And it is rumbling again
@GardenGerty (157485)
United States
June 20, 2017 7:17pm CST
We heard another rumble. This time it is the rumble of machinery.
About the same time as wheat harvest, people cut hay from random fields.
Fields like the one across the street from me.
This was formerly a football field, so it is not massive acreage, but they will get a few huge round bales here.
Later a small wheat farmer will spread grain on the field to dry before scraping it up for harvest. I guess that is where the grass comes from for the hay harvest. Leftover seeds of various kinds.
Summer in Kansas, you get an idea of how things are produced to feed us and our livestock.
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@GardenGerty (157485)
• United States
21 Jun 17
I am sure there are busy seasons where you are as well, just different things to be busy with. It is a hot task to harvest wheat or anything else, although the new tractors on the big farms are often air conditioned. I think of how hard it must have been to do this all by hand or horse drawn equipment.
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@Nawsheen (28644)
• Mauritius
21 Jun 17
@GardenGerty Yes in August/September we have sugarcane harvest over here
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@GardenGerty (157485)
• United States
22 Jun 17
@Nawsheen Oh and we all appreciate the sugar harvest.
@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
21 Jun 17
I remember all the smells of Kansas in the summertime with the hay Heather..I love the smell of that.
But my nose used to get itchy lol
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@GardenGerty (157485)
• United States
21 Jun 17
Truly "hay" fever. Yes, it smells so sweet. Especially early in the morning.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
21 Jun 17
@GardenGerty Yes it does Heather..it is in my memory.
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@GardenGerty (157485)
• United States
22 Jun 17
It is a sweet smell and that is one advantage to feeding the pets.
@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
21 Jun 17
I love the photo. Sounds busy around there
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@GardenGerty (157485)
• United States
21 Jun 17
Yes, this is directly across the street. So much here is agricultural. So only sometimes is it busy.
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
21 Jun 17
I love these photos, I see the hay being cut and baled several times a year.
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@GardenGerty (157485)
• United States
21 Jun 17
I think they only do one crop off this little field.
@dgobucks226 (34300)
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21 Jun 17
I really like that picture. Although I'm from NJ, I always enjoyed looking at those round bales of hay driving into Pennsylvania on my way to Ohio to visit my brother. Lot of beautiful countryside and farms on the PA turnpike
Yes, we need our farmers!!
Yes, we need our farmers!!1 person likes this
@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
21 Jun 17
it's common to us, but some city kids have NO idea what farm and country life is like or where their food comes from
