05-11-2019 North Dakota, USA Workers cleaning a combine harvester, soybean harvest, Noeske Seed Farm. The combine had become clogged when it picked up early morning frost. © Jim West

05-11-2019 North Dakota, USA Workers cleaning a combine harvester, soybean harvest, Noeske Seed Farm. The combine had become clogged when it picked up early morning frost. © Jim West

14-09-2017 North Dakota, USA Combine harvester harvesting soybeans, Noeske Seed Farm © Jim West

14-09-2017 North Dakota, USA Combine harvester harvesting soybeans, Noeske Seed Farm © Jim West

14-09-2017 North Dakota, USA Combine harvester harvesting soybeans, Noeske Seed Farm © Jim West

24-08-2017 Fort Collins, Colorado, USA Biological science technician looking for seeds stored at 0 degrees F in a freezer, National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation. The Laboratory is part of the De... © Jim West

24-08-2017 Fort Collins, Colorado, USA Tanks of liquid nitrogen store semen from cows and other animals at -320 degrees F, National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation, part of the Department of Agricu... © Jim West

24-08-2017 Fort Collins, Colorado, USA Tanks of liquid nitrogen store semen from cows and other animals at -320 degrees F, National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation, part of the Department of Agricu... © Jim West

24-08-2017 Fort Collins, Colorado, USA The National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation, a unit of the Department of Agriculture. Ryan Lynch, a research assistant, examining germinated fern spores that... © Jim West

24-08-2017 Fort Collins, Colorado, USA The National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation, part of the Department of Agriculture. Research leader Dr Christina Walters examining plants in a walk in germin... © Jim West

24-08-2017 Fort Collins, Colorado, USA The National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation, part of the Department of Agriculture. Bradford Hall, a biological science technician, propagating wild potatoes... © Jim West

24-08-2017 Fort Collins, Colorado, USA The National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation, part of the Department of Agriculture. Bradford Hall, a biological science technician, propagating wild potatoes... © Jim West

24-08-2017 Fort Collins, Colorado, USA The National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation, part of the Department of Agriculture. Bradford Hall, a biological science technician, propagating wild potatoes... © Jim West

07-04-2017 Farmer planting spring wheat with a tracked tractor Case IH Quadtrac 600 and Rapid seed drill, Warwickshire © John Harris

07-04-2017 Farmer planting spring wheat with a tracked tractor Case IH Quadtrac 600 and Rapid seed drill, Warwickshire © John Harris

07-04-2017 Farmer planting spring wheat with a tracked tractor Case IH Quadtrac 600 and Rapid seed drill, Warwickshire © John Harris

07-04-2017 Farmer planting spring wheat with a tracked tractor Case IH Quadtrac 600 and Rapid seed drill, Warwickshire © John Harris

07-04-2017 Farmer planting spring wheat with a tracked tractor Case IH Quadtrac 600 and Rapid seed drill, Warwickshire © John Harris

07-04-2017 Farmer planting spring wheat with a tracked tractor Case IH Quadtrac 600 and Rapid seed drill, Warwickshire © John Harris

07-04-2017 Farmer planting spring wheat with a tracked tractor Case IH Quadtrac 600 and Rapid seed drill, Warwickshire © John Harris

07-04-2017 Farmer planting spring wheat with a tracked tractor Case IH Quadtrac 600 and Rapid seed drill, Warwickshire © John Harris

07-04-2017 Farmer planting spring wheat with a tracked tractor Case IH Quadtrac 600 and Rapid seed drill, Warwickshire © John Harris

07-04-2017 Farmer planting spring wheat with a tracked tractor Case IH Quadtrac 600 and Rapid seed drill, Warwickshire © John Harris

07-04-2017 Farmer planting spring wheat with a tracked tractor Case IH Quadtrac 600 and Rapid seed drill, Warwickshire © John Harris

07-04-2017 Farmer planting spring wheat with a tracked tractor Case IH Quadtrac 600 and Rapid seed drill, Warwickshire © John Harris

07-04-2017 Farmer planting spring wheat with a tracked tractor Case IH Quadtrac 600 and Rapid seed drill, Warwickshire © John Harris

07-04-2017 Farmer planting spring wheat with a tracked tractor Case IH Quadtrac 600 and Rapid seed drill, Warwickshire © John Harris

07-04-2017 Farmer planting spring wheat with a tracked tractor Case IH Quadtrac 600 and Rapid seed drill, Warwickshire © John Harris

07-04-2017 Farmer planting spring wheat with a tracked tractor Case IH Quadtrac 600 and Rapid seed drill, Warwickshire © John Harris

07-04-2017 Farmer planting spring wheat with a tracked tractor Case IH Quadtrac 600 and Rapid seed drill, Warwickshire © John Harris

