it's getting on to thanksgiving ( dinner at mom's) and the harvest of feedstock for the food system is pretty much complete down county line road ( although there is still some work to do)...the field of beans and corn i photographed at the beginning of october( middle photo, as if you needed me to help you figure that out) was brought in last week..beans first, corn last...perhaps because soy beans are a hot commodity this year...you can see the corn stubble left in the field and that will help hold the soil together, but the bean field is bare as could be...it had been plowed and i thought perhaps there was a cover crop going in, but it's a bit on thr late side for that...i've had winter wheat in for a month or better and it is just started to tiller...anything going in that field wouldn't have enough time to establish itself before dormancy so it's going to winter over as it is...you can see water starting to collect in the low spots and this is where the erosion i photographed last spring took place...the plowing for this past season has obliterated the trench the water wore through the field but if i keep my wits i believe we sill see more erosion photos after the next spring thaw...the national corn growers propagandize about "no-till" corn a lot but that doesn't seem to have translated into action in the northwest corner of the hoosier state...more soil erosion as i find it.
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