Sunday, August 20, 2017

Global Food and Agriculture Photos August 20, 2017

This roundup of global food, farming, and agricultural photos appears every Sunday on Big Picture Agriculture.

U.S.A.
Embed from Getty Images

Deere & Co. John Deere tractors sit on display for sale at the Smith Implements Inc. dealership in Greensburg, Indiana, U.S., on Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017. Deere & Co. is scheduled to release earnings figures on August 18. Photo credit: Luke Sharrett / Bloomberg/ Getty Images.

E.U.
Embed from Getty Images

Women stand behind vegetables stalls on a market organized by the MODEF agricultural union (Defense Movement for Family Producers) to denounce abusive margins taken by the retail industry, on the place de la Bastille in Paris on August 17, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / Bertrand GUAY / Getty Images.
Embed from Getty Images

People demonstrate as reapers from the French Ariege department arrive for their trial at the Correctional Court of Foix, southern France, on August 17, 2017. 21 reapers are charged for having rendered pesticide cans containing glyphosate unsuitable for sale in several do-it-yourself stores in the region in September 2016. Photo credit: AFP / REMY GABALDA / Getty Images.
Embed from Getty Images

A picture taken on August 18, 2017 shows eggs on waffles in Lille, northern France, as packaged waffles were withdrawn from sale in France in connection with European egg contamination scandal. The tainted-eggs scandal that swept Europe this month saw millions of eggs destroyed and caused tens of millions of euros in damages. Photo credit: AFP / PHILIPPE HUGUEN / Getty Images.
Embed from Getty Images

A customer shops for fruit and vegetable produce at an indoor market in Rome, Italy, on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. Italy's economic recovery extended for a tenth straight quarter, boosting optimism that growth can become sustainable this year amid a rise in industrial production. Photo credit: Alessia Pierdomenico / Bloomberg / Getty Images.
Embed from Getty Images

A field with industrial hemp growing in France on 15 August 2017. The cultivation of Hemp has been for the last decade the only culture with no OGM and no chemicals process, that offers the most variety of spin-off products. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.
Embed from Getty Images

Combine harvesters, manufactured by Claas KGaA, operate in a wheat field in Wustermark, Germany, on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017. In Germany, problems with specific weight and Hagberg, a measure of baking quality, mean as much as 40 percent of wheat may have to go to the animal feed market this year. Photo credit: Krisztian Bocsi / Bloomberg / Getty Images.
Embed from Getty Images

A Case New Holland Italia SpA CR9.90 combine harvester operates in a wheat field during harvest at a farm near Cambridge, U.K., on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017. Premiums for bread milling wheat jumped 74 percent last week to the years high, AHDB figures compiled by Bloomberg show. Photo credit: Jason Alden / Bloomberg / Getty Images.

VIETNAM
Embed from Getty Images

A vegetable vendor sits among her baskets of goods at a market in downtown Hanoi on August 16, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / HOANG DINH Nam / Getty Images.

TAJIKISTAN
Embed from Getty Images

Drying apples in the village of Safedsang, Mu'minobod District. Photo credit: Nozim Kalandarov / TASS / Getty Images.
Embed from Getty Images

Harvesting honey in the village of Safedsang, Mu'minobod District. Photo credit: Nozim Kalandarov / TASS / Getty Images.
Embed from Getty Images

A young woman feeds apples to a calf in the village of Safedsang, Mu'minobod District. Photo credit: Nozim Kalandarov / TASS / Getty Images.
Embed from Getty Images

Residents have lunch in the village of Safedsang, Mu'minobod District. Photo credit: Nozim Kalandarov / TASS / Getty Images.