07-04-2017 Farmer planting spring wheat with a tracked tractor Case IH Quadtrac 600 and Rapid seed drill, Warwickshire © John Harris

07-04-2017 Farmer planting spring wheat with a tracked tractor Case IH Quadtrac 600 and Rapid seed drill, Warwickshire © John Harris

07-04-2017 Farmer planting spring wheat with a tracked tractor Case IH Quadtrac 600 and Rapid seed drill, Warwickshire © John Harris

07-04-2017 Farmer planting spring wheat with a tracked tractor Case IH Quadtrac 600 and Rapid seed drill, Warwickshire © John Harris

07-04-2017 Farmer planting spring wheat with a tracked tractor Case IH Quadtrac 600 and Rapid seed drill, Warwickshire © John Harris

21-04-2016 Wild primroses, Brandon Marsh nature reserve, Warwickshire © John Harris

21-04-2016 Reedmace Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, Warwickshire. Ripe seedheads disintegrating into a cottony fluff from which seeds are dispersed by wind. © John Harris

21-04-2016 Reedmace Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, Warwickshire. Ripe seedheads disintegrating into a cottony fluff from which seeds are dispersed by wind. © John Harris

21-04-2016 Reedmace Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, Warwickshire. Ripe seedheads disintegrating into a cottony fluff from which seeds are dispersed by wind. © John Harris

21-04-2016 Reedmace Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, Warwickshire. Ripe seedheads disintegrating into a cottony fluff from which seeds are dispersed by wind. © John Harris

21-04-2016 Reedmace Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, Warwickshire. Ripe seedheads disintegrating into a cottony fluff from which seeds are dispersed by wind. © John Harris

21-04-2016 Reedmace Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, Warwickshire. Ripe seedheads disintegrating into a cottony fluff from which seeds are dispersed by wind. © John Harris

21-04-2016 Reedmace Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, Warwickshire. Ripe seedheads disintegrating into a cottony fluff from which seeds are dispersed by wind. © John Harris

21-04-2016 Reedmace Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, Warwickshire. Ripe seedheads disintegrating into a cottony fluff from which seeds are dispersed by wind. © John Harris

21-04-2016 Reedmace Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, Warwickshire. Ripe seedheads disintegrating into a cottony fluff from which seeds are dispersed by wind. © John Harris

24-09-2015 A Bai woman farmworker tending her rapeseed crop by hand. Shangri-La, Yunnan Province, China. © Connor Matheson

20-07-2015 Idaho, USA, farm worker irrigating seed potato crop on a farm © Jim West

25-06-2015 Borage growing in a field, Warwickshire. The herb is cultivated for Borage seed oil. © John Harris

29-04-2015 Rain clouds above farmlamd, oilseed rape with tractor tracks. Warwickshire © John Harris

25-10-2014 Bird Rock, Craig yr Aderyn. Tywyn, Dysynni Valley. Snowdonia National Park. Wales. © Jess Hurd

16-10-2014 Seeds of Change a ballast seed garden by Brazilian artist Maria Thereza Alves, Castle Park, Bristol. Between 1680 and the early 1900s ships ballast from all over the world was used to weigh down the v... © Paul Box

31-08-2014 Honesty seedpods Lunaria annua alba or the money plant in a garden. © John Harris

21-07-2014 Harvesting Oilseed Rape, Warwickshire © John Harris

18-07-2014 Harvesting oil seed rape, Warwickshire © John Harris

18-07-2014 Harvesting oil seed rape, Warwickshire © John Harris

18-07-2014 Harvesting oil seed rape, Warwickshire © John Harris

18-07-2014 Instructing a combine driver. Harvesting oil seed rape, Warwickshire © John Harris

18-07-2014 Instructing a combine driver. Harvesting oil seed rape, Warwickshire © John Harris

18-07-2014 Harvesting oil seed rape, Warwickshire © John Harris

18-07-2014 Planting lettuce on a salad crop farm, Warwickshire © John Harris

04-12-2013 Santa Maria, California, USA. Migrant farmworkers from Mexico planting young seedlings of broccoli plants from a planting machine pulled through a field by a tractor © David Bacon

04-12-2013 Santa Maria, California, USA: Migrant farmworkers from Mexico plant young seedlings of broccoli plants. © David Bacon

01-09-2012 Tractor and seed drill moving between fields down a narrow single track lane, Lark Stoke, Warwickshire © John Harris

19-07-2012 A farmworker flailing Oilseed Rape prior to harvesting with a combine harvester, Bidford, Warwickshire © John Harris

19-07-2012 A farmworker flailing Oilseed Rape prior to harvesting with a combine harvester, Bidford, Warwickshire © John Harris

