This week my Pairs are Corn Crops Harvested; Corn Crops Not Harvested.
A busy time for the farmers & often at night you can see the headlights of the big combines out in the field. So far this Autumn the weather has been good for the big machines to get out in the fields - not too muddy. Most of the corn grown in this region is for feed or what we call silo corn. Some of the Mennonite farmers bale the stripped corn stalks to use as bedding & some use the bales as snow fences as their farm fields border major roadways. Nice to see the entire plant getting used.
Wednesday Update: these photos were taken this past weekend; today we are getting 60-65mm of rain from Hurricane Patricia - the fields will be a mud fest!
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| Harvested Corn |
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| Not Harvested Corn |
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| The Big Equipment Doing The Harvesting |
lovely to see the harvest and interesting about the snow fences - I'd not heard of that before
ReplyDeleteSnow fences are new to me too. I love the sight of a field before harvest, but those huge machines are amazing. A lovely Pair. I love before and after. I never seem to be organised enough to do it.
ReplyDeleteA super pair of photos - harvest time was several weeks ago here. Like Miriam I keep meaning to find pairs to photograph and never quite get round to it!
ReplyDeletelovely harvest photos...and good luck with the rain. That could be part of a before/after pairs!!
ReplyDeleteWe drove through part of northern Indiana on Rt. 20 and on some even smaller back roads through Amish country on our way home yesterday. I saw many silo filled with feed corn.
ReplyDeleteFascinating to see another part of the world - thank-you for these! Those machines are huge ... Using bales to block the snow sounds a great idea and which our farmers would do this; the snow sweeps right across the fields here and all over the road because there is nothing to stop it. Though perhaps your farmers use the bales to stop the road snow getting onto their land?
ReplyDeleteHow interesting about the bales. That's what I love the most about blogland, all the little differences and yet so many similarities. Stay safe and dry.
ReplyDeleteInteresting photos. Over here all the straw is cut with the corn. The grain which we still use for animal feed is collected the straw then baled. Some people do whole crop where the grain and stem is cut and stored for animal feed. Snow walls do sound a good idea. I think straw is needed too much to use as a snow block and we don't get the snow for you that would be a much higher need.
ReplyDeleteNot having been in Mennonite country in fall or winter I didn't know that bit about using the corn stalks for fencing. It would definitely come in handy in that part of the province!
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