Posted by john in la on July 09, 2008 at 19:45:29 from (70.156.103.25):
Had the camera with me today so I took a bunch of pictures of our local fields. Here is a few I picked out to share with you guys. I will put them as links for the guys with dial up.
I have seen the pictures from up north where you guys are still cultivating. As you can see we are long past that stage. This is the crop for this year set to be harvested this fall. picture 1
Here is a picture of a fallow field. We use fallow fields instead of crop rotation. These fields have been planted with the same crop for over 250 years. If you look good you can see the cranes in the background where Marathon is building a oil refinery expansion to the tune of 3.2 billion. Anybody that thinks oil is running out ought to inform them because they believe there is plenty left. picture 2
This is another picture of this years crop. In the center background is a large grain elevator on the Mississippi River where they unload corn and bean barges from Iowa and load it on ships headed overseas. picture 3
This is the tractors working the fallow field getting it ready to plant in mid to late Aug. As you can see they have dug out all the ditches; leveled the field; and now have it up in rows. They will make this pass to turn under any weeds and pile the rows up more. They will come back again in early Aug and do it one more time just before planting. picture 4
While you could also see it in the last picture this picture shows the same field with the tractor cutting cross groves threw the field. It is the spray of dust just this side of the building. The grove cutter runs on PTO power and cuts a grove for water drainage across the rows. picture 5
This is what the cross grove looks like from the side of a field. The water runs down the row to a cross grove and out to the ditches on the side of the fields. picture 6
This picture is just a over view of a growing field. A lot of work out there when you consider these farms average a couple thousand acres and each row is planted and harvested 1 row at a time. picture 7
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