19-07-2012 A farmworker flailing Oilseed Rape prior to harvesting with a combine harvester, Bidford, Warwickshire © John Harris

22-05-2012 A farmworker moving trays of salad crop seedlings for planting out in a field on a farm in Warwickshire © John Harris

22-05-2012 A farmworker moving trays of salad crop seedlings for planting out in a field on a farm in Warwickshire © John Harris

05-05-2012 Scattering grass seed, Landscaping work in the London 2012 Olympic Park. © Philip Wolmuth

12-04-2012 Saint Paul, Minnesota. One of the six bronze elevator doors in the lobby of St. Paul City Hall, designed by New York artist Albert Stewart and installed in 1936, that depict St. Paul history and life... © David Bacon

31-05-2011 Arabica coffee beans just after harvest. Colombia is one of the most important coffee exporters in the world. Cauca, Colombia. © Boris Heger

31-05-2011 Arabica coffee beans just after harvest. Colombia is one of the most important coffee exporters in the world. Cauca, Colombia. © Boris Heger

31-05-2011 Arabica coffee beans just after harvest. Colombia is one of the most important coffee exporters in the world. Cauca, Colombia. © Boris Heger

16-06-2010 Young boy with his face painted like a pirate blowing a dandelion seed clock. © Paul Carter

23-05-2010 A corn crop planted with hybrid seeds marketed by Pioneer Hi-Bred. © Jim West

23-05-2010 A corn crop planted with hybrid seeds marketed by Pioneer Hi-Bred. © Jim West

23-05-2010 A corn crop planted with hybrid seeds marketed by Pioneer Hi-Bred. © Jim West

23-05-2010 A corn crop planted with hybrid seeds marketed by Pioneer Hi-Bred. © Jim West

01-05-2010 A woman plants seeds in the garden with the help of her two sons. © Paul Carter

16-02-2010 Plants growing in a solidified lava field, as smoke rises from another eruption and flow on the side of a volcano. Big Island, Hawaii, USA. © David Bacon

20-07-2009 Combine harvester driver beginning the oilseed rape harvest. Warwickshire. © John Harris

20-07-2009 Combine harvester driver beginning the oilseed rape harvest. Warwickshire. © John Harris

20-07-2009 Combine harvester driver beginning the oilseed rape harvest. Warwickshire. © John Harris

29-04-2009 Farmworker spraying oilseed rape with insecticide and fungicide chemicals. Welland Viaduct crosses Welland Valley, Harringworth, Northamptonshire. © John Harris

29-04-2009 Farmworker spraying oilseed rape with insecticide and fungicide chemicals. Welland Valley, Harringworth, Northamptonshire. © John Harris

29-04-2009 Farmworker spraying oilseed rape with insecticide and fungicide chemicals. Welland Valley, Harringworth, Northamptonshire. © John Harris

29-04-2009 Farmworker spraying oilseed rape with insecticide and fungicide chemicals. Welland Valley, Harringworth, Northamptonshire. © John Harris

29-04-2009 Farmworker spraying oilseed rape with insecticide and fungicide chemicals. Welland Valley, Harringworth, Northamptonshire. © John Harris

29-04-2009 Farmworker spraying oilseed rape with insecticide and fungicide chemicals. Welland Valley, Harringworth, Northamptonshire. © John Harris

29-04-2009 Farmworker spraying oilseed rape with insecticide and fungicide chemicals. Welland Viaduct crosses Welland Valley, Harringworth, Northamptonshire. © John Harris

29-04-2009 Farmworker spraying oilseed rape with insecticide and fungicide chemicals. Welland Valley, Harringworth, Northamptonshire. © John Harris

29-04-2009 Farmworker spraying oilseed rape with insecticide and fungicide chemicals. Welland Valley, Harringworth, Northamptonshire. © John Harris

29-04-2009 Farmworker spraying oilseed rape with insecticide and fungicide chemicals. Welland Viaduct crosses Welland Valley, Harringworth, Northamptonshire. © John Harris

29-04-2009 Farmworker spraying oilseed rape with insecticide and fungicide chemicals. Welland Valley, Harringworth, Northamptonshire. © John Harris

29-04-2009 Farmworker spraying oilseed rape with insecticide and fungicide chemicals. Welland Valley, Harringworth, Northamptonshire. © John Harris

29-04-2009 Farmworker spraying oilseed rape with insecticide and fungicide chemicals. Welland Valley, Harringworth, Northamptonshire. © John Harris

24-04-2009 Rural housing amoungst an oilseed rape crop, Warwickshire. © John Harris

18-03-2009 Drilling wheat on a farm, Lincolnshire © John Harris

18-03-2009 Drilling a field in Leicestershire © John Harris

18-03-2009 Drilling wheat on a farm in Lincolnshire © John Harris