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  • Foire Gras and dairy farming family's women experience hardships together during breakfast at their home in Alsace. ..The Kesslers live on the farm in the quiet village of Boofzheim in Alsace, France. Their business is producing Foie Gras and they raise force-fed ducks near the German border region. The youngest member is daughter Mireille wearing a blood-stained apron. She is about to cut the throat of a duck, draining the body and especially the liver of blood. After tapping the head with a knife to render the animal unconscious, she stands in a pool of  blood from other birds which stains the courtyard floor. On the left, her parents and grandmother are plucking the feathers from newly-killed carcasses which are strung up on a special rack for this purpose. France produces and consumes the most Foie Gras in Europe using the French Gavage method of forcing ducks or geese to consume vast quatities of corn mash down the esophagus two weeks before slaughter.
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  • Traditional farming tools and drying corn in a rural Slovenian village, on 19th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
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  • Traditional farming tools and drying corn in a rural Slovenian village, on 19th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
    slovenia-101-20-06-2018.jpg
  • Traditional farming tools and drying corn in a rural Slovenian village, on 19th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
    slovenia-100-20-06-2018.jpg
  • The landscape of fields and farming land including La Haye Sainte farm, the location of the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. La Haye Sainte has changed very little since it played a crucial part in the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815.<br />
It was defended by about 400 British and German troops, hopelessly outnumbered by attacking French but held out until the late afternoon when they retired because their ammunition had run out. If Napoleon Bonaparte's army had captured La Haye Sainte earlier in the day, almost certainly he would have broken through the allied centre and defeated the Duke of Wellington's army. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
    waterloo_battlefield-20-25-03-2017.jpg
  • As Britain looks ahead to the possibility of a controversial No-Deal Brexit, and behnd hazard tape, a Tesco supermarket poster advertises the merits of British Farming and UK agriculture with a pair of hands picking fresh strawberries, on Cheapside in the City of London, the capital's financial district - aka the Square Mile, on 8th August, in London, England.
    british_farmers-01-08-08-2019.jpg
  • A farming family tend onions and other vegetables in fertile fields where agriculture is important for survival, at Bedhal in Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt where the availability of water determines the agricultural economic life in an oasis village. Dakhla Oasis consists of several communities, along a string of sub-oases. The main settlements are Mut (more fully Mut el-Kharab and anciently called Mothis), El-Masara, Al-Qasr, Qalamoun, together with several smaller villages. Some of the communities have identities that are separate from each other. Qalamoun has inhabitants that trace their origins to the Ottomans.
    egypt501-08-03-2016.jpg
  • A traditional Slovenian Barn at the Rogatec Open Air Museum, very close to the Croatian border, on 24th June 2018, in Rogatec, Slovenia. The museum of relocated and restored 19th and early 20th century farming buildings and houses represents folk architecture in the area south of the Donacka Gora and Boc mountains.
    slovenia-299-24-06-2018.jpg
  • Drying corn outside a traditional Slovenian Barn at the Rogatec Open Air Museum, very close to the Croatian border, on 24th June 2018, in Rogatec, Slovenia. The museum of relocated and restored 19th and early 20th century farming buildings and houses represents folk architecture in the area south of the Donacka Gora and Boc mountains.
    slovenia-301-24-06-2018.jpg
  • A traditional Slovenian Barn and Pig Sty at the Rogatec Open Air Museum, very close to the Croatian border, on 24th June 2018, in Rogatec, Slovenia. The museum of relocated and restored 19th and early 20th century farming buildings and houses represents folk architecture in the area south of the Donacka Gora and Boc mountains.
    slovenia-300-24-06-2018.jpg
  • A traditional Slovenian Barn at the Rogatec Open Air Museum, very close to the Croatian border, on 24th June 2018, in Rogatec, Slovenia. The museum of relocated and restored 19th and early 20th century farming buildings and houses represents folk architecture in the area south of the Donacka Gora and Boc mountains.
    slovenia-298-24-06-2018.jpg
  • The wine press in the traditional Slovenian Barn at the Rogatec Open Air Museum, very close to the Croatian border, on 24th June 2018, in Rogatec, Slovenia. The museum of relocated and restored 19th and early 20th century farming buildings and houses represents folk architecture in the area south of the Donacka Gora and Boc mountains.
    slovenia-295-24-06-2018.jpg
  • The wine press in the traditional Slovenian Barn at the Rogatec Open Air Museum, very close to the Croatian border, on 24th June 2018, in Rogatec, Slovenia. The museum of relocated and restored 19th and early 20th century farming buildings and houses represents folk architecture in the area south of the Donacka Gora and Boc mountains.
