|
|
 |
|
|
09-25-2008, 03:10 PM
|
#1 |
|
Donating 4WT 500 Club Member
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 6,025
|
Diana what a beautiful sunflower field. I have never seen one in person. Thanks for sharing the photos this city girl is learning... Very nice..
|
|
|
|
09-25-2008, 04:12 PM
|
#2 |
|
Donating 4WT Yakker
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Central Texas
Posts: 5,717
|
Gorgeous sunflowers! I loved all the pictures, thanks so much for posting them
__________________
 Gayle
|
|
|
|
|
09-25-2008, 07:15 PM
|
#3 |
|
Moderator
Donating 4WT 13K Club Member 
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Kansas
Posts: 16,069
|
I knew that everyone would enjoy the sunflowers. They really are so pretty but it seems like they don't stay pretty for very long. In the fields that we had near us you'd see families all dressed up and out in them taking family pictures.
__________________
*´¨) ¸.•´¸.•*´¨) ¸.•*¨) (¸.•´ (¸.•` ¤ Diana Baker ✞ You and I are friends.......
Always remember that if you fall I will pick you up...... After I stop laughing!!! |
|
|
|
|
09-25-2008, 07:46 PM
|
#4 |
|
Donating 4WT Yakker
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Central Texas
Posts: 5,717
|
Are they grown for commercial sale - or just for "fun"?
__________________
Gayle
|
|
|
|
|
09-26-2008, 07:19 AM
|
#5 |
|
Moderator
Donating 4WT 13K Club Member
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Kansas
Posts: 16,069
|
A field like this will be for commercial use. This is too much ground to have it planted for personal pleasure. I'm not sure exactly what the seed will be used for because it's not a crop that we grow. I'm guessing that it will be used for bird feeders. I doubt that it's edible sunflower seeds because of so many rules and regulations from the companies.
Sometimes we'll plant sweet corn for ourselves and our neighbors in a field but it really doesn't take much ground to have more than enough for everyone. The farmers need that crop to make payments for ground, equipment, seed, fertilizer, and other expenses. We have some soybeans that we sell to a company that ships them up north and they are used to make soy products, like tofu. The beans have to be non-gmo beans (not genetically modified) and grown organically (no chemicals used on the crop and on ground that hasn't had chemicals for three years). Rules are a lot different when you get into food products. Our corn and milo is sold for feed mostly.
__________________
*´¨) ¸.•´¸.•*´¨) ¸.•*¨) (¸.•´ (¸.•` ¤ Diana Baker ✞ You and I are friends.......
Always remember that if you fall I will pick you up...... After I stop laughing!!! |
|
|
|
|
09-27-2008, 05:39 AM
|
#6 |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Indiana
Posts: 1,367
|
Diana,
The pics were great. I grew up on a farm and i miss not living on one right now. But my husband is in the Ag business. He works for a family owned elevator/fertilizer company. He does lots of soil sampling, agronomy, field mapping, and sells yield monitors and light bars. So this time of year he is really busy. We live in the country so at least I can still get out and see the farmers when they are out and about. I so miss not being able to ride in a combine or tractor. Thanks for sharing. 
__________________
The real measure of a woman's wealth is what she has invested in eternity.  Linda aka 2tiredmom
|
|
|
|
 |
| Bookmarks |
|
|
Hybrid Mode
