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Build & Grow { 24 images } Created 22 Jul 2015

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  • Bruno Durant owns and operates Silver Bait, a worm farm spread out over 775 acres in Coalmont, Tennessee. Bruno and his wife, Veronique, both natives of France, moved to southern Tennessee in 2004 to start the farm.
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  • A truck carrying salt water, used in natural gas drilling, rolls through the center of Mansfield, Louisiana. Independent oil and gas producers that drill most of the wells in the United States have created the technology to extract natural gas from shale rock at an economic price, transforming the natural gas scene along with small communities in Texas and Louisiana.
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  • A man checks a conveyance record in the records room of the DeSoto Parish Courthouse in Mansfield, Louisiana. Abstract specialists, land brokers and others check property titles to land in DeSoto Parish in the records room. Independent oil and gas producers that drill most of the wells in the United States have created the technology to extract natural gas from shale rock at an economic price, transforming the natural gas scene along with small communities in Texas and Louisiana.
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  • A piece of Haynesville Shale, extracted from 12,361 feet underground from the Shell Blackstone Ivory #15 well site in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana is on display at the Haynesville Shale Expo in Shreveport, Louisiana. The piece of shale, from the Jurassic period, holds an ammonite fossil. Independent oil and gas producers that drill most of the wells in the United States have created the technology to extract natural gas from shale rock at an economic price, transforming the natural gas scene along with small communities in Texas and Louisiana.
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  • A contractor works on the deck of a drilling rig at a Devon Energy site in Center, Texas. Independent oil and gas producers that drill most of the wells in the United States have created the technology to extract natural gas from shale rock at an economic price, transforming the natural gas scene along with small communities in Texas and Louisiana.
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  • Contractors work on the Chesapeake Trinidad 127 rig deck in South Caddo Parish, Louisiana. Independent oil and gas producers that drill most of the wells in the United States have created the technology to extract natural gas from shale rock at an economic price, transforming the natural gas scene along with small communities in Texas and Louisiana.
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  • A miniature pump sits on the desk of Jim May at the DeSoto Parish Chamber of Commerce in Mansfield, Louisiana. Independent oil and gas producers that drill most of the wells in the United States have created the technology to extract natural gas from shale rock at an economic price, transforming the natural gas scene along with small communities in Texas and Louisiana.
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  • Charcoal await packaging at a Kingsford manufacturing plant in Belle, Missouri.
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  • ConocoPhillips Wood River Refinery in Roxana, Illinois
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  • Ralph Upton Jr. poses for a portrait on a portion of his land filled with cover crops near Springerton, Illinois. The use of cover crops in farming is growing in popularity due to the plants' ability to manage soil erosion.
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  • Max Lawton hauls lugs of freshly picked Norton grapes at Robller Vineyard and Winery in New Haven, Missouri. Robller has 17 acres of vineyards and grows a dozen varieties of grapes.
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  • Chambourcin grapes sit in a bin – holding just under a ton of the fruit – after being harvested by machine at Montelle Winery in Augusta, Missouri. One ton of grapes typically makes 160 gallons of wine. The winery expected to harvest approximately 30 tons of the French-American hybrid grape.
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  • A Precision Planting field demonstration shows the roots of corn stalks at the 2013 Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Illinois.
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  • Members of the Washington University in St. Louis Alumni Board of Governors received a tour of the new Hillman Hall which will house the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.
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  • Bees sit on display in an observation hive during the Eastern Missouri Beekeepers Association meeting in Clayton, Missouri.
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  • Workers handpick Norton grapes at Stone Hill Winery's Cross J Vineyard in Hermann, Missouri.
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  • Monsanto provides a demonstration to growers and dealers at the 2013 Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Illinois.
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  • Free-range chickens roost at Bowood Farms in Clarksville, Missouri.
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  • Dave Rickard sows tomato seeds in one of the greenhouses at Bowood Farms in Clarksville, Missouri.
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  • Bruno Durant owns and operates Silver Bait, a worm farm spread out over 775 acres in Coalmont, Tennessee. Bruno and his wife, Veronique, both natives of France, moved to southern Tennessee in 2004 to start the farm.
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  • Cory Meeks (right) cuts concrete blocks with the assistance of a coworker at Silver Bait, a worm farm owned and operated by Bruno Durant in Coalmont, Tennessee. Bruno and his wife, Veronique, both natives of France, moved to southern Tennessee in 2004 to start the farm.
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  • Employees take their lunch break at Silver Bait, a worm farm owned and operated by Bruno Durant in Coalmont, Tennessee. Bruno and his wife, Veronique, both natives of France, moved to southern Tennessee in 2004 to start the farm.
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  • Worms are harvested at Silver Bait, a worm farm owned and operated by Bruno Durant in Coalmont, Tennessee. Bruno and his wife, Veronique, both natives of France, moved to southern Tennessee in 2004 to start the farm.
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  • Bruno (left) and Veronique Durant work from their offices at Silver Bait, a worm farm owned and operated by the couple in Coalmont, Tennessee. Bruno and his wife, Veronique, both natives of France, moved to southern Tennessee in 2004 to start the farm.
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