Sunday, July 16, 2017

Global Food and Agriculture Photos July 16, 2017

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


Chris Tomky, 37, returned after college and started farming amid a horrible drought year, but has since built a successful operation, on July 11, 2017 in Rocky Ford, Colorado. Photo credit: Denver Post / RJ Sangosti / Getty Images.

Cows are milked in a milking carousel on a farm on July 10, 2017 in Dedelow, Germany. Photo credit: Photothek / Thomas Trutschel / Getty Images.

A picture taken on July 13, 2017, shows sunflowers in Lanta, near Toulouse. Photo credit: AFP / Eric CABANIS / Getty Images.

Freshly picked cherries in an orchard of Krasny Sad [Red Garden] agricultural company. Photo credit: Valery Matytsin / TASS / Getty Images.

This photo taken on July 12, 2017 shows a drone spraying pesticide above a rice field in Yongchuan, Sichuan province. Piloted from a distance, one drone can cover the same area as about 30 people and does the job more efficiently. Photo credit: AFP / STR / China OUT / Getty Images.

A wheel loader loads manure into a biogas plant on a farm on July 10, 2017 in Lanke, Germany. Photo credit: Photothek / Thomas Trutschel / Getty Images.

Harvesting winter wheat in the fields of the Kagalnik-Agro company. Photo credit: TASS / Valery Matytsin / Getty Images.

Tunisian women pick tomatoes in a field in Menzel Mheri on July 13, 2017, in the governorate of Kairouan. Photo credit: AFP / FETHI BELAID / Getty Images.

Tunisian farmers harvest tomatoes in a field in Menzel Mheri on July 13, 2017, in the governorate of Kairouan. Photo credit: AFP / FETHI BELAID / Getty Images.

People work in a watermelon field during Stage 8 of the Silk Way Rally 2017 between Karamay and Urumqi, China, on July 15, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / FRANCK FIFE / Getty Images.

Sheep walk in a field during Stage 8 of the Silk Way Rally 2017 between Karamay and Urumqi, China, on July 15, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / FRANCK FIFE / Getty Images.

A Palestinian girl eating watermelon from their field located near the border with Israel in Beit Lahia northern Gaza Strip on July 15, 2017. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

Dark afternoon smoke from the officially named Alamo Fire, burning in the nearby coastal mountains within view of the Pacific Ocean, creates an eerie, surreal scene on July 9, 2017, near Santa Maria, California. The 30,000 acre blaze began near Twitchell Reservoir on Highway 166 and quickly spread toward the ranches and vineyards along the Tepusquet Bench. Photo credit: George Rose / Getty Images.

An exhibitor rests with his cattle on the first day of the Great Yorkshire Show near Harrogate in northern England on July 11, 2017. The agricultural show, which was first held in 1838, showcases all aspects of country life. Organised by the Yorkshire Agricultural Society (YAS), it is held each July and attracts around 130,000 visitors over the three days. Photo credit: / AFP / Oli SCARFF / Getty Images.

Indian customers shop and a fruit and vegetable market in Ahmedabad on July 12, 2017. Photo credit: AFP / SAM PANTHAKY / Getty Images.

Villagers hold a goat as the offerings by Tenggerese during the Yadnya Kasada Festival at crater of Mount Bromo in Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia on July 10, 2017. Yadnya Kasada Festival is the main festival of the Tenggerese people and lasts about a month. On the fourteenth day, the Tenggerese make the journey to Mount Bromo to make offerings of rice, fruits, vegetables, flowers and livestock to the mountain gods by throwing them into the volcano's caldera. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.