Hill, an affable environmental scientist with a slight drawl and a ruddy complexion, met Rogers in 1992, while selling boiled peanuts at the side of the road outside Gainesville to pay for his education at a local community college.

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Tim Yeo, the shadow agriculture spokesman, combines a patrician manner with an appropriately ruddy complexion and an impressive grasp of country matters.

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