I had a great opportunity to ride along this afternoon with a friend who needed to do some observing at various places in the Seward Community. We went north of the Garland area and then south east of Seward. We went past the farm we bought when we came back from DC in 1980. This picture is of the cornfield across the road from our old farm house. It was a beautiful day after receiving 1.60 inches of rain last night. We have stayed familiar with the area in this direction since we make the drive past Elaine and my "growing up" farms at least annually. When we went a few miles south east of Seward, there were many changes from what I remembered.
Our old farm house looked pretty nice as we drove by but Elaine nor I have any regrets of having sold it when we did. It did provide Julie to get some farm experience while growing up. And, I enjoyed the challenge of growing, harvesting, and selling Certified Trailblazer Switchgrass seed back in the "hay day" of land going into the Conservation Reserve Program. As an old "Soil Conservationist", it is very satisfying to see conservation practices still in place that I had helped survey. Even more satisfying is the high percentage of agricultural land that is being farmed with minimum tillage leaving a good cover of crop residue to reduce erosion and save moisture. We did see a 20-acre grassland that was highly "infested" with volunteer Red Cedar trees, the largest some 4 foot high and hundreds of them smaller. Oh! and we also had a Skunk cross our path on the road.
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