This is what my neighbor showed up with, takes this sort of thing to be productive with dry land corn, best crop ever this year he says. It operates on the highway, no tag, but the intake rides on a separate trailer and mounts in the field with quick connect fittings. About $280K for a used one. All we need now is Tow Mater....

BTW, since the dry land corn becomes animal feed, this is an early step in the production of meat, which should eventually be roasted to honor the Rover gods....

 

American farmers have worked this land since 1833. My house was built in 1843 on the property, which supported 100 people, 85 of them enslaved Africans. General Sherman slept in the root cellar on his way to Savannah. Took three days for his army to march by. House was set alight, and the soldiers rode away. The slaves came out of the woods and put the fire out. I still have burn marks in floor of my daughters room. The foundations of slave cabins were brought up when neighbor plowed the field shown, so the early farmers had pretty much the same view. Just mules instead of machinery.

I bought the house in 1990 and a small plot it sits on, farm was broken up over the years before. It is interesting what research can turn up. And I bet the generations that lived here had many harvests over the years, perhaps a bright spot in a pretty dismal existence for many.

The neighbor has had Angus cows, soy beans, peanuts, cotton, and corn on various years while I have lived here. It is exciting to have a crop duster fly between the chimneys on the house.

We are so high up on the food chain sometimes we don't see where the roots are.