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Aisha Rahman Business
Asher Valley dairy cooperative builds its own cheese plant
Why it matters: Forty-one family farms have pooled €9.5m to turn part of their milk into hard cheese and butter, aiming to earn more per litre than selling it to large processors.
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Lucas Moreau Business
Harvest season: rice pours into a waiting trailer
Why it matters: Paddy streaming from a combine’s unloading auger quickly filled the trailer at the edge of the field.
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Rafael Ortega Business
Combines side by side in a wheat field: the harvest from above
Why it matters: Drone footage shows two combine harvesters unloading grain into a moving tractor trailer.
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Isabel Duarte 10 photos Business
Tea gardens: green terraces on the hillsides
Why it matters: From Sri Lanka to Vietnam, Rwanda to Japan, the rhythmic green patterns of tea plantations.
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Daniel Osei Lifestyle
Pick-your-own pumpkin farm draws families to the Asher Valley in its busiest October yet
Why it matters: A farm that once grew only cereals now plants 14 varieties of pumpkin and squash, and turns its fields over to visitors for four weeks every autumn.
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Elena Sokolova Business
Asher Valley grain growers lock in prices with millers through three-year contracts
Why it matters: A shared online platform run by the growers' cooperative has matched more than 80 farms with regional mills on fixed-price deals, offering both sides shelter from swings in the commodity market.
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Hannah Okoye News
Asher Valley wheat harvest beats five-year average despite a wet spring
Why it matters: Farmers in the Asher Valley have brought in a wheat crop well above recent averages, figures from the Growers' Cooperative show, after a dry, warm finish to the summer rescued fields that were waterlogged at sowing.
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