Yellow canola fields are visible across the landscape north of Adelaide, Australia. While various crops are grown here, the canola fields are easy to notice because of their vibrant flowering color. The crop is grown for the production of oil, which is extracted by slightly heating and then crushing the flower seeds. Canola oil is primarily used as a source of biodiesel and also for cooking purposes.

Agricultural development surrounds Huétor Tájar, a small town located in the province of Granada, Spain. The primary crops grown in the municipality are asparagus and olives.

Agricultural development encircles the towns of Ausim and Shinbari in the Cairo Governorate of Egypt. The towns are located within the fertile area surrounding the Nile River, the country’s main source of water because it has no effective rainfall. The roughly 55 billion cubic meters of water that are used from the river each year represents more than three quarters of the country’s resources for usable water.

Agricultural development in Meridian, California is partitioned by irrigation canals that originate at the Sacramento River. On average, 9.6 million acres of cropland across the state are irrigated with 11 trillion gallons of water every year. As of 2014, farmers in California cultivated approximately half of the United State’s fruits, vegetables, and nuts.

Agricultural development in Stavrapol Krai, Russia is made possible with water that travels down from the Caucasus Mountains. The region’s temperate climate supports grape and grain crops.

Albenga is a city situated on the Gulf of Genoa in Italy. The economy of Albenga is primarily driven by tourism, local commerce, and agriculture. When viewing the town from above, it’s easy to see the amount of space dedicated to agriculture because of the widespread use of greenhouses or "plasticulture." The use of plastic covering is designed to increase produce yield, increase produce size, and shorten growth time.

Vineyards line the foothills of the Andean Mountains in Chile’s Valparaíso Region, roughly 55 miles (88 km) north of Santiago. Grapes grown in this wine region, called the Aconcagua Valley, are often irrigated with snow melt from surrounding mountains and have produced red wines of international acclaim.

The Arizona Department of Corrections facility in Goodyear, Arizona is surrounded by fields of lettuce, cabbage, and red potatoes. The prison holds 2,382 inmates across eight housing units (only one is pictured here). This Overview is part of a collaborative photo essay that we just released with Fusion to detail how prisons have become a part of the American landscape, often in plain sight. Check out the full story .

Deforestation of the rainforest is visible in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, immediately adjacent to untouched tracts of forest. Deforestation in the country has primarily been driven by the expansion of mechanized agriculture and cattle ranching. According to , initial data for the first half of May showed 17,000 acres (6,880 hectares) of forest had been chopped down in the Amazon, nearly as much as the total for the previous nine months.

Cadiz Ranch in Essex, California is located in the middle of the Mojave Desert. The organic farm grows lemons, table grapes (dried and turned into raisins) and squash on more than 300 acres of irrigated desert. This is made possible by seven wells that pump 2,000 gallons of water per minute at all times from an underground aquifer - a layer of water-bearing permeable rock from which water can be extracted.

Agricultural development is seen in Calipatria, California, USA. At an elevation of 180 feet (55 m) below sea level, the city has the lowest elevation in the western hemisphere.

Vibrantly colored salt evaporation ponds are seen adjacent to Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône in southern France. This region — known as the Camargue — lies between the Mediterranean Sea and the two arms of the Rhône River delta, forming a natural series of brine lagoons. Salt has been produced in this region for thousands of years and is sought-after worldwide for its superior quality.

Cattle are visible at a feedlot in Summerfield, Texas, USA. Once the animals reach a weight of 650 pounds, they are moved to these facilities and placed on a strict diet of specialized animal feed. Over the next three to four months, the cows gain up to 400 more pounds before they are shipped off to slaughter. The lagoon seen at the top of this feedlot gets is glowing color from a high concentration of manure and chemicals.

Center pivot irrigation is used throughout the Wadi As-Sirhan Basin of Saudi Arabia. Water is mined from depths as great as one kilometer (~3,000 ft), pumped to the surface, and evenly distributed by sprinklers that rotate 360 degrees. Spurred by a government effort to strengthen its agriculture sector, cultivated land in Saudi Arabia grew from 400,000 acres in 1976 to more than 8 million acres by 1993. For a sense of scale, the total area shown in this Overview is approximately fifty square miles (32,000 acres).

Thousands of trucks and cars surround the Central de Abasto — Mexico City’s largest wholesale market for produce and other foodstuffs. The market serves more than 300,000 people and handles over 30,000 tons of merchandise each day — representing 80% of the consumption of the Mexico City metropolitan area.

A herd of cows is ushered into a milking parlor on a dairy farm in Chino, California. For years, Chino was a center of dairy farming in Southern California, providing milk products to much of the southwestern United States. The industry peaked in the 1980s, when Chino and its surrounding areas had more than 400 dairies; today only a few remain.

Citrus trees cover the landscape like fingerprints in Isla Cristina, Spain. The climate in this region is ideal for the growth of this produce with an average temperature of 64 degrees (18° celsius) and a relative humidity between 60% and 80%.

Check out this Overview, which shows some interesting patterns of farmland in Logan County, Colorado. Much of the county's 1,845 square miles (4,780 sq. km) is used for farming, ranching or related activities, making it one of the most productive agricultural counties in the state. Shown in the bottom half of this image is the small town of Peetz, which has more wind turbines (300) than residents (238).

If you put cranberries on your Thanksgiving turkey today, there’s a chance they came from these bogs in Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Cranberries are a Native American wetland fruit that are grown on low-lying vines, floating in beds of water layered with sand, peat, gravel, and clay. Coincidentally, the town of Plymouth is also the site of the colony founded by the Pilgrims in 1620 and was the home to the first Thanksgiving feast in 1621. Happy Thanksgiving from Daily Overview!

Plastic greenhouses cover a stretch of shoreline on the south coast of Crete — the largest and most populous of the Greek islands. Inside these greenhouses, which cover an area of roughly 6 square miles (15 sq. km), large quantities of fruits and vegetables are grown for export. In the upper right corner of this Overview is the Bramiana Reservoir, which was built in 1986 to meet the needs of the thousands of greenhouses surrounding it.

Deforestation of the rainforest is visible in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Deforestation in the country has primarily been driven by the expansion of mechanized agriculture and cattle ranching. This Overview highlights the country’s struggle to expand food production in order to meet the needs of its growing population, and the sacrificial destruction of its forests that has taken place to do so. Deforestation rates have been stable though relatively high, at about 200,000 hectares a year.

Terraced hillsides are seen in the Douro Valley of northern Portugal. The steep slopes are covered with of grape vines that rise from the Douro River below. The region is recognized as the home of port wine - a sweet, red wine that is often served with dessert.

Agricultural development encircles the towns of Ausim and Shinbari in the Cairo Governorate of Egypt. The towns are located within the fertile area surrounding the Nile River, the country’s main source of water because it has no effective rainfall. The roughly 55 billion cubic meters of water that are used from the river each year represents more than three quarters of the country’s resources for usable water.

The village of Espel - located in the province of Flevoland, Netherlands - is home to 774 inhabitants. The farms in the region specialize in the growth of flower bulbs.

Fruit trees swirl on the hills of Huelva, Spain. The climate here is ideal for this growth with an average temperature of 17.8° C (64° F) and a relative humidity between 60% and 80%.

The plain of Fucino in the Abruzzo region of Italy is commonly recognized for the quality of the vegetables that are grown here - in particular the potatoes, carrots, and radishes. What is now an entire plain filled with farms was once Fucine Lake, the third largest lake in Italy. The lake was drained in 1877 to make agricultural development possible here, an area that is now responsible for roughly 25% of the agricultural production in the region.

Olive tree groves surround the village of Ινία, Greece. Approximately 90% of all harvested olives are turned into oil; the remaining 10% are eaten as table olives.

Harris Cattle Ranch is located in the San Joaquin Valley in California. Spanning 800 acres with a a cattle population of over 100,000, the facility produces 150 million pounds of beef per year, making it the largest beef producer on the West Coast of the United States.

Hutt Lagoon is a massive lake in Western Australia that gets its pink color from a particular type of algae - Dunaliella salina - that grows in the water. The lagoon contains the world’s largest microalgae production plant, where the algae is farmed for its beta-carotene, which is then used as a food‑coloring agent and source of Vitamin A in other products.

Salt pans are visible on Ile de Noirmoutier, an island off the coast of France. Here, more than 800 tonnes of salt are extracted annually through evaporation. Sea water is channeled into the basins via canals, which pass through reservoirs that get progressively shallower. Over time, evaporation causes the salt to crystallize and it is then carefully extracted from the pans.