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Global Food and Agriculture Photos April 1, 2018

This roundup of global food, farming, and agricultural photos appears every Sunday on Big Picture Agriculture. ... This week, Getty didn't offer many photos, so this post is short. Happy Easter to all of my readers!! I baked a chess pie lemon tart with a shortbread crust, but will miss having a marshmallow filled chocolate rabbit. Ummm.--k.m. E.U. Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie|

Farmers Week Float University of Missouri 1910

Farmers� Week field crops float 1910. Courtesy University Archives. Farmers� Week, 1910-1957. Student event brought thousands to the MU College of Agriculture. Every Thursday a carefully selected old agricultural photo is featured here on Big Picture Agriculture � lest we forget how things used to be.

Using Water Hyacinth as Green Manure

This is a farming system based on the saying "if you have lemons, make lemonade". Lake Victoria, in Africa, has an invasive water hyacinth problem. A group of farmers there are harvesting it and utilizing it as green manure, with impressive yield results so far. From DW. 4-minutes. (Currently, on Tuesdays, I am featuring informative videos or stories about different food and farm traditions

Global Food and Agriculture Photos March 25, 2018

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Missouri Farmers Week Queen 1920

Dean Mumford crowns Farmers� Week Queen 1920 on a throne of corn. Courtesy University Archives. Farmers� Week, 1910-1957. Student event brought thousands to the MU College of Agriculture Every Thursday a carefully selected old agricultural photo is featured here on Big Picture Agriculture � lest we forget how things used to be.

A Soil Project in Burkina Faso Using Biochar

This short 3-minute DW video explains a German sponsored project using Terra Preta soil made with biochar, to increase yields in the depleted soils of Burkina Faso in Africa. It is speculated that this could mitigate the changing climate's ability for soils there to produce food. (Currently, on Tuesdays, I am featuring informative videos or stories about different food and farm traditions from

Global Food and Agriculture Photos March 18, 2018

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Highway to the West by Lange in 1938

Photographer: Dorothea Lange. Highway to the West. 1938. Every Thursday a carefully selected old agricultural photo is featured here on Big Picture Agriculture � lest we forget how things used to be.

Ag Methods Resource: Farming on Slopes in Taiwan

I found this 14-minute video from Taiwan to be beautiful and informative, covering numerous succinct topics like ring or z-snapped roads, orchards, irrigation systems, mulching, green manure, contour cultivation with rock walls, fences, wind breaks, and drainage ditch styles. (This film was produced by Soil and Water Conservation Bureau in Taiwan.) (Currently, on Tuesdays, I am featuring

Global Food and Agriculture Photos March 11, 2018

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Picking Corn Scottsbluff, Nebraska 1941

Cutting corn to fill the silo on Scottsbluff Farmsteads FSA (Farm Security Administration) project. Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Photographer: Marion Post Wolcott. September 1941. FSA - Library of Congress. Every Thursday a carefully selected old agricultural photo is featured here on Big Picture Agriculture � lest we forget how things used to be.

A Mayonnaise Machine

Did you ever wonder how commercially produced mayonnaise is made? Neither did I, but when I saw this I thought it was worth sharing. This Chinese made Ginhong Mixer machine can be customized for food blending-manufacturing for multiple products, in this case, for mayonnaise production in New Zealand. It's a 1000 liters cold process catering mayonnaise manufacturing line for a food company in New

Global Food and Agriculture Photos March 4, 2018

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