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Farming: Food and Energy(44 images)
Farming in Central Illinois has always meant crops. Corn and soybeans have always been the cash crops in this area. Livestock is a part of the culture, but plays a lessor role in recent times.

High fuel costs have altered the way those crops are used. Both are now used for additives in our major fuels.

Wind is blowing in to Central Illinois like a hurricane....
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  • 29 October 2006:  A good harvest has exceeded the available storage space. Temporary storage is built next to this elevator and the grain is covered with plastic tarps.  The grain will remain this way until it is bought and moved. LeRoy, Illinois.<br />
 By photographer Alan Look
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  • 29 October 2006:  Farm implements sit ready at a small grain storage area on a small farm. Rural McLean County, Illinois.<br />
 By photographer Alan Look
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  • 29 October 2006:  International Combines are popular for harvesting.  The corn harvest in Rural McLean County, Illinois is coming to an end.<br />
 By photographer Alan Look
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  • 29 October 2006: Corn stalks dried to a golden brown signal the time for harvest. Rural McLean County, Illinois<br />
 By photographer Alan Look
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  • 29 October 2006:  Corn can be seen rising from the hopper of this Gleaner combine. Rural McLean County, Illinois.<br />
 By photographer Alan Look
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  • 29 October 2006:  As the fall harvest finishes, wagons, tractors, trucks, and combines line the edges of the fields that used to contain the crops. Rural McLean County Illinois.<br />
 By photographer Alan Look
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  • 29 October 2006:  A large spool sit next to a rural road with coils of cable leading to a trench in the ground.  The cables ultimately will connect a new wind farm to it's collection and distribution center. Eastern McLean County, Illinois.<br />
 By photographer Alan Look
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  • 29 October 2006:  Wings or blades of a windmill that will eventually be assembled for harvesting wind power. The blades lie between the standards that the windmill will sit atop of.  Eastern McLean County, Illinois.<br />
 By photographer Alan Look
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  • 29 October 2006:  As the crops are harvest between Ellsworth and Saybrook, a wind farm begins to rise.  Agriculture and energy are becoming synonymous in Central Illinois.  Corn and soybeans are being used for fuel supplements and lad is being leased for the wind farms to harvest natural energy. Rural McLean County, Illinois.<br />
 By photographer Alan Look
    electric ge...jpg
  • 29 October 2006:  Windmill used to produce electricity. Eastern McLean County, Illinois.<br />
 By photographer Alan Look
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  • 29 October 2006:  As the crops are harvest between Ellsworth and Saybrook, a wind farm begins to rise.  Agriculture and energy are becoming synonymous in Central Illinois.  Corn and soybeans are being used for fuel supplements and lad is being leased for the wind farms to harvest natural energy. Rural McLean County, Illinois.<br />
 By photographer Alan Look
    electric ge...jpg
  • 29 October 2006:  Windmill used to produce electricity. Eastern McLean County, Illinois.<br />
 By photographer Alan Look
    electric ge...jpg
  • 29 October 2006: Unattended farm implements sit in a harvested field in the shadow of a new windmill.  The windmill will be a part of a large wind farm in eastern McLean County, Illinois.<br />
 By photographer Alan Look
    electric ge...jpg
  • 29 October 2006:  As the crops are harvest between Ellsworth and Saybrook, a wind farm begins to rise.  Agriculture and energy are becoming synonymous in Central Illinois.  Corn and soybeans are being used for fuel supplements and lad is being leased for the wind farms to harvest natural energy. Rural McLean County, Illinois.<br />
 By photographer Alan Look
    electric ge...jpg
  • 29 October 2006:  As the crops are harvest between Ellsworth and Saybrook, a wind farm begins to rise.  Agriculture and energy are becoming synonymous in Central Illinois.  Corn and soybeans are being used for fuel supplements and lad is being leased for the wind farms to harvest natural energy. Rural McLean County, Illinois.<br />
 By photographer Alan Look
    electric ge...jpg
  • 17 July 2009: Wind turbines tower over crops in the Rail Splitter Wind Farm south of Hopedale Illinois is operated by Horizon Wind Energy By photographer Alan Look
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  • 17 July 2009: Wind turbines tower over crops along a gravel road lined with utility polse in the Rail Splitter Wind Farm south of Hopedale Illinois is operated by Horizon Wind Energy By photographer Alan Look
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  • 17 July 2009: Wind turbines tower over crops in the Rail Splitter Wind Farm south of Hopedale Illinois is operated by Horizon Wind Energy By photographer Alan Look
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  • 17 July 2009: Wind turbines tower over crops in the Rail Splitter Wind Farm south of Hopedale Illinois is operated by Horizon Wind Energy By photographer Alan Look
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  • 17 July 2009: Farm buildings and grain fields are dwarfed by the power turbines at the Rail Splitter Wind Farm south of Hopedale Illinois is operated by Horizon Wind Energy By photographer Alan Look
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  • 17 July 2009: Farm buildings and grain fields are dwarfed by the power turbines at the Rail Splitter Wind Farm south of Hopedale Illinois is operated by Horizon Wind Energy By photographer Alan Look
    rail splitt...jpg
  • 17 July 2009: Farm buildings and grain fields are dwarfed by the power turbines at the Rail Splitter Wind Farm south of Hopedale Illinois is operated by Horizon Wind Energy By photographer Alan Look
    rail splitt...jpg
  • 17 July 2009: Farm buildings and grain fields are dwarfed by the power turbines at the Rail Splitter Wind Farm south of Hopedale Illinois is operated by Horizon Wind Energy By photographer Alan Look
    rail splitt...jpg
  • 17 July 2009: Farm buildings and grain fields are dwarfed by the power turbines at the Rail Splitter Wind Farm south of Hopedale Illinois is operated by Horizon Wind Energy By photographer Alan Look
    rail splitt...jpg
  • 17 July 2009:  Farmstead and power turbine in Rail Splitter Wind Farm south of Hopedale Illinois is operated by Horizon Wind Energy. By photographer Alan Look
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