After church this morning we took a drive over to Schrag to take a look at the wheat on the property we have there. There are two quarters of ground (a half section) there that had belonged to Forry's mother. Because this ground is almost eight miles away, it's not farmed by the same tenant that farms the home place.
There is wheat planted on the Schrag property this year, but next to it are fields of potatoes. The potato fields are quite green in contrast to the almost ripe wheat -- and they are in bloom! When I first came to live in this part of the country, irrigation was just beginning to be popular. And most of the crops that were irrigated were wheat. Now it is not unusual to see many fields of potatoes with circle irrigation. As well as others with beans, grass seed, alfalfa, corn, dry peas or other seed crops.
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