    slovenia-294-24-06-2018.jpg
  • Young cows peer through the fence of farming land near Ludham on the Norfolk Broads.
    norfolk_cows01-02-08-2013.jpg
  • Garden implememts and farming tools lean against the wall of a house in Machynlleth during the weekly Wednesday market, on 12th September 2018, in Machynlleth, Powys, Wales.
    machynlleth-06-12-09-2018.jpg
  • Evening sunlight shines through leaves and crops of a vineyard on farming land in the Corbieres wine region, on 25th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-96-25-05-2017.jpg
  • Two children walk along a path between two dry stone walls in the countryside around the Yorkshire town of Settle. Striding between the boundaries of agricultural grazing land, whose trees and undergrowth has been cleared, the kids have come from a distant farmhouse which has recently lost its stock of sheep due to Foot and Mouth disease. Dry stone walls serve as boundaries and enclosures for farmers and land owners. Built by tradesmen called Wallers, a dying tradition and skill, they're constructed from stones without any mortar to bind them together. The stones must be carefully selected by shape to ensure that they have a large contact surface area with their neighbours and so do not slip. They are a legacy of the movement towards enclosure of common farming and grazing land as English society moved away from medieval feudalism. Model released.
    ella+sam25-23-06_2002.jpg
  • A landscape of fields and farming land looking in the direction of Napoleon's massed French lines during the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Waterloo was fought  on 18 June 1815 between a French army under Napoleon Bonaparte,  defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
    waterloo_battlefield-22-25-03-2017.jpg
  • Portrait of a farming family standing in front of date palms in fertile fields where agriculture is important for survival, at Bedhal near Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt where the availability of water determines the agricultural economic life in an oasis village. Dakhla Oasis consists of several communities, along a string of sub-oases. The main settlements are Mut (more fully Mut el-Kharab and anciently called Mothis), El-Masara, Al-Qasr, Qalamoun, together with several smaller villages. Some of the communities have identities that are separate from each other. Qalamoun has inhabitants that trace their origins to the Ottomans.
    egypt498-08-03-2016.jpg
  • Portrait of a farming family standing in front of date palms in fertile fields where agriculture is important for survival, at Bedhal near Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt where the availability of water determines the agricultural economic life in an oasis village. Dakhla Oasis consists of several communities, along a string of sub-oases. The main settlements are Mut (more fully Mut el-Kharab and anciently called Mothis), El-Masara, Al-Qasr, Qalamoun, together with several smaller villages. Some of the communities have identities that are separate from each other. Qalamoun has inhabitants that trace their origins to the Ottomans.
    egypt497-08-03-2016.jpg
  • Across the calm waters of a Scottish bay, isolated houses and crofts sit before the dramatic Cuillin Mountains that rise up in the distance on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Sunlight from unusually fine weather spreads across this beautiful landscape seen from the road to Dunvegan, near the hamlet of Harlosh. Farming practices have changed irreversably in a generation and many southerners have English accents rather than that of native Scots islanders as city dwellers from the far south seek an alternative to urban lifestyles. The weather can have adverse effects on those unprepared for such wild conditions, especially during harsh winters when violent storms batter these Atlantic coasts. But old crofts have been converted to bed and breakfast homes, catering for tourist visitors who adore this form of idyllic escapism.
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  • Sheep graze on a hillside outside Chewton Mendip, Somerset. Chewton Mendip is a village and civil parish in the Mendip District of Somerset, England and within the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the Chew Valley. Wool has for centuries been a source of great wealth to the towns of south-west England whose legacies are the fine country homes of merchants, the churches and cathedrals bestowed on the local communities. Nowadays in ther Mendip Hills, dairy farming has become more lucrative.
    sheep_landscape03-20-08-2013.jpg
  • Sheep graze on a hillside outside Chewton Mendip, Somerset. Chewton Mendip is a village and civil parish in the Mendip District of Somerset, England and within the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the Chew Valley. Wool has for centuries been a source of great wealth to the towns of south-west England whose legacies are the fine country homes of merchants, the churches and cathedrals bestowed on the local communities. Nowadays in ther Mendip Hills, dairy farming has become more lucrative.
    sheep_landscape02-20-08-2013.jpg
  • Sheep graze on a hillside outside Chewton Mendip, Somerset. Chewton Mendip is a village and civil parish in the Mendip District of Somerset, England and within the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the Chew Valley. Wool has for centuries been a source of great wealth to the towns of south-west England whose legacies are the fine country homes of merchants, the churches and cathedrals bestowed on the local communities. Nowadays in ther Mendip Hills, dairy farming has become more lucrative.
