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20130920-USDA-OC-PSD-0043 Agriculture in the United States
Kevin Kirby, in his tractor, begins the sweet potato harvest process by plowing them up from his fields at Kirby Farms, a third-generation family farm, have for more than a century, worked their land in Mechanicsville, VA, just outside Richmond, in a year-around operation, that covers 500 acres, and generates produce and grains, on Friday, Sept 20, 2013. The growing plants are on the right, and the partially unearthed potatoes are on the left. 200 acres of the farm are devoted to eggplant, spina
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20130920-USDA-OC-PSD-0044 Agriculture in the United States
Migrant workers pick squash, while a tractor makes a U-turn at the end of a row and pulls a processing trailer that has the rinse tub and new boxes for the squash, at Kirby Farms, a third-generation family farm, who have for more than a century, worked their land in Mechanicsville, VA, just outside Richmond, in a year-around operation, that covers 500 acres, and generates produce and grains, on Friday, Sept 20, 2013. Today’s harvest is sweet potatoes and squash. 200 acres of the farm are devote
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20130920-USDA-OC-PSD-0045 Agriculture in the United States
Just-picked green zucchini squash sits momentarily before being loaded onto a processing trailer where migrant workers at Kirby Farms in Mechanicsville, VA, carefully rinse and pack the fruit for shipment to wholesalers, on Friday, Sep. 20, 2013. Kirby Farms is a third-generation family farm that covers 500 acres, and generates produce and grains on a year-around operation. For more information about this farm operation, please see the photoset description at flic.kr/s/aHsjLgeD4J. For informatio
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20130920-USDA-OC-PSD-0046 Agriculture in the United States
The tight spaces of delicate squash plant branches require the use of a special knife with an angled blade that slices when using a stabbing motion, to making a clean cut, a fraction of an inch away from the zucchini fruit, at Kirby Farms, a third-generation family farm, who have for more than a century, worked their land in Mechanicsville, VA, just outside Richmond, in a year-around operation, that covers 500 acres, and generates produce and grains, on Friday, Sept 20, 2013. These zucchini frui
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20130920-USDA-OC-PSD-0048 Agriculture in the United States
Migrant workers, in distance, delicately lift and separate the greens from large sweet potatoes, at Kirby Farms in Mechanicsville, VA on Friday, Sept. 20, 2013. Fresh from the ground the red skin is easily marred. Hand picking helps keep them looking good. From here, they will be cured in an onsite-heated warehouse to toughen the skin and bring its sweetness to the level commonly expected in markets. 200 acres of the farm are devoted to eggplant, spinach, beets, tomato, Jalapeno peppers, melons
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20130920-USDA-OC-PSD-0049 Agriculture in the United States
Kirby Farms uses micro irrigation (drip watering) and plastic mulch (row covering) to efficiently row green zucchini squash, in Mechanicsville, VA, on Friday, Sept 20, 2013. Water is pumped through a filtration /regulation system to flexible distribution pipes and hard connectors. Emitter hoses can be driven in where needed. When pressurized the hoses emit water at a very slow rate near the base of the plants. Farm equipment can be driven on unpresurized flexible pipe. Computers or timer can
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Harvest (20130920-OC-LSC-0079)
Migrant workers rinse and pack just-picked yellow squash on a processing trailer at Kirby Farms in Mechanicsville, VA on Sep. 20, 2013. Kirby Farms is a third-generation family farm that covers 500 acres, and generates produce and grains on a year-around operation. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.
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Harvest (20130920-OC-LSC-0098)
Migrant workers pick yellow squash, while a tractor pulls a processing trailer with a rinse tub and new boxes for the squash at Kirby Farms in Mechanicsville, VA on Sep. 20, 2013. Kirby Farms is a third-generation family farm that covers 500 acres, and generates produce and grains on a year-around operation. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.
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Mechanicsville, Va LCCN2014646033
Title: Mechanicsville, Va Abstract: Photograph shows a group of houses and buildings in Mechanicsville, Virginia along the Chickahominy River. Physical description: 1 photograph : albumen print on card mount. Notes: Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. 4, page 223".; No. 4157.; Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. II, pl. 95.; Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.; Title from item.
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Mechanicsville, Virginia - negative by J. Reekie, positive by A. Gardner. LCCN2007685830
Title: Mechanicsville, Virginia / negative by J. Reekie, positive by A. Gardner. Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print : albumen.
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President Barack Obama waves as he heads to the motorcade after a stop at Berry's Produce market in Mechanicsville, Va., Saturday, July 14, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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