Life-Cycle of Wheat

Field work to prepare the ground:






Seed wheat being cleaned:






Beautiful new wheat coming up after being sown in the fall:






Cattle on green wheat in the winter:






Winter wheat:






Hubby checking out cattle and wheat on a February day:






Wheat field growing to maturity:






Wheat starting to head out:






Beautiful, thick green wheat field:






Ripening wheat field:






Combine harvesting in the field:






Catching up with the combine to get the grain cart loaded:






Combine cutting in the field:






Loading the grain cart from the combine:






Loading the semi-trailer:






Son checking the wheat level in the trailer:






Truck headed to town while the combine continues on:






Dumping the load of wheat at the elevator:






Please don't hail!:






Ripe wheat with a storm in the background:






Discing a harvested field, with a storm in the background:






It's gotta rain SOMETIME during harvest:






Jeans and overalls on the line:






Harvest meals in the field, including a choice of drinks:






Radioactive sandwich (son had camera on "negative!"):






Some fields get the stubble burnt off:






Then the whole cycle starts again, field work, sowing, and sooner than you think, green wheat once more: