Farmer Justin Waddington, foreground, repairs a combine during a wheat harvest in Washington state's Yakima Valley. Growers in the Pacific Northwest are benefitting from high prices created by the drought affecting the Midwest. Waddington grows corn, wheat and alfalfa. According to him, as the price of corn spikes, as it's doing now with the drought, wheat and soybeans follow because farmers substitute the other grains in animal feed.

Waddington watches newly harvested wheat pour into a truck in Washington state's Yakima Valley.

A Nigerien woman digs a trench to collect rainwater near the village of Tibiri in the southern Zinder region of Niger on May 28, 2012. Ten percent of children under five in Niger suffer from acute malnutrition and 44 percent of children suffer from chronic malnutrition, according to the UN World Food Program.

Nigerien farmers arrive near the village of Tibiri.

Nigerien farmers receive two-week's pay for work in the village of Tibiri.

Legislators from the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) and opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) display placards during a demonstration at the parliament in Taipei on June 15, 2012.

Watermelons are bound up so that they can be cultivated into a 'hulu' shape at a watermelon plantation during the Watermelon Festival in Daxing district on the outskirts of Beijing. The Watermelon Festival runs from 25 May to 01 June.

Chinese farmer Li Feng Chun shows his entry for the 'King of Watermelon' that weights more than 50 kilograms during a watermelon competition at the Watermelon Festival in Daxing district on the outskirts of Beijing on Friday.

Visitors walk in a watermelon themed exhibition hall at the Lao Song Melon Garden during the Watermelon Festival in Daxing district on the outskirts of Beijing.

Farm workers pick tea leaves in the rain on Wednesday in Wuyishan, Fujian province, southeastern China. Wuyi Mountains is renowned for producing top quality tea. Brightly coloured plants grow on the rocky outcrops with strong aroma and pure taste, the most highly prized among them being Da Hong Pao 'Grand Red Robe' rock tea and Lapsang Souchong red tea.

Tea leaves being sold by farmers to a factory are weighed in the village of Tongmuguan.

Workers handle Jinjunmei, a quality red leaf tea at a tea factory in the village of Tongmuguan.

Liiang Junde, producer of top red tea Jinjunmei, roasts leaves to produce Lapsang Souchong red tea, at his tea factory in the village of Tongmuguan.

A woman brews tea in Wuyishan, Fujian province, southeastern China.

A laborer lifts a sack of rotting wheat grain trying to salvage any that was still edible, at an open storage area in Khamanon village, some 133 miles from Amritsar, India, on May 9, 2012.

A laborer stands on rotting wheat grain at an open storage area in Khamanon village on May 9, 2012.