Sunday, January 22, 2017

Global Food and Agriculture Photos January 22, 2017

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


A machine used for determining the sex of chicks while they are still in their eggs operates at the stand of the ministry for Agriculture and Food Economy during the Gruene Woche or Green Week Agriculture Fair on January 20, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. The Gruene Woche is the world's biggest trade fair for agricultural and food products and will be open to the public from January 20-29. Photo credit: Michele Tantussi / Getty Images.

An automated food swiper operates in front of a dairy cow during the Gruene Woche or Green Week Agriculture Fair on January 20, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. The Gruene Woche is the world's biggest trade fair for agricultural and food products and will be open to the public from January 20-29. Photo credit: Michele Tantussi / Getty Images.

Farmers protest with placards reading 'what you eat is what you are' and 'buy local, support our farmers' during a rally in the center of Berlin against the industrialization of farming and agriculture on January 21, 2017, on the sidelines of the Green Week (GrĂ¼ne Woche) agricultural fair. Photo credit: AFP / Tobias SCHWARZ / Getty Images.

This photo taken on January 16, 2017 shows farmers working on an orange orchard ahead of Lunar New Year in a village in Rongan, south China's Guangxi province. The Lunar New Year, known locally as the Spring Festival, falls on January 28 this year and marks the Year of the Rooster in the Chinese calendar. Photo credit: AFP / STR / China OUT / Getty Images.

The fruit market in Riobamba, Ecuador on January 19, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / RODRIGO BUENDIA / Getty Images.

Snow covers an agricultural field of broccoli in the countryside on January 19, 2017 near Caravaca de la Cruz, in Murcia province, Spain. The cold weather has brought rare snow alerts to South East Spain. Some food suppliers and supermarkets have warned that the recent bad weather in Italy and Spain may significantly increase the price of vegetables across northern Europe. Photo credit: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez / Getty Images.

A photo taken on January 17, 2017 in Castelnau-d'Auzan, southern France shows ducks at a farm where they are force-fed for the production of foie gras. Photo credit: AFP / ERIC CABANIS / Getty Images.

A woman poses as she cuts vegetables at a market stall in Port-Gentil on January 18, 2017, during the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations football tournament in Gabon. Photo credit: AFP / Justin TALLIS / Getty Images.

Bangladeshi retail traders sell vegetables and other goods in a village market at Tongi on January 16, 2017 in Gazipur near Dhaka, Bangladesh. Different kind of goods like fish, dry fish, seasonal vegetables are sold in this kind of market in Bangladesh. Photo credit: Corbis News / Sk Hasan Ali / Getty Images.

A camel sausage stall salesperson grills during the 35th Selcuk Ephesus Camel Wrestling Festival in Izmir, Turkey on January 15, 2017. Despite the cold and rainy weather a big crowd came to watch the 35th Selcuk Ephesus Camel Wrestling Festival, where 104 camel brought from Aegean, Mediterranean and Marmara wrestled at so called 'center of camel wrestling'. Festival was organized by Selcuk Ephesus Symposium on Culture of Camel-Dealing and Camel Wrestling Organization Committee with the support of Selcuklu Municipality at Wrestling Field of Pamucak. Photo credit: Anadolu Agency / Getty Images.

The National Westerns 2017 Grand Champion Steer and Reserve Champion Steer take over the lobby of The Brown Palace Hotel and Spa in Denver, January 20, 2017. This is the 72nd year that The Brown Palace Hotel has hosted the National Wester Stock Grand Champion Steer. Photo credit: Denver Post / RJ Sangosti / Getty Images.

Sam Burtsfield takes Sull Mr. Harley, a pure bred Polled Hereford bull from the Foggy Bottom Farm, back to the barn area after showing Harley at the Herd Sire display at the National Western Stock Show January 14, 2017. Photo credit: Denver Post / Andy Cross / Getty Images.

A baby goat, left, stays close to its mother at the baby animal nursery in the paddock area of the Events Center at the National Western Stock Show on December 20, 2016 in Denver, Colorado. The baby animals will be on display until the end of the stock show. Photo credit: Denver Post / Helen H. Richardson / Getty Images.