    sheep_landscape01-20-08-2013.jpg
  • In afternoon sunshine, autumn leaves and far away mountains with light cloud on their peaks are viewed from across a clear valley landscape, seen from the roadside near Levidi in Arcadia, between Tripolis and Argos on the Peloponnese region of south-western Greece. At 850m above sea level, pine forests and the slopes of the Mainalo mountains (a mountain range that spans about 15 to 20 from north to south (southwest of Tripolis to NE of Vytina), surrounds the town which lies to the west. The valley contains potato agriculture and mixed farming and extends up to near Kandila. The athlete called Androsthenes was from Maenalus, won gold at the ancient Olympics in 420 and 416 BC.
    greek_olympiad007-21-10_2003.jpg
  • South Tyrolean vineyard agriculture and distant farm, South Tyrol.
    appiano_italy29-11-07-2015.jpg
  • South Tyrolean vineyard agriculture and distant farm, South Tyrol.
    appiano_italy45-12-07-2015.jpg
  • Aerial landscape of farms, villages, early mist-shrouded valleys and distant Himalayan mountains in Gorkha, Nepal.
    nepal_rural06-16-01-1997.jpg
  • A rural church in agricultural land of Slovenian farms and homes in the Kozjansko Regional Park, on 24th June 2018, in Doblezica, Slovenia.
    slovenia-307-24-06-2018.jpg
  • Agicultural landscape of Slovenian farms and homes in the Kozjansko Regional Park, on 24th June 2018, in Virstanj, Slovenia.
    slovenia-305-24-06-2018.jpg
  • Exterior of the strategically-important Hougoumont Farm during the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. <br />
The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleon's Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
    waterloo_battlefield-57-25-03-2017.jpg
  • Exterior of the Chapel at the strategically-important Hougoumont Farm during the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleon's Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
    waterloo_battlefield-50-25-03-2017.jpg
  • Cows and livestock winter inside a barn on a family-run farm in the Alsace village of Boofzheim, on 13th October 1997, in Boofzheim, France. The cattle are owned by the Kessler family who have a herd of cows as well as ducks from which they make Foie-Gras. The farm is in the french village of Boofzheim, a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. Its name is probably derived from the French "boeuf" (bull or ox). (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    french_cattle-13-10-1997.jpg
  • Exterior of the Chapel at the strategically-important Hougoumont Farm during the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleon's Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
    waterloo_battlefield-41-25-03-2017.jpg
  • A goat belonging to traditional Alpine farmer Peter Eberle in the courtyard of a dairy and goat farm in Balzers, Liechtenstein, on 8th February 1990, in Balzers, Liechtenstein. Liechtenstein is a landlocked Principality bordered by the Alpine countries of Austria and Switzerland and is a winter sports resort, though best known as a tax haven, attracting companies worldwide to register their assets in complete secrecy. Its agricultural output is mainly wheat, barley, corn, potatoes, livestock and dairy products though technology companies have been eroding the traditional ways of life such as Peter's for decades.
    liechtenstein_farmer01-08-02-1990.jpg
  • Vineyards and farm below near the South Tyrolean town of Klausen-Chiusa in northern Italy.
    klausen_italy02-15-07-2015.jpg
  • Vineyards and farm below near the South Tyrolean town of Klausen-Chiusa in northern Italy.
    klausen_italy01-15-07-2015.jpg
  • Derelict farm shack and long grasses, in Langlade, Charente-Maritime, France.
    longlade_village04-02-07-2014.jpg
  • Ruined farm building and distant Glen More, Isle of Mull, Scotland.
    isle_of_mull61-18-11-2011.jpg
  • Derelict farm shack and long grasses, in Langlade, Charente-Maritime, France.
    longlade_village05-02-07-2014.jpg
  • Ostrich farmer Robert Bailey with some of his self-reared birds and one of the giant eggs on his farm near Chepstow, Wales. ..Rearing these birds is a specialist and very expensive business but Ostrich meat is a South African delicacy, used for Biltong. Nutritionists promote it as a more healthy alternative because it is higher in protein and lower in fat and cholesterol. An ostrich lays an egg every other day, of which 40 to 80% are fertile. In the wild there is a 95% failure rate but using an incubator like this almost guarantees total success. Its latin name, 'Struthio camelus', is the largest of living birds with some males reaching a height of 8 ft (244 cm) and weighing 200 to 300 lb (90-135 kg). In the wild, the polygamous male has from two to six females in his flock. The cock scoops out a hollow for the eggs, which weigh nearly 3 lb (1.35 kg) each. One of the females incubates the eggs during the day, and the cock takes over at night. On the savannah they can run at 40mph (64 kph) for 10 hours though their top speed can reach 80mph. During the 19th-century vogue for ostrich plumes, farms were established in South Africa and later in North America, Australia, and Europe; after World War I fashions changed and the industry collapsed.
