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Grain elevator, Frytown, Iowa.

View of farm fields, Johnson County, Iowa.

Steer riding at a youth rodeo, Ottumwa, Iowa.

Eleven-year-old Karlin Stutzman gets out of the back of his family’s pickup while his brothers wait for the rifle to slaughter a cow outside of Kalona, Iowa. Children grow up fast on family farms in Iowa.

A young girl dreams of becoming a summer festival queen like her older sister, Conesville, Iowa.

Gabriel Stutzman carries eggs into the house on his family’s farm near Kalona, Iowa. Gabriel is the youngest of nine children to be raised by his Mennonite parents on the farm.

Brothers collect firewood for their home’s wood-burning furnace on a Mennonite farm near Kalona, Iowa.

Kevin Stutzman, who normally rises at 5 a.m. to milk cows on his family’s farm, sleeps in. Kevin’s family raises cows, hogs and chickens along with a small dairy operation on their farm near Kalona, Iowa.

Teenagers drink and swim at jumping rock, a notorious party spot along the Iowa River.

Beers are passed around at jumping rock, a notorious party spot along the Iowa River. Drinking and diving off the cliffs is illegal and law enforcement officials often fine violators.