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More than 22,000 animals and 200,000 people were expected at this year's North American International Livestock Expo (NAILE) in Louisville, Ky. (Sarah B. Aubrey photo) |
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These two heifers get a little rowdy in the stall at NAILE. (Sarah B. Aubrey photo) |
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Claire Dorsey, 18 months, of Moro, Ill. is ready to work on her family's Simmental heifers at NAILE. (Sarah B. Aubrey photo) |
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This antique John Deere tractor was frozen in place after a winter storm roared through Illinois last week. (Cindy Ladage photo) |
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Glistening layers of ice coated bare limbs and fencerows throughout central Illinois last week following a severe winter storm. (Megan Kuhn photo) |
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Severe winter weather, including a snow and ice storm, caused damage to many rural central Illinois residences last week. (Keith Ladage photo) |
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Ice covered limbs caused problems for many central and southern Illinois residents last week. (Megan Kuhn photo) |
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A severe snow and ice storm hit parts of central and southern Illinois last week. Many trees and fencerows were covered in ice like this one near Lebanon, Ill. (Megan Kuhn photo) |
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Newly harvested corn gets loaded into a truck in western Indiana last week. (Linda McGurk photo) |
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An Indiana farmer combines a field last week. (Linda McGurk photo) |
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Corn waits to be harvested in an Indiana field last week. (Linda McGurk photo) |
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Behind a barbed wire fence, a central Kentucky farmer works in the field. (Tim Thornberry photo) |
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Bales of hay sit just beyond a field of corn in central Kentucky last week. (Tim Thornberry photo) |
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Ernie Weaver, a volunteer at the Circleville Pumpkin Show, writes the weight on this 433-pound pumpkin. (Doug Graves photo) |
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A small crane was used to hoist pumpkins onto a scale and then onto a flatbed truck for display at the 100th annual Circleville, Ohio Pumpkin Festival. (Doug Graves photo) |
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Thousands of pumpkins and gourds were on display during the four-day Circleville Pumpkin Show. (Doug Graves photo) |
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Joe Speakman, Vic Riffle and Paul Woods were three of a dozen growers and engineers who worked for 14 months in creating a 14-foot pie pan, oven and pie for the 100th Circleville Pumpkin Show. (Doug Graves photo) |
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Visitors to Gorman Farm in Hamilton County, Ohio retreat from the four-acre field of sunflowers with their small harvests. (Doug Graves photo) |
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Gorman Farm in Evendale, Ohio allows visitors to get away from city life and witness how life was on a farm in the early 1900s. (Doug Graves photo) |
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Sunflowers lured visitors to the 170-year-old Gorman Farm in Hamilton County, Ohio last week. (Doug Graves photo) |
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Stephanie Kaufman and her daughter, Grace, both of Cincinnati, Ohio, inspect a sunflower stem before taking the elaborate flower home with them. (Doug Graves photo) |
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An old corn crip is reused as a display for school groups and other visitors to Hackman's Farm Market and Greenhouse near Columbus, Ind. (Richard Sitler photo) |
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Hackman's Farm Market and Greenhouse near Columbus, Ind. has enjoyed a bumper crop of pumpkins this year. (Richard Sitler photo) |
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A display of gourds are just a part of the products offered at Hackman's Farm Market near Columbus, Ind. (Richard Sitler photo) |
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