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Lined with clean, white fences, the mission of the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Ky. is to highlight the relationship between man and horse. In 2010, the park will host one of the world's largest equine events - the World Equestrian games. This will be the event's U.S. debut.
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The Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Ky. features two museums, twin theaters and nearly 50 different breeds of horses.
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The Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Ky. was first opened to the public in 1978.
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The draft horses are among the more popular exhibits during the annual Maple Syrup Festival on the Malabar Farm near Lucas, Ohio. The horses are used to pull carts of visitors around the event.
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The draft horses are among the more popular exhibits during the annual Maple Syrup Festival on the Malabar Farm near Lucas, Ohio.
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Eric Parsons works on a horseshoe for a customer at the Equine Podiatry Center in Lexington, Ky.
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Eric Parsons works on a horseshoe for a customer at the Equine Podiatry Center in Lexington, Ky.
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Mary Lou, the pony, poses with her prosthetic leg. Mary Lou lives behind the Equine Podiatry Center in Lexington, Ky. She was brought to the center with a severe break in her front left leg.
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Ralph Umbaugh from Napanee, Ind. and his horsepulling team kick up a cloud of dust during a Michigan pulling contest.
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Shiny new horseshoes, belonging to the Equine Podiatry Center in Lexington, Ky., glimmer in the sunshine.
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The new fertilizer hub can now receive 65 railcars, like the one here, at one time.
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Co-Alliance Agronomy Manager Phil Brewer (left) stands with Gordy Barnet, manager of Co-Alliance's new fertilizer hub.
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Co-Alliance employees unload fertilizer for railcars. The new hub is capable of loading amd unloading a railcar in just seven minutes.
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The new Scircleville, Ind. fertilizer hub sits in the middle of the farm fields it will serve.
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The new $3.9 million Co-Alliance LLP fertilizer facility is located in Scircleville, Ind.
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Railcars wait to be unloaded at the recently opened Scircleville Fertilizer Hub Plant in northern Clinton County, Ind.
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A 36-inch-wide conveyor belt is used to move fertilizer throughout the Co-Alliance hub. A catwalk runs parallel to the conveyor belt.
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Only three employees are needed to operate the automated system at the Scircleville fertilizer hub. These controls are used to unload blended or unblended fertilizer into drive-through vehicles.
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Mac Donaldson has a herd of about 1,500 cattle on his Arizona ranch.(br>
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Mac Donaldson moves cattle across his expansive Arizona ranch by horse.
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These heifers get some extra feed on the 72,000-acre ranch southeast of Tucson, Arizona.
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The ranch uses some windmills but can't rely on them when cattle are looking for water.
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The cattle on Mac Donaldson's ranch get water from dirt tanks filled from wells with submersible pumps and generators.
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The Family Living Center at the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Ky. featured many vendors, including this one that offered items such as John Deere tote bags.
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