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  • 2010 Sauger, Maas and Scofield families camping trip in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
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  • MACON, NORTH CAROLINA - May 2001: Brown Jeff Hawkins passes freshly picked eggs to his wife Lillie in Macon, NC. Like most small family farmers, Hawkins has a full-time job. After retiring from teaching school, Hawkins went back to teaching again to help make ends meet on top of the livestock farm he operates with his wife Lillie. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • MACON, NORTH CAROLINA - May 2001: Brown Jeff Hawkins stands on the porch of the house where he grew up in in Macon, NC, in May 2001. "When I grew up, they had white water and black water. At the courthouse they had a white spigot and a black spigot," recalled Hawkins. "I always drank from the white spigot just to be defiant." This is the homestead house that he was raised in on his family's farm. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • TILLERY, NORTH CAROLINA - May 2001: Gary R. Grant, founding president of the national Black Farmers and Agriculturists Association, takes a phone call at his office in Tillery, NC, in May 2001. Grant was reared on a family farm in the New Deal Community of Tillery Farms, located in Halifax County, North Carolina. A longtime community activist, Grant led the charge to bring a class action lawsuit against the USDA. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • MACON, NORTH CAROLINA - May 2001: Brown Jeff Hawkins feeds his hogs at his farm in Macon, NC, in May 2001. Like most small family farmers, Brown Jeff Hawkins has a full-time job. After retiring from teaching school, Hawkins went back to work full time teaching again to help make ends meet on top of the livestock farm he operates with his wife. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • ROCKY MOUNT, VIRGINIA - May 2001: Sherman Witcher shows an eviction notice at his home in Rocky Mount, VA, in May 2001. After winning a discrimination suit 4 years earlier against the USDA for nearly $70 million, Sherman Witcher has lost his farm, been evicted from three homes, and forced to settle for $1.7 million. He and his brother Doug also had to sign a gag order and no member of their family will ever be able to get a government loan. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • BIDWELL, OHIO - November 1999: Bill Howard cuts corn into silage that will be used to feed the 100 head of cows he owns in Bidwell, Ohio, in November 1999. In 1969 Howard bought his farm and today he is the last African American dairy farmer in Gallia County, Ohio. With his son Andy and daughter Diane not in the farming business, this may be the last generation of the Howard family to farm. In 1997, the United States Census reported that there were only five dairy or cattle farms in Ohio operated by black and other non-caucasian races. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • AFTON, NORTH CAROLINA - May 2001: With help from son James, James Davis plants seeds in the family garden at his farm in Afton, NC, in May 2001. "Deep inside I'm hurt. I feel like throwing my hands up and saying, 'This is it, I give up.' That's  the point I'm at," said James Davis, 44, as he and his son James, 9, plant beet seeds in their organic garden. "My kids shouldn't have to suffer cause I'm not getting funds to expand. My kids deserve better than staying in a single wide motor home." (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • AFTON, NORTH CAROLINA - May 2001: With help from son James, James Davis plants seeds in the family garden at his farm in Afton, NC, in May 2001. "Deep inside I'm hurt. I feel like throwing my hands up and saying, 'This is it, I give up.' That's  the point I'm at," said James Davis, 44, as he and his son James, 9, plant beet seeds in their organic garden. "My kids shouldn't have to suffer cause I'm not getting funds to expand. My kids deserve better than staying in a single wide motor home." (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • MACON, NORTH CAROLINA - May 2001: Brown Jeff Hawkins stands on the porch of the house where he grew up in in Macon, NC, in May 2001. "When I grew up, they had white water and black water. At the courthouse they had a white spigot and a black spigot," recalled Hawkins. "I always drank from the white spigot just to be defiant." This is the homestead house that he was raised in on his family's farm. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • AFTON, NORTH CAROLINA - May 2001: With help from son James, James Davis plants seeds in the family garden at his farm in Afton, NC, in May 2001. "Deep inside I'm hurt. I feel like throwing my hands up and saying, 'This is it, I give up.' That's  the point I'm at," said James Davis, 44, as he and his son James, 9, plant beet seeds in their organic garden. "My kids shouldn't have to suffer cause I'm not getting funds to expand. My kids deserve better than staying in a single wide motor home." (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • TILLERY, NORTH CAROLINA - May 2001: Gary R. Grant, founding president of the national Black Farmers and Agriculturists Association, takes a phone call at his office in Tillery, NC, in May 2001. Grant was reared on a family farm in the New Deal Community of Tillery Farms, located in Halifax County, North Carolina. A longtime community activist, Grant led the charge to bring a class action lawsuit against the USDA. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • BIDWELL, OHIO - November 1999: Bill Howard cuts corn into silage that will be used to feed the 100 head of cows he owns in Bidwell, Ohio, in November 1999. In 1969 Howard bought his farm and today he is the last African American dairy farmer in Gallia County, Ohio. With his son Andy and daughter Diane not in the farming business, this may be the last generation of the Howard family to farm. In 1997, the United States Census reported that there were only five dairy or cattle farms in Ohio operated by black and other non-caucasian races. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • ROCKY MOUNT, VIRGINIA - May 2001: Sherman Witcher shows an eviction notice at his home in Rocky Mount, VA, in May 2001. After winning a discrimination suit 4 years earlier against the USDA for nearly $70 million, Sherman Witcher has lost his farm, been evicted from three homes, and forced to settle for $1.7 million. He and his brother Doug also had to sign a gag order and no member of their family will ever be able to get a government loan. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • MACON, NORTH CAROLINA - May 2001: Brown Jeff Hawkins feeds his hogs at his farm in Macon, NC, in May 2001. Like most small family farmers, Brown Jeff Hawkins has a full-time job. After retiring from teaching school, Hawkins went back to work full time teaching again to help make ends meet on top of the livestock farm he operates with his wife. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • MACON, NORTH CAROLINA - May 2001: Brown Jeff Hawkins passes freshly picked eggs to his wife Lillie in Macon, NC. Like most small family farmers, Hawkins has a full-time job. After retiring from teaching school, Hawkins went back to teaching again to help make ends meet on top of the livestock farm he operates with his wife Lillie. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • AFTON, NORTH CAROLINA - May 2001: With help from son James, James Davis plants seeds in the family garden at his farm in Afton, NC, in May 2001. "Deep inside I'm hurt. I feel like throwing my hands up and saying, 'This is it, I give up.' That's  the point I'm at," said James Davis, 44, as he and his son James, 9, plant beet seeds in their organic garden. "My kids shouldn't have to suffer cause I'm not getting funds to expand. My kids deserve better than staying in a single wide motor home." (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • BIDWELL, OHIO - January 2000: Bill Howard uses his tractor to drive in his herd of dairy cows in for a milking at his farm in Bidwell, Ohio, in January 2000. “Years ago there was a lot of black farmers around here. They pushed them out —75-to-80-years-ago this whole section of hills was full of them,” Bill said. “They died off, their offspring moved away and sold out to the white guys.” (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • BIDWELL, OHIO - October 1999: Bill Howard drops wooden stakes among rows of tobacco plants at his farm in Bidwell, Ohio, in October 1999. He hired Mexican migrant workers to help harvest the tobacco. “I never had anything handed to me except a lot of work. I used to jump up at 4 and think I had to get all this work done — it made an old man out of me. Now, I just get done what I can; I go with the flow.” Bill said. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • BIDWELL, OHIO - October 1999: Bill Howard works in his milking barn at his farm in Bidwell, Ohio, in October 1999. With two milkings-a-day, Bill Howard spends a minimum of six-hours-a-day in rubber boots on the slippery concrete floor of his milking barn that is covered with cow waste. The 55-year-old former high school football star has high blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis in his hands, blood poisoning in his left foot and a bad knee from his football days. His doctor believes his leg was broken and he just kept playing football without knowing. “I’m just falling apart,” He said. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • THURMOND, OHIO - Bill Howard catches up with one of his mentors Jim Burleson at Burleson's cattle farm in Thurmond, Ohio, in May 2001. Burleson taught both of Howard's children in high school. "That's one great guy," Bill says. