tilled but still fallow

farm fields hereabouts are growing native plants this season rather than industrial crops...mostly due to the extremely wet weather in may and early june ( and with 3.9 inches this month july hasn't been bone dry either ) that inhibited planting...

local farmers have been expending time turning under fallow fields...since it is too late to plant a crop and too early to plant a cover crop like winter rye or wheat ( which is not a very widespread practice anymore anyway ) i have to assume it is an effort to control "weeds"...since the native plants are making a comeback even in the turned fields it seems to have been and exercise in burning fossil fuels and exacerbating erosion more than anything else...

this field is either an unfinished work or a sign of realization of futility...i am uncertain which...

there are crops in the fields and they are overwhelmingly soy beans...

with a distinct minority of field corn...which runs somewhat contrary to the fact that the daily price for dense yellow #2 yesterday was #186.71 a metric ton...$1.87 less than the last post i made about industrial conditions...counter-intuitive to what i see...however my field of vision is limited to a couple of counties in indiana and so may not be reflective of the corn belt's true condition...then again things may change as this odd summer progresses..the future of futures is uncertain.