Soybean Harvest complete Working on corn

A late night, last night so Farmer Ken could finish filling a bin before starting on another farm. We have had warm and sunny days this week, until this morning when a shower passed through (much better than north and east of us where they had a significant amount of snow). Farmer Ken worked on switching the augers, as the one he was using had the bearing go out; and get ready to start again. I took the opporutnity to go to the city to get groceries, office supplies and a few other errands (I think I stopped at over 12 places in 7 hours including the 45-50 minute drives each way).
Farmer Ken has gone back out tonight, to open up a new field, so we are ready when the sun shines tomorrow.
Wednesday, we were in the big, flat field in the bottom ground or as Farmer Ken calls it the "big bottom". It is the largest and the flatest of any fields he has, in fact there only a few very small fields that are flat on any of the farm!
The deer were running out of the corn as we harvested and elimated their hiding place. Some were frightened and ran, but one kept standing out in the nmiddle of the harvested field looking bewildered and trying to get back into the corn that was left, when I would go to the end of the field.
The sky that day would be sunny with wispy clouds and then get dark and ominous.


The photo below shows he corn feeding into the corn head on the combine, where it is fed through the body of the combine where the shucks ripped off and the kernals removed from the ear, collected and run by an auger into the big holding bin on the back of the combine. The rest of the residue is spread out the back of the combine, onto the field.




Yesterday, the hawks patroled wile I ran the combine, patiently waiting for young rabbits to run from the corn ahad of the combine. They sit in the tops of tress on the edge of the field and swoop ahead of the combine, in the harvested stalks terrrorizing he rabbits, but so nature goes. The hawks have easy picking for their meals on the days we are harvesting.