    Ostrich_farmer01-20-05-1995.jpg
  • Dressed in typical overalls for the area, traditional Alpine farmer Peter Eberle works in the courtyard of his dairy and goat farm in Balzers, Liechtenstein, on 8th February 1990, in Balzers, Liechtenstein. Liechtenstein is a landlocked Principality bordered by the Alpine countries of Austria and Switzerland and is a winter sports resort, though best known as a tax haven, attracting companies worldwide to register their assets in complete secrecy. Its agricultural output is mainly wheat, barley, corn, potatoes, livestock and dairy products though technology companies have been eroding the traditional ways of life such as Peter's for decades.
    liechtenstein_farmer02-08-02-1990.jpg
  • Dressed in typical overalls for the area, traditional Alpine farmer Peter Eberle works in the courtyard of his dairy and goat farm in Balzers, Liechtenstein, on 8th February 1990, in Balzers, Liechtenstein. Liechtenstein is a landlocked Principality bordered by the Alpine countries of Austria and Switzerland and is a winter sports resort, though best known as a tax haven, attracting companies worldwide to register their assets in complete secrecy. Its agricultural output is mainly wheat, barley, corn, potatoes, livestock and dairy products though technology companies have been eroding the traditional ways of life such as Peter's for decades.
    liechtenstein_farmer03-08-02-1990.jpg
  • Detail of a farmer's tough hand holding a crusty ham sandwich during a lunchbreak on the man's land near the Alsace village of Boofzheim, on 13th October 1997, in Boofzheim, France. The farm is in the french village of Boofzheim, a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. Its name is probably derived from the French "boeuf" (bull or ox). (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    sandwich_hand-13-10-1997.jpg
  • Dry stone wall in a farm land landscape, on 13th April 2017, in Horton in Ribblesdale, Yorkshire, England.
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  • Sheep and spring lambs in a farm land landscape, on 13th April 2017, in Horton in Ribblesdale, Yorkshire, England.
    yorkshire-76-13-04-2017.jpg
  • Solar panels on the roof of a Dolomites farm's barn roof in the old rural hamlet of Aireië, near Wengen-La Val, in south Tyrol, Italy.
    italy_dolomites32-19-07-2015.jpg
  • Solar panels on the roof of a Dolomites farm's barn roof in the old rural hamlet of Aireië, near Wengen-La Val, in south Tyrol, Italy.
    italy_dolomites31-19-07-2015.jpg
  • Solar panels on the roof of a Dolomites farm's barn roof in the old rural hamlet of Aireië, near Wengen-La Val, in south Tyrol, Italy.
    italy_dolomites30-19-07-2015.jpg
  • Solar panels on the roof of a Dolomites farm's barn roof in the old rural hamlet of Aireië, near Wengen-La Val, in south Tyrol, Italy.
    italy_dolomites27-19-07-2015.jpg
  • The tagged ear and one eye of a dairy cow, wintering in a barn of a family farm in rural Alsace, western france.
    alsace_farming3-13-10-1997.jpg
  • Alpine brown cows graze in sunlit winter pasture on Inglebert Seger's Vaduz farm on the Liechtenstein valley floor.
    liechtenstein_cows01-15-01-1990.jpg
  • Dressed in typical overalls for the area, traditional Alpine farmer Peter Eberle stands looking up at the viewer for a portrait in the courtyard of his dairy farm in Balzers, Liechtenstein. Mr Eberle wears a woolen hat and blue workman's overalls. He looks a proud but tired and weathered gentleman in his latter years and appears to be an experienced Alpine farmer and we can see a heap of manure over his shoulder and an old fashioned scythe for mowing long grass, leaning against a barn wall. Liechtenstein is a landlocked Principality bordered by the Alpine countries of Austria and Switzerland and is a winter sports resort, though best known as a tax haven, attracting companies worldwide to register their assets in complete secrecy. Its agricultural output is mainly wheat, barley, corn, potatoes, livestock and dairy products though technology companies have been eroding the traditional ways of life such as Peter's for decades.
