i was out and about today and i replaced my malfunctioning camera, so i had a look at the field off county line road just to check up on the harvest...i tossed in a couple of photos from september just for the sake of comparison ...you can see that the wall of dense yellow number two industrial feedstock has come along since the beginning of last month and is ready to come in...you can also see that the weather really isn't co-operating very well...it's wet again in northwest indiana and there's still a lot of corn in the field...water too, as you can see by the puddles collecting in the stubble ( and that stubble is all that will cover that field this winter...i saw some winter wheat or rye today...but that was in a field that has been fallow all summer and i'm willing to wager is being sown as a crop, not as cover)...the field of beans that was butted up against the corn is already harvested and you can see the amount of water that has run into the low areas...that's where most of the erosion of that field i saw last spring went on...it looks as if it was plowed after harvest and the farmer may have sown a cover crop that hasn't germinated yet...we'll know in a week or two as i make an effort to get out there and see..if not i think i'll be taking pictures of erosion from water run-off sometime in march or april...i'd be interested in knowing what sort of chemical input residue is in that water and how much reaches deep river and, ultimately, lake george, the little calumet river and lake michigan.
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