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  • 09 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Rehearsal for the Royal Ploughing Ceremony on Sanam Luang. The annual Ploughing Ceremony is held during the sixth lunar month (May) at Sanam Luang (the Phramane Ground) in front of the Grand Palace. The event, which marks the beginning of the official rice-planting season, is presided over by His Majesty the King or his representative. The Ploughing Ceremony is thought to date back more than 2500 years. The event has Brahmin origins and even today Brahmin astrologers set the exact date and time for the ceremony. During the Sukhothai period (13th and 14th centuries), the event involved a long processions led by the ruling monarch. Many of the original rites and ceremonies have been maintained.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Rehearsal for the Royal Ploughing Ceremony on Sanam Luang. The annual Ploughing Ceremony is held during the sixth lunar month (May) at Sanam Luang (the Phramane Ground) in front of the Grand Palace. The event, which marks the beginning of the official rice-planting season, is presided over by His Majesty the King or his representative. The Ploughing Ceremony is thought to date back more than 2500 years. The event has Brahmin origins and even today Brahmin astrologers set the exact date and time for the ceremony. During the Sukhothai period (13th and 14th centuries), the event involved a long processions led by the ruling monarch. Many of the original rites and ceremonies have been maintained.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: SONNY PERDUE, the US Secretary of Agriculture, on a farm in central Iowa. Perdue made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa during a farm visit in central Iowa Thursday. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds and US Senator Joni Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: SONNY PERDUE, the US Secretary of Agriculture takes off his face mask as he arrives on a farm in central Iowa. Perdue made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa during a farm visit in central Iowa Thursday. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds and US Senator Joni Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A man sells blessed rice seeds his family (background) collected at the Royal Ploughing Ceremony. After the ceremony, thousands of Thais, mostly family formers, rush onto the ploughed ground to gather up the blessed rice seeds sown by the Brahmin priests. The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:   A family sifts through the sand they took from the Royal Ploughing Ceremony looking for blessed rice seeds sown by court Brahmins in Bangkok. After the ceremony, thousands of Thais, mostly family formers, rush onto the ploughed ground to gather up the blessed rice seeds sown by the Brahmin priests. The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A man sells blessed rice seeds he collected at the Royal Ploughing Ceremony. After the ceremony, thousands of Thais, mostly family formers, rush onto the ploughed ground to gather up the blessed rice seeds sown by the Brahmin priests. The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  Court attendants hold the Royal Oxen while people stroke them for good luck at the Royal Ploughing ceremony. After the ceremony, thousands of Thais, mostly family formers, rush onto the ploughed ground to gather up the blessed rice seeds sown by the Brahmin priests. The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A man sifts through the sand looking for rice seeds blessed by Brahmin priests at the Royal Ploughing Ceremony. After the ceremony, thousands of Thais, mostly family formers, rush onto the ploughed ground to gather up the blessed rice seeds sown by the Brahmin priests. The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Musicians of the Royal Court start the Royal Ploughing Ceremony in Bangkok. The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: Iowa Governor KIM REYNOLDS speaks at an event for Iowa farmers. She accompanied Sonny Perdue, the US Secretary of Agriculture, who made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa during a farm visit in central Iowa Thursday. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: US Senator JONI ERNST (R-IA) campaigns for reelection during a farm event in central Iowa Thursday. She accompanied Sonny Perdue, the US Secretary of Agriculture, who made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.        PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: US Senator JONI ERNST (R-IA) walks through the parking lot while campaigning for reelection at a farm event in central Iowa Thursday. She accompanied Sonny Perdue, the US Secretary of Agriculture, who made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: Iowa Governor KIM REYNOLDS, left, and US Senator JONI ERNST (R-IA) talk to Iowa farmers. They were with Sonny Perdue, the US Secretary of Agriculture, who made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa during a farm visit in central Iowa Thursday. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: US Senator JONI ERNST (R-IA) campaigns for reelection during a farm event in central Iowa Thursday. She accompanied Sonny Perdue, the US Secretary of Agriculture, who made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: US Senator JONI ERNST (R-IA) campaigns for reelection during a farm event in central Iowa Thursday. She accompanied Sonny Perdue, the US Secretary of Agriculture, who made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: Gov. KIM REYNOLDS arrives at a farm event in central Iowa. Sonny Perdue, the US Secretary of Agriculture, made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa during a farm visit in central Iowa Thursday. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds and US Senator Joni Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: SONNY PERDUE, the US Secretary of Agriculture walks through field on a farm in central Iowa. Perdue made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa during a farm visit in central Iowa Thursday. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds and US Senator Joni Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: Gov. KIM REYNOLDS arrives at a farm event in central Iowa. Sonny Perdue, the US Secretary of Agriculture, made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa during a farm visit in central Iowa Thursday. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds and US Senator Joni Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: Gov. KIM REYNOLDS arrives at a farm event in central Iowa. Sonny Perdue, the US Secretary of Agriculture, made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa during a farm visit in central Iowa Thursday. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds and US Senator Joni Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A cotton candy vendor works the crowd while Thais looks for blessed rice seeds at the Royal Ploughing Ceremony. After the ceremony, thousands of Thais, mostly family formers, rush onto the ploughed ground to gather up the blessed rice seeds sown by the Brahmin priests. The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: People rush onto the field at the Royal Ploughing Ceremony in Bangkok. After the ceremony, thousands of Thais, mostly family formers, rush onto the ploughed ground to gather up the blessed rice seeds sown by the Brahmin priests. The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A man sells blessed rice seeds his family (background) collected at the Royal Ploughing Ceremony. After the ceremony, thousands of Thais, mostly family formers, rush onto the ploughed ground to gather up the blessed rice seeds sown by the Brahmin priests. The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A man looks for blessed rice seeds after the Royal Ploughing Ceremony in Bangkok. After the ceremony, thousands of Thais, mostly family formers, rush onto the ploughed ground to gather up the blessed rice seeds sown by the Brahmin priests. The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A man sells blessed rice seeds he collected at the Royal Ploughing Ceremony. After the ceremony, thousands of Thais, mostly family formers, rush onto the ploughed ground to gather up the blessed rice seeds sown by the Brahmin priests. The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A man sells blessed rice seeds he collected at the Royal Ploughing Ceremony. After the ceremony, thousands of Thais, mostly family formers, rush onto the ploughed ground to gather up the blessed rice seeds sown by the Brahmin priests. The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:   A woman sifts through the sand looking for rice seeds blessed by Brahmin priests at the Royal Ploughing Ceremony. After the ceremony, thousands of Thais, mostly family formers, rush onto the ploughed ground to gather up the blessed rice seeds sown by the Brahmin priests. The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thousands crowd into the ploughed ground to collect blessed rice seeds at the Royal Ploughing Ceremony. After the ceremony, thousands of Thais, mostly family formers, rush onto the ploughed ground to gather up the blessed rice seeds sown by the Brahmin priests. The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:    A child trips and is dragged by her mother as people rush onto Sanam Luang to collect blessed rice seeds after the Royal Ploughing Ceremony. After the ceremony, thousands of Thais, mostly family formers, rush onto the ploughed ground to gather up the blessed rice seeds sown by the Brahmin priests. The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2010 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: People look for rice seeds that have been blesses by Brahman priests after the Royal Plowing Ceremony. The Royal Ploughing Ceremony dates back to at least the Sukhothai Period (ca 13th and 14th centuries). The event is a Brahman ceremony. In ancient times it was to portend the agricultural fortunes of the coming planting season, bless the fields and pray for bountiful rains. Now it is more of a cultural event the Thai monarchy, which presides over the event, uses to stress the importance of farming to the nation. However, people still flock to it for the religious aspects and afterwards try to gather rice seeds, which have been blessed by the Brahman priests. Thailand is experiencing its worst drought in decades this year and despite the prayers of the priests Thai farmers are being told to expect smaller yields. They are being asked to delay planting for up to a month to use less water.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2010 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: People rush onto the field after the Royal Plowing Ceremony to gather up rice seeds that have been blesses by Brahman priests. The Royal Ploughing Ceremony dates back to at least the Sukhothai Period (ca 13th and 14th centuries). The event is a Brahman ceremony. In ancient times it was to portend the agricultural fortunes of the coming planting season, bless the fields and pray for bountiful rains. Now it is more of a cultural event the Thai monarchy, which presides over the event, uses to stress the importance of farming to the nation. However, people still flock to it for the religious aspects and afterwards try to gather rice seeds, which have been blessed by the Brahman priests. Thailand is experiencing its worst drought in decades this year and despite the prayers of the priests Thai farmers are being told to expect smaller yields. They are being asked to delay planting for up to a month to use less water.