    liechtenstein_farmer01-08-02-1990.jpg
  • Northumbrian farm on Roman Emperor Hadrian's Wall, once the northern frontier of Rome's empire from Barbarian tribes.
    hadrians_wall33-08-08-2010-1.jpg
  • Rusted corrugated iron in abandoned livestock farm pens in Glen Bauchor, Newtonmore, Scotland.
    newtonmore04-02-08-2010-1.jpg
  • Free range hen chickens roam in a green field belonging to a smallholding farm in North Somerset, England.
    free_range_hens08-04-04-2010.jpg
  • Free range hen chickens roam in a green field belonging to a smallholding farm in North Somerset, England.
    free_range_hens04-04-04-2010.jpg
  • Free range hen chickens roam in a green field belonging to a smallholding farm in North Somerset, England.
    free_range_hens03-04-04-2010.jpg
  • Pretty remote valley farm cottage sits in the secluded Cotswolds Bagpath valley, Gloucestershire.
    bagpath_valley_cottage-05-04-2004.jpg
  • Evening sunlight shines through grasses and trees on farm land, on 25th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_gates-02-25-05-2017.jpg
  • A warning sign for dog owners to keep animals on leads and preventing attacks on livestock, on a gate on farm land in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, on 12th April 2017, in Malham, Yorkshire, England.
    yorkshire-65-12-04-2017.jpg
  • Solar panels on the roof of a Dolomites farm's barn roof in the old rural hamlet of Aireië, near Wengen-La Val, in south Tyrol, Italy.
    italy_dolomites28-19-07-2015.jpg
  • Dressed in typical overalls for the area, traditional Alpine farmer Peter Eberle stands looking up at the viewer for a portrait in the courtyard of his dairy farm in Balzers, Liechtenstein. Mr Eberle wears a woolen hat and blue workman's overalls. He looks a proud but tired and weathered gentleman in his latter years and appears to be an experienced Alpine farmer and we can see a heap of manure over his shoulder and an old fashioned scythe for mowing long grass, leaning against a barn wall. Liechtenstein is a landlocked Principality bordered by the Alpine countries of Austria and Switzerland and is a winter sports resort, though best known as a tax haven, attracting companies worldwide to register their assets in complete secrecy. Its agricultural output is mainly wheat, barley, corn, potatoes, livestock and dairy products though technology companies have been eroding the traditional ways of life such as Peter's for decades.
    liechtenstein_farmer02-08-02-1990.jpg
  • Dressed in typical overalls for the area, traditional Alpine farmer Peter Eberle stands looking up at the viewer for a portrait in the courtyard of his dairy farm in Balzers, Liechtenstein. Mr Eberle wears a woolen hat and blue workman's overalls. He looks a proud but tired and weathered gentleman in his latter years and appears to be an experienced Alpine farmer and we can see a heap of manure over his shoulder and an old fashioned scythe for mowing long grass, leaning against a barn wall. Liechtenstein is a landlocked Principality bordered by the Alpine countries of Austria and Switzerland and is a winter sports resort, though best known as a tax haven, attracting companies worldwide to register their assets in complete secrecy. Its agricultural output is mainly wheat, barley, corn, potatoes, livestock and dairy products though technology companies have been eroding the traditional ways of life such as Peter's for decades.
    RB-0018.jpg
  • Young lady vet, Diana Stapleton with calf at Manor House Farm, Barnoldswick near Settle, North Yorkshire, England. Nursing a healthy cow in the warmth of the farmer's barn, she has just delivered twin calves and checks on other members of the herd before leaving for another appointment. Diana Stapleton belonged to the Dalehead Veterinary Group based in nearby Settle for 15 years, covering a 20-mile area of 500 remote farms though she specialised in small animals and farmwork before dying suddenly at the age of 39.
    woman_vet01-09-08-1995.jpg
  • An ostrich chick stands alone in a private pen, beneath a heat lamp at the ostrich farm belonging to Robert and Nina Bailey near Chepstow, Wales. The reddish glow from the heat source concentrates life-giving energy into the young bird, helping it survive the first three months after hatching. Rearing these birds is a specialist and very expensive business but Ostrich meat is a South African delicacy, used for Biltong. Nutritionists promote it as a more healthy alternative because it is higher in protein and lower in fat and cholesterol. An ostrich lays an egg every other day, of which 40 to 80% are fertile. In the wild there is a 95% failure rate but using an incubator like this almost guarantees total success. Its latin name, 'Struthio camelus', is the largest of living birds with some males reaching a height of 8 ft (244 cm) and weighing 200 to 300 lb (90-135 kg). In the wild, the polygamous male has from two to six females in his flock. The cock scoops out a hollow for the eggs, which weigh nearly 3 lb (1.35 kg) each. One of the females incubates the eggs during the day, and the cock takes over at night. On the savannah they can run at 40mph (64 kph) for 10 hours though their top speed can reach 80mph. During the 19th-century vogue for ostrich plumes, farms were established in South Africa and later in North America, Australia, and Europe; after World War I fashions changed and the industry collapsed.
