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A Year in Review
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It’s been quite a year. As farmers, you’ve encountered everything from challenging planting conditions, news of a Chinese soybean tariff, plummeting commodity prices and a harvest that didn’t want to end. Iowa Soybean Review photographer, Joseph L. Murphy, captured a collection of images that evoke memories, illustrate emotions, address social issues and add clarity to our world. The following photographs are a small selection of moments captured in 2018.
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Mike Holdeman, sheep shearer from Pella
Chad Green at the Guthrie Livestock Auction
A monarch butterfly lands on a prairie flower
Randy Miller, an ISA director from Lacona, examines the growth of his soybeans. Miller and farmers across the state dealth with extreme weather conditions during the growing and harvest seasons, yet still harvested a record crop.
A move for the ages — Brock Hansen, an Iowa Soybean Association member from Baxter, recently moved an old granary several miles across frozen soybean fields to his home farm.
President Donald Trump holds a rally in Council Bluffs. He spoke about renegotiating the U.S. Canada Mexico Trade Agreement and the tariff situation with China and other countries.
Bill Gill at a coffee shop near Kellogg.
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