Finally the few dry days plus the ground freezing overnight has allowed for some field work and farmers were busy combining soybeans today.
Harvesting Soybeans
Picture of the Day for November 22, 2018
For many people, the Thanksgiving meal included turkey as the main course but another common item is cranberries in a variety of forms. It’s debatable whether or not there were cranberries at the first Thanksgiving, but due to the importance of cranberries as a native fruit in early North America it is believed that they would have been at the first Thanksgiving. These cranberries were harvested last month, when the temperature was much warmer than it was today.
Cranberries for Thanksgiving
Picture of the Day for October 17, 2017
Most of the cranberry beds that I saw this morning while exploring the area had been harvested but there were several beds which the cranberries had been stripped from the vines and the cranberries were floating on the water waiting to be corralled and loaded on trucks.
Cranberries Floating Around
Picture of the Day for November 4, 2013
The farm fields have been busy with activity the last few weeks with harvest but the harvest method varied greatly from the super huge combines, to older smaller combines and corn pickers, and even cut by hand and shocked into bundles to let the corn dry down like my grandparents did.
Corn Shocks
Picture of the Day for October 18, 2013
It may be Friday, but the work week won’t end for the farmers trying to get the crops in before winter, especially with the forecast of snow flakes in the air. The soybeans are being harvested in this field but there is still corn in the next field to get harvested.
Autumn Harvest
Picture of the Day for October 12, 2012
The harvesting of crops continues and as you drive around the farm land, you might see huge new big combines and others that already have seen many harvest seasons. But to the future generations, the current fancy equipment may appear just as ancient as photographs of my grandparents harvesting with teams of horses.
Today’s Harvest, Tomorrow’s Past