    RB-0155.jpg
  • A portrait of a young lady vet, Diana Stapleton with cows at Manor House Farm, Barnoldswick near Settle, North Yorkshire, England. Diana has just delivered twin calves and checks on other members of the herd before leaving for another appointment. Diana Stapleton belonged to the Dalehead Veterinary Group based in nearby Settle for 15 years, covering a 20-mile area of 500 remote farms though she specialised in small animals and farmwork before dying suddenly at the age of 39.
    woman_vet02-09-08-1995.jpg
  • A 1970s landscape of duck farms and rural paths at Lok Ma Chau in the New Territories of northern Hong Kong, a village within the territory's Frontier Closed Area, a buffer zone established by the Hong Kong government to prevent illegal immigrants from mainland China, and access to the area is restricted to those holding Closed Area Permits, on 16th April 1979, in Hong Kong, China.
    hong_kong15-16-04-1979.jpg
  • Three horses feed on fresh hay on a small Polish farm, on 20th September 2019, in Biala Woda, Jaworki, near Szczawnica, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-157-20-09-2019.jpg
  • A detail of ducks awaiting their fate on a farm specialising in the production of Foie Gras, on 15th October 1997, in Boofzheim, Alsace, France.
    foie_gras_duck-15-10-1997.jpg
  • Agicultural landscape of Slovenian farms and homes in the Kozjansko Regional Park, on 24th June 2018, in Doblezica, Slovenia.
    slovenia-306-24-06-2018.jpg
  • Sunflowers flourishing on land near Civray-sur-Esves, Indre-et-Loire region, France. Sunflower plants are cultivated in Sunflower farms for their seeds. Refined Sunflower-seed oil is edible, sunflowers have 39 to 49% oil in the seed. Sunflower seed accounts for about 14% of the world production of seed oils (6.9 million metric tons in 1985-86) and about 7% of the oilcake and meal produced from oilseeds. Sunflower oil is generally considered a premium oil because of its light color, high level of unsaturated fatty acids and lack of linolenic acid, bland flavor and high smoke points.
    sunflowers08-11-07-2014.jpg
  • Sunflowers flourishing on land near Civray-sur-Esves, Indre-et-Loire region, France. Sunflower plants are cultivated in Sunflower farms for their seeds. Refined Sunflower-seed oil is edible, sunflowers have 39 to 49% oil in the seed. Sunflower seed accounts for about 14% of the world production of seed oils (6.9 million metric tons in 1985-86) and about 7% of the oilcake and meal produced from oilseeds. Sunflower oil is generally considered a premium oil because of its light color, high level of unsaturated fatty acids and lack of linolenic acid, bland flavor and high smoke points.
    sunflowers07-11-07-2014.jpg
  • Sunflowers flourishing on land near Malle, Indre-et-Loire region, France. Sunflower plants are cultivated in Sunflower farms for their seeds. Refined Sunflower-seed oil is edible, sunflowers have 39 to 49% oil in the seed. Sunflower seed accounts for about 14% of the world production of seed oils (6.9 million metric tons in 1985-86) and about 7% of the oilcake and meal produced from oilseeds. Sunflower oil is generally considered a premium oil because of its light color, high level of unsaturated fatty acids and lack of linolenic acid, bland flavor and high smoke points.
    sunflowers04-11-07-2014.jpg
  • Sunflowers flourishing on land near Malle, Indre-et-Loire region, France. Sunflower plants are cultivated in Sunflower farms for their seeds. Refined Sunflower-seed oil is edible, sunflowers have 39 to 49% oil in the seed. Sunflower seed accounts for about 14% of the world production of seed oils (6.9 million metric tons in 1985-86) and about 7% of the oilcake and meal produced from oilseeds. Sunflower oil is generally considered a premium oil because of its light color, high level of unsaturated fatty acids and lack of linolenic acid, bland flavor and high smoke points.
