Monday, July 20, 2015

Farm and Food Photos July 20, 2015

Staffs of farmland belonged to Qingkou Agriculture Investment Company spray pesticides on crops with Qi Mingjun's home-made helium balloon spraying machines on July 14, 2105 in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province of China. Worker Qi Mingjun of a farmland invented helium balloons spraying machines to improve spraying areas for his machines would spray nearly 400,000 square meters. Photo CREDIT: CHINAFOTOPRESS / Getty Images.
Traders sort the different quality and varieties of durians into crates at a road side stall in Titi in the district of Jelebu in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia on Monday, July 13th 2015 in Johor, Malaysia. The Southeast Asian native fruit -- known for its sweet, custardy flesh and banned from Singapore's subways and hotels because of its pungent odor -- can retail for more than S$40 ($30) apiece in Singapore. Photographer: Sanjit Das / Bloomberg via Getty Images . CREDIT: BLOOMBERG.
Farmers gather together as part of a protest in Fontenay le Pesnel, near Caen in northwestern France, on July 19, 2015. The farmers are protesting against high market prices of supermarkets. photo credit: AFP / CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / Getty Images.
Fred Midcap, owner of Midcap Farms, climbs down from the combine harvester after getting an error message saying that the transmission filter needs to be changed Thursday, July 16, 2015 at Midcap Farms in Wiggins, Colorado. Farmers, especially wheat farmers, are seeing high crop yields this year because all of the moisture, but there is still a downside because of the lowering of prices for the overstock and wheat rust. Photo CREDIT: BRENT LEWIS / Denver Post / Getty Images.
Workers arrange peppers as they harvested peppers on to a truck at the Uesugi Farm in Byron, California, U.S., on Thursday, July 16, 2015. A record-setting drought has squeezed Californias $43 billion agricultural industry and led to mandatory, statewide water restrictions for the first time. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images. CREDIT: BLOOMBERG