Conservation Club Out and Back Ride

 Cool, cloudy, humid morning, little wind and with none of the predicted rain

Raleigh, sans its kernel status, is ready to go  -- said it looked a little too corny

First stop is along some errant soybeans

Looks like Raleigh has sprouted an appendage of some sort . . . . 

The combine doesn't capture all the beans -- these may have blown out the back



 

Ready for harvest
Oooops!  Somebody is missing a bag of seed corn
Treated with a fungicide

 
The next day they were all gone -- someone got a free sack of seed

A few days later, here it happens again -- ????
Odd -- not the time of year to be hauling seed corn -- two similar spills very close to each other -- second spill, bag was completely empty
Both bags labeled Goodwine

Site of the original spill
 
 
Intersection of 4000N and 1700E

Is the Raleigh about to surrender?
Deep ditch at an abandoned railroad right of way
What is that pennant the Raleigh is sporting?

 
THAT's what it is!

Raleigh is participating in the Cycle 365 Challenge of bicycle decorations
The Long Haul Trucker in the photo looks vaguely familiar  ;)
View down the ditch 
Piles of corn stalks from heavy rains this spring

 
Vegetation on the ditch bank  




Morning Glory 

Rusty colored seed heads of an unknown weed to me

A physically challenged ear joins the tour


This News-Gazette.com article says you should be prepared to spend $330,000 to $500,000 if you plan on purchasing brand new.  Most John Deere combines, as mentioned, are priced from $380,000 to $480,000, according to a dealer they had talked to.  With add-on features, it’s not hard to reach the $600,000 price tag, either.

Corn ear has traveled along with no securing measures

Several miles later, Mr Corn Ear is still aboard

Sock Monkey has some company now 


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