Sunday, May 20, 2018

Global Food and Agriculture Photos May 20, 2018

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

U.S.A.
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Women pick crabs at the W.T. Ruark Seafood Co., on May 17, 2018 in Hoopers Island, Maryland. Due to a new lottery system this year several seafood companies failed to get temporary H-2B visas for their mostly Mexican workforce that has been coming to the Maryland eastern shore for over two decades to pick the crab meat that is sold in restaurants and stores on the east coast. Photo credit: Mark Wilson / Getty Images.

CANADA
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Neil Closner, chief executive officer of MedReleaf Corp., exits after a news conference at the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Monday, May 14, 2018. Aurora Cannabis Inc. agreed to buy rival MedReleaf Corp. for about C$2.9 billion ($2.3 billion) in stock, the companies said Monday in a statement. The deal will create a producer with the capacity to grow 570,000 kilos (1.26 million pounds) a year of cannabis at nine facilities in Canada and two in Denmark. Photo credit: Cole Burston / Bloomberg / Getty Images.

CAMBODIA
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Cambodian farmers harvest morning glory at a farm in Phnom Penh on May 17, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / TANG CHHIN SOTHY / Getty Images.

BELARUS
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Agro-town of Olshany in Belarus. Boxes of harvested tomatoes at a greenhouse in the agro-town of Olshany, Stolin District. 25 large farming enterprises that grow cucumbers, tomatoes and cabbage are registered in the town. 90% of the produced vegetables are exported to Russia. Photo credit: Viktor Drachev / TASS / Getty Images.
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A view of the Kazargat-2 commercial dairy farm of the Turovshchina agricultural company in Zhytkavichy District of Belarus. The Kazargat-1 and the Kazargat-2 commercial dairy farms supply milk to the Turov dairy plant. Photo credit: Viktor Drachev / TASS / Getty Images.

SOUTH AFRICA
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Harvested soya beans are poured from the combine harvester into a wagon that a tractor will transport to the local silo's near Bothaville, South Africa on May 16, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / WIKUS DE WET / Getty Images.
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Cows walk between crops on a farm near Bothaville, South Africa on May 16, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / WIKUS DE WET / Getty Images.

CHINA
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Farmers dry edible rose petals in Haian in China's Jiangsu province on May 14, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / - / Getty Images.

BANGLADESH
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Bangladeshi vegetable vendor waits for customer in waterlogged kitchen market at Karwan Bazar in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on May 13, 2018. After monsoon heavy rains caused waterlogged most of area in the capital city of Dhaka in Bangladesh. Roads were partially submerged making travel hazardous. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.
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Life street at the Jurain rail line bazaar in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 12 May 2018. There are 2 or 3 dangerous bazaar in the capital Dhaka. These bazaars are dangerously close to the rail line. Often casualties happen in these areas but these bazaars are going on full-swing. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

GAZA
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Palestinian farmers harvest wheat at a field located in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, near the border with Israel on , Sunday, May 13, 2018. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

INDIA
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Indian labourers take a tea break at a wholesale market for food grains and spices in New Delhi on May 15, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / PRAKASH SINGH / Getty Images.

RUSSIA
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An aerial view of the Ecoservice-Agro greenhouse facility, a part of Agrokompleks Yemelyanovsky agricultural complex, in the Moshkovo District of Russia. Photo credit: Kirill Kukhmar / TASS / Getty Images.
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Goats in the milking room of the Koza Nostra ecological farm raising various goat breeds and producing cheese made of goat and cow milk, in the Taldom District of the Moscow Region. Photo credit: Sergei Bobylev / TASS / Getty Images.
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A view of the Koza Nostra ecological farm raising various goat breeds and producing cheese made of goat and cow milk, in the Taldom District of the Moscow Region. Photo credit: Sergei Bobylev / TASS / Getty Images.

FROM MY BOULDER BUBBLE
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Artist and muralist Remington Robinson works on a mural of a Brown Trout on the side of Rocky Mountain Anglers on May 14, 2018 in Boulder, Colorado. Robinson, a Boulder-based painter, specializes in hyperrealism, plein air and mural painting. Photo credit: Denver Post / Helen H. Richardson / Getty Images. NOTE: I met "Rem" a year ago, as he built a canvas for me for a custom painting order that I did for a neighbor. Great guy. Small world.