Sunday, August 5, 2018

Global Food and Agriculture Photos August 5, 2018

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

U.S.A.
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Sonny Perdue, U.S. secretary of agriculture, speaks during an event at the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Saturday, July 28, 2018. At the event to celebrate the recent entry of American pork into the Argentine market, Perdue said that American farmers will soon see the first payments of a $12 billion subsidy program designed to shield them from a burgeoning trade war. Photo credit: Pablo E. Piovano / Bloomberg / Getty Images.

ARGENTINA
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Animals on exhibition during the 132 edition of the exhibition of livestock, agriculture and international industry of the Argentine countryside. Buenos Aires. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

E.U.
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A Romanian farmer uses a horse pulled carriage to collect hay bales on a field next to the village of Smardan, southern Romania, on August 3, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / DANIEL MIHAILESCU / Getty Images.
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This general view taken on August 1, 2018, shows a sprinkler operating in a field near Baraigne in the south-western French department of Aude. Photo credit: AFP / ERIC CABANIS / Getty Images.
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Georg Mayr, owner of oxen at the an der Baumgartenalm mountain pasture looks for a fallen fence piece on a fenced meadow in Germany. Due to the persistent heat, this year fewer people took part in the annual main alpine pasture inspection of the alpine pasture management association. Photo credit: Lino Mirgeler / dpa / Getty Images.
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The chairman of the Fiener agricultural cooperative Ziesar Elard von Gottberg shows a small corncob from the dried up field and a larger one from another field, which is not yet so dried up in a corn field during harvest season on August 1, 2018 in Ziesar, Germany. Germany has been hit by months of dry weather that his hitting grain harvests hard. Farmers in the Brandenburg region are reporting a decline of up to 50%. Photo credit: Carsten Koall / Getty Images.
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German farmer Christian Sancken shows a dried potatoe in his drought-affected field on July 31, 2018 in Cuxhaven northern, Germany, as the country experiences a hot and dry summer. - Withered sunflowers, scorched wheat fields, stunted cornstalks -- the farmlands of northern Germany have borne the brunt of this year's extreme heat and record-low rainfall, triggering an epochal drought. Photo credit: Patrik STOLLARZ / AFP / Getty Images.
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A sticker informing customers of animal husbandry is glued on meat packages. Germany's discounters are increasingly providing information on animal husbandry conditions for meat products. Supermarket chains, on the other hand, are still hesitant. Photo credit: Marcel Kusch / dpa / Getty Images.
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A group of calves drink water in a farm near Ropraz, western Switzerland on July 28, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / FABRICE COFFRINI / Getty Images.

ZIMBABWE
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Corn is placed into bags at Ivordale Farm on August 1, 2018 outside Harare, Zimbabwe. Commercial farmer Andrew Pascoe runs the 330-hectare farm east of Harare. His father started the business in the 1950’s. The farm grows wheat mostly, maize and Soya Beans, with a dairy herd of 170 cows, a further 280 for beef, plus a piggery with 1200 animals. Before the land reform ‘initiative’, Mr Pascoe owned 1725 Hectares but was left with only 224, only 60 of which that was arable. He currently runs the 60 hectares of his own land, with the rest falling under a ‘joint venture’ program. In 2000 the then President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, ran a land reform program that aimed to redistribute the farm land mostly owned by white Zimbabweans, to black subsistence farmers. The policy was seen as a disaster, with around 4000 white farmers forcibly removed from their farms, often violently. The policy crippled the agricultural sector and subsequently contributed to the collapse of the economy as those that took over the land lacked the knowledge to run the businesses. Photo credit: Dan Kitwood / Getty Images.
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Farm worker Mark Salle, 25, checks over piglets at Ivordale Farm on August 1, 2018 outside Harare, Zimbabwe. Photo credit: Dan Kitwood / Getty Images.

INDIA
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Cows Graze in an open field in Delhi, India, on 30 July 2018. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

CHINA
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This photo taken on August 1, 2018 shows people harvesting seed pods of lotus flowers from a pond in Tancheng in China's eastern Shandong province. Photo credit: AFP / - / China OUT / Getty Images.

INDONESIA
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Indonesian farmers bundle up tobacco leaves for drying at Mekar Jaya village in Garut, West Java, Indonesia on Friday, August 3, 2018. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

RUSSIA
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Harvesting watermelons in a field of the Peschany Hamlet in the Azov District. Photo credit: Valery Matytsin / TASS / Getty Images.