MyWorld - Corn Harvest

Welcome to MY WORLD Tuesday, Issue V!! Visit the official MY WORLD site to find links to other participants from all around the world!

First an Iowa dairy farm reality check photo.......including: MUD; a roof needing repairs; a random chicken (can you find it); MUD; a bovine escapee from the cowyard; and, did I mention MUD?!

In reality, the MyWorld scenes I want to show you today are there way in the background of the above photo.

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The combine at work, harvesting in the neighbor's cornfield today---1/2 mile away--- caught my eye in the morning light. ZO-O-OM went my little Canon's lens!

You'll probably need to click the photo below to enlarge it to see the combine way on the left. Then follow the horizon line over to the right and notice the semi-truck waiting to be loaded with shelled corn from the combine's hopper. Near the center of the photo, another semi is partially visible. (Also.......further in the distance, between the near horizon and the far horizon is the Crane Creek valley neighborhood where the F5 tornado went through last May.......some of the stripped trees are visible.)


Semi-trucks sitting in farm fields have become a common autumn sight in Iowa in recent years. Who'd a thunk it?! I could have never envisioned such a thing years ago.......in the olden days, when we drove tractors pulling gravity box wagons into the fields to retrieve the grain from the combine or cornpicker. Back then, a semi out in a farm field would have meant its driver must have gotten drunk and taken a really wrong turn!! This neighbor of ours owns two semi-trucks for hauling grain from his fields.......to storage bins on his farm, or at the local cooperative, or to a local ethanol plant. I would guess he farms several hundred acres of owned and rented land.

Next is a side view of the John Deere combine. I just love dust flying in photos!!

Actually, this combine is not an overly big one........it harvests six rows of corn at a time. Other farmers around here have twelve-row or larger harvesting machines. Do Husband and I own a combine? Not anymore. We hire another neighbor to do our combining. A $100,000 combine is out of our price range, thank you very much.......and, isn't needed for the relatively few acres that need combined on our farm every fall. Much of our farm's land is planted in forage crops each year, anyhow---hay, oats, rye (the green field in the foreground in the above photos)---which are chopped or baled for the cows to eat.


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