Sunday, October 7, 2018

Global Food and Agriculture Photos October 7, 2018

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

U.S.A.
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First Gene-Edited Crops Are Harvested. A farmer holds corn for a photograph on a farm in Waseca, Minnesota, on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018. In March, the top U.S. regulator said no new rules or labeling are needed for gene-edited plants since foreign DNA isn't being inserted, the way traditional genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, are made. Photo credit: Emilie Richardson / Bloomberg / Getty Images.
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Corn is harvested with a combine harvester on a farm in Waseca, Minnesota, on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018. In March, the top U.S. regulator said no new rules or labeling are needed for gene-edited plants since foreign DNA isn't being inserted, the way traditional genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, are made. Photo credit: Emilie Richardson / Bloomberg / Getty Images.
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President Trump Holds News Conference To Discuss New US-Mexico-Canada Trade Deal. (L-R) Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Senior Advisor to the President Jared Kushner congratulate one another before a news conference with President Donald Trump to discuss a revised U.S. trade agreement with Mexico and Canada in the Rose Garden of the White House on October 1, 2018 in Washington, DC. U.S. and Canadian officials announced late Sunday night that a new deal, named the 'U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement,' or USMCA, had been reached to replace the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement. Photo credit: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images.

E.U.
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State championship in sheep wool spinning: October 6, 2018, Germany, Halberstadt. The participants in the 19th state championship in sheep wool spinning sit on their spinning wheels at the Schaeferhof in the Halberstadt district of Langenstein. The national champion is the one who spins the longest thread from 30 grams of sheep's wool in two hours. 14 women from all over Saxony-Anhalt took part in the competition. Photo credit: Peter Förster / dpa-Zentralbild / ZB / Getty Images.
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Downhill drive of alpine pastures: October 6, 2018, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Oberried, Germany. Cows run through the community during the traditional cattle drive. The farmers took their cows from the meadows and led them down into the valley together. Photo credit: Patrick Seeger / picture alliance / Getty Images.
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A donkey stands tethered on the second day of the 'Sommet de lÉlevage 2018' Trade Fair in Cournon-d'Auvergne, near Clermont Ferrand in central France on October 4, 2018. - The three day Sommet de lÉlevage 2018 Trade Fair, is a showcase highlighting French breeders, and includes competitions, technical innovations, professional events, practical demonstrations and conferences dealing with agricultural current affairs. Photo credit: Thierry Zoccolan / AFP / Getty Images.
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Tobacco cultivation in Germany. OCT 4 2018. Baden-Wuerttemberg, Neuried-Altenheim. Harvesters sort dried tobacco leaves. 96 % of German tobacco is used as shisha tobacco. Photo credit: Patrick Seeger / dpa / Getty Images.
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A worker prepares to pick Chardonnay grapes during the harvest at Hambledon Vineyard on October 3, 2018 in Hambledon, United Kingdom. Around 80 predominantly Eastern European workers have been brought in at Hambledon to pick a bumper crop of 250 tonnes of grapes this season, following a long and warm summer. As Brexit looms there is uncertainty for the British wine industry with much of the manufacturing equipment and labour currently imported from other European countries. Photo credit: Jack Taylor / Getty Images.
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Bouffier assumes lamb sponsorship. Ralf Meisezahl, city shepherd of Hungen, Germany holds the sheep 'Marie' in a meadow so that the Hessian Prime Minister Bouffier can take over a lamb sponsorship for the animal from the Association of German Sheep Farming. Photo credit: Frank Rumpenhorst / picture alliance / Getty Images.
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Francis Bony, farmer and milk producer, poses with female buffaloes which he raises for their milk in Almont-les-Junies municipality, central France, on August 29, 2018. - To diversify their production, a group of 52 farmers in Massif Central has bet on raising 560 buffaloes, whose milk is one of the most expensive on the market. Photo credit: THIERRY ZOCCOLAN / AFP / Getty Images.

JAPAN
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A buyer inspects frozen fish before the final tuna auction at the landmark Tsukiji fish market, the last day of the market's operations before closing its doors, in Tokyo on October 6, 2018. - Tokyo fishmongers gathered before dawn on October 6 for one final tuna auction at the world-famous Tsukiji market before it closes its doors and moves to a new site. Photo credit: Nicolas Datiche / AFP / Getty Images.

TURKEY
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Workers harvest pumpkin seeds at an agriculture field in Tomarza district of Kayseri, Turkey on October 04, 2018. Photo credit: Sercan Kucuksahin / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images.

INDIA
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Autumn Outskirts Srinagar : Early morning view of the freshly topped snow mountains in the outskirts of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Controlled Kashmir, India, on 5 October 2018. Photo credit: Masrat Zahra / NUR Photo / Getty Images.
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Apple Harvest In Kashmir. Kashmiri farmers pack fresh apples in an organic orchard during harvesting season on October 1, 2018 in Tral, south of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, India. Apple harvest is at its peak, but farmers are saying that the prices this year have slumped in major markets across India. To add to their disadvantage are the rising freight rates by the truckers who ferry them to Indian markets. Photo credit: Kabli Yawar / Nur Photo / Getty Images.

RUSSIA
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Harvesting apples in southern Russia: KRASNODAR TERRITORY, RUSSIA - OCTOBER 1, 2018. Apples of a winter variety harvested in a garden in the village of Progress. Photo credit: Vitaly Timkiv / TASS / Getty Images.