scenes of the harvest in the Heartland

 

Spending Thanksgiving with our daughter and her family in southwestern Minnesota, heart of corn and soybean country, the every day scenes are very different from out our back door in southwestern South Dakota, 7 hours to the west. This neighbor spent all of Saturday and part of Sunday harvesting the seed corn off his fields. The combine made pass after pass through the standing stalks, offloading into a grain cart surprisingly often, the yield off this field was a good one. As he worked the 200 acre field, the resident pheasants and the white tailed deer who take advantage of his "hospitality" were flushed out and headed for safer parts of the hedgerows and groves near by.