Sunday, August 19, 2018

Global Food and Agriculture Photos August 19, 2018

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

E.U.
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A grape picker collects pinot noir grapes on August 18, 2018 in Ambonnay, north-eastern France, for the production of Andre Beaufort's organic champagne. Photo credit: AFP / FRANCOIS NASCIMBENI / Getty Images.
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A man drives his vintage Fordson tractor during Rosedale Show on August 18, 2018 in Kirkbymoorside, England. Founded in 1871, this annual show is held in Milburn Arms Field at Rosedale Abbey in North Yorkshire and attracts hundreds of entrants each year who bring their cattle, ponies, sheep, produce and vintage tractors, pigeons and poultry to the event. Photo credit: Ian Forsyth / Getty Images.
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The scourge of the countryside: fly tipping, or illegal dumping. A pile of unwanted carpets is dumped on a country lane, on August 15, 2018 in Hazelwood, England. Photo credit: Dan Kitwood / Getty Images.
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Government considers aid to drought-affected farmers: Sunflower plants stunted in size and height stand at a parched sunflower field at Goersdorf on August 15, 2018 near Golssen, Germany. Southern Brandenburg state has been hit especially hard by the recent drought and heat wave. 'I've never seen anything like it, nor has my father' says local farmer Steffen Hausmann, whose family has been farming at Goersdorf for nine generations. The German government is due to hold discussions next week over aid to farmers affected by the drought. Photo credit: Sean Gallup / Getty Images.
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Corn to be used as animal feed stands stunted by drought at a parched farmer's field on August 15, 2018 near Golssen, Germany. Southern Brandenburg state has been hit especially hard by the recent drought and heat wave. A local farmer is predicting a 50% loss for his grains harvest and 70% for his sunflowers. The German government is due to hold discussions next week over aid to farmers affected by the drought. Photo credit: Sean Gallup / Getty Images.
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A solitary automobile passes along a rural road flanked by agricultural fields and a cluster of residential properties as seen from the top of the 246 meter tall Thyssenkrupp Elevator AG test tower in Rottweill, Germany, on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018. At the site in southwestern Germany, one of the world's largest elevator companies is stepping up trials of the first system to operate without cables. Photo credit: Krisztian Bocsi / Bloomberg / Getty Images.
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Potential buyers watch as sheep farmers gather at Lairg auction for the great sale of lambs on August 14, 2018 in Lairg, Scotland. Lairg market hosts the annual lamb sale, which is one of the biggest one day livestock markets in Europe, when up to fifteen thousand sheep from all over the north of Scotland can be bought or sold. Photo credit: Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images.
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People, members of two families, collecttobacco leaves at sunrise in a cropfield near the town of Razlog some 145 km south from the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Aug. 13, 2018. They migrate every summer from their native village of Ribnovo (about 44 km to the east of Razlog) to Razlog where the soil is better for growing tobacco. Tobacco production is an extremely important branch of Bulgarian farming. Almost all the tobacco produce in Bulgaria is intended to be exported. The cropfields where tobacco is grown in Bulgaria are as large as 43 000 dka. Growing tobacco is hugely difficult especially during planting and collecting the leaves. On the contrary the farmers usually are forced to sell their tobacco production at very low prices- 7leva (3,5 euro) in year 2017. A family needs to grow tobacco on at least 8 dka so as they would be able to fund living. Photo credit: Petko Momchilov / Impact Press Group NurPhoto / Getty Images.
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A combine harvester mows a meadow on the Tempelhofer Feld. The 120-hectare meadows are mowed at a sophisticated rhythm in coordination with the Berlin State's Supreme Nature Conservation Authority. The first half will now be mowed, the second half will follow in three to four weeks. This allows insects to move from the mowed areas to the areas that have not yet been mowed. Photo credit: Paul Zinken / dpa / Getty Images.
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Refugees try to reach Croatian border near Strulic, BaH on August 11, 2018. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

THAILAND
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A Thai farmer clear his rice field using motorised plough, instead of the traditional slash-and-burn method, in Nakhon sawan province, north of Bangkok on August 12, 2018. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

AFRICA
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People trade among a flock of goats and sheep at the livestock market in Hargeisa, Somaliland, on August 18, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / EDUARDO SOTERAS / Getty Images.
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A group of woman working at sorghum crops wait upon the arrival of a United Nations convoy near the village of Sabon Machi, Maradi region, Niger on August 16, 2018. Several UN Agencies (FAO, WFP and IFAP) along with the Government of Niger and other partners visited the agropastoral Maradi region of Niger to understand the context and local priorities, espcially the needs of women and other vulnerable groups in the area. In Niger, as in many other parts of the Sahel, climate shocks have resulted in recurring droughts with devastating impacts on the region's already vulnerable populations. Photo credit: AFP / LUIS TATO / Getty Images.

TURKEY
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A man gives water to cattle, to be slaughtered during next week's Eid al-Adha holiday, at a livestock market in Ankara on August 17, 2018. - Muslims around the world will mark the upcoming Eid al-Adha, the biggest holiday of the Muslim calendar, by the sacrificing of sheep, goats, cows and camels to commemorate Prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail on God's command. Photo credit: AFP / ADEM ALTAN / Getty Images.

BANGLADESH
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Sacrificial cattle are started arriving on 14 August 2018 at the capital Dhaka, Bangladesh as Eidul Adha approaches near. this festival is the second largest festival of Muslims round the world. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

INDIA
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Customers bargaining for a reasonable price of sugarcane in Machkhowa in Guwahati, Assam, India on Monday, 13 August 2018. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

COLORADO LOCAL:
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After the incoming freshman class at the Colorado School of Mines each carried a 10-pound boulder 1,225 feet up Mt. Zion in Golden to whitewash and add to the hundred-foot 'M', not a lot of the rocks got painted, but plenty of the estimated 1,380 freshmen did. This years freshman class marked the largest in Mines history. Photo credit: Denver Post / Hyoung Chang / Getty Images.
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After the incoming freshman class at the Colorado School of Mines each carried a 10-pound boulder 1,225 feet up Mt. Zion in Golden to whitewash and add to the hundred-foot 'M', not a lot of the rocks got painted, but plenty of the estimated 1,380 freshmen did. Photo credit: Denver Post / Hyoung Chang / Getty Images.