Sunday, October 2, 2016

Food and Farm Photos October 2, 2016

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

Syngenta Group Co. NK Soybeans are harvested with a Case IH combine harvester near Princeton, Illinois, U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016. U.S. farmers are predicted to harvest a third straight record crop of soybeans this year. Photo credit: Daniel Acker / Bloomberg via Getty Images.

Mexican farm workers hoe a cabbage field on September 27, 2016 Holtville, California. Thousands of Mexican seasonal workers legally cross the border daily from Mexicali, Mexico to work the fields of Imperial Valley, California, some of the most productive farmland in the United States. Photo credit: John Moore / Getty Images.

Kim Severson, Chef Dan Barber, Kimbal Musk and Elly Truesdell speak onstage at The Next Kale and Quinoa panel at The New York Times Food For Tomorrow Conference 2016 on September 27, 2016 in Pocantico, New York. Photo credit: Neilson Barnard / Getty Images.

David Wright, who helps organize the Beers Made by Walking event and works for Great Divide Brewing, and Rick Busch, a naturalist with the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, stand behind a plant, called field sagewort, growing at Bluff Lake Nature Center, September 27, 2016. The plant helped inspire a new IPA brewed by Great Divide. Photo credit: RJ Sangosti / Denver Post / Getty Images.

Sheep, painted orange, that belong to farmer Pip Simpson, graze on a hillside in Troutbeck in the Lake District, northern England on September 29, 2016. The flock have been painted a flourescent orange colour to prevent rustling. Photo credit: AFP / OLI Scarff / Getty Images.

Farmers and their cattle on a float, make their way over the Koenigs lake during the so-called 'Almabtrieb', the return from the mountain pastures, on October 1, 2016 in a valley near Schoenau village, in the German Alps, southern Germany. During the traditional 'Almabtrieb' annual event, cow herds are brought in autumn from alpine pastures, where they stay during the summer, to their stables in the valley. Photo credit: AFP / CHRISTOF Stache / Getty Images.

A worker blends the wheat with a tractor after picked from the land, boiled and laid the concrete floor before sun drying process and removed from its shell, in Gaziantep, Turkey on October 01, 2016. The exportation of bulgur, known as Turkey's national food, has been increasing in recent years. Photo credit: Anadolu Agency / Getty Images.

Indian villager Surjit Singh feeds his livestock at the India/Pakistan border area village Chak Allah Bakash, about 45km from Amritsar on September 30, 2016, after the Punjab state government issued a warning to villagers to evacuate from a 10km radius from the India-Pakistan border. Indian commandos carried out a series of lightning strikes September 29 along the de facto border with Pakistan in Kashmir, provoking furious charges of 'naked aggression' from its nuclear-armed neighbor. Photo credit: AFP / NARINDER Nanu / Getty Images.

Kashmiri farmers tie lumps of grass to make hay bales in a paddy field during harvesting season September 27, 2016 in Uri, west of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, India. Paddy production has gone down in Kashmir during the recent years largely due to unplanned and rapid urbanisation, with the area under rice crop cultivation coming down from 122 hectares in 2010-11 to 112 hectares in 2013, according to an economic survey to the state government. Photo credit: Yawar Nazir / Getty Images.

Grazing cows in the village of Golubovka, Russia. Photo credit: Dmitry Feoktistov / TASS / Getty Images.

A native with buckets of potatoes harvested in the village of Keizes in Omsk Region of Russia. Photo credit: Dmitry Feoktistov / TASS / Getty Images.

Japanese winegrower Hirotake Ooka presses grapes in a tank on September 26, 2016 in Saint Peray near Valence, southeastern France. Photo credit: AFP / PHILIPPE Desmazes / Getty Images.

Christian Mazuray, head of Synutra France International, speaks during the opening ceremony of a Synutra infant milk production plant in Carhaix-Plouguer, northwestern France on September 28, 2016. The Synutra group, number three in infant nutrition in China, inaugurated today, a factory manufacturing powdered milk and will employ up to 350 people. Photo credit: AFP / JEAN Francois Monier / Getty Images.

Indian labourers remove grass beds following heavy rain on the outskirts of Hyderabad on September 28, 2016. Agriculture workers in the southern Indian state of Telangana welcomed a good amount of monsoon rain. India's 235 million farmers depend on the timing of the monsoon in order to decide which crops to grow. Photo credit: AFP / NOAH Seelam / Getty Images.

An Indian farmer ploughs a field as part of preparations for crop planting following heavy rain on the outskirts of Hyderabad on September 28, 2016. Photo credit: AFP / NOAH Seelam / Getty Images.

Civet cat looks in cage inside a "kopi luwak" or civet coffee farm Balipulina, Bali on 29 September 2016. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

People queue inside the new Dominique Ansel Bakery in Belgravia on September 30, 2016 in London, England. The bakery creator of the 'Cronut' opened its doors today, the first in the UK. Photo credit: Dan Kitwood / Getty Images.