The Front Porch

Promoting some old-fashioned hospitality and neighborly banter in Morrison Ranch

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Yes, we are still farming


Southeast of Recker and Elliot, on what will soon be Lakeside Groves, are Fields 11 & 24. (The numbers make sense if you have enough history, but I will not take the time now.) And those fields have sillage corn lovingly grown by my cousins, the Ross brothers. The machine chopping the corn is a Krone. This is the biggest chopper I have ever seen. It takes down eight rows at a time, and uses 800 HORSEPOWER to chop them all simultaneously. And the machine is NOT crawling through the field. It MOVES. So if you want to see this in person, GO NOW or the job will be done, and the chopper gone. OK, lots of caps in this post, but it is a testosterone moment.

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