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • BIDWELL, OHIO - October 1999: James Howard wipes his brow after cutting tobacco in Bidwell, Ohio, in October 1999. To help ends meet, James drives a school bus full-time, raises hogs and with his brother Bill Howard raises hay and tobacco. In 1974, Bill Howard bought his silo, feed bunk, and drag chain for $25,000. Today it would cost about $65,000. “Money ain’t everything, but, it kind of helps to have some. If I die they ain’t gonna fight over my money.” Howard said. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • ROCKY MOUNT, VIRGINIA - May 2001:  From left, Justan Witcher leads his sister Destiny, father Sherman, brother Sheldon and mother Terri in prayer before Sunday breakfast at their current home in Rocky, Mount, VA, in May 2001. "There's a misconception that we're poor dirt farmers too ignorant to articulate our problems," says Terri Witcher, a school teacher. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • THURMOND, OHIO - May 2001: While out running errands, Bill Howard catches up with one of his mentors Jim Burleson at Burleson's cattle farm in Thurmond, Ohio, in May 2001. Burleson taught both of Howard's children in high school. "That's one great guy," Bill says. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • MACON, NORTH CAROLINA - May 2001: It's cheaper for Brown Jeff Hawkins to buy a truck load of day old bread than grain to feed livestock. His goats, llamas and mules tear open the plastic bags to get to the bread leaving the plastic alone at his farm in Macon, NC, in May 2001. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • FERRUM, VIRGINIA - May 2001: Sheldon Witcher holds onto his father Sherman while on a field trip with wife Terri's class to the Blue Ridge Farm Museum in Ferrum, VA, in May 2001. "Most of us have been bent to the point of no return," said Sherman Witcher. "Our farm is gone, our mom is gone..."  (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA - May 2001: Joel Smith kisses a young goat at the dairy farm he operates with his father M.O. Smith in Williamsburg, VA. The Smiths own the livestock and equipment and Gospel Spreading Church in Newport News, VA, which they belong to, owns the land. It is said to be the oldest black dairy farm in VA. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • TILLERY, NORTH CAROLINA - May 2001: Gary Grant, left, watches his mother Florenza Grant read a Mother's Day card at her home in Tillery, NC. Grant's father Matthew is on dialysis and his mother is in the beginning stages of Alzheimer's disease. Matthew and Florenza acquired their first farmland in Tillery, NC, under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "New Deal Resettlement Project" in January 1947.(Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • AFTON, NORTH CAROLINA - May 2001: James Davis fertilizes young tobacco plants at his farm in Afton, NC, in May 2001. "If I could get the money to produce the quantity, I could be more successful. Because of the debt I'm in I just can't quit," said James Davis on his farm in Afton, NC, in May 2001. "They came up with a figure of $1.5 million because of the way I was discriminated against. Here I am living in a three-bedroom single-wide mobile home at the age of 44 with three kids and a loving wife that stands behind me 100 percent." (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA - May 2001: M.O. Smith wipes the sweat from his brow while hosing down the milking barn after the morning milking at his farm in Williamsburg, VA. The Smiths own the livestock and equipment and Gospel Spreading Church in Newport News, VA, which they belong to, owns the land. It is said to be the oldest black dairy farm in VA.<br />
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"The black farmer was the backbone of America in farming," said M. O. Smith, 80. "Now, big corporations are taking over the farm industry, feeling they can take the land, build house, golf courses and shopping centers. They're interested in destroying the farm land. There's a day coming when they gonna need food, but, they're not going to be able to get food from that concrete." (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • BIDWELL, OHIO - October 24, 1999: The Harvest Moon rises over Bill and Jackie Howard’s 115-acre farm in Bidwell, Ohio on October 24, 1999. In October of 1971 Bill started milking; they raise dairy cows, tobacco, silage corn and hay. “In 1971 I bought cows for $300-a-piece; I got 40 cows for $12,000. I got into the dairy business for $15,000.” Bill said, “Now, $15,000 won’t get you nothing.” (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • ROCKY MOUNT, VIRGINIA - May 2001: Sherman and Terri Witcher mourn the loss of Sherman's mother Barbara Jean Witcher at her funeral in Rocky Mount, VA, in May 2001. "Our mom basically took on all of our stress," said Sherman Witcher. "What hurt my mom so bad is we won this thing and they just kept moving the finish line." Mrs. Witcher died May 12, 2001, the night before Mother's Day, from a heart attack in Rocky Mount, VA. