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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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Cathy Schueler and her horse, Backstage Pass, attended their fifth Dayton Horse Show this year.
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Conference Time: Judge Mick Culp gathered the participants of the Whitley County 4-H Fair dairy beef showmanship contest in a semi circle for a pep talk.
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Ron Dietrich helps a youngster with his Kiddie Tractor Pull attempt at the Farm World Expo in Terre Haute, Ind. last week.
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Indiana Lt. Governor Becky Skillman spoke at the opening of the state's first electrical substation using soybean oil as a coolant last week. The substaton is located near Fort Wayne, Ind.
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The United REMC substation is the first in the state to use FR3, or soybean oil, as a coolant for its transformer.
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Shirley and Walter DeVault bag locally-grown potatoes and tomatoes for customers at the farmers' market in Loudon, Tenn. last week.
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Vendor Bill Shaver sells squash for a quarter each and pole green beans for $1 a pound at the farmers' market in Loudon, Tenn. last week.
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Agriculture, government and biofuel representatives celebrated Energy Independence Day in Noblesville, Ind. last week. From left are Countrymark Co-op CEO Charlie Smith, Noblesville Mayor John Ditslear, Indiana Soybean Board President Mark Seib, Ly. Gov. Becky Skillman, Central Indiana Clean Cities Alliance Executive Director Kellie Walsh, Rep. Kathy Richardson and Hamilton County Co-op CEO Jim Crouch.
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Wheat fields, like this one in central Kentucky, are turning golden and are ready for harvest in many areas across the Midwest.
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The sheep barn at the Rush County Fair was busy during the weekend. The fair opened Sunday, June 25 in Rushville, Ind.
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Matt and Sheila VanNatta stand in their daylily field, which includes 40,000 plant, at the rural Rush County farm.
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Moonlit Masquerade is one of Sheila VanNatta's favorite varieties of daylilies. Sheila and her husband, Matt, are the owners of Daylily Connection in Falmouth, Ind.
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Miranda Meier, 9, of Paducah, Ky., sits on her miniature Model A John Deere that was make by her grandfather, John Meier.
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DeKalb County Sheriff's Deputies Rich Robinson (left) and Ryan Pettengall shared information about bicycle safety at a farm safety camp in Malta, Ill.
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The Allen County Master Gardeners created a rooftop garden near the county extension office.
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Zani Daunheimer, 7, of Batavia, Ill., gets a lesson in milking a cow during a visit to the Drendel dairy farm near Hampshire, Ill.
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Warm temperatures and intermittent rain has allowed the weeds to grow along many Midwestern roadsides this week.
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Isabelle Robinson, left, and Savanna Bechstein give a good grooming to this calf.
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Fran Korthaus, an intern with the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, writes down places during a cattle show.
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Tom Study Sr. has been involved in the dairy industry all of his life. He also worked off farm jobs for 35 years, including driving a school bus.
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The Study family of Oxford, Ohio includes, from left, Caroline, Tom Jr., Kim, Tonya, Beth, Tony, Valerie, Tom Sr., Sandy, and Tom III. The family hosts a stop on the Butler Co. Farm/City Tour Oct. 14-15.
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Tom Study III hopes to be a farmer in the future. He poses here with one of his family's dairy cows.
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Behind a blossoming iris, a youngster works with a lamb on a farm in Henry County, Ky. recently.
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