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: US Senator JONI ERNST (R-IA) campaigns for reelection during a farm event in central Iowa Thursday. She accompanied Sonny Perdue, the US Secretary of Agriculture, who made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: SONNY PERDUE, the US Secretary of Agriculture walks through field on a farm in central Iowa. Perdue made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa during a farm visit in central Iowa Thursday. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds and US Senator Joni Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: Sonny Perdue, the US Secretary of Agriculture, made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa during a farm visit in central Iowa Thursday. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds and US Senator Joni Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: SONNY PERDUE, the US Secretary of Agriculture takes off his face mask as he arrives on a farm in central Iowa. Perdue made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa during a farm visit in central Iowa Thursday. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds and US Senator Joni Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A man looks for blessed rice seeds after the Royal Ploughing Ceremony in Bangkok. After the ceremony, thousands of Thais, mostly family formers, rush onto the ploughed ground to gather up the blessed rice seeds sown by the Brahmin priests. The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: SONNY PERDUE, the US Secretary of Agriculture, announces a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa during a farm visit in central Iowa Thursday. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds and US Senator Joni Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.        PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: US Senator JONI ERNST (R-IA) campaigns for reelection during a farm event in central Iowa Thursday. She accompanied Sonny Perdue, the US Secretary of Agriculture, who made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.        PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: SONNY PERDUE, the US Secretary of Agriculture, on a farm in central Iowa. Perdue made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa during a farm visit in central Iowa Thursday. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds and US Senator Joni Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: Iowa Governor KIM REYNOLDS, left, and US Senator JONI ERNST (R-IA) talk to Iowa farmers. They were with Sonny Perdue, the US Secretary of Agriculture, who made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa during a farm visit in central Iowa Thursday. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: US Senator JONI ERNST (R-IA) campaigns for reelection during a farm event in central Iowa Thursday. She accompanied Sonny Perdue, the US Secretary of Agriculture, who made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: US Senator JONI ERNST (R-IA) campaigns for reelection during a farm event in central Iowa Thursday. She accompanied Sonny Perdue, the US Secretary of Agriculture, who made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: SONNY PERDUE, the US Secretary of Agriculture walks through field on a farm in central Iowa. Perdue made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa during a farm visit in central Iowa Thursday. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds and US Senator Joni Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: People wait for the Royal Ploughing Ceremony to start under umbrellas to shield them from the sun and heat. After the ceremony, thousands of Thais, mostly family formers, rush onto the ploughed ground to gather up the blessed rice seeds sown by the Brahmin priests. The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:   A family sifts through the sand they took from the Royal Ploughing Ceremony looking for blessed rice seeds sown by court Brahmins in Bangkok. After the ceremony, thousands of Thais, mostly family formers, rush onto the ploughed ground to gather up the blessed rice seeds sown by the Brahmin priests. The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  People stroke the Royal Oxen and rub money on the animal's forehead for good luck at the Royal Ploughing Ceremony in Bangkok. After the ceremony, thousands of Thais, mostly family formers, rush onto the ploughed ground to gather up the blessed rice seeds sown by the Brahmin priests. The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  Thousands crowd into the ploughed ground to collect blessed rice seeds at the Royal Ploughing Ceremony. After the ceremony, thousands of Thais, mostly family formers, rush onto the ploughed ground to gather up the blessed rice seeds sown by the Brahmin priests. The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  Women sift through the sand looking for rice seeds blessed by Brahmin priests at the Royal Ploughing Ceremony. After the ceremony, thousands of Thais, mostly family formers, rush onto the ploughed ground to gather up the blessed rice seeds sown by the Brahmin priests. The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thousands crowd into the ploughed ground to collect blessed rice seeds at the Royal Ploughing Ceremony. After the ceremony, thousands of Thais, mostly family formers, rush onto the ploughed ground