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • On a rainy October day, the pungent air filled with moist silage and clanking of a drag chain, Howard is lost in thought as he watches the feed bunk fill with silage. In 1974 he bought his silo, feed bunk, and drag chain for $25,000. Today it would cost about $65,000. “Money ain’t everything, but, it kind of helps to have some. If I die they ain’t gonna fight over my money.” Howard said. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • ROCKY MOUNT, VIRGINIA - May 2001: Doug Witcher points out 2 of 13 bullet holes in the windshield of a semi-truck he owned with his brother Sherman. in Rocky Mount, VA, in May 2001. "If you go to every farmer in this complaint, they all have an issue," says Sherman Witcher. "We all have a bond. We can't get loans because of the color of our skin." After bringing one of their semis up from the field to be repossessed by the bank in Rocky Mount, VA, somebody shot 13 bullet holes in it. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • On a rainy October day, the pungent air filled with moist silage and clanking of a drag chain, Howard is lost in thought as he watches the feed bunk fill with silage. In 1974 he bought his silo, feed bunk, and drag chain for $25,000. Today it would cost about $65,000. "Money ain't everything, but, it kind of helps to have some. If I die they ain't gonna fight over my money." Howard said. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • BIDWELL, OHIO - January 2000: Bill Howard uses his tractor to drive in his herd of dairy cows in for a milking at his farm in Bidwell, Ohio, in January 2000. "Years ago there was a lot of black farmers around here. They pushed them out --75-to-80-years-ago this whole section of hills was full of them," Bill said. "They died off, their offspring moved away and sold out to the white guys." (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • THURMOND, OHIO - Bill Howard catches up with one of his mentors Jim Burleson at Burleson's cattle farm in Thurmond, Ohio, in May 2001. Burleson taught both of Howard's children in high school. "That's one great guy," Bill says. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • BIDWELL, OHIO - October 24, 1999: The Harvest Moon rises over Bill and Jackie Howard's 115-acre farm in Bidwell, Ohio on October 24, 1999. In October of 1971 Bill started milking; they raise dairy cows, tobacco, silage corn and hay. "In 1971 I bought cows for $300-a-piece; I got 40 cows for $12,000. I got into the dairy business for $15,000." Bill said, "Now, $15,000 won't get you nothing." (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • ROCKY MOUNT, VIRGINIA - May 2001:  From left, Justan Witcher leads his sister Destiny, father Sherman, brother Sheldon and mother Terri in prayer before Sunday breakfast at their current home in Rocky, Mount, VA, in May 2001. "There's a misconception that we're poor dirt farmers too ignorant to articulate our problems," says Terri Witcher, a school teacher. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • FERRUM, VIRGINIA - May 2001: Sheldon Witcher holds onto his father Sherman while on a field trip with wife Terri's class to the Blue Ridge Farm Museum in Ferrum, VA, in May 2001. "Most of us have been bent to the point of no return," said Sherman Witcher. "Our farm is gone, our mom is gone..."  (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA - May 2001: M.O. Smith wipes the sweat from his brow while hosing down the milking barn after the morning milking at his farm in Williamsburg, VA. The Smiths own the livestock and equipment and Gospel Spreading Church in Newport News, VA, which they belong to, owns the land. It is said to be the oldest black dairy farm in VA..."The black farmer was the backbone of America in farming," said M. O. Smith, 80. "Now, big corporations are taking over the farm industry, feeling they can take the land, build house, golf courses and shopping centers. They're interested in destroying the farm land. There's a day coming when they gonna need food, but, they're not going to be able to get food from that concrete." (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA - May 2001: Joel Smith kisses a young goat at the dairy farm he operates with his father M.O. Smith in Williamsburg, VA. The Smiths own the livestock and equipment and Gospel Spreading Church in Newport News, VA, which they belong to, owns the land. It is said to be the oldest black dairy farm in VA. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • MACON, NORTH CAROLINA - May 2001: It's cheaper for Brown Jeff Hawkins to buy a truck load of day old bread than grain to feed livestock. His goats, llamas and mules tear open the plastic bags to get to the bread leaving the plastic alone at his farm in Macon, NC, in May 2001. