The food we eat

It was a lovely day for a walk yesterday. My usual route along field edges. I came across some activity, machines blocking the path. Ooooh, photo opportunity, and a chance to be nosy. The yellow fork lift has just unloaded bags of seed peas into the bin on the front of the tractor. 

Pink peas, who'd have thought.

The peas are sucked along the tube landing in the spreader at the back, and evenly distributed in rows on the ploughed field. Clever ain't it.

 Empty bags are placed in the gateway waiting for collection. There are more full bags at the other end of the field, it's a big field.

I showed a picture of a perfectly ploughed field a few weeks ago, well there will be plenty of spuds to harvest here. I did find out from a tractor driver that it is a GPS system which steers the tractor therefore making perfect furrows. All the driver has to do is turn it around at the end of each row. 

I spotted this field, another photo opportunity. We are surrounded by farmland here. Not sure what the crop is. A mixture of straight lines or curved, following the edge of the field. Ideas for a tapestry maybe.

Same field but the rows go in a different direction. 

I made a video while on this walk, I'll post it later.
Back to the black assemblage. Toodle pip.  ilona