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Published: September 23, 2009

Every year, Western Producer reporters and photographers and our fabulous freelancers fan out across the Prairies to photograph the harvest. It’s the culmination of a growing season’s worth of work and we like to record it and share it with readers. We find that it helps to have a theme, to help focus our photographers, and this year the theme is Gathering.

So, after many farmers have gathered this year’s crop, or at least some of it, our photographers will gather photos and our editors will gather and sort them into a special feature for our Oct. 8 edition. There are more than we can publish, so we’ll put some on our website too.

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