to gather up the blessed rice seeds sown by the Brahmin priests. The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:   A man collects blessed rice seeds in a plastic bag after the Royal Ploughing Ceremony in Bangkok. After the ceremony, thousands of Thais, mostly family formers, rush onto the ploughed ground to gather up the blessed rice seeds sown by the Brahmin priests. The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  Collected rice seeds and dirt in a farmer's hat after the Royal Ploughing Ceremony. The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  Collected rice seeds and dirt in a farmer's hat after the Royal Ploughing Ceremony. The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:    A child trips and is dragged by her mother as people rush onto Sanam Luang to collect blessed rice seeds after the Royal Ploughing Ceremony. After the ceremony, thousands of Thais, mostly family formers, rush onto the ploughed ground to gather up the blessed rice seeds sown by the Brahmin priests. The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A man shades himself with the flag of the Royal Family and a fan depicting Bhumibol Adulyadej, the King of Thailand, and his wife, Queen Sirikit.  The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Musicians of the Royal Court start the Royal Ploughing Ceremony in Bangkok. The Royal Plowing Ceremony is held Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. The date is usually in May, but is determined by court astrologers and varies year to year. During the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and plough a small field on Sanam Luang (across from the Grand Palace), while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court astrologers and Brahmins make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. A similar ceremony is held in Cambodia.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: SONNY PERDUE, the US Secretary of Agriculture, on a farm in central Iowa. Perdue made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa during a farm visit in central Iowa Thursday. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds and US Senator Joni Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.        PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: SONNY PERDUE, the US Secretary of Agriculture, announces a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa during a farm visit in central Iowa Thursday. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds and US Senator Joni Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.        PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: SONNY PERDUE, the US Secretary of Agriculture, announces a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa during a farm visit in central Iowa Thursday. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds and US Senator Joni Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.        PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: US Senator JONI ERNST (R-IA) campaigns for reelection during a farm event in central Iowa Thursday. She accompanied Sonny Perdue, the US Secretary of Agriculture, who made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.        PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: Sonny Perdue, the US Secretary of Agriculture, made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa during a farm visit in central Iowa Thursday. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds and US Senator Joni Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: US Senator JONI ERNST (R-IA) campaigns for reelection during a farm event in central Iowa Thursday. She accompanied Sonny Perdue, the US Secretary of Agriculture, who made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.        PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: US Senator JONI ERNST (R-IA) campaigns for reelection during a farm event in central Iowa Thursday. She accompanied Sonny Perdue, the US Secretary of Agriculture, who made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.        PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: SONNY PERDUE, left, first four wheeler, tours a farm in central Iowa. Perdue, the US Secretary of Agriculture, made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa during a farm visit in central Iowa Thursday. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds and US Senator Joni Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: US Senator JONI ERNST (R-IA) campaigns for reelection during a farm event in central Iowa Thursday. She accompanied Sonny Perdue, the US Secretary of Agriculture, who made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: US Senator JONI ERNST (R-IA) waves from a four wheeler while campaigning for reelection during a farm event in central Iowa Thursday. She accompanied Sonny Perdue, the US Secretary of Agriculture, who made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.        PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 - RADCLIFFE, IOWA: Gov Kim Reynolds on a farm in central Iowa. Sonny Perdue, the US Secretary of Agriculture, made a secretarial disaster declaration for 42 counties in central Iowa during a farm visit in central Iowa Thursday. Perdue was accompanied by Governor Kim Reynolds and US Senator Joni Ernst. The secretarial disaster declaration frees up more federal funds, from the Department of Agriculture, to help in recovery from the derecho storm that wiped out about one-third of Iowa's corn crop on Monday, August 10, 2020. Many Iowa farmers are still rebuilding lost buildings or plowing under lost crops.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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