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • TILLERY, NORTH CAROLINA - May 2001: Gary Grant, left, watches his mother Florenza Grant read a Mother's Day card at her home in Tillery, NC. Grant's father Matthew is on dialysis and his mother is in the beginning stages of Alzheimer's disease. Matthew and Florenza acquired their first farmland in Tillery, NC, under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "New Deal Resettlement Project" in January 1947.(Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • AFTON, NORTH CAROLINA - May 2001: James Davis fertilizes young tobacco plants at his farm in Afton, NC, in May 2001. "If I could get the money to produce the quantity, I could be more successful. Because of the debt I'm in I just can't quit," said James Davis on his farm in Afton, NC, in May 2001. "They came up with a figure of $1.5 million because of the way I was discriminated against. Here I am living in a three-bedroom single-wide mobile home at the age of 44 with three kids and a loving wife that stands behind me 100 percent." (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • THURMOND, OHIO - May 2001: While out running errands, Bill Howard catches up with one of his mentors Jim Burleson at Burleson's cattle farm in Thurmond, Ohio, in May 2001. Burleson taught both of Howard's children in high school. "That's one great guy," Bill says. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • ROCKY MOUNT, VIRGINIA - May 2001: Sherman and Terri Witcher mourn the loss of Sherman's mother Barbara Jean Witcher at her funeral in Rocky Mount, VA, in May 2001. "Our mom basically took on all of our stress," said Sherman Witcher. "What hurt my mom so bad is we won this thing and they just kept moving the finish line." Mrs. Witcher died May 12, 2001, the night before Mother's Day, from a heart attack in Rocky Mount, VA. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • BIDWELL, OHIO - October 1999: James Howard wipes his brow after cutting tobacco in Bidwell, Ohio, in October 1999. To help ends meet, James drives a school bus full-time, raises hogs and with his brother Bill Howard raises hay and tobacco. In 1974, Bill Howard bought his silo, feed bunk, and drag chain for $25,000. Today it would cost about $65,000. "Money ain't everything, but, it kind of helps to have some. If I die they ain't gonna fight over my money." Howard said. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • BIDWELL, OHIO - October 1999: Bill Howard drops wooden stakes among rows of tobacco plants at his farm in Bidwell, Ohio, in October 1999. He hired Mexican migrant workers to help harvest the tobacco. "I never had anything handed to me except a lot of work. I used to jump up at 4 and think I had to get all this work done -- it made an old man out of me. Now, I just get done what I can; I go with the flow." Bill said. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • BIDWELL, OHIO - October 1999: Bill Howard works in his milking barn at his farm in Bidwell, Ohio, in October 1999. With two milkings-a-day, Bill Howard spends a minimum of six-hours-a-day in rubber boots on the slippery concrete floor of his milking barn that is covered with cow waste. The 55-year-old former high school football star has high blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis in his hands, blood poisoning in his left foot and a bad knee from his football days. His doctor believes his leg was broken and he just kept playing football without knowing. "I'm just falling apart," He said. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • ROCKY MOUNT, VIRGINIA - May 2001: Doug Witcher points out 2 of 13 bullet holes in the windshield of a semi-truck he owned with his brother Sherman. in Rocky Mount, VA, in May 2001. "If you go to every farmer in this complaint, they all have an issue," says Sherman Witcher. "We all have a bond. We can't get loans because of the color of our skin." After bringing one of their semis up from the field to be repossessed by the bank in Rocky Mount, VA, somebody shot 13 bullet holes in it. (Photo by Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • Ali Al-kasid shows off his Russian-made BKC machine gun during the Istikbal, or homecoming celebration, held in honor of his uncle Malik Al-Kasid's family Wednesday, July 30, 2003. The celebration lasts three days with tribal chiefs, family and friends coming and going each day. ..The Al-Kasid family fled Iraq after the Gulf War and their part in the uprising against Saddam Hussein in 1991, spent 3 years in Rafa, Saudi Arabia and finally settled in Dearborn, MI. The family hasn't been home to Iraq in 13 years. After their participation in the 1991 uprising, Saddam Hussein's forces burned the Al-Kasid family Motheff, along with their cars, to the ground.
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