.
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  • A pregnant mare rolls in the mud with a plastic bucket over her mouth as a muzzle to keep her from being inadvertently eating caterpillars, thus limiting her exposure to toxins.<br />
In 2001, approximately 25% of all pregnant mares in Kentucky aborted their foals within several weeks (over 3,000 mares lost pregnancies), and abortion rates exceeded 60% on some farms because of Mare Reproductive Loss Syndrome (MRLS).  The mysterious disease caused mares to spontaneously abort at an early term as well fully developed foals—the babies that survived had heart and eye problems. Those that didn’t die or were put down had brain injuries and are often referred to as “dummy foals.”  University of Kentucky estimates 1400 foals were aborted costing the state 336 million dollars.<br />
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What was known was that mares were being exposed to something in the fields—a fungus or mycotoxin that seemed to be related to the Eastern tent caterpillar that was found in cherry trees. Farms tried to limit their risk and exposure to the grass by putting plastic buckets over their mouths.
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  • A former wild horse, adopted and trained, now works the Wyoming range with a sheepherder and his dog. Owners find that mustangs are sure-footed on a trail and spook less than domesticated horses.
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  • Stallions enter a trap during a wild mustang roundup. Airborne wranglers working in helicopters with the Bureau of Land Management corral a thirsty herd of mustangs in Eureka, Nevada. Wild horses compete with wildlife and livestock for water and forage. <br />
An estimated 85,000 wild horses roam western lands, many are descendants of Spanish horses brought to the New World in the 1500's. In the 1800's the Spanish stock began to mix with European horses favored by the settlers, trappers and miners that had escaped or were turned out by their owners. Adoption programs and horse sanctuaries are attempts to provide homes for the once wild horses.
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  • A former wild horse now works a Wyoming range with a sheepherder. Dot was trained by prison inmates and adopted for the ranch. The first week he arrived, a herder was lost in a blizzard and in danger of freezing. The rider dropped the reins and held onto the horses neck as the sure-footed mustang found his way home.
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  • A stallion puts on his brakes and comes to a sudden stop before entering the trap during a wild mustang roundup. Airborne wranglers working in helicopters with the Bureau of Land Management corral a thirsty herd of mustangs in Eureka, Nevada. Wild horses compete with wildlife and livestock for water and forage. <br />
An estimated 85,000 wild horses roam western lands, many are descendants of Spanish horses brought to the New World in the 1500's. In the 1800's the Spanish stock began to mix with European horses favored by the settlers, trappers and miners that had escaped or were turned out by their owners. Adoption programs and horse sanctuaries are attempts to provide homes for the once wild horses.
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  • Stallions enter a trap during a wild mustang roundup. Airborne wranglers working in helicopters with the Bureau of Land Management corral a thirsty herd of mustangs in Eureka, Nevada. Wild horses compete with wildlife and livestock for water and forage. <br />
An estimated 85,000 wild horses roam western lands, many are descendants of Spanish horses brought to the New World in the 1500's. In the 1800's the Spanish stock began to mix with European horses favored by the settlers, trappers and miners that had escaped or were turned out by their owners. Adoption programs and horse sanctuaries are attempts to provide homes for the once wild horses.
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  • Stallions enter a trap during a wild mustang roundup. Airborne wranglers working in helicopters with the Bureau of Land Management corral a thirsty herd of mustangs in Eureka, Nevada. Wild horses compete with wildlife and livestock for water and forage. <br />
An estimated 85,000 wild horses roam western lands, many are descendants of Spanish horses brought to the New World in the 1500's. In the 1800's the Spanish stock began to mix with European horses favored by the settlers, trappers and miners that had escaped or were turned out by their owners. Adoption programs and horse sanctuaries are attempts to provide homes for the once wild horses.
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  • Former wild horses are rewarded with oats after a long day working a Wyoming ranch with sheepherders. Camp is set up near the sheep and herders live on the range.
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  • Dot, a former wild horse now works the Wyoming range with a sheepherder. He is tame enough for trick riding and is a patient, obedient, old soul.
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  • A once wild horse now works the Wyoming range with a sheepherder. The sure footed, adopted equine is won the trust of ranchers and cowboys when he saved the life of a rider lost in a blizzard by finding his way home.
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  • A herd of sheep on the Wyoming range watch as guard dogs and herders on horseback arrive in the morning.
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  • The McCLean family anxiously watch bidding while selling colt at Keeneland auction. Hard work in breeding and raising foals and investment in a horse sometimes culminates in a minute of frantic bidding. The father and his two sons wait to see if their year of effort pays off.
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  • Wild horses gallop across Wyoming's Red Desert in the area of Honeycomb Buttes. The arid high desert located along the rim of the Great Divide Basin is colorful from deposits left by an ancient lake. The desolate wilderness area has sparse vegetation but horses spotted while on an aerial landscape shoot share the region with pronghorn deer and a rare desert elk.
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  • A grandmother works picking flowers with her family under the smoking volcano Popocatepetl in nearby Atlixco, flower capital of Mexico.  Workers harvest bouquets of zempazuchitl flowers for Day of the Dead celebrations.  Fields full of yellow flowers are cultivated to decorate altars and graves for the Mexican fiesta.
