Harvest

On friday we began the harvest on the farm.  We combined some soy bean fields and began filling up wagons and trucks.  Combining is pretty fascinating to watch; the combine mows down neat and exact rows of crops, sucks in everything and then separates the beans from stalks, pods, leaves etc, puts the beans in a hopper and expells everything else.  Once we have enough grain accumulated we take a run into town and deliver everything to the local elevator.  There it is collected from hundreds of farmers in the area and transported to places like St. Louis to be put on barges.

I’m gonna try to get photos of the whole process and upload them because every step is pretty interesting to see.