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Crop sprayer
A crop-spraying plane applies pesticide to a soybean field in Nobles County, Minn. on Monday, Aug. 8, 2011. Some farmers are spraying their soybean fields for aphids this year. Dealing with the insect is one of the headaches farmers face as they get ready for the fall harvest.
MPR Photo/Mark Steil
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GOP debate
Republican presidential candidates former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, left, listens to Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., center, and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty during the Iowa GOP/Fox News Debate at the CY Stephens Auditorium in Ames, Iowa, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011.
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Crop sprayer
A crop-spraying plane applies pesticide to a soybean field in Nobles County, Minn. on Monday, Aug. 8, 2011. Some farmers are spraying their soybean fields for aphids this year. Dealing with the insect is one of the headaches farmers face as they get ready for the fall harvest.
MPR Photo/Mark Steil
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Canoeing at sunset
The sun sets as two paddlers make their way across Lac La Croix in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
MPR Photo/Nathaniel Minor