Farm building: Quick Facts

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A large grain elevator and several metal silos stand on a farm surrounded by green fields, with hills and a partly cloudy sky in the background.

Holstein cows eat silage from a feeding trough outside a large red and white barn with ventilation fans on a dairy farm in Wisconsin.

An Amish horse and buggy travels down a rural road past a white barn and fields on an Amish farm in Millersburg, Ohio, with autumn trees in the background.

Rows of bright yellow tobacco leaves hang to dry inside an open-air wooden barn with a rusted metal roof, set in a green field in Kentucky.

Three traditional gassho-zukuri farmhouses with steep thatched roofs stand behind a green rice field in Shirakawa-go village, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.

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