Sunday, July 15, 2018

Global Food and Agriculture Photos July 15, 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 and soybeans grow on a farm on July 13, 2018 near Tipton, Iowa. Farmers in Iowa and the rest of the country, who are already faced with decade-low profits, are bracing for the impact a trade war with China may have on their bottom line going forward. Photo credit: Scott Olson / Getty Images.
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An employee stands next to boxes of imported Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. beef sitting stacked on on pallets inside an elevator at the Suzhou Huadong Foods Ltd. cold storage facility in Suzhou, China, on Saturday, July 7, 2018. China's retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods struck just as one of its biggest meat importers was rushing a shipment from California through Shanghai customs. Now Suzhou Huadong Foods Ltd. is lumbered with a stack of unaffordable American steak. Photo credit: Qilai Shen / Bloomberg / Getty Images.
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Roundup products are seen for sale at a store in San Rafael, California, on July, 9, 2018. - A lawyer for a California groundskeeper dying of cancer took aim at Monsanto on July 9, 2019 as a jury began hearing the lawsuit accusing the chemical giant of ignoring health risks of its top-selling weed killer Roundup. Photo credit: AFP / JOSH EDELSON / Getty Images.

CANADA
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CannTrust Holding Inc. signage is displayed outside the Niagara Perpetual Harvest facility in Pelham, Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday, July 11, 2018. Canadian pot stocks have had a wild ride in the past year with the BI Canada Cannabis Competitive Peers Index surging about 250 percent from October to December as the road to legalization became clearer in Canada, before dropping by about 36 percent this year. Photo credit: Cole Burston / Bloomberg / Getty Images.
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Cannabis plants grow in a greenhouse at the CannTrust Holding Inc. Niagara Perpetual Harvest facility in Pelham, Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday, July 11, 2018. Photo credit: Cole Burston / Bloomberg / Getty Images.

E.U.
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A combine harvester harvesting a corn field. The Westphalia-Lippe Agricultural Association gives insights in to a wheat harvest. Photo credit: Guido Kirchner / picture alliance / Getty Images.
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Heidschnucke rams are presented by breeders at the 69th 'Moorland Sheep Day'. Breeders and keepers meet for the presentation, award ceremony and auctioning of the young breeding rams in the district of Celle. Photo credit: Philipp Schulze / picture alliance / Getty Images.
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Eggs are displayed ahead of judging during the final day of the 160th Great Yorkshire Show on July 12, 2018 in Harrogate, England. First held in 1838 the show brings together agricultural displays, livestock events, farming demonstrations, food, dairy and produce stands as well as equestrian events. The popular agricultural show is held over three days and celebrates the farming and agricultural community and their way of life. Photo credit: Ian Forsyth / Getty Images.
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Cocker Spaniels Seren (L) and Ash stand on a hay bale as they give a working dog demonstration during the final day of the 160th Great Yorkshire Show on July 12, 2018 in Harrogate, England. Photo credit: Ian Forsyth / Getty Images.
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Sheep are led around the judging ring during a heat at the 160th Great Yorkshire Show on July 10, 2018 in Harrogate, England. Photo credit: Ian Forsyth / Getty Images.
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Workers arriving at the site of the agricultural trade group Ceravis AG while lorries accumulate in front of the gates. The Food, Beverages and Catering Union (NGG) called for a two hour strike in order to create pressure for a collective wage agreement. Photo credit: Bernd Wüstneck / picture alliance / Getty Images.
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The rye is harvested at the Chapel of Reconciliation. The around half-a-hectare-big grain field inside the former death strip is a highly symbolical sign for life and an important element at the monument area of the Berlin Wall. The grain is later processed to bread and wafers for the Holy Communion in the chapel. Photo credit: Jörg Carstensen / picture alliance / Getty Images.
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Peter Proebstle, representative and division manager forest at the Amt für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten (AELF) (lit. Office for Nutrition, Agriculture and Forest), waters the plants at a show garden for 'Urban Gardening'. Show gardens for 'Urban Gardening' are planned all over Bavaria from 2019 onwards. Photo credit: Daniel Karmann / picture alliance / Getty Images.

ARGENTINA
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View of a soybean field near Gualeguaychu, Entre Rios province, Argentina, on February 8, 2018. - Soybean fields in Argentina are often fumigated with glyphosate, a herbicide which is probably carcinogenic according to the World Health Organization (WHO), but which is needed to maintain crops of transgenic seeds. The first trial for the possible effects of Round Up, Monsanto's polemic herbicide containing glyphosate, starts on July 9 in the US. Photo credit: AFP / PABLO AHARONIAN / Getty Images.
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Argentinian former farmworker Fabian Tomasi (R) and his mother Nelida Beatriz Obispo remain at their house during an interview with AFP in Basavilbaso, Entre Rios province, Argentina on February 7, 2018. - Tomasi used to work supplying herbicides for plane spraying and did not use protection. Photo credit: AFP / PABLO AHARONIAN / Getty Images.
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Discarded agrochemical cans are seen at a depot near Gualeguaychu, Entre Rios province, Argentina, on February 7, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / PABLO AHARONIAN / Getty Images.

INDIA
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An Indian farmer ploughs a paddy field with cows following monsoon rains in Phafamau village near Allahabad on July 12, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / SANJAY KANOJIA / Getty Images.

RUSSIA
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Harvesting barley in a field of the Krasnokutskoye company in Oktyabrsky District. Photo credit: Valery Matytsin / TASS / Getty Images.
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A worker operates a harvester in a field of the Krasnokutskoye company in Oktyabrsky District. Photo credit: Valery Matytsin / TASS / Getty Images.

BELARUS
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Workers harvest bog blueberry at the Olshany farm near the village of Vysokoye, Brest Region. Photo credit: Viktor Drachev / TASS / Getty Images.
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Female workers harvest bog blueberry at the Olshany farm near the village of Vysokoye, Brest Region. Photo credit: Viktor Drachev / TASS / Getty Images.