slgwv's photos with the keyword: soybeans

Illustrating no-till farming on our land in Kansas. The stalks from the previous year's crop of milo maize are still visible.

Which the fellow who works our land says we shouldn't remove, because it maintains a claim on the water! The arcane ins and outs of water law in the arid and semiarid US-- The crop in the foreground is soybeans, among the stalks of the previous year's milo. He (like most people now in this part of Kansas) practices no-till farming, which preserves the topsoil and makes a repeat of the Dust Bowl less likely. Plowing as Politically Incorrect--who'd a thunk it? ;) Smith Center, Kansas, USA.