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These pumpkins on the vine are a small portion of a record crop at the Hackman farm this year.
(Richard Sitler photo) |
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Pumpkins are everywhere at Hackman's Farm Market. The farm had its biggest pumpkin crop ever this year.
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This pumpkin has "Hackman Market" etched on it.
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Jacob Hall, freshman at RCHS, sorts apples that his classmates picked during a service project last weekend.
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Cliff Marlatt (left) talks with Junior Kuhn as they take a break harvesting apples at Kuhn's Orchard last week.
(Megan Kuhn photo) |
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RCHS FFA President Brian Marlatt said that the service project that brought 30 members of the school's FFA program to Kuhn's Orchard last weekend was mostly student-promoted and organized in under a week.
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Pam Kuhn was touched by the FFA students' willingness to help at her family's apple orchard after they learned about her fight with cancer.
(Megan Kuhn photo) |
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Brian Ripberger, senior at RCHS, transferred the apples he picked at Kuhn's Orchard.
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Kaylee Marlatt helped organize the service project that brought 30 of her fellow RCHS FFA members to Kuhn's Orchard last Sunday.
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Evan Gordon, a junior at Rushville Consolidated High School, climbed high to harvest apples at Kuhn's Orchard. He was one of about 30 FFA members to help at the orchard last weekend.
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A combine unloads during the field demonstrations at the Farm Science Review.
(Dave Blower Jr. photo) |
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A Farm Science Review visitor looks over a row of Allis Chalmers tractors.
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The field demonstrations were a popular thing to see at the Farm Science Review in London, Ohio, Sept. 19-21.
(Dave Blower Jr. photo) |
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Eleven-month-old twins David and Daniel Barron stay warm in their wagon while in the Farm World Building at the Ohio Farm Science Review, Sept. 19-21.
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An inflatable gorilla looks to take a bite out of the Touchstone Energy Cooperatives hot air balloon which was floating high above the Ohio Farm Science Review.
(Megan Kuhn photo) |
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A team of horses competes at the Ohio State Horse Plowing Contest conducted by the Ohio Horse & Mule Group during the Ohio Farm Science Review.
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Ohio artist Kathy Sochor signs copies of the Call Before You Cut posters featuring her artwork during a press conference at the Ohio Farm Science Review.
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There were some animals at the Farm Science Review, Sept. 19-21, like these Boer goats.
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Conservation tillage techniques were demonstrated during the 2006 Conservation Tillage Day at the Houchins Farm near Spiceland, Ind. last week.
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Bob Reurink Jr. of Custom Manure and Irrigation Applicators of Wayland, Mich. demonstrates top spreading of liquid manure with immediate incorporation during the Great Lakes Manure Handling Expo near Fowler, Mich.
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Terry Tryon saddles up during a horse training seminar at the Farm World Expo last week.
(Connie Swaim photo) |
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Farm World Expo visitors take time to feed a dromedary at the Farm Credit Services of Mid-America petting zoo.
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The Butler County Fair in Hamilton, Ohio is family time for the Tomlins - Jason, Jonathon, Jacob and their mom Jenny - shown with Jonathon's chickens. Cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents are also involved in the fair.
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A rider passes the judge's stand during horse show action in Dayton, Ohio last week. The show is one of the Ohio horse community's more popular events.
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