BHUBANESWAR
Embed from Getty Images

Village women daily wage laborers look at the agricultural paddy field as they are busy in the paddy saplings replanting works outskirts of the eastern Indian state Odisha's capital city Bhubaneswar on 19 August 2017. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

INDIA
Embed from Getty Images

An Indian farmer stacks stalks of freshly harvest jute at Krishnanagar in Nadia District some 130kms east of Kolkata on August 18, 2017. Jute is one of the most important natural fibers after cotton in terms of cultivation and usage. Cultivation is dependent on the climate, season, and soil. Almost 85% of the world's jute cultivation is concentrated in the Ganges Delta, the fertile geographic region which is shared by both Bangladesh and India. Photo credit: AFP / DIBYANGSHU SARKAR / Getty Images.
Embed from Getty Images

Indian farmers harvest jute fibres at Krishnanagar in Nadia District some 130kms east of Kolkata on August 18, 2017. Jute is one of the most important natural fibers after cotton in terms of cultivation and usage. Cultivation is dependent on the climate, season, and soil. Almost 85% of the world's jute cultivation is concentrated in the Ganges Delta, the fertile geographic region which is shared by both Bangladesh and India. Photo credit: AFP / DIBYANGSHU SARKAR / Getty Images.

PALESTINE
Embed from Getty Images

A Palestinian man sprays vines a month before harvesting the grapes in the village of Halhul, north of the West Bank city of Hebron, on August 17, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / HAZEM BADER / Getty Images.
Embed from Getty Images

A Palestinian man checks his vines a month before harvesting the grapes in the village of Halhul, north of the West Bank city of Hebron, on August 17, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / HAZEM BADER / Getty Images.

TURKEY
Embed from Getty Images

Sacrificial animals wait for the customers at a livestock market ahead of the upcoming Muslim sacrificial festival 'Eid al-Adha in Sanliurfa, Turkey on August 18, 2017. Photo credit: Anadolu Agency / Getty Images.

CHINA
Embed from Getty Images

A pig jumps into a pond in Shenyang in China's northeastern Liaoning province on August 17, 2017. The Chinese pig farmer trains his pigs to dive from a 3-meter platform to get a higher quality of pork. Photo credit: AFP / STR / China OUT / Getty Images.
Embed from Getty Images

Pigs jump into a pond in Shenyang in China's northeastern Liaoning province on August 17, 2017. The Chinese pig farmer trains his pigs to dive from a 3-meter platform to get a higher quality of pork. Photo credit: AFP / STR / China OUT / Getty Images.
Embed from Getty Images

This photo taken on August 14, 2017 shows farmers spraying herbicide in a Chinese chive field in Liaocheng in China's Eastern Shandong province. Photo credit: AFP / STR / China OUT / Getty Images.
Embed from Getty Images

This photo taken on August 12, 2017 shows a competitor eating chili peppers while taking a 'chili bath' during a chili pepper eating competition in Ningxiang in central China's Hunan province. The winner of the contest, held in the scenic region to attract tourists to Hunan province which is famous for spicy food, was the person who could eat 15 chili peppers in one minute. Photo credit: AFP / STR / China OUT / Getty Images.
Embed from Getty Images

A 72 year old man harvested a 207cm length loofah in Taiyuan, Shanxi on 16th August, 2017. Photo credit: TPG / Getty Images.

HONG KONG
Embed from Getty Images

A vendor (C) puts out durian fruit for sale at the food expo in Hong Kong on August 19, 2017. This years food expo, held at the Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Centre, runs from August 17-21. Photo credit: AFP / ISAAC LAWRENCE / Getty Images.
Embed from Getty Images

This picture taken on August 17, 2017 shows a customer walking past different brands of instant noodles for sale in a supermarket in Hong Kong. From decades-old holes in the wall to multi-million dollar businesses, Hong Kong's noodle scene is a sprawling moneyspinner in a city that runs on quick and affordable comfort food. Photo credit: AFP / ISAAC LAWRENCE / Getty Images.

TURKMENISTAN
Embed from Getty Images

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov (2nd L), surrounded by officials and participants of the upcoming 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, inspects melons on display during Melon Day celebrations in Ashgabat on August 18, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / IGOR SASIN / Getty Images.

FINALLY, FROM MY TOWN of BOULDER, COLORADO (There is a bike path alongside where this fella is sitting that I take on occasion - and it's downhill all the way home!)
Embed from Getty Images

A traveler Richard Kroyer and his Heeler, Dillion resting along Boulder Creek in Boulder Canyon while visiting family in the area. August 15, 2017 Boulder, Colorado. Photo credit: Denver Post / Joe Amon / Getty Images.