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  • A young boy picks flowers with his family who was harvesting to sell for Day of the Dead, the Mexican fiesta celebration. <br />
Workers harvest bouquets of cempasuchil or marigold flowers from fields full of yellow flowers cultivated to decorate altars and graves for the Mexican fiesta.
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  • A farmer splits logs for firewood to heat the farm through winter in an Alpine rural village of LaVal in the Dolomite mountains in Italy.
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  • The Rohe family shucks sweet corn on their family farm.
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  • A Ladin farmer drives a horse-drawn sled on steep hills with small patches of melting snow outside the Dolomites. The community of LaVal remains isolated by geography and the people retained their own ethnic language although they also speak German and Italian.
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  • Dairy cows stand in water holes to drink in the Suwannee basin in Florida. Concentrated dairy cow operations contribute high nitrate into the aquifer that has karst soil and nearby clear water springs. Waste from a total of 44,000 head of cattle helped ruin a thriving oyster industry in the town of Suwannee, downstream situated on the Gulf of Mexico.
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  • Kittens wait at the back door for William McKinley Crews to bring food.  The "old swamper" has lived at the farmhouse all his life in Moccasin Swamp, northern Florida. He has no electricity or running water and his company consists of four cows and 14 cats.
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  • Wearing his paper sack morning hat, William McKinley Crews, 81, built a fire in the wood stove and made breakfast at the farmhouse where he has lived all his life. The house in Moccasin Swamp in northern Florida, has no electricity or running water. His brother died leaving him to find company with his 14 cats and four cows he calls his "nuns." He is one of the last of the "old swampers" a reference to early settlers who lived in rural wetlands.
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  • A Ladin man collects a pail of water from a cattle trough and traverses carefully across a sheet of ice. Life is hard in rural, isolated villages like LaVal in the Italian Alps.
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  • William McKinley Crews, 81, is reflected in the mirror as he shaves in the morning at the farmhouse where he has lived all his life. His hat collection hangs in his house in Moccasin Swamp, which has no electricity or running water. He keeps company with his 14 cats and four cows.He is one of the last of the "old swampers" a reference to early settlers who lived in rural wetlands.
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  • William McKinley Crews, 81, washes his face after eating breakfast at the farmhouse where he has lived all his life. The homestead in Moccasin Swamp, northern Florida, has no electricity or running water. Since his brother died, he keeps company with four cows and 14 cats. He is one of the last of the "old swampers" a reference to early settlers who lived in rural wetlands.
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  • William McKinley Crews, 81, wears his morning hat checking his fences after hanging his laundry on the clothes line. The farmhouse in Moccasin Swamp is where he has lived all his life. The house in northern Florida, has no electricity or running water. He keeps company with his four cows and 14 cats.
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  • William McKinley Crews, 81, pumps water into a bucket at the farmhouse where he has lived all his life in Moccasin Swamp in northern Florida. He has no electricity or running water. His only company are four cows and 14 cats.
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  • Thoroughbred mare with foal in a pasture munching on bluegrass on a horse farm in Lexington, Kentucky. The region is known as the horse capital of the world with around 450 horse farms.
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  • Two nephews watch their uncle milk a cow in the pasture on the farm in a rural area near the Dolomites. The isolated mountain community LaVal has roots in agriculture speak their own ethnic Ladin language.
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  • A dappled gray Thoroughbred mare runs with a black foal in a pasture on a horse farm in Kentucky.
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  • A halter is placed on a thoroughbred foal soon after birth which help the babies adjust to handling by humans.
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  • An elderly couple with their prize-winning field corn.
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  • A family tending their taro fields, threatened by apple snails.
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  • A girl plays in a taro field while the leaves are being harvested.
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  • A family wait out a storm to return to harvesting their taro fields.
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  • Dockside seafood in Hong Kong’s Sai Kung district can be chosen by customers to take to nearby restaurants where it is prepared for their dinner. Here shellfish mingle with live reef fish, a controversial trade that is decimating species such as groupers. Divers often capture reef fish by using cyanide or dynamite. Global sales may top a billion dollars a year.
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  • The Nyangatom agricultural village of Lokulan.
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  • The Nyangatom agricultural village of Lokulan .
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  • A former wild horse stands steadfast while patiently waiting for a shepherd to check on a lamb as they work together on the Wyoming range.
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  • Two Pyrenees guard dogs herd sheep on the Wyoming range at sunrise.
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  • Locals arrested for growing marijuana by anti-poaching police.
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  • A Svaneti family around the dinner table.
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  • A salmon swims up a 450 foot fish ladder to spawn in a fish hatchery.
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  • Kanoa family tending their taro fields, threatened by apple snails.
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  • Nyungunyama Fish Ponds operated by Lazoro Tobango family.
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  • A young boy carries a bouquet of bright, red zempazuchitl flowers that his family was harvesting to sell for Day of the Dead, the Mexican fiesta celebration. Pickers work late into the evening under the shadow of Popocatépetl, or El Popo as locals call the volcano.
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  • Irrigating fields in Kara village of Labuk.
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