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Combine harvester

Rows of white wind turbines with spinning blades stand on a dry, grassy landscape at a wind farm near Tehachapi, California.

Weathered wooden barn with a metal roof stands in a field of tall dry grass, with hay bales stacked nearby and mountains visible in the background in Oregon.

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.

Mississippi, U.S.: catfish farming

This diagram illustrates the cloning process of Dolly the sheep in 1996, showing how a nucleus from an adult Finn Dorset ewe was fused with an enucleated egg cell from a Scottish Blackface ewe, then implanted into a surrogate to produce Dolly.

A herd of Holstein cows stands in a fenced pasture in front of red barns and two tall silos on a modern Wisconsin dairy farm.

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