It's grass-seed harvest time.
My nephew Zack is staying with us for the summer and sacking seed for eight hours a day. He's still learning about the job and very tired at the end of his shift, but he's catching on fast.
This is Roy, waiting while his truck dumps. He drives for a farmer named Hugh Gray who brings us about half of the seed we process.
Paul blows the dust off his clothes before he eats his supper.
I'd like to know more about how the harvest is done. Is the grass swathed first, then combined, or does the combine cut off standing grass. What happens with the leftover stalks? Is there only one crop per year? What kinds of grass are grown?
ReplyDeleteOh I hope and pray that you don't need to burn the fields now.
ReplyDeleteThanks for showing the grass fields. I was thinking lawn grass seed so was surprised by the straw field look.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in PA and live in IN, therefore have only a tourist's knowledge of the west.
In IN we have the tourist AIM-ish questions which are repeated by locals as jokes. I'm embrassed to be a OR "tourist". joy
Excuse the spelling error for embarrassed; I don't know how to change it after the comment has been published because I'm barely computer literate. Does that make me a computer tourist? Grin.
ReplyDeleteDorcas, I really enjoy your blog and get many a laugh from them.
I'm with mrs. i. I'd love more photos and little tutorials on the day to day operations over there.
ReplyDeleteWe should get "Oregon Field Guide" to do a story!
Ah! You make me homesick. Or maybe it's harvestsick. Nah, that's not right. Anyway, I'd love to jump back into a combine for a couple of days right about now.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry to post a way off-comment question, but how do you post your pictures in the field where text goes (in the center column)? I'm unable to do that on my blogger blog. When I'm posting, the button to insert an image is inactive. Nothin' happens! There's always one more thing to learn, isn't there!
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