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A day of harvesting at the Templeton farm
Friday, November 3, 2017
Photographer Angela Major spent a day with the Templeton family in Evansville during their harvest.
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A truck is parked outside of the milking parlor at the start of the work day at the Templeton farm in Evansville. Milking begins at 4:00 a.m.
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Dairy cows eat their feed on a chilly morning on the Templeton farm.
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Rich Templeton Jr., right, and his twin brother, Don Templeton, finish up the first milking. The two wake at 3:30 a.m. to share the early morning shift.
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Rich Templeton Jr. uses a hose to clean the milking parlor before making his way to his parents' house with his brother for breakfast.
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Rich Templeton Sr. reads a newspaper in the milking parlor while waiting for sons Don and Rich Jr. to finish milking.
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Rich Sr. Templeton watches his son Don pour milk into his bowl of cereal. Don and his twin brother, Rich Jr., have cereal and milk for breakfast every morning.
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Rich Templeton Jr.â??s 23-year-old son, Christopher, unties bedding for heifers in a barn down the road from the main farm.
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Heifers are kept behind a gate while Rich Templeton Jr. and his son Christopher clean the barn and replace the bedding.
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Rich Templeton Jr. drives a tractor pulling a manure spreader to a nearby field.
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Christopher Templeton, left, and his father, Rich Jr., use a notebook to organize ear tags as they get ready to clip them onto calves.
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Rich Templeton Jr., left, holds a calf while his son Christopher puts a tag in the ear. Even though harvesting is the most important task of the day, other chores still need to be done around the farm.
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Christopher Templeton discovers a Jersey calf just a couple hours old sitting in bedding and carries her to the barn where the other calves are kept.
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Christopher gently lowers a calf to the ground. The calf, just hours old, was not yet strong enough to stand.
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Shirley Templeton prepares bagged lunches for her husband, Rich Sr., and her son Don, who were out harvesting corn.
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Rich Templeton Sr. drives a combine through a field of corn.
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Rich Templeton Sr. operates a combine while harvesting corn. He uses hand gestures to communicate with his son Don, who drives the grain cart.