    sunflowers06-11-07-2014.jpg
  • Sunflowers flourishing on land near Malle, Indre-et-Loire region, France. Sunflower plants are cultivated in Sunflower farms for their seeds. Refined Sunflower-seed oil is edible, sunflowers have 39 to 49% oil in the seed. Sunflower seed accounts for about 14% of the world production of seed oils (6.9 million metric tons in 1985-86) and about 7% of the oilcake and meal produced from oilseeds. Sunflower oil is generally considered a premium oil because of its light color, high level of unsaturated fatty acids and lack of linolenic acid, bland flavor and high smoke points.
    sunflowers05-11-07-2014.jpg
  • Sunflowers flourishing on land near Malle, Indre-et-Loire region, France. Sunflower plants are cultivated in Sunflower farms for their seeds. Refined Sunflower-seed oil is edible, sunflowers have 39 to 49% oil in the seed. Sunflower seed accounts for about 14% of the world production of seed oils (6.9 million metric tons in 1985-86) and about 7% of the oilcake and meal produced from oilseeds. Sunflower oil is generally considered a premium oil because of its light color, high level of unsaturated fatty acids and lack of linolenic acid, bland flavor and high smoke points.
    sunflowers03-11-07-2014.jpg
  • Sunflowers flourishing on land near Malle, Indre-et-Loire region, France. Sunflower plants are cultivated in Sunflower farms for their seeds. Refined Sunflower-seed oil is edible, sunflowers have 39 to 49% oil in the seed. Sunflower seed accounts for about 14% of the world production of seed oils (6.9 million metric tons in 1985-86) and about 7% of the oilcake and meal produced from oilseeds. Sunflower oil is generally considered a premium oil because of its light color, high level of unsaturated fatty acids and lack of linolenic acid, bland flavor and high smoke points.
    sunflowers02-11-07-2014.jpg
  • Sunflowers flourishing on land near Malle, Indre-et-Loire region, France. Sunflower plants are cultivated in Sunflower farms for their seeds. Refined Sunflower-seed oil is edible, sunflowers have 39 to 49% oil in the seed. Sunflower seed accounts for about 14% of the world production of seed oils (6.9 million metric tons in 1985-86) and about 7% of the oilcake and meal produced from oilseeds. Sunflower oil is generally considered a premium oil because of its light color, high level of unsaturated fatty acids and lack of linolenic acid, bland flavor and high smoke points.
    sunflowers01-11-07-2014.jpg
  • A dented agricultural gate marshland opposite Two Tree Island, at Leigh creek near Leigh-on-Sea, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England.
    estuary_walk-22-10-09-2019.jpg
  • Fruit grows beneath arched agricultural polytunnels on Norfolk farmland, on 11th August 2020, in Norfolk, England.
    tunstead_polytunnels04-11-08-2020.jpg
  • A farmer's young daughter stands in front of date palms in fertile fields where agriculture is important for survival, at Bedhal near Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. Dakhla Oasis consists of several communities, along a string of sub-oases. The main settlements are Mut (more fully Mut el-Kharab and anciently called Mothis), El-Masara, Al-Qasr, Qalamoun, together with several smaller villages. Some of the communities have identities that are separate from each other. Qalamoun has inhabitants that trace their origins to the Ottomans.
    egypt493-08-03-2016.jpg
  • Sheep up for auction at the ancient annual Priddy Sheep Fair in Somerset, England. Buyers bid for the best quality animals while sellers gather to hear the prices their sheep have fetched during the sale in this picturesque village in the Mendip Hills. Unauthorised visitors are forbidden to enter the catle pens, avoiding the spread of epidemics like Foot and Mouth. According to tradition, Priddy Sheep Fair moved from Wells in 1348 because of the Black Death, although evidence has been found of a Fair being held at Priddy before that. There is a local legend, which says that as long as the hurdle stack shelter remains in the village, so will the Fair.  d.
    sheep_auction19-21-08-2013.jpg
  • Sheep up for auction at the ancient annual Priddy Sheep Fair in Somerset, England. Buyers bid for the best quality animals while sellers gather to hear the prices their sheep have fetched during the sale in this picturesque village in the Mendip Hills. Unauthorised visitors are forbidden to enter the catle pens, avoiding the spread of epidemics like Foot and Mouth. According to tradition, Priddy Sheep Fair moved from Wells in 1348 because of the Black Death, although evidence has been found of a Fair being held at Priddy before that. There is a local legend, which says that as long as the hurdle stack shelter remains in the village, so will the Fair.
    sheep_auction22-21-08-2013.jpg
  • Sheep up for auction at the ancient annual Priddy Sheep Fair in Somerset, England. An official auctioneer (right) and a stockwoman climb over the fences as the sale commences in this picturesque village in the Mendip Hills. Unauthorised visitors are forbidden to enter the catle pens, avoiding the spread of epidemics like Foot and Mouth. According to tradition, Priddy Sheep Fair moved from Wells in 1348 because of the Black Death, although evidence has been found of a Fair being held at Priddy before that. There is a local legend, which says that as long as the hurdle stack shelter remains in the village, so will the Fair.
    sheep_auction10-21-08-2013.jpg
  • Fruit grows beneath arched agricultural polytunnels on Norfolk farmland, on 11th August 2020, in Norfolk, England.
    tunstead_polytunnels02-11-08-2020.jpg
  • Fruit grows beneath arched agricultural polytunnels on Norfolk farmland, on 11th August 2020, in Norfolk, England.
    tunstead_polytunnels03-11-08-2020.jpg
  • Fruit grows beneath arched agricultural polytunnels on Norfolk farmland, on 11th August 2020, in Norfolk, England.
    tunstead_polytunnels01-11-08-2020.jpg
  • Buyers for sheep up for auction at the ancient annual Priddy Sheep Fair in Somerset, England.
    sheep_auction29-21-08-2013.jpg
  • Sheep up for auction at the ancient annual Priddy Sheep Fair in Somerset, England. Buyers bid for the best quality animals while sellers gather to hear the prices their sheep have fetched during the sale in this picturesque village in the Mendip Hills. Unauthorised visitors are forbidden to enter the catle pens, avoiding the spread of epidemics like Foot and Mouth. According to tradition, Priddy Sheep Fair moved from Wells in 1348 because of the Black Death, although evidence has been found of a Fair being held at Priddy before that. There is a local legend, which says that as long as the hurdle stack shelter remains in the village, so will the Fair.
    sheep_auction24-21-08-2013.jpg
  • Sheep up for auction at the ancient annual Priddy Sheep Fair in Somerset, England. Buyers bid for the best quality animals while sellers gather to hear the prices their sheep have fetched during the sale in this picturesque village in the Mendip Hills. Unauthorised visitors are forbidden to enter the catle pens, avoiding the spread of epidemics like Foot and Mouth. According to tradition, Priddy Sheep Fair moved from Wells in 1348 because of the Black Death, although evidence has been found of a Fair being held at Priddy before that. There is a local legend, which says that as long as the hurdle stack shelter remains in the village, so will the Fair.
    sheep_auction17-21-08-2013.jpg
  • Sheep up for auction at the ancient annual Priddy Sheep Fair in Somerset, England. Kept tight in pens, the animals  have been marked with aerosol spray to identify their ownership before the sale commences in this picturesque village in the Mendip Hills. Unauthorised visitors are forbidden to enter the catle pens, avoiding the spread of epidemics like Foot and Mouth. According to tradition, Priddy Sheep Fair moved from Wells in 1348 because of the Black Death, although evidence has been found of a Fair being held at Priddy before that. There is a local legend, which says that as long as the hurdle stack shelter remains in the village, so will the Fair.
    sheep_auction12-21-08-2013.jpg
  • Late summer sunlight filters through a pile of old wood in a Suffolk farmyard.
    farm_light01-24-07-2012.jpg
  • Barley growing in a farmer's field in Kent, on 31st July 2022, in Kent, England. barley, (Hordeum vulgare), cereal plant of the grass family Poaceae and its edible grain. Grown in a variety of environments, barley is the fourth largest grain crop globally, after wheat, rice, and corn.
    corn_field-01-31-07-2022.jpg
  • One year-old bulls peer through a wire fence separating farmland and a private garden, on 5th November 2017, in Wrington, North Somerset, England.
    field_heiffers-21-05-11-2017.jpg
  • One year-old bulls peer through a wire fence separating farmland and a private garden, on 5th November 2017, in Wrington, North Somerset, England.
    field_heiffers-17-05-11-2017.jpg
  • One year-old bulls peer through a wire fence separating farmland and a private garden, on 5th November 2017, in Wrington, North Somerset, England.
    field_heiffers-18-05-11-2017.jpg
  • One year-old bulls peer through a wire fence separating farmland and a private garden, on 5th November 2017, in Wrington, North Somerset, England.
    field_heiffers-19-05-11-2017.jpg
  • One year-old bulls peer through a wire fence separating farmland and a private garden, on 5th November 2017, in Wrington, North Somerset, England.
    field_heiffers-11-05-11-2017.jpg
  • One year-old bulls peer through a wire fence separating farmland and a private garden, on 5th November 2017, in Wrington, North Somerset, England.
    field_heiffers-07-05-11-2017.jpg
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