One victim was Luo Runxiu, a short-haired 56-year-old kiwi-fruit farmer with a broken leg, who was sharing a hospital room with three other victims.

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Cezanne is renowned for his still lifes of fruit, often painted fresh from a local farmer's market.

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Dean Norton, president of New York's Farm Bureau and a dairy farmer in Genesee County, said fruit and vegetable growers as well as dairy farmers have been suffering from a shortage of labor.

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Named after postal worker Rudolph Hass, who purchased the seedling in 1926 from a California farmer, the distinctive purplish-black fruit has a thicker skin and smaller body than other varieties.

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And if the fruit of their labor was not protected, neither the hunter nor the farmer would have labored in the first place.

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Organic herb farmer Jekka McVicar, who sits on the Royal Horticultural Society's fruit, veg and herb committee, highlights the fact that the herb is seasonal.

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