Sunday, June 24, 2018

Global Food and Agriculture Photos June 24, 2018

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

U.S.A.
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Corn plants are seen knocked over during a thunderstorm in a field near Tiskilwa, Illinois, U.S., on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. A rout in commodities deepened as the threat of a trade war between the world's two biggest economies intensified, hitting markets from steel to soybeans. Corn slipped to the lowest since January, while wheat and cotton also dropped. Photo credit: Daniel Acker / Bloomberg / Getty Images.
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Justin Allgaier, driver of the #7 BRANDT Professional Agriculture Chevrolet, celebrates by doing a burnout after winning the NASCAR Xfinity Series Iowa 250 presented by Enogen at Iowa Speedway on June 17, 2018 in Newton, Iowa. Photo credit: Matt Sullivan / Getty Images.

E.U.
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A woman walks with her Highland cattle on the second day of The Royal Highland Show at the Royal Highland Centre in Ingliston, near Edinburgh on June 22, 2018. - The show is the largest agricultural show in Scotland, and the highlight of the farming calendar. Photo credit: AFP / ANDY BUCHANAN / Getty Images.
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Gordon Connor from Linlithgow with a Jacob sheep as he prepares it for the Royal Highland Show on June 21, 2018 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Photo credit: Robert Perry / Getty Images.
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Susanne Lier, veterinarian of the veterinary practice 'Hohne' prepares an injection before the treatment. The number of farm veterinarians in Germany is dropping - many of them decide to specialize on pet animals. This trend is worrying for farmers and agriculturalists. Photo credit: Hauke-Christian Dittrich / dpa picture alliance / Getty Images.
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A farmer drives in the freshly mown grass from a field in Germany. Photo credit: Karl-Josef Hildenbrand / dpa picture alliance / Getty Images.
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A Slovak farmer drives his tractor on June 20, 2018 in Bratislava downtown during a protest ride against irregularities in EU farm subsidy payments first made public by murdered journalist Jan Kuciak. - The farmers are demanding transparent rules for land usage rights and the distribution of EU subsidies among other issues, according to the Rural Platform group behind the protest. Photo credit: AFP / VLADIMIR SIMICEK / Getty Images.
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Stefanie (L-R), Erika, Barbara, Sina, Theresa and Julia posing during a press photo shoot for the Jungbauernkalender (lit. 'young farmers' calender') 2019. Germany. Photo credit: Armin Weigel / dpa picture alliance / Getty Images.
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French beekeepers Thomas Le Glatin (L) and Claire Prieur watch their beehives frames burn, after they set them alight following the death of their bees, on June 19, 2018 in Ploerdut, western France. - Thomas and Claire, French beekeepers in Brittany, are being forced to reduce to ashes '90 percent of their hives and a year of production'. Helpless, they call for a collective awareness about the dangers of bee-harming pesticides. Photo credit: AFP / FRED TANNEAU / Getty Images.

MYANMAR
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Myanmar women agricultural workers harvest sesame seeds in Naypyidaw on June 17, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / THET AUNG / Getty Images.

CHINA
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This photo taken on June 16, 2018 shows an image of a 'thousand-hand Bodhisattva' created using different varieties of rice in a paddy in Shenyang in China's northeast Liaoning province. / China OUT Photo credit: AFP / - / Getty Images.

INDIA
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Indian farm labourers plant paddy seedlings in a field on the outskirts of Amritsar on June 22, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / NARINDER NANU / Getty Images.
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An Indian farmer ploughs a rice paddy field with a tractor on the outskirts of Amritsar on June 18, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / NARINDER NANU / Getty Images.

AFGHANISTAN
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In this photograph taken on June 20, 2018 Afghan farmers load watermelons on a truck on the outskirts of Jalalabad. Photo credit: AFP / NOORULLAH SHIRZADA / Getty Images.

IRAQ
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An Iraqi Kurdish farmer works in a field as he harvests wheat in the Qandil Mountains, northern Iraq, on June 22, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / SAFIN HAMED / Getty Images.

PALESTINE
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Palestinian men harvest wheat in the West Bank village of Salem, east of Nablus, on June 18, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / Getty Images.

FROM HERE IN THE BOULDER BUBBLE:
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Kevin Manley walks across Boulder Creek on a slack line he set up between the banks on June 20, 2018 in Boulder, Colorado. Warm weather has settled in the area with less severe weather and afternoon thunderstorms allowing people to enjoy the warmer temperatures. Photo credit: Denver Post / Helen